Dr. Casagranda, I am a great fan of your style of lecturing. This time you got a couple of things wrong, however: 1. There were over 21 thousands of Polish officers killed in what is widely known as "Katyń Massacre". Some of them were POW, some surrendered and some were Germany's POW's who were transferred to SU. They were all killed by the order of Stalin. A fact he denied so much, that even during the Nuremberg Trial SU's prosecutors were trying to sue Nazi's for that. 2. The Smolensk Plane Crash happened during the landing BEFORE the commemoration, not AFTER it. 3. As a result of the President Kaczynski's death, Bronisław Komorowski -- spokesman for the Sejm (Lower Chamber of Parliament) took over. He was one of the leaders of Platforma Obywatelska - Law and Justice's direct competition. Komorowski then went to become the president, having won the upcoming elections. Also, next year Parliamentary elections saw Law and Justice party loose again. 4. The Tomasz Gross book was widely discussed in Poland. Some of the debates are conducted across the line you pictured here. Huge part of that is also a dispute of exhumation of the remnants of the people buried there, so that proper investigation can be conducted on the nature of wounds and causes of death. No green light from the spiritual leader of the Jewish Community. 5. The Gross book--Law and Justice electoral success line of reasoning is very much over stretched. This is the first time I have heard it.
There are many more smaller and bigger half-truths and exaggerations. Professor Roy should really be more careful in choosing and double-checking of his sources.
Yeah I caught some of that but he often claims to be unsure of details and the overall trends are fairly accurate. Hard to communicate so much info to a young audience that has been taught to not care about history and fed so much propaganda all their lives. Shoot, I can't believe the number of older US adults who believe the propaganda when they were alive to see it for themselves.
There are other historical scholars that have direct photographic evidence that the "Katyn massacre" was perpetrated by the Nazis themselves and that the notion it was Stalin and USSR is entirely and intentionally manufactured to smear their enemy.
I've been "binge watching" professor Roy's lectures for 3 days now! I gotta say I wish I had such lecturer in my years in college... This is just absolutely wonderful way of educating... Every single thing is interesting and engaging! Edit: btw, did you just talk about Michael Oakeshott?!!! Here you go, I fulfilled the prophecy, lol!
@@mohamadsowaid6275 for instance. He kept calling these eastern European countries nazis, based on their overwhelming popularity of their government, and the occasional incident with Muslims and their citizens. Yet he talks about the idea of liberal democracy like its great, but where is it great? The US spends all its time helping Israel cleanse Palestinians from neighborhoods in Jerusalem and from the West Bank. His talk is interesting, finishing it still, but it's incoherent to me.
Dr. Casagranda, since I came across your TH-cam channel, there has been no day passed for me without listening to your extraordinary past & current lectures. Keep inspiring us with your knowledge. May Allah bless you & your family.
That’s what I was saying he was right three times in one sentence. Trump will be re-elected, he will never go to jail, and what are you going to do about it.
I'm a Pole. Been looking for islam and christian lectures, listened to some of them (they were awesome, Roy is great lecturer), and then stumbled upon this one. And i generally agree, about this whole Poland thing... But not really. Yes, PiS destroyed our democracy, but not beyond repair (that is partially thanks to UE). They did take over public media, but they didn't manage to take all of them, there is still freedom of speech, just not in public ones (which is still insane enough). We DID apologise for Jedwabne, two times, befor PIS came to power. And PiS coming to power has little to do with Jedwabne itself, which was a shock for us. It's just most old people in Poland are catholic and conservative. Jedwabne approach by PiS is just a consequence of this style of thinking (and don't get me wrong, i do think it is stupid as hell). But, we are not nazi a state/country whatever you want to call it. Our borders are free to all people, and you can see that in our cities for some years now, but at the same time you have to remember that Poland, thanks to nazi germany, was for decades most hegemonous country (coming from one of the least before war) in Europe. There were only Poles. And just like Japanese because of that we are wary of different cultures, and just like USA we are afraid of People coming from unstable Arab countries even more. Changes in Poland have to happen slowly, as we are starting from the beginning, unlike USA where you can find literally every nation in the world, on every corner of every bigger city... Where whole country was created on this premise. You just can't understand it, coming from that environment. And yes, we do have concentration camps, but they do should be called German concentration cams (in Poland) every freaking time, as they were created by Germans, peroid. As for incident you mentioned - yes, we have nazi and stupid guys, yes, we do have idiots as followers this catholic, far right PiS party. But we don't have terrorist attacks. And you also almost never hear about attacks on different nationalities, even though as I said we have more and more of them, and they are something absolutley new in our society. And trust me, ptivate media always report on those. Incidents like those you mentioned come mostly from this uneducated, scared people, who didn't ever see people in jihabs, but hear about terrorist attacks by arabs every day in TV (terrorist attacks which as you mention every time are somewhat a consequence of US involvement in middle-east). Those people don't want to have anything to do with this and are happy that things like that are not happening in here. And it's very, very easy to use those resentments in campaigns, by far right parties. You are smart, mr. Roy, but you are sometimes missing on cultural differences, which lead me to believe, you are a little bit biased. And, in this case, a little bit manipulative. Political changes in Poland are bad. Catholic, stupid masses are destroying this country, our reborn, young democracy is stumbling, but it is not as bad as you say. Yet. And hopefully It will change for the better. And, lastly, I have to agree that the way we are backsliding is similar to Russia. Ruling party using stupidity of old, uneducated, religious, conservative people to gain and stay in power. This is scary, but as I said - for many reasons situation in Poland is not yet as bad. And perspectives looking at our situation and society says it shouldn't be that bad. PS - Hungary is much worse. PS - and oh boy, if you want to talk about democracy, lets talk about jerrymandering, and other aspects of ridiculous voting system that in fact eliminates all but two biggest parties... Lets also talk about corporate and billionare financing of campaigns and polititians who work against public interest and science... I'd say it might be even worse. Democratic backsliding is unfortunately happening, but for some already happened a long time ago ;)
my view from romania is that poland because of it's voice against some racist mesures of the european union is being punished, unlike romania, or better said romanian leaders who are just servants for the eu's interrest's that sometimes seem not to coincide with the romanian interests, ur leaders seem not to get pushed around like ours and fight for ur country. i feel like they treat us like some third world country just for resources and labor. in another speech of dr Roy about the history of iran when he speaks about the reasons of starting the first world war he underlines that the uk was scared of the rising germany at that time and had an interest starting the war, the bottom line no power is excited when it sees another rising next to it...and it seems to me that poland with all it's resources has great potential, not to mention if poland hungary romania bulgaria were more united..we would be a challenge to the west, we would have a voice, we would really have a seat at the decision table...to give an example romania was prohibited to have economical relations with china, instead france uk germany etc , even poland has...it's insane to neglect the factory of the world...we lost a nuclear investment at cernavoda that would have guaranteed us more than enough electricity, instead our puppet leaders agreed to shutdown all of our coal electricity factories , leaving us to buy from others, sometimes ukraine wich is also coal made😁, in the mean time germany is opening hers...so it seems we have to do things that the rest of europe isn't...there are so many other examples don't get me wrong i'm not against eu or democracy, but the bottom line is that the powers of the eu and the world like to have puppet states around them to have a voice over them and to decide themselves the future not a partner with opinions who can overtake them...this i guess is how the world goes... it's my view from ro like i said, and i know from a polish friend u poles don't see us very favorable..it's ok ..it's the divide and conquer strategy i said earlier
I too enjoy Dr Roy’s lectures. But calling all far-right idiots Nazis is a bit intellectually lazy. Like calling all far-left idiots Communists. Nutty far-right governments can be dangerous and awful without quite deserving the Massive Epithet. I don’t see these admittedly-yucky governments murdering millions of people.
good points. thanks for sharing. Different perspectives, there's always another side to look at the situation. I do agree tho that the psudo democracy in the USA is IMO worse than having an authoritative government, because at least you know what you are living under. Where as people in the USA/canada are essentially slave to the capitalist and corporate system, and being manipulated daily with the illusion of having democracy
Dr Casagrande is brilliant. However, he does have blindspots, which makes him all the more human. Don't forget he's also American and a liberal. So he does have some biases which he can't escape. I feel like he's sometimes painting all forms of nationalism with the same brush. While it is true that the line between nationalism and fascism is very thin, I still think that some countries do nationalism better than others. Being a patriot does not make one a Nazi and hostile to other nations. The other part of the story that he does not mention is the EU's role in inadvertently furthering ultra nationalist policies by undermining national institutions across Europe by pushing cruel neo liberal austerity measures, destroying local industries like agriculture and farming and other bread and butter industries. If you undermine the livelyhoods of working class people across Europe, you essentially force them to choose and elect any alternative political movement that opposes the prevailing narrative of the EU. So you either go with the extreme left or the extreme right, but you don't continue to stick with the EU overloards.
Just finished listening to this over the course of a couple walks. Still in awe at your ability to tell a grand story, leave out the right details, give just enough vignettes and side stories, not drop the main narrative, stay attuned to which references your audience is catching or isn't, disrupt the right myths, give enough room for the uncomfortable interpretation without insisting on it (laying these seeds). It's really brilliant. Plus you said a lot of stuff I've learned to not say aloud and would be shocked to hear from a lectern. I appreciate it so much and am excited for part two (and three)! ❤️❤️
He actually does paint liberal values in a positive light while putting religion and conservative values negatively. He is very pro-lgbt and anti religion...
yeah you need to watch for people bias. great lecturer but have to keep in mind he's super liberal and his beliefs and values are being injected into his lectures and story telling. Keeping that in mind. you should never agree 100% with someone in general and reflect on your own values and what you think, or feels more "right"
22:40 It's not about denying incidents, it was against German narrative about 'polish death camps', which were actually Germans located in Poland. It was also a disagreement to say the truth is in the middle, just because incidental against hundred of thousand Jews saved by Poles.
Glad I stumbled across his lectures on youtube, initially came across his videos as he was saying something positive about Islamic history and its now ignored contribution to human progress, thought that was pretty brave of him as when it comes to Islam most people here in the west start foaming at the mouth, and take extreme views and behaviours within the world of Islam and present it as the norm Roy does not do this, as a muslim I really appreciate his honesty and research. Since then been watching his other lectures, boy he is a good and engaging story teller, has some interesting views, you can see his concern and love for his fellow human beings regardless of colour, race, orientation etc. I am about his age and would have loved to have met someone like him, so many ideas and views to exchange, keep it up Roy and well done to The Austin School for putting these lectures out there
It’s 1 in the morning & I can’t sleep … simply bcoz Dr. C has a way of explaining/ telling historical moments in an amazing , hilarious way. God protect this guy. This is the 4th lecture I am participating in , let’s just say my priorities in life are changing fast. Thank you. Plus he sounds alot like Jeff Bridges (huge fan) & the resemblance is 👌🏽
Expert warns of impending genocide in India. Gregory Stanton, the founder and director of Genocide Watch, said during a US congressional briefing there were early “signs and processes” of genocide in the Indian state of Assam and Indian-administered Kashmir. “We are warning that genocide could very well happen in India,” Stanton said, speaking on behalf of the non-governmental organisation he launched in 1999 to predict, prevent, stop and seek accountability for the crime. please make video on this one and spread awarness. It is really bad in india and it got worse in last 10 years and it is keep getting worse banning adhan, banning hijab, banned meat.
When the countries of the West wage war, it is called a banana, but when the owners of the land defend their land, they call it terrorism 1:48:40 very classic Overall, I really enjoyed the lecture
That's exactly what triggered me to search in the comment section. I like his lectures, but that word hit me hard! Especially since he mentioned two minutes earlier that the us was going there to do the dirty work for Israel, yet he still sees the resistance as terrorism!
Roy , all the love from a guy who you are opening his mind on a daily basis, when you understand history you start to understand how the world works , so thanks again
The story of the Polish presidential plane crash (running time 25:50) seems incorrect and exaggerated. The findings was that the plane was on final approach to their destination, not returning from as Roy states ... and it was due to heavy fog and an unfamiliar airport (military base) the pilots were landing at that caused the plane to land too early and striking a large tree and flipping the plane over.
It really doesn't matter that much. The point was that it fueled the uprising of the alt right regime in polish politics and gave the ordinary people the small push they needed. Everything still happened because of the things polish people wanted to believe. The fact if it was actually true or not is not relevant, because if it wasn't the russians the uprising still happened and if it would have been the russians the uprising would have still happened.
@@jippo91look his view on Poland might be captivating but... it's wrong / untrue. U want to belive in it do so but u are not closer to understanding od anything. U may read oficial German/ EU propaganda with the same effect😢
I like Professor Roy's lectures alot. He tel you the absolute truth which mainstream media and by extension social media don't tel you and always hide from you
This man is a walking encyclopedia of historical and political events in the world...if you listened to his other lectures, of the last 5000 years! Kudos. So enlightening in the meantime entertaining.
At 1:49:38 I believe that the usage of the term "terrorists" there was an intentional irony. But, just to clarify for other viewers, these are called resistance fighters. These people are honorable, because they fight back and blow up invading forces. I can see why they might be viewed as terrorists by those invading forces, yet from an objective standpoint, they are called "the resistance". Differentiating between those two terms is very essential, because there are terrorists from an objective standpoint (ISIS for example). The differentiating factor are the targets, are they civilians who are not involved with any form of aggression, or an invading force.
There's a great article called "The Dangerous Myth of Taxpayer Money" by Aleksander Chan. Great read and relevant to this lecture. Also, a NY Times bestseller entitled "The Deficit Myth" by economist Stephanie Kelton that will blow your mind!
Im 38, Polish and very much against the Law and Justice party. I have to say that the picture of Poland that was painted is not very accurate. Some small facts are simply not true. The general situation is over exaggerated.
I'm Irish and we know you can't just be that simple when describing Poland's journey and it's people. I get his general point but we don't think of all polish people like this.
Just to set the record straight , that crash that wiped out the Polish govt was not an assassination It was a chain of events that has happened many times in aviation and will surely happen again In short 1- Pilot of the (military) airplane was for reasons of prestige the commander of the air base it took off from he was "current" (ie authorized) on the aircraft type but with the bare minimum of required recent flying hours (reason: you get additional flight pay that way) 2- The weather was below the minimum allowed for landing at the destination airport 3- Nevertheless a presidential aide put pressure on the flight crew to land anyway The plane came in too low and clipped a whole row of trees before crashing As I said the above chain of events in part or in whole is a classic of how not to do things
Roy Cassagrande got some things wrong about recent Polish affairs so let me correct: 1. Catastrophe of an airplane happaned on a way there, not on a way back from Smoleńsk. There were only two interim presidents and none of them ruled for one day only Bronisław Komorwski ruled for around two months and Grzegorz Schetyna ruled for app. one month. 2. Gross book descirbing Jedwabne massacre was not as important in Polish politics as he describes and involvment of Polish people was never denied by any official institution, just some thesis and stories included in the book were said to be false or based on untrustworthy sources by IPN (Institute of National Remembrance) 3. Law and Justice is a party of catholic fundamentalists and populists. They showed authoritarian tendencies and got quite arrogant or straightforward corrupted becouse of 8 years of holding full power in a very small number of hands but calling them nazis is an overstatement. 3.1 The reform of our judical system made our system of separations of powers no more unified then one in Germany or France... And we indeed had a problem with corrupt judges before the reform (i am not sure that we are better off after the reform but something had to be done with judges holding their offices since the communist system). 3.2 Law and Justice controlled the public television, radio and some press and were using it as their propaganda machine but they were not controlling all the media in Poland and the situation was far from Putins Russia where multiple independent journalist were assasinated by secret police. 3.3 Law and Jsutice lost the election in Novemver 2023 (they have the biggest number of votes in parlament but not a majority and multiple opposition parties unifed and are forming a goverment) 4. Immigrants from the 2015 crisis and recent ukrainian refugees were different not only with skin color. Ukrainians are our neighbours, speak similiar language, have similar slavic culture, they were crossing the border legaly, there were women, children and elderly (man were forbiden from exiting ukraine after the war broke out). "Refugees" from 2015 crisis were 75% man, half of them in the age 18-34, they crossed boarders illegaly and headed toward rich Eu countries despite having a lot of neighbours on the way that were not in a state of war, they were mostly muslim and did not spoke any language Polish can understand and also EU wanted force them into Poland against the will of Polish people and very often against the will of the "Refugees" (I put quotation marks because many of them were in fact economic immigrants seizing the opportunity to go to EU).... So I am not saying that Poland stance against immigration vawe in 2015 was a moraly perfect behaviour but it was not simply racist.
5. Polish people don't get offended by people telling that there where "death camps in poland" we just dont like when somebody sais there where "polish death camps" becouse they were "nazi german death camps in occupied poland" and we polish people dont like to be associted with responsibilty for this genocide.
That's a gross simplification of Polish political context. Random book about holocaust didn't make PiS. It's more how we were left out in the socialist sphere of influance and then shock transformed into a free market economy that put like 30% of population into poverty (and these are the eaxct people who distrusted liberal democracy and voted PiS- because they were put into povert by a transition into one which tbf makes sense). Compile that with second world war and you get 3 major historical crises that traumatise a society, a culture, an identity for a looong time causing for example popularisation of nationalism and move to the right. And btw it will still take us much more time to deal with just second world war cause there are people in our political class that want to capitalise on that hate. And polish society has been under serious external attacks over last 400 years so how do you expect us to no have racist and xenophobic tendencies - i am not trying to justify them, they are totally wrong but ffs we came a looong way already. So overal just highlighting these racist incidents as if it was defining the whole country is actually quite a populist thing to do in my opinion, 'hey lets all hate poland they are so stupid and racist and putin like' - really?. I guess it fits the narrative of the lecture and is flashy but is just wrong. There has been so much work being done to resist the move right and now we can see the fruits of that as our politics seems to finaly take a better turn, a shame you don't talk about that at all.
@31.00 "they deny Aushwitz was in Poland" this is pure manipulation. What we were against was using word "polish death camp" as it may mislead audience that we, as Poles were responsible for this tragedy that Germans did on our land. And as we are aware that no one is obliged to know the advanced history, we just want to name it properly: "former n*zi german ..." Instead of polish. Yes, one may sat that "polish" reffers to geography. Well, we would not have a problem with it if it was about something else than death camp organised by our neighbours who wanted to exterminate us.
He's definitely Left (way left of myself), but I enjoy his style, and he makes some really interesting points. I just discovered him earlier today, and already I have watched 4 videos.
I can’t believe professor was right three times in one sentence. This is 2years ago and he predicted Trump will be re-elected, he will never go to jail, and what are you going to do about it. Unbelievable. My respect to you professor.
Ok, some inaccuracies, half truths and hyperbole in this lecture. First Kaczynski and the rest of the Polish delegation were killed trying to land at Smolensk, not taking off. Second, you make some huge generalizations. First, make a distinction between Poles and the Law and Justice party. How would Dr Casagranda feel if he was portrayed as fully supporting Donald Trump simply because he is American or that the actions taken by Trump on the Muslim ban, for instance, reflect a similar world view. That may not be his intent, but is the result of the careless way in which he structures his lecture. He also glosses over the Tusk years. This also hasn’t aged well as Tusk is now back at the head of the Polish Government-so much for the argument that Poland is less Democratic than Russia. I do agree that there are nationalist forces that feel aggrieved and are reactionary (especially when it comes to events around the Shoah, a story in which there are many more villains than heroes across Europe). The Land J party represents those parts of Polish society that denies the events of the past and the possibility for a reconciliation. As I reflect on the rising amount of antisemitism, Islamophobia and anti lgbtq sentiment in America, I would say that if anything we share the same afflictions and need to reconcile with our past and remember our shared values. For this reason, I consider this lecture to be a bit dangerous because it was so poorly prepared and unthoughtful. Get your facts straight and make sure that you don’t paint Poles with such a broad brush as they so often are.
Actually he spreads complete bullshit about Jedwabne. He just spread propaganda from Gross' book which is very very low quality as history study. If he puts so little in getting facts, with such research hes less than worthless.
21:10: "Lawn justice party" sounds awesome! 43:17: Before he was appointed as the prime minister, he was the director of Federal Security Service (FSB), which as I think is an important step in career. 01:10:50: Nowadays most of the jobs are "fake jobs", because of the planned obsolescence. Meanwhile, is that just an accident that the grow of nutz in Plnd after year 2000 went hand in hand with grow of nutz in Ukrn? Or there is a common sponsor/customer of these events that just poured money to "the right" plticians?
Loved this Although am a bit skiptical (to put it mildly) about calling the man who drove the truck into the barracks of french and US Marines a "terrorist" I mean you do imagine for some Lebanese -fairly- that is a man who might have taken on himself to end a foreign interference in his country at the barracks killing mostly foreign soldiers in the process. I mean I can't understand how it's just normal while we never call say that about a drone operator dropping a bomb on an elementary school in Pakistan. I don't appreciate how it's for granted that anti-american is still terrorist even while admitting America's morally questionable (also to put mildly) reasons to go to war with those people in the first place 🤷 I think that's American internal double thinking 🤔 Although to be fair: I watched hours of this and I have to say I appreciate the fairness to others I mean it's rare to see this degree of non-orientalist take on history from western academics
Its basically American apathy to people who would have to do something like that. They've never been occupied by a power that is a 100x more militarily powerful where they cant fight them openly. They have suicidal attacks in their own country without any war or occupying power. Imagine what they would do if they were occupied by people they love to demonize. Imagine it was Muslims occupying them militarily, destabilizing them politically and economically, overthrowing their governments etc etc. To Americans war on their own soil is science fiction. Funnily enough in their movies they have no problem lionizing such actions such as at the end of the movie Independence Day when the guy crashes his plane into the Alien ship.
The problem with the Nixon explanation is that he completely ignores the decoupling of the dollar from the gold standard. Working class was unable to prevent their savings and spending power from govt debasement.
Actually after plane crash Law & justice's candidate lost presidential election, and in next sejm election they had less MEPs. PO (Civic Platform party) rulled the country till 2015. In 2015 plane crash from 2010 wasn't a relavant topic anymore. It's not a reason why they won. After win PiS did what all previous govs have been doing with public media. They replaced journalists with their own. It's a shitty practise. However there were plenty of Tv channels that criticized rulling party and I am not aware of anyone who was sentenced for that.
I don't quite agree with calling most right wing parties Nazi. That way we would call left wing ones anarchist. Also, Nazism is an exaggeration. Thank the times we don't still really have that. But yeah things are not quite right on both political spectra in many countries including the USA. EDIT: you know that the voting thing would be called authoritarian if you'd not let these uneducated people vote. In some countries, they even want to lower the bar to 14years old. Good times.
Keeping up or extending the country's infrastructure is not a "fake" job. Maintenance and connections are not "nothing". Of course we should create a society that allows people to make the world a better place. The ultimate authoritarianism is Corporate structure.
@@joeldwest corporate structure is not dissimilar to a hierarchical structure as that from a kingdom or even a corrupt democratic state. The issue lies not in the corporation itself but in the fact that if left 100% private it can do whatever it wishes through influence and intimidation even acting outside its borders. That's not to say, that a 100% state run thing won't do the same. Definitely, we always need balance if we want things not to fall in the wrong hands.
I think you're right about the gap in the tapes. I remember talking about it on the school bus with someone when it was being reported, and 18 minutes is the number I remember.
Dr. Casagranda,
I am a great fan of your style of lecturing. This time you got a couple of things wrong, however:
1. There were over 21 thousands of Polish officers killed in what is widely known as "Katyń Massacre". Some of them were POW, some surrendered and some were Germany's POW's who were transferred to SU. They were all killed by the order of Stalin. A fact he denied so much, that even during the Nuremberg Trial SU's prosecutors were trying to sue Nazi's for that.
2. The Smolensk Plane Crash happened during the landing BEFORE the commemoration, not AFTER it.
3. As a result of the President Kaczynski's death, Bronisław Komorowski -- spokesman for the Sejm (Lower Chamber of Parliament) took over. He was one of the leaders of Platforma Obywatelska - Law and Justice's direct competition. Komorowski then went to become the president, having won the upcoming elections. Also, next year Parliamentary elections saw Law and Justice party loose again.
4. The Tomasz Gross book was widely discussed in Poland. Some of the debates are conducted across the line you pictured here. Huge part of that is also a dispute of exhumation of the remnants of the people buried there, so that proper investigation can be conducted on the nature of wounds and causes of death. No green light from the spiritual leader of the Jewish Community.
5. The Gross book--Law and Justice electoral success line of reasoning is very much over stretched. This is the first time I have heard it.
There are many more smaller and bigger half-truths and exaggerations. Professor Roy should really be more careful in choosing and double-checking of his sources.
Yeah I caught some of that but he often claims to be unsure of details and the overall trends are fairly accurate. Hard to communicate so much info to a young audience that has been taught to not care about history and fed so much propaganda all their lives. Shoot, I can't believe the number of older US adults who believe the propaganda when they were alive to see it for themselves.
There are other historical scholars that have direct photographic evidence that the "Katyn massacre" was perpetrated by the Nazis themselves and that the notion it was Stalin and USSR is entirely and intentionally manufactured to smear their enemy.
I tried to comment about this historical inaccuracy, but YT shadow banned my comment.
It’s very much a CIA yarn spun that Stalin ordered millions of deaths on political grounds and yet there is no primary evidence of such orders.
I've been "binge watching" professor Roy's lectures for 3 days now! I gotta say I wish I had such lecturer in my years in college... This is just absolutely wonderful way of educating... Every single thing is interesting and engaging!
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btw, did you just talk about Michael Oakeshott?!!! Here you go, I fulfilled the prophecy, lol!
Me too, started with the Khalid bin Waleed class
@@thariqmusheriparambil5491, so did I. have been sharing it with everyone
He's a good story teller but Jesus christ he's got some absurd ways of looking at things.
@@andysamet4554, can you elaborate?
@@mohamadsowaid6275 for instance. He kept calling these eastern European countries nazis, based on their overwhelming popularity of their government, and the occasional incident with Muslims and their citizens.
Yet he talks about the idea of liberal democracy like its great, but where is it great? The US spends all its time helping Israel cleanse Palestinians from neighborhoods in Jerusalem and from the West Bank.
His talk is interesting, finishing it still, but it's incoherent to me.
Dr. Casagranda, since I came across your TH-cam channel, there has been no day passed for me without listening to your extraordinary past & current lectures. Keep inspiring us with your knowledge. May Allah bless you & your family.
Incredible he predicted 2024 so perfectly!
That’s what I was saying he was right three times in one sentence. Trump will be re-elected, he will never go to jail, and what are you going to do about it.
Absolutely brilliant
This man is an Encyclopedia. Very informative. So many things make sense now.
Had this man as a professor, he’s a legend
He repeats CIA nonsense too at times especially about the Orange Revolution
I'm a Pole. Been looking for islam and christian lectures, listened to some of them (they were awesome, Roy is great lecturer), and then stumbled upon this one.
And i generally agree, about this whole Poland thing... But not really.
Yes, PiS destroyed our democracy, but not beyond repair (that is partially thanks to UE). They did take over public media, but they didn't manage to take all of them, there is still freedom of speech, just not in public ones (which is still insane enough). We DID apologise for Jedwabne, two times, befor PIS came to power. And PiS coming to power has little to do with Jedwabne itself, which was a shock for us. It's just most old people in Poland are catholic and conservative. Jedwabne approach by PiS is just a consequence of this style of thinking (and don't get me wrong, i do think it is stupid as hell).
But, we are not nazi a state/country whatever you want to call it. Our borders are free to all people, and you can see that in our cities for some years now, but at the same time you have to remember that Poland, thanks to nazi germany, was for decades most hegemonous country (coming from one of the least before war) in Europe. There were only Poles. And just like Japanese because of that we are wary of different cultures, and just like USA we are afraid of People coming from unstable Arab countries even more. Changes in Poland have to happen slowly, as we are starting from the beginning, unlike USA where you can find literally every nation in the world, on every corner of every bigger city... Where whole country was created on this premise. You just can't understand it, coming from that environment. And yes, we do have concentration camps, but they do should be called German concentration cams (in Poland) every freaking time, as they were created by Germans, peroid. As for incident you mentioned - yes, we have nazi and stupid guys, yes, we do have idiots as followers this catholic, far right PiS party. But we don't have terrorist attacks. And you also almost never hear about attacks on different nationalities, even though as I said we have more and more of them, and they are something absolutley new in our society. And trust me, ptivate media always report on those. Incidents like those you mentioned come mostly from this uneducated, scared people, who didn't ever see people in jihabs, but hear about terrorist attacks by arabs every day in TV (terrorist attacks which as you mention every time are somewhat a consequence of US involvement in middle-east). Those people don't want to have anything to do with this and are happy that things like that are not happening in here. And it's very, very easy to use those resentments in campaigns, by far right parties.
You are smart, mr. Roy, but you are sometimes missing on cultural differences, which lead me to believe, you are a little bit biased. And, in this case, a little bit manipulative.
Political changes in Poland are bad. Catholic, stupid masses are destroying this country, our reborn, young democracy is stumbling, but it is not as bad as you say. Yet. And hopefully It will change for the better.
And, lastly, I have to agree that the way we are backsliding is similar to Russia. Ruling party using stupidity of old, uneducated, religious, conservative people to gain and stay in power. This is scary, but as I said - for many reasons situation in Poland is not yet as bad. And perspectives looking at our situation and society says it shouldn't be that bad.
PS - Hungary is much worse.
PS - and oh boy, if you want to talk about democracy, lets talk about jerrymandering, and other aspects of ridiculous voting system that in fact eliminates all but two biggest parties... Lets also talk about corporate and billionare financing of campaigns and polititians who work against public interest and science... I'd say it might be even worse. Democratic backsliding is unfortunately happening, but for some already happened a long time ago ;)
my view from romania is that poland because of it's voice against some racist mesures of the european union is being punished, unlike romania, or better said romanian leaders who are just servants for the eu's interrest's that sometimes seem not to coincide with the romanian interests, ur leaders seem not to get pushed around like ours and fight for ur country. i feel like they treat us like some third world country just for resources and labor. in another speech of dr Roy about the history of iran when he speaks about the reasons of starting the first world war he underlines that the uk was scared of the rising germany at that time and had an interest starting the war, the bottom line no power is excited when it sees another rising next to it...and it seems to me that poland with all it's resources has great potential, not to mention if poland hungary romania bulgaria were more united..we would be a challenge to the west, we would have a voice, we would really have a seat at the decision table...to give an example romania was prohibited to have economical relations with china, instead france uk germany etc , even poland has...it's insane to neglect the factory of the world...we lost a nuclear investment at cernavoda that would have guaranteed us more than enough electricity, instead our puppet leaders agreed to shutdown all of our coal electricity factories , leaving us to buy from others, sometimes ukraine wich is also coal made😁, in the mean time germany is opening hers...so it seems we have to do things that the rest of europe isn't...there are so many other examples
don't get me wrong i'm not against eu or democracy, but the bottom line is that the powers of the eu and the world like to have puppet states around them to have a voice over them and to decide themselves the future not a partner with opinions who can overtake them...this i guess is how the world goes...
it's my view from ro like i said, and i know from a polish friend u poles don't see us very favorable..it's ok ..it's the divide and conquer strategy i said earlier
He's not being manipulative. He's just lying.
I too enjoy Dr Roy’s lectures. But calling all far-right idiots Nazis is a bit intellectually lazy. Like calling all far-left idiots Communists. Nutty far-right governments can be dangerous and awful without quite deserving the Massive Epithet. I don’t see these admittedly-yucky governments murdering millions of people.
good points. thanks for sharing. Different perspectives, there's always another side to look at the situation. I do agree tho that the psudo democracy in the USA is IMO worse than having an authoritative government, because at least you know what you are living under. Where as people in the USA/canada are essentially slave to the capitalist and corporate system, and being manipulated daily with the illusion of having democracy
Dr Casagrande is brilliant. However, he does have blindspots, which makes him all the more human. Don't forget he's also American and a liberal. So he does have some biases which he can't escape.
I feel like he's sometimes painting all forms of nationalism with the same brush. While it is true that the line between nationalism and fascism is very thin, I still think that some countries do nationalism better than others. Being a patriot does not make one a Nazi and hostile to other nations.
The other part of the story that he does not mention is the EU's role in inadvertently furthering ultra nationalist policies by undermining national institutions across Europe by pushing cruel neo liberal austerity measures, destroying local industries like agriculture and farming and other bread and butter industries. If you undermine the livelyhoods of working class people across Europe, you essentially force them to choose and elect any alternative political movement that opposes the prevailing narrative of the EU. So you either go with the extreme left or the extreme right, but you don't continue to stick with the EU overloards.
Just finished listening to this over the course of a couple walks. Still in awe at your ability to tell a grand story, leave out the right details, give just enough vignettes and side stories, not drop the main narrative, stay attuned to which references your audience is catching or isn't, disrupt the right myths, give enough room for the uncomfortable interpretation without insisting on it (laying these seeds). It's really brilliant. Plus you said a lot of stuff I've learned to not say aloud and would be shocked to hear from a lectern. I appreciate it so much and am excited for part two (and three)! ❤️❤️
Can't get enough of Prof. Roy 😀 Please share more of his lectures 🙏
I recommend we all do our own research.
Best political science professor in history 👍👍
Roy Casagranda is a breath of fresh air. Getting to the truth explained with great simplicity.
He's a fart.
Love the knowledge in Dr. Roy‘s lectures it’s so valuable and clear, it develops my curiosity to history more 💯💯❤️ -Love from your Yemeni Fans 🇾🇪
Roy is so amazing, such a relevant lecturer. The truth that's easy to comprehend!
watching this in 2024…*sigh*
Lol same. Man he was way off on Covid. 😂
2025
Former student of yours, thank you for posting these lectures ! Always making topics interesting and engaging !
I love the way he says it was the war against Islam not Muslim. They can defeat Muslims, but they cannot defeat Allah.
Thank you for the information
They wouldnt be able to win against strong muslims either
Its just a lot of muslims have grown weak running away from their deen
Ameen , Brother.
"Then they plan and Allah plans, and indeed Allah is the best of planners"
Surah: Al-Anfal, Ayat: 30
Which part of the lecture he said that.
@@roni349 first quarter of the video when Russia was trying to cleanse Muslim minorities
He never said allah..k
I like how fair and transparent this guy. Does not favor one side over the other. And always gives context where context is due.
He actually does paint liberal values in a positive light while putting religion and conservative values negatively. He is very pro-lgbt and anti religion...
Wtf are you talking about. There is a very clear bias here. Still a great lecture
He does not speak for women.
@@joeldwest I would be interested to see when he claims to be speaking for women. Could you help me out with that information?
yeah you need to watch for people bias. great lecturer but have to keep in mind he's super liberal and his beliefs and values are being injected into his lectures and story telling. Keeping that in mind. you should never agree 100% with someone in general and reflect on your own values and what you think, or feels more "right"
i enyoy this guy s lectures !! after an hour you still not sleeping and want to hear him explain more in his way !!
22:40 It's not about denying incidents, it was against German narrative about 'polish death camps', which were actually Germans located in Poland. It was also a disagreement to say the truth is in the middle, just because incidental against hundred of thousand Jews saved by Poles.
Glad I stumbled across his lectures on youtube, initially came across his videos as he was saying something positive about Islamic history and its now ignored contribution to human progress, thought that was pretty brave of him as when it comes to Islam most people here in the west start foaming at the mouth, and take extreme views and behaviours within the world of Islam and present it as the norm Roy does not do this, as a muslim I really appreciate his honesty and research. Since then been watching his other lectures, boy he is a good and engaging story teller, has some interesting views, you can see his concern and love for his fellow human beings regardless of colour, race, orientation etc. I am about his age and would have loved to have met someone like him, so many ideas and views to exchange, keep it up Roy and well done to The Austin School for putting these lectures out there
It’s 1 in the morning & I can’t sleep … simply bcoz Dr. C has a way of explaining/ telling historical moments in an amazing , hilarious way. God protect this guy. This is the 4th lecture I am participating in , let’s just say my priorities in life are changing fast. Thank you. Plus he sounds alot like Jeff Bridges (huge fan) & the resemblance is 👌🏽
Great lecture. Thank you from Japan.
Roy is the most unbiased speaker out there..period 👍
Expert warns of impending genocide in India. Gregory Stanton, the founder and director of Genocide Watch, said during a US congressional briefing there were early “signs and processes” of genocide in the Indian state of Assam and Indian-administered Kashmir.
“We are warning that genocide could very well happen in India,” Stanton said, speaking on behalf of the non-governmental organisation he launched in 1999 to predict, prevent, stop and seek accountability for the crime.
please make video on this one and spread awarness. It is really bad in india and it got worse in last 10 years and it is keep getting worse banning adhan, banning hijab, banned meat.
When the countries of the West wage war, it is called a banana, but when the owners of the land defend their land, they call it terrorism 1:48:40
very classic
Overall, I really enjoyed the lecture
That's exactly what triggered me to search in the comment section. I like his lectures, but that word hit me hard! Especially since he mentioned two minutes earlier that the us was going there to do the dirty work for Israel, yet he still sees the resistance as terrorism!
I always come away learning something new when I watch Dr. Casagranda's lectures. Worth every minute.
Excellent lecture. Learned a lot from it. Thanks professor Cassagranda 🙏
people start clapping
Roy: "nah you don't have to do that, its weird" proceeds to chuckle
lmfao i love this guy
You are a national treasure, those students are so lucky to hear you every day
Thank you for some new material!! Please remember to upload the other parts. I love sinking my teeth into a new one!
Roy , all the love from a guy who you are opening his mind on a daily basis, when you understand history you start to understand how the world works , so thanks again
This is my third day of lecturing - I am gratefull that these lectures are uploaded and I am do excited to watch the next lectures
Thank you,great lecture.Great insight.
Always look forward to it.Peace.P.S we need part 1 and part 3 pls
Seeing the diverse people in the comments and in attendance gives me hope for the world 🌎 thank you roy and thank you to you if you're reading this
Amazing lecture! Can't get enough of prof. Roy lectures. Unbiased and blunt truth teller, he is simply a global citizen.
the way he describes situations and communicates information is truly a piece of ART.
I’m glad i’m enjoying this talk on youtube, and that i don’t have to take a quiz on it.. it was packed with info… crazy great
We need moreee!!!! 🙏
Your videos have mad my knowledge journey worth while... really amazing content. Never stop sharing it
Thanks!
He is THE Best. I have accidentally saw some reels of him a week ago, then started to listen to him, I am addicted to it.
Dr Roy u are a blessing for history and geopolitical geeks
The story of the Polish presidential plane crash (running time 25:50) seems incorrect and exaggerated. The findings was that the plane was on final approach to their destination, not returning from as Roy states ... and it was due to heavy fog and an unfamiliar airport (military base) the pilots were landing at that caused the plane to land too early and striking a large tree and flipping the plane over.
It really doesn't matter that much. The point was that it fueled the uprising of the alt right regime in polish politics and gave the ordinary people the small push they needed. Everything still happened because of the things polish people wanted to believe. The fact if it was actually true or not is not relevant, because if it wasn't the russians the uprising still happened and if it would have been the russians the uprising would have still happened.
@@jippo91look his view on Poland might be captivating but... it's wrong / untrue. U want to belive in it do so but u are not closer to understanding od anything. U may read oficial German/ EU propaganda with the same effect😢
A very interesting talk, I have learned a lot from this person. I cannot stop listening to this person.
This is my favourite lecturer. Anything he talks about, I have to listen and learn 😎👍🏿👌🏿
I like Professor Roy's lectures alot. He tel you the absolute truth which mainstream media and by extension social media don't tel you and always hide from you
This man is a walking encyclopedia of historical and political events in the world...if you listened to his other lectures, of the last 5000 years! Kudos. So enlightening in the meantime entertaining.
I Just Love DR.Roy He is Truly The Only Lecturer Who Can Break The Ice in An Icy World Full of Madness & Selfishness
At 1:49:38 I believe that the usage of the term "terrorists" there was an intentional irony. But, just to clarify for other viewers, these are called resistance fighters. These people are honorable, because they fight back and blow up invading forces. I can see why they might be viewed as terrorists by those invading forces, yet from an objective standpoint, they are called "the resistance". Differentiating between those two terms is very essential, because there are terrorists from an objective standpoint (ISIS for example). The differentiating factor are the targets, are they civilians who are not involved with any form of aggression, or an invading force.
I thought so as well. I think the irony doesn't come through because there's no change tonal distinction or pause for effect.
Even thugh i enjoy these lectures and your style, sometimes they make me cry. Especially when I learn more about events i lived through.
This lecture was amazing! Can’t wait for part 3. Thank you for the grace work!
Wheres Part 1? Can you link it here
There's a great article called "The Dangerous Myth of Taxpayer Money" by Aleksander Chan. Great read and relevant to this lecture. Also, a NY Times bestseller entitled "The Deficit Myth" by economist Stephanie Kelton that will blow your mind!
Thank you Professor Roy, very informative. Thanks
Thank you for this lecture. I'm happy to see it.
You are simply great, thanks for telling us the truth.
Im 38, Polish and very much against the Law and Justice party. I have to say that the picture of Poland that was painted is not very accurate. Some small facts are simply not true. The general situation is over exaggerated.
I'm Irish and we know you can't just be that simple when describing Poland's journey and it's people. I get his general point but we don't think of all polish people like this.
Just to set the record straight , that crash that wiped out the Polish govt was not an assassination
It was a chain of events that has happened many times in aviation and will surely happen again
In short
1- Pilot of the (military) airplane was for reasons of prestige the commander of the air base it took off from
he was "current" (ie authorized) on the aircraft type but with the bare minimum of required recent flying hours (reason: you get additional flight pay that way)
2- The weather was below the minimum allowed for landing at the destination airport
3- Nevertheless a presidential aide put pressure on the flight crew to land anyway
The plane came in too low and clipped a whole row of trees before crashing
As I said the above chain of events in part or in whole is a classic of how not to do things
Pure art. The deliverance of knowledge. Order within chaos. Is what these lectures base on.
The structure of it*
Roy Cassagrande got some things wrong about recent Polish affairs so let me correct:
1. Catastrophe of an airplane happaned on a way there, not on a way back from Smoleńsk. There were only two interim presidents and none of them ruled for one day only Bronisław Komorwski ruled for around two months and Grzegorz Schetyna ruled for app. one month.
2. Gross book descirbing Jedwabne massacre was not as important in Polish politics as he describes and involvment of Polish people was never denied by any official institution, just some thesis and stories included in the book were said to be false or based on untrustworthy sources by IPN (Institute of National Remembrance)
3. Law and Justice is a party of catholic fundamentalists and populists. They showed authoritarian tendencies and got quite arrogant or straightforward corrupted becouse of 8 years of holding full power in a very small number of hands but calling them nazis is an overstatement.
3.1 The reform of our judical system made our system of separations of powers no more unified then one in Germany or France... And we indeed had a problem with corrupt judges before the reform (i am not sure that we are better off after the reform but something had to be done with judges holding their offices since the communist system).
3.2 Law and Justice controlled the public television, radio and some press and were using it as their propaganda machine but they were not controlling all the media in Poland and the situation was far from Putins Russia where multiple independent journalist were assasinated by secret police.
3.3 Law and Jsutice lost the election in Novemver 2023 (they have the biggest number of votes in parlament but not a majority and multiple opposition parties unifed and are forming a goverment)
4. Immigrants from the 2015 crisis and recent ukrainian refugees were different not only with skin color. Ukrainians are our neighbours, speak similiar language, have similar slavic culture, they were crossing the border legaly, there were women, children and elderly (man were forbiden from exiting ukraine after the war broke out). "Refugees" from 2015 crisis were 75% man, half of them in the age 18-34, they crossed boarders illegaly and headed toward rich Eu countries despite having a lot of neighbours on the way that were not in a state of war, they were mostly muslim and did not spoke any language Polish can understand and also EU wanted force them into Poland against the will of Polish people and very often against the will of the "Refugees" (I put quotation marks because many of them were in fact economic immigrants seizing the opportunity to go to EU).... So I am not saying that Poland stance against immigration vawe in 2015 was a moraly perfect behaviour but it was not simply racist.
5. Polish people don't get offended by people telling that there where "death camps in poland" we just dont like when somebody sais there where "polish death camps" becouse they were "nazi german death camps in occupied poland" and we polish people dont like to be associted with responsibilty for this genocide.
Exactly right, especially about the 2015 "migrants" that Merkel irresponsibly invited to Europe
Love your talks Prof. Hope to see you someday.
That's a gross simplification of Polish political context. Random book about holocaust didn't make PiS. It's more how we were left out in the socialist sphere of influance and then shock transformed into a free market economy that put like 30% of population into poverty (and these are the eaxct people who distrusted liberal democracy and voted PiS- because they were put into povert by a transition into one which tbf makes sense). Compile that with second world war and you get 3 major historical crises that traumatise a society, a culture, an identity for a looong time causing for example popularisation of nationalism and move to the right. And btw it will still take us much more time to deal with just second world war cause there are people in our political class that want to capitalise on that hate. And polish society has been under serious external attacks over last 400 years so how do you expect us to no have racist and xenophobic tendencies - i am not trying to justify them, they are totally wrong but ffs we came a looong way already. So overal just highlighting these racist incidents as if it was defining the whole country is actually quite a populist thing to do in my opinion, 'hey lets all hate poland they are so stupid and racist and putin like' - really?. I guess it fits the narrative of the lecture and is flashy but is just wrong. There has been so much work being done to resist the move right and now we can see the fruits of that as our politics seems to finaly take a better turn, a shame you don't talk about that at all.
Found a new hero "he's a white man '. Love the way the Dr describes how events actually happened. You are awesome Sir
Watched part 1.. amazing lecture.. currently watching part 2
@31.00 "they deny Aushwitz was in Poland" this is pure manipulation. What we were against was using word "polish death camp" as it may mislead audience that we, as Poles were responsible for this tragedy that Germans did on our land. And as we are aware that no one is obliged to know the advanced history, we just want to name it properly: "former n*zi german ..." Instead of polish. Yes, one may sat that "polish" reffers to geography. Well, we would not have a problem with it if it was about something else than death camp organised by our neighbours who wanted to exterminate us.
Can’t get enough of this super smart Dr.Roy
I've started drumming to the rhythm of your lectures. Cuz I gotta fidget when learning this stuff. Quality stim time
He's definitely Left (way left of myself), but I enjoy his style, and he makes some really interesting points. I just discovered him earlier today, and already I have watched 4 videos.
Phenomenal. Thank you
You need your own comedy sketch... You have a great sense of humour and awesome at delivering. Do you have handouts of key points by any chance?
And what's best - comedy show doesn't come with expectation of speaking truth
This stuff should have 3 or 4 more zeros at the end of the view count :(
It's only been a day. Feel free to share.
Better leave it like that)
It could make people crazy
Yeah totally agree
Tells us a lot about our world. Foolishness gets more attention
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love to watch your lecture as a IR student from Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Just watched part 1.
Part 2 - 3 - 4 to go. Love it
thanks for sahirng this lecture online. stay healthy.
As a former Marine, this is 100% accurate depiction of the US and its position on global economics.
I can’t believe professor was right three times in one sentence. This is 2years ago and he predicted Trump will be re-elected, he will never go to jail, and what are you going to do about it. Unbelievable. My respect to you professor.
Ok, some inaccuracies, half truths and hyperbole in this lecture. First Kaczynski and the rest of the Polish delegation were killed trying to land at Smolensk, not taking off.
Second, you make some huge generalizations. First, make a distinction between Poles and the Law and Justice party. How would Dr Casagranda feel if he was portrayed as fully supporting Donald Trump simply because he is American or that the actions taken by Trump on the Muslim ban, for instance, reflect a similar world view. That may not be his intent, but is the result of the careless way in which he structures his lecture. He also glosses over the Tusk years. This also hasn’t aged well as Tusk is now back at the head of the Polish Government-so much for the argument that Poland is less Democratic than Russia.
I do agree that there are nationalist forces that feel aggrieved and are reactionary (especially when it comes to events around the Shoah, a story in which there are many more villains than heroes across Europe). The Land J party represents those parts of Polish society that denies the events of the past and the possibility for a reconciliation. As I reflect on the rising amount of antisemitism, Islamophobia and anti lgbtq sentiment in America, I would say that if anything we share the same afflictions and need to reconcile with our past and remember our shared values.
For this reason, I consider this lecture to be a bit dangerous because it was so poorly prepared and unthoughtful. Get your facts straight and make sure that you don’t paint Poles with such a broad brush as they so often are.
1:38:25 the moment when Mr.Roy predicts the future about Trump, and made me laugh so hard man..........
Another great lecture by Professor Dude
This guy is a great lecturer. I wish i had his footnotes/primary references
Insane and sad, how Dr. Casagranda predicted that Trump would be reelected and that he wouldn’t be in prison.
Omg, Roy has so much information that actually predicted Trump 😮😮😮😮
This guy is an amazing lecturer, but I would take his class because I wouldn’t know what to study for his exams. But very informative for sure
Actually he spreads complete bullshit about Jedwabne. He just spread propaganda from Gross' book which is very very low quality as history study. If he puts so little in getting facts, with such research hes less than worthless.
21:10: "Lawn justice party" sounds awesome!
43:17: Before he was appointed as the prime minister, he was the director of Federal Security Service (FSB), which as I think is an important step in career.
01:10:50: Nowadays most of the jobs are "fake jobs", because of the planned obsolescence.
Meanwhile, is that just an accident that the grow of nutz in Plnd after year 2000 went hand in hand with grow of nutz in Ukrn? Or there is a common sponsor/customer of these events that just poured money to "the right" plticians?
Excellent knowledgeable speaker..unbelievable
Loved this
Although am a bit skiptical (to put it mildly) about calling the man who drove the truck into the barracks of french and US Marines a "terrorist" I mean you do imagine for some Lebanese -fairly- that is a man who might have taken on himself to end a foreign interference in his country at the barracks killing mostly foreign soldiers in the process. I mean I can't understand how it's just normal while we never call say that about a drone operator dropping a bomb on an elementary school in Pakistan. I don't appreciate how it's for granted that anti-american is still terrorist even while admitting America's morally questionable (also to put mildly) reasons to go to war with those people in the first place 🤷
I think that's American internal double thinking 🤔
Although to be fair: I watched hours of this and I have to say I appreciate the fairness to others I mean it's rare to see this degree of non-orientalist take on history from western academics
Its basically American apathy to people who would have to do something like that. They've never been occupied by a power that is a 100x more militarily powerful where they cant fight them openly. They have suicidal attacks in their own country without any war or occupying power. Imagine what they would do if they were occupied by people they love to demonize. Imagine it was Muslims occupying them militarily, destabilizing them politically and economically, overthrowing their governments etc etc. To Americans war on their own soil is science fiction. Funnily enough in their movies they have no problem lionizing such actions such as at the end of the movie Independence Day when the guy crashes his plane into the Alien ship.
what he did is not terrorism it is called guerilla warfare
Yep, it's called double standard
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It was at this moment I realized who should be our next president? This man we all love to learn from!
I love this guy. But it’s a bit sad that he thinks America is a democracy
Giving these out for free is awesome.
The problem with the Nixon explanation is that he completely ignores the decoupling of the dollar from the gold standard. Working class was unable to prevent their savings and spending power from govt debasement.
Was the savings of the working class higher then than now?
Thank for all this information .
Never missing a beat.....Great talk
Actually after plane crash Law & justice's candidate lost presidential election, and in next sejm election they had less MEPs. PO (Civic Platform party) rulled the country till 2015. In 2015 plane crash from 2010 wasn't a relavant topic anymore. It's not a reason why they won.
After win PiS did what all previous govs have been doing with public media. They replaced journalists with their own. It's a shitty practise. However there were plenty of Tv channels that criticized rulling party and I am not aware of anyone who was sentenced for that.
"He'll never go to prison, he's a white man" I felt that 😅😅😅
I don't quite agree with calling most right wing parties Nazi. That way we would call left wing ones anarchist.
Also, Nazism is an exaggeration. Thank the times we don't still really have that. But yeah things are not quite right on both political spectra in many countries including the USA.
EDIT: you know that the voting thing would be called authoritarian if you'd not let these uneducated people vote. In some countries, they even want to lower the bar to 14years old. Good times.
Keeping up or extending the country's infrastructure is not a "fake" job. Maintenance and connections are not "nothing". Of course we should create a society that allows people to make the world a better place. The ultimate authoritarianism is Corporate structure.
@@joeldwest corporate structure is not dissimilar to a hierarchical structure as that from a kingdom or even a corrupt democratic state. The issue lies not in the corporation itself but in the fact that if left 100% private it can do whatever it wishes through influence and intimidation even acting outside its borders. That's not to say, that a 100% state run thing won't do the same. Definitely, we always need balance if we want things not to fall in the wrong hands.
Can you upload these as podcasts please?
I think you're right about the gap in the tapes. I remember talking about it on the school bus with someone when it was being reported, and 18 minutes is the number I remember.
will you talk about gold dollar unbonding during nixon adminstration?
I learned about this from a Facebook friend. This is amazing. And clear-eyed. It should be a tremendous wake up call.