Would Putin stop at the Polish border? | James O'Brien - The Whole Show
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O'Brien talking sense for once !
@@grayham1969 I would say O'Brian speaks about common human decency. That is why it is so popular.
Me too
Wish UK had the Rewanda scheme in place when Sunak parents came to UK.
And Braverman's and Patel's. England used to be a nice country before Thatcher. 😮
Why, were his parents refugees?
@@yington Economic refugees, yes. 🤔
@@andrewrobinson2565
No. They were not refugees. They immigrants who arrived legally. So therefore, not what the Rwanda scheme is covering.
@@yington As are all the people coming here unless you believe guilty until proven innocent is the way to go.
Maybe people wouldn’t come to this country if we weren’t so involved in destroying other countries economically/ politically via u.s, uk, European colonialism! Yes it’s still on going…
Absolutely right said
I wld say little engliah colonialism it I nit a trait that Scots have but prevalent in the little english
Off course the rich lairds etc of Scotland r like that cos they r taught in little english public schools and r in ut for the money. It was them who signed the declaration of arbroath even tho Scottish citizens were marching against joining with little engkand at the time.
This old chestnut. How do we destroy their economies
None of these politicians talk of peace. There’s too much money on the table
Sunak's Rhondda scheme passes into law as Wales is legislated a safe country 😂
Why do nations jump to war and weapons instead of finding the source of the problem and resolving that?
Because they don't make money with peace. Gaza/israel shld have been sorted 70+ yrs ago but was ignored.
The thing is, you can't say "we Even warmed up to refugees". Like you mentioned, because of race, you became warm towards Ukrainians. The premise of being warm to refugees stops being valid BECAUSE it's not refugees if it's only warmth for specific people. Just like you can't say, we became warm to hugs if it's only hugs from one specific person.
We need to be bombarded with personal stories of these poor people fleeing for their lives. The media is so busy dehumanising refugees that we never get to hear the facts that would help us empathise and find a compassionate solution. This current government will be remembered as the worst in the history of these Isles.
Discovery of mass graves ‘stark evidence of war crimes’: Al-Haq Gaza
I think it's disgraceful what they pushed through. Sad news.
Why? What's disgraceful about it?
@@stephenmurray8559 on the Rwanda vote.
Is Cuba sovereign? Can Cuba get Russian missiles?
Russia thought so
True Sunak,s he demonstrated that Austerity is not enough for workers, aid for the most vulnerable citizens must also be cut!!
Do I dare ask. Isn’t Brexit supposed to stop the migrant boats!!!!!!!
It really is like the film "Children of Men"
If James thinks Starmer et al will change our direction of travel in any significant way then he is even more deluded than I thought. Our current opposition, soon to be new government, have been specifically chosen to maintain the status quo and make sure that any real deep rooted change is never again offered to the British public.
Yes, to ask where they are.
All governments need to support Ukraine. The reluctance with the US For 6 months has had a catastrophic impact in Ukraine. I’ve always been a supporter of US until now. Their reluctance to support THE BILL has caused such catastrophic consequences So glad they are on board NOW ❤
Some big mouth put it out in the media Poland had been talking with an ally about deployment of nuclear weapons to Poland pointing at Russia.
Which is entirely pointless. Nuclear weapons are deployed in submarines. They can literally swim undetected a mile next to Russia's border. Also Russian's subs can do that to us. Except Russian's subs would probably sink first.
It must be incredibly frustrating at present to be a British citizen. When you see the terrible corruption and the outrageous incompetence of their current Tory government and the you look across the House of Commons and you see the main political opposition is equally as incompetent and incapable! Who do British people turn to for proper leadership now? It’s going to be intriguing to see what happens to that country over the next few years…
The opposition is constantly under scrutiny by a heavily biased rw media and as such, to be successful, has to act in a very specific way to not give the media an inch.
Whilst you might be right, I don't think it'd ever be possible to safely judge the competence of a labour gov't until they take the reigns.
You’re absolutely spot on. Where are you from?
You are part of the problem and just as foolish if you seriously think any opposition excluding reform would be worse than 14 years of what is statistically and factually worse than any government the UK has seen in modern history.
This has made me so sad
If you visit Liberty Square in Tbilisi the capital of Georgia there is a huge St George statue in the middle... Beautiful city worth a visit 👍
I'm 35 and own my own house... just a few more months on the mortgage.
I am so aware of how privilege I am. None of it was handed to me....i never got anything from my parents.... i built up a business and got lucky.
But its pathetic and tragic that I'm the minority. That isn't right.
I have two little boys, and I'm terrified for their future due to this.
The adopted son sounds like a brit to me ❤
St George's Day . Nice . Canadian born , my mother's father was from England. So I guess I'm still in there somewhere . Cheers .
Love this guy! American retired in Italy.
I'd like to hear your take James on the Russia ukraine conflict and where that's heading.
Putin usually says they aren't idiots and makes remarks about the 10x as big NATO weapon budget.
I would love to be a fly on the wall, once you & everyone else learns Sunak plans to axe 70,000 Civil Servant jobs and the immense damage inflicted on the country. People are suffering immensely & Sunak wants to fire at least 70,000 workers, while Hunt moans about returning to work.
There is absolutely no way of seriously answering such a question.
Rwanda is safe follows the same Orwellian thinking as ‘2 + 2 = 5’. This government needs to go and we, as a people, need to up our game and demand better.
I usually don’t listen to journalists these days as they have shown to be agents for either side but I do appreciate @James O’Brian and his willingness to tackle issues that are both sensitive and difficult regardless of who might or might not agree with him. Unfortunately I am Canadian and can’t call in but I would have liked to call ☎️ in to his show.
We need to protect the few honourable journalists left before we lose them. @James O’Brian is truly one of the great journalists left to protect and we need yo stand up for him and his show.
If he went beyond hit, he wouldn’t get more than couple of miles.
They are selling it to the red wall scratters those geniuses who bought in to boris
You don't bring a knife to be in a gunfight.
They rather grasped on words or they might be British at their essence otherwise the sense of self certainly fades away on doing the right action.
Not sure its the same Starmer you're on about.
House market can't stand this prices must be made affordable or market will collapse
54:05 Kremlin won’t invade Poland but their government officials did say that they will invade Moldova, when they thought that they will take Odesa soon. They will stop at NATO borders though
We should find a political solution.
1st Putin will not stop at Ukraine. He wants the old USSR So he's not going to stop
jimbo trying to knock Britain's funds to ukraine backfired, try and stay informed mate.
James is utterly deluded if he thinks Kid Starver is going to improve anything.
Non NATO Baltic states. Name one.
Today’s them tomorrow might be us .
Assuming my maths aren't terrible, 0.7% = 200 people would be 200/0.007 ~ 28,571 people.
Why were Finland and Austria neutral after the second world war? Duh!
Rishi Sunak to be deported to Rwanda.
With regard to Goldman Sachs, as someone who works in the industry you need to get the idea out of your head that just because someone worked at an investment bank they're a finance or economics expert. Analyst is actually just the entry level job title that everyone that works there has (probably 30+% of the full time employees have the job title of "vice president"), even if you're just in IT. I think Rishi had a management career there and subsequently. He wasn't a trader or anyone making institutional investment/risk decisions.
No
The danger of Russian dominance is obvious every country in the world tbh
The rawander bill is only pandering to British people that don't take enough notice of politics. As Mr Ben said, if they can treat refugees like this, they could do exactly the same to you.
Julia loffee is a Russian living in US? Does an excellent series of talks on Putin on Pbs frontline also proffessor Stephen Kotkin who is expert on Russia.
NOT IF HE DOES WHAT HE personally wishes WE ALL KNOW HE wants to RECREATE his hearts desire THE SOVIET UNION
You don't have to be a political scientist to understand Russia does not have the military and financial Resources to be able to take on several NATO nations at the same time and occupy them.
We have a uni party just like the US.
The man speaking now probably works for Chattanooga house or one of the same .
Happy St. George's Day to patriotic Englishmen and O'Brien fans.
St. George, a top notch patriotic Englishman 😂🎉.
41:15 @@andrewrobinson2565This guy would send him to Rwanda
100%✓ James what they do to you now, they done to us first.
St George is Turkish therefore we should accept migration. I thought he was Cappadocian greek born within the Roman empire.
It's mouthpieces like yourself James that is the problem 👍
The EU really treat James's guests so badly. Thank goodness we left.
Its very hard as a simple civilian to stay at 100% attention to Ukraine when our own government is so pitiful and unresponsive to the will of the people in regards to supporting Ukraine. It saps the will to feel so completely powerless, to just be a witness while our government picks its nose.
Arguably, NATO and the west should have been in Ukraine with troops on the ground when Russia pushed beyond Crimea - we promised to protect them when they gave up Nuclear Weapons. Possibly the only reason a black market nuke never disappeared and detonated in London or New York or Jeruselem is because a Ukraine which couldn't manage those weapons agreed to give them up in exchange for our protection, and we failed when that call to protect came due.
That's not true at all??... When did we give a binding agreement to protect Ukraine??.... We did agree to not expand NATO any further East but broke that promise, also all the launch codes were held by Russia, they weren't really their weapons
War is not going to solve the problem..
lol, tell that to Putin
Don't forget who, the brutal dictator, Kagame's close ally was. That's it, Tony Blair of course. Blair, who was an Israeli arms dealer, and someone who bent over for the nearest oil derrick.
Sangita?
Wont someone think of the young adults who are not expecting any inheritance whatsoever, have no account at The Bank of Ma and A and are facing a future of uncertainty - except for working til death and being in poverty - those things are certain. Oh and climate catastrophe. Whoop whoop!
One estimate by analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) put the embezzled funds at $400 million last year, at least; another expert compared the level of corruption in Kiev as approaching that of the Afghan war, 'although there will be no professional audit reports emerging from Ukraine'," Hersh's report read.
We are a tool of the Americans
Non NATO Baltic states?
America has been financing the Ukraine project for the last twenty years .
Another monologue
St George's Day is NOT a British, Scottish, or Welsh Day. It's the English national day. Surprised at you, James
British means English in modern parlances you are spot on
St. George would be an immigrant except he never set foot in england.
Saint George was Turkish mate . Jesus was from Palestine . Where are we going with this
No, it's British. I'm Scottish and enjoy St George's day too. Often go down south. It's a great laugh. Don't be so bitter
Naive people
Two callers on Putin question are government apparatchiks.
You can't make it up.😂
JOB is a joker, msm joker.
Would Putin stop at a NATO border, after two years plus spent failing against an armed forces Russia is 5x the size of, when NATO is 5x the size of Russia?
I believe the thinking is that if NATO falters or shows weakness then Putin may feel that NATO is a weak alliance that would not respond full throatedly and therefore he may achieve some strategic goal (such as annexing the suwalki gap) before NATO is able to put together a response, or if NATO just doesn't respond.
@@liamsloan5410 In what way would Putin view spending 2% of GDP instead of 2.5% of GDP as a weakness, when NATO spends over 12x more than Russia?
@AKHill-gj2uy it's not necessarily about putin being scared of the economic power of the west. He would be betting on NATO not having the will to actually start a direct conflict with Russia regardless of what their economic power is. We've seen hints at this in the ukrainian conflict so far. Russia has struck ships and facilities on the border of Romania and fired missiles over Poland and NATO didn't shoot them down even though they could have as they were scared of escalation.
NATO should have STOPPED. WHEN WILL YOU REALIZE THAT?
Stopped what?
Jesus last part of your programe,you just kept rabbleing on
@21:00 so 60% were men? Why are they here?
James doesn't have a clue about Ukraine. Typical warmongering centrist.
Yes, I put a coment up sugesting he should invite Jeffery Sachs on his show
Or Mersheimer
@@keithdixon3896 Yes 💯 % . There are loads of very clever people who O Brien could have on his show, but he won't! Even though he wishes everyone to believe he's left balance to the right, LBC is still a corporate captured enterty and someone like Ray McGovern wouldn’t fit, is that a fair judgement🍻
James's dismissiveness of certain views is noted. I come to this channel just like i visit other narrow minded channels like The Telegraph's Ukraine, the latest and most official ones to note the margins of their way of thinking and ignorance. Running the full range of idiocy and stupidity, anti history and willfull blindness. James is no exception. The selfrighteousness and played earnestness is laughable. Somewhat amusing if it wasnt so broadly shared and tragic. Misconceptions galore.
Power to the Putin
I just wanna know why Russia would want Poland…the people will never submit and Poland has nothing Russia wants…doesn’t have anything that any one wants really. I guess Poland has huge resources we don’t know abt
I guess you don't know anything about either Russia or Poland.
Poland has one thing Russia hates the most: it's a successful post - soviet democracy. An example for other such republics seeking alliance with EU etc.
What Ukraine has been doing in the Eastern territories is what Britain was doing to N. Ireland!
I'm beginning to find O'brian boring.
But O'Brien is ok!
Paused before you got into this topic:
Roh row! It's happened , I agree with a single thing one Tory has ever said!
Think about how Putin justified invading Ukraine, I have been on about this since he invaded.
Putin said if Ukraine joins NATO he cannot abide Ukraine on his border, so his hand was forced. There was foil hat hypernormalisation stuff that came later but the NATO thing was the initial public reason. Go look out a map of mainland Europe. You found Ukraine? See how many countries border it? This is iffy memory so please check this number, there is like 8 countries that share a border with a maybe soon totally occupied Ukraine (thanks conservative movement for pivoting and moaning about giving military aid to Zelenskyy, 'can you do us a favor though?').
Write down the names of the countries.
Now look up the members of NATO... roh row.
If he takes Ukraine he need only dust off his flimsy excuse for invading Ukraine, scribble out the word Ukraine and write in the name of one of the several NATO countries bordering Putin occupied Ukraine.
It's hardly palace intrigue, it's just a bit of stating a couple of obvious things. What would stop him? His conscience? He kills people in other countries without meaningful consequences! Tommy ten names need told aid to Ukraine is UK defense spending 'cause if he takes Ukraine then a or several NATO countries, he borders more NATO countries and so on and so forth til you are in your sleep village wearing a bear skin hat and misjudged tweet leads to your disappearance.
James starts the convo by poisoning the well.
Remain bore
This guy is so woke
Yes, but would not stop at Finland, Sweden or Norway.
He wants the steps back.
Not a chance he attacked Ukraine with little to no notice. If not for NATO what's to stop him from going after all of Europe?
Yeah Yeah BS.
@@BlackNess00 If Ukraine would've been in NATO, would Putin attack Ukraine?
@@holz_nameNo.
Why?
Putin can't even take over Ukraine. Bringing all of NATO would weaken their ENTIRE frontline
Imagine advocating for Prince Starmer because... Immigration.
Thatcher's greatest achievement.
Poland always talk tough but it just a childish of a country
White Lives Matter
Learn history. And English.
@@falkaa88 do you speak English mate
Putin will press on if he takes Ukraine, no doubt in my mind.
what mind?
How do you support that opinion? All they wanted was a neutral Ukraine….even after the moved to prevent that, they would have withdrawn if Ukraine agreed to be neutral and they had international guarantees. Boris Johnson put an end to that with his pathetic revival of a Churchill speech probably. Puten doesn’t even want to manage a west Ukraine…
I don't think he would push on for the next 30 years. Short term, Russia is not gonna be able to do much. Long term, better not to think about it.
Think about what you do and represent yourself as now, it will matter in few decades.
😁😂😂@@leaguefan7640
Nearly all wars end with talks.why not talk before you go to war.cut out the deaths and military industrial profiteering .
Bravo! Comment of the day! Somebody give this man an orange! Sadly no one will listen to you, for most people it's judgement and war THEN talking
Is your PM cross-eyed??
😂😂😂, you people!!😂😂😂