Andrew S Weiss - The Life and Lies of Putin - and the Disasterous Culmination of a Toxic Character
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- It seems like the past century has been least kind to Ukraine, of all the countries in Europe. Fought over repeatedly in WWII by rampaging armies, which came off the back of revolution, civil war, terror, and genocide in the Holodomor. Ukraine has bene plagued with monumental events - wars, famines, political upheavals. But there's a recurring theme - its struggle to break away from Russia - which, like an abusive husband, refuses to let Ukraine go, while threatening to destroy everything in retribution. Putin is just the latest incarnation of a leaders pursuing a monstrous policy of imperialism, domination, and genocidal action whenever they felt Ukraine slipping out of their control.
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GUEST: Andrew S. Weiss, writer, academic and foreign policy expert.
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#ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation
#hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introducing Andrew
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SPEAKER:
Andrew S. Weiss is James Family Chair and Vice President for Studies at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC. There he leads an international team of experts on Russia, Ukraine, and the wider region. He has previously been a Director at the RAND Centre for Russia and Eurasia. Andrew’s career has spanned both public and private sectors. He served as director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs on the National Security Council staff, as a member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, and as a policy assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defence for Policy during the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush.
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BOOKS:
Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin Hardcover - November 8, 2022
by Andrew S. Weiss (Author), Brian "Box" Brown (Illustrator)
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Thanks Andrew and Jonathan. I was hoping that Putin would have lost his war by now. Wishing Ukrainians a better 2023 than 2022.
Andrew S Weiss, The Life and Lies of Putin. 51 minutes 47 seconds. watched it. great interview!
Another great talk! Thanks. This channel deserves more views!!
Indeed. This could well have been double the length, maybe have him back for a dive into things you didn't have time for?
Indeed.
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It's my favorite one, I hope in the future to have Bill Burns.
Such a good channel, Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Fantastic talk again -- I love how your guests know more than anyone out there and yet humbly admit how little they know sometimes -- charming, and a sign of intelligence and integrity.
Putin has not yet realised that the days of colonisation were over a long time ago.
Superb content, thank you very much!
I was watching some property programs - my favourite - and in one a very young Russian woman was buying a London property for almost £5 million. She had a Botox clinic somewhere in London. She was too young to have earned that kind of money, profitable as Botox is. In another a Russian diplomat rented a Marbella house for €160k a week on a regular basis. Do diplomats earn that kind of money? When stories came back on the disastrous quality of armaments and kit given to Russian soldiers it made me think of what happened to the billions supposedly spent of the military. Kleptocracy indeed.
I love corruption - in Russia.
Millions if not billions don't reach their intended destination.
In the current Situation that's a blessing.
What are saying that Russia has a monopoly on corruption ! Please tell me how you know what state the Russian military are in, please share
@@samsungtap4183 There’s plenty of corruption around the world, but I’ve just finished reading ‘Freezing Order’ by Bill Browder, who minutely details the process of the theft of the Russian economy and trillions rightfully owned by the Russian people. It’s corruption on an Olympic scale. As to the army, anyone studying multiple media outlets can see for themselves. That doesn’t include RT btw.
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Watch the news or watch TH-cam channels and you will see the state of the Russian military.
No.
Neither, the UK nor the US have *ever* had a case of nepotism and kleptoracy.
NoT at all!
Ordered this book for my 29 year old son who has read many books on Russia.
A mediocre, corrupt, insecure THUG!!! Thanks! I needed to hear that!!!
One of my favourite channels!! Thank you so much!
Thank you - you’re very kind!
Another great talk! Thank you very much!. My horizon broadens
More to come!!!
Newly discovered this great channel. Extremely interesting & informative podcasts. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🍀✌️🌻
Thank you! Heroyam Slava! 🇺🇦
Your channel's slowly but surely getting more audience, I'm very happy about this development!
I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate your channel.
Awesome interview.
Now I want that graphic novel for Christmas!
Wow. Extensive and nearly exhaustive reference regarding Putin’s actions and the resulting response from the west. What caused it, what caused the response to it, and how it’s end is not a clear cut conclusion. Can’t wait to get the graphic novel.
Its
The West is in a position to write the ending we wish to see
Putin is the 3rd generation of his family to work in NKVD/KGB . That implies a belief in the values of those State internal security organizations. He certainly is proud of that background and training. Furthermore, Russia has been ruled by authoritarian rulers practically without interruption for its entire history which creates a mindset that alternatives do not and cannot work in the Russian political environment.
100% correct! In the early 1990's a NYS State judge told me he (with others)were heading to Russia to teach them the legal system- like ours. I had to resist laughing out loud. Obviously they knew nothing of Russia's history; and the they were wasting their time. Obviously!!
I will definitely attempt to read this mans book. I like that he manages to get to the important aspects of his subject without using mythological or sensational ideas.
Excellent guest on excellent channel!!! It's absolute truth what he says!
"Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin." Andrew Weiss GRAPHIC NOVEL with art by Brian Box Brown,...details Putin's rise from KGB officer to president.
Great interview
Its so refreshing to hear an interview where the host is not leading the best around as if by a leash!
Do you know Otto von Habsburg?
He was once asked about Putin - he said:
"I heard this name the first time absolutely by chance - in the late 80s, when I was forced by weather to a hotel in Dresden, on the way from Berlin to Prague/Vienna.
I met there by chance sb who had been tortured in Bautzen (worst KGB gulag in East Germany) and wanted to get out of GDR some way. And this man said: in Bautzen there were Germany /Stasi/ and Russians /KGB/ and they in general were quite human. Only one guy there was a sadistic bastard: his name...Putin.
This I can believe. Putin’s psyche is from the Stalin era, not Khrushchev or even Brezhnev
Stalin was obsessed with the independent Communist Party of Germany, so he sent comintern members into the political concentration camps to organize. He gave Hitler a list of German communist to neutralize and paid a bounty on each. Stalin was a rare individual and Putin has yet to measure up to him, but it will be really hard to find someone worse than Putin outside the Russian mafia.
You're one of the few interviewers who elevates the discussion substantially with your questions. Thank you for another excellent video.
👍👍👍 you’re so kind.
Good point about his fear of revolution. There’s always some good points on this channel.
Informative Piece
I have just relistened to the interview with Andrew Weiss and doubly appreciate his focus on the facts, elegantly stripping away embellishments and hype. Relevant 4 weeks ago and now this interview illuminates the context on Russia and Putin.
I’m hoping many of these videos will still hold valuable insight, beyond the news headlines…
I just subscribed, this seems like a prudent and reasonable channel amongst the wretched cyber domain
Your abusive husband metaphor is spot on..
Another great interview the algorithms should have given you far more subscribers by now!
I kind of think that too. It’s a little suspicious…
@Johnny H Johns I think this may be the case. This was a great chat, and should be watched widely!. Will comment more below!
Good show, good channel!!
Some very interesting guests on this channel
Another excellent interview. Thank you!
Again excellent choice of articulate expert
Gosh, Jonathon is a class act, articulate and totally across his subject. Every question is thoughtfully constructed and brings out the best from his guests.
You’re so kind to say this. I do put a few hours prep into each interview ☺️
Jonathan, thank for another exceptional conversation...trying to schedule the time to go back through your catalogue. A very rewarding prospect.
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More ppl should be told about this outstanding source of information
I'll have to get my hands on a copy of this graphic novel!
Just discovered your channel a couple months ago. It keeps getting better and better what an interesting episode this was, Plus you just sold another book I'll be picking up a copy for sure....
I’m not on commission- but have probably helped shift a lot of books… I should write one!
@@SiliconCurtain Well... comparing an imperialistic coloniser to a "husband", even an abusive one, isn't quite accurate
Great guest ! Great interview
Extremely interesting and informative interview. I shall definitely purchase this book. Thank you so very much. To me.. Putin is a bully and not well educated. He is evil in the flesh. I want to learn more. I fully support Ukraine 🇺🇦 ty
I know this is 7 months old, but his book is not only one of the best books I’ve ever read, but easily one of the best graphic novels. The clarity and density of information spanning a vast array of time, events, topics and information is strongly reenforced with meaning in it’s easily digestible style. It’s not just a book about Putin, it’s a book about putting the entire reality we face now into perspective through key events and information that shaped it. I recommend it highly as the easiest way to gain overall perspective on a highly difficult and complex scenario.
It’s brilliant, isn’t it!
Meanwhile... and more importantly... the nato kitted Borscht Reich formations MUST, WILL and ARE getting dismantled irrespective of the conniptions, tantrums and hysterics emanating from wherever. Eventually, the ODD-COUPLE 😮... and what an ODD-COUPLE... of banderovskies and ashkenazi hahahas.....
To me it's personal for Vladolf with Ukraine, they twice rebelled and in 2014 it was his intervention that triggered the Euro Maidan that became the Revolution of Dignity.
A miscalculation precisely because personal emotion blinded Vladolf to the predictability of this move, planned and larger, compared to taking opportunities.
Not how I would have phrased it, but this is actually quite insightful.
Now I am amazed that we didn't see back then (and possibly even earlier) the limited worldview of Putin. He was basically a person quite limited in his experience when he came to power, and decades in the Kremlin hasn't exactly broadened it.
@10:40 how charming to see an interviewee literally blush over an interviewer's complimentary question. What you both danced around though and which, clearly, make you both more generous than I will ever be. The real genius of the graphic novel that Mr. Weiss has tapped into, is simply that most people do not have the intellectual capacity to read 1000 pages and never will. Democracy depends on an informed electorate. If that electorate doesn't read, we require new scalable mediums in which to reach those folks and reinforce the moral authority of democracy over the crackpot tyrants like Putin and Trump. Well done, Mr. Weiss.
Really an enjoyable interview. Thank you !
If academics would just read the memoirs of regular folk in Ukraine between 1922-1945, you could predict a lot about Russia.
How so?🤔
Under Lenin the Ukrainians tried to get away from Russia domination but they failed they gone at war against both Russia and Poland.
Years before the second world war when the Nazies came in they were happy to find a way for them to get away from Stalin.
That's why the Russian called them Nazies now.
In history always in the details the devil is..☝️
@@aliciadavis8872 It was the way Genocide featured so regularly inMoscows calculations
Maybe a bit unrelated, but is it not strange that Western governments almost compare foreign fighters in Ukraine with foreign immigrants that travel back to the middle east etc.to fight for ISIS, while at the same time welcoming Russians whom claimed they ran away from the draft or that they are simply common tourists, many whom seems to be drone entusiasts? Reminds me of Soviet Double-Think.
This is excellent, thank you. I can't wait to read the book.
hi, thanks for the book. gr8 work. :)
Accidental MAD czar.
There is a book based on an extensive research by a Polish journalist who lived in Russia for 14 years and dug deep to the very early childhood of Putin and how it influenced the monster he is today.
Also, he wasn’t liked at KGB and when the Wall fell everybody was running and he managed to take files on everything and everyone with himself before fleeing to Leningrad. Etc, etc..
Here in New Zealand he was posing as a shoe salesman in the 1970s and 1980s. There are anecdotes about his stays here. He was described as 'nondescript.' See mentions and interviews at RNZ and Metromag NZ.
Who? Weiss? Fink? Putin?
The behavior of the Russian government in this war is reminiscent of how some violent men operate. When they realize that their loved one no longer wants to live with them. Then they lock up, humiliate and abuse the loved one. Because of the fear of losing control and being abandoned…
Am amazed by the lack of views.
Linked to number of comments and shared links I believe. Not sure.
However I recommend getting on Jake broes, Anna from Ukraine, Artur, starsky and Konstantin's u tube. Be interviewed for a change and should work wonders.
Great idea… I’ll try this idea!
Thank you - I’m familiar with Putin’s trajectory and I’ve put this book on hold at the library - look forward to reading it later this week 👍
Impressive knowledge and expertise by Mr Weiss on Putin and Russia in general. Mr Weiss did however use the phrase ‘you know’ as filler in seemingly every sentence which significantly detracted from the quality of the presentation.
Well, you know, you don't have to obsess about speech mannerisms. Obama had his ummms while he visibly sorted out his formulations. Never made me think he wasn't intelligent or eloquent.
I know
If you can fart, you can qualify as an "expert" on this legendary channel.
For extra expert points make sure to have lots of books behind you when sharing your "expertise".
Col.Douglas MacGregor,Richard Medhurst,Scott Ritter,Jeffrey Sachs,
Alexander Mercouris,Clayton Morris,John Mearsheimer,
,Senator Richard H. Black,
What’s this? A list of wrong headed people, or suggestions for whom to extradite to Moscow?
@@SiliconCurtain Yes, and yes!
Disastrous.
@27:31 Fall, 1984, in this fight on the Leningrad subway, his right arm was badly broken, he was rebuked, and his training ended abruptly.
Now do George Bush, Batak Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and, I don’t know, every single UK prime monster
A Polish journalist: Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich wrote a biography of Putin, he was not born in Leningrad/Petersburg. He was adopted by folks from Leningrad.
Born in Georgia
@@petra1201 no. he grew up there. But was born somewhere else
@@jezalb2710 Born in Georgia.
@@petra1201 nope
47:07 / 51:47 how to work with an artist to blend words with the pictures...did it reach a younger target audience... Brian Box wanted to create original imagery. no often-used hammer & sickle or dancing bears imagery; changed base colors in a progression each new chapter. .. weaved in some pop culture of the times. ...Brian hid Easter eggs in pictures to "game" the... Weiss receives a stream of customer photos showing all ages reading the book... 80 years down to 10,11 yrs
was the russian incompetence not a good thing ?
Nice talk again!
How about the parallels between Putin and people like Stalin, Hitler or Milosevic?
None
Really informative interview with a well informed excellent communicator. Quality. Thank you.
I watched this interview right after a discussion in Austria with a exiled Russian journalist. The 2 discussions conflict on a post Putin Russia. Here is why the end to Putin will give Russia a much better chance for change.
Putin has built a Russian culture based broadly on kleptocracy with a private sector focus on nepotism. This type of culture is dependent on the man at the top. If Putin goes, it’s chaos until another leader emerges. After 20 years in power, and Putin surrounding himself with weak leaders, a new strongman will not quickly emerge. In fact, it might take years and a junta format to stabilize the situation before a leader emerges. Local ethnic groups may emerge very strong in an area compared to the Russian central government. This could lead to a more federal system which would be at least incrementally more democratic. The key is removing Putin.
Through various programs, a new management class of the Russian Federation is being formed from the participants of the special military operation. Through the Time of Heroes program alone, 40 thousand military personnel have already entered the echelons of power, and 530 thousand SVO participants have been registered. They and their family members are provided with various benefits, free training in management, education, etc. About 90 thousand participants of the special military operation have already become part of government structures at the federal level.
*disastrous
There was and is nothing surprising in Putin's behavior or character for anybody who for the past forty plus years has paid attention the what is going on in the world. Putin was, and is, a KGB operative. And that tells a lot about him and his character! Much like membership in the Gestapo or the SS tells a lot about a person.
Everything has been documented. How he had residential buildings blown up in order to get a reason to go to war against Chechnya. How he mad many of his critics murdered. Alexandr Litvinenko, for revealing that Putin was behind the blowing up of buildings.
Western leaders and media have closed their eyes and refused to see the truth. In "The Russia hand" Strobe Talbott praises Putin's behavior, and apparently did not understand that Putin was only acting!
Cause of the war is simple, Ukraine has things Ruzzia wants but does not want to pay for.
The main things are the land and its resources mainly oil and gas.
As far as the attractiveness of the ruzz model is concerned, just look where refugees head to, few if any to ruzz. And for a very good reason, the place is a shyte show.
Like all other too.
A graphic white paper?!
He'll never work in a think tank again!
46:35 a "quasi-genocidal _ ocelot?"_
I did not foresee such an analogy in this context.
(On the 3rd listen, the word seems to be _onslaught.)
Maybe there's a viscous ocelot Easter egg.... Putin as the mad catter.....
Yeah. Kooky eh?
(Teeth gnashing.)
Did Putin suffer abandonment as a child? Sounds like his personality may suffer from these effects.
FLOL
FLOL to you 👿
In my country you demonized Ho Chi Minh never ever even to this day realizing that Ho was a moderate, i can see a similar situation here, blame everything on Putin and totally ignoring any legitimate sucrurity concerns...careful what you wish for. Like in Vietnam the hardliners are not far away!
Yeah, except what you say makes no sense. Putin is a mass murdering tyrant. He is bad, very bad. No exaggerations required.
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Probably will draw a broader readership with a graphic novel but they really are just glorified comic books. Dumbing down of the world.
Get a copy from a library, it’s actually incredibly good, and I guarantee there are some insights about Putin you will not find in mainstream history books!
4 youknows in 30 seconds
You should work for CNN
I’d rather not!
@@SiliconCurtain you sound like one, another brainwashed sheep
@@SiliconCurtain Understandable. Compromising integrity and credibility are a high price for the high salaries.
Silicon Curtain. Why not? You're clearly a stinking bigot who loves telling other bigots what they want to hear. You'll always be popular with people who are too lazy to think for themselves.
Goddammit, he says "you know" in every sentence, somtimes twice. Next video, please.
How will Ukraine cross Dnipro river?
Not an insurmountable challenge, I think
At the appropriate time and place and with their unmistakable determination to win.
Yes it's amazing what the thought of a European pension can do !
This whole video is despicable. Where is their knowledge of history?
Disasterous??? Please get an editor
Former cast member of STAR TREK
"The savagery, the criminality, and the incompetence that the Russians have displayed, are all still really shocking."
True, but this is what happens when a deluded war criminal is in command of an oppressed nation.
Please spell out your English history starting with Oliver Cromwell and his blood letting in Ireland the first colonial land mass.... from there the rest of your history...
So absolutely relevant… well, not really unless you want to trivialise the situation to a point of meaninglessness… my family’s history is of fleeing the nazis and rural poverty and oppression in Ireland - so actually I’ll say what I fucking want to about imperialism and genocide!
My mothers family is Irish, my dads Ukrainian. In the 1840s when serfs in Russia could be killed on the whim of their owner, the Irish were suffering terribly. at the hands of the Anglo Irish land owning aristocracy. who also cared not one whit for the peasants. Unfortunately Ukrainians are being Genocided NOW by an extremely violent psychopathic regime . Your point is?
Andrew your comments would be easier to listen to if you stopped saying "you know" so often. It makes you sound silly
I'm 7 minutes into this guy's 51 minute presentation and I've already caught 4 mistakes that are at best really sloppy and at worst indicative of the guy, Weiss, being an idiot, and not an "expert" on Ukraine and Russia
#1. refers to an academic paper he co-authored being passed around for peer review in the US as a "samizdat". Definition of Samizdat: "the clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe."a samizdat newsletter"
#2. refers to George Takei, an actor of Japanese ancestry who was forcibly interned as a child in an internment camp as an actor in Star Wars, when it was Star Trek, a completely different franchise made for TV 20 years before
#3. refers to the destruction of Chechnya in the 2nd Chenchnyan war under Putin as "Grozny", which is the capital city of Chechnya and was utterly destroyed, but did not encompass the totality of the region, might have given him a pass on this one, but it's just sloppy
#4. refers to the "1000 year history of Russia" when referring to the nation with it's capital in Moscow, Russia is 500 years old, Ukraine is 1000+ years old, and if this guy cannot be clear about this fundamental distinction, he's no friggin' expert, he's a sloppy mess pushing Kremlin propaganda or at the very least a sloppy careless mess not worth listening to.
Don't waste your time on this garbage 🤣
Why should people believe you and not Jeffery Sachs?
If you buy into his Vatnik nonsense, then you’re on the wrong channel. This is not a place for you.
@@SiliconCurtain I came here because I was looking for honesty and truth. If your only reponse to my question is to belittle Jeffery Sachs as a seller of nonsense then you, my friend, are just another envious purveyor of propaganda about Putin and the war to like minded fools. You're either spooked and looking for a financial boost prior to the coming recession Sachs speaks about or you're trying to garner a reputation equal to the one Sachs has had for decades, as inconceivable as that may be.
@@SiliconCurtain mate, give him a chance. Its very unfair to keep him this ignorant for so long.
Because Mr. Weiss has provided reasonable arguments for his point of view. Prof. Sachs seems to have himself trapped in an information vacuum lock.
Propagandist
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That's quite a confession Callum, most Russian bots try to hide behind nonsensical utterances but you're much more honest about your reason for being here.
@@dlmsarge8329 I ain't no bot and no Russia lover but these propagandist types are filth!
Lousy propaganda
Yet another illuminating interview, more of a dialog between friends over a cup of coffee or tea, or maybe drinks at a casual dinner. Tyvm Sir, I've very much enjoyed the episodes that I've seen - we need more than 24 hours to do stuff, well, at least I do - to consume all of the content that I want, & I don't mean the drivel on TV, I mean quality content such as yours, & a few others that I've been fortunate enough to find here on TH-cam. Thanks again.
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RU PropagandaMachine is still set in the Stalinist era,how pathetic. #UkraineIsWinning
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