Russia's Propaganda War on West
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มิ.ย. 2024
- CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
1:53 Isaiah Berlin book status
3:50 Can Russia’s need for Western recognition be used in negotiations?
6:19 Motivating people to vote / political parties
8:07 Patreon vs. youtube
8:37 Messaging to Russians about their future
11:14 Entertainment and propaganda
14:57 How conscious are Western politicians when they repeat Kremlin arguments?
23:02 Kraut’s video on Putin’s ideology
26:49 Navalny team’s recent communications
29:50 Starmer’s efficacy in supporting Ukraine from UK
32:08 Rory Stewart
33:50 Western covert anti-Russian propaganda
37:23 Viatcheslav Morozov’s situation
39:08 Post-Ukraine Russian propaganda
41:31 Recent films from Navalny’s organization as propaganda
42:35 Brief comment on Adam Curtis’ take on Russian propaganda
44:48 Empathy, woke culture, and Trump
47:20 Mainstream media’s attempts at neutrality while missing dangers
49:55 Can people in Putin’s circle step down from their jobs
51:37 Azov brigade in propaganda
55:47 Putin’s nuclear blackmail
1:02:10 Christopher Miller’s commentary / problems with shows like Kyle Kulinski’s / domestic narcissism
1:07:12 Propaganda’s effects among different demographics
1:09:25 Putin’s mysticism
1:10:30 How has the war impacted the education system in Ukraine?
1:11:22 American narcissism / culture
1:13:58 Types of Russian propaganda
1:15:48 How do pro-Putin Russians feel about Oleksandr Usyk’s boxing win?
1:17:01 Dangers of AI propaganda
1:17:42 Putin’s day-to-day life
1:19:26 Comment on Margarita Simonyan
1:20:42 Russian propaganda and Zelensky’s legitimacy
1:24:18 NATO expansion
1:27:29 Ukrainian casualty reporting
1:30:48 Can Russia be a center of economic and geopolicical power?
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🔖CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
1:53 Isaiah Berlin book status
3:50 Can Russia’s need for Western recognition be used in negotiations?
6:19 Motivating people to vote / political parties
8:07 Patreon vs. youtube
8:37 Messaging to Russians about their future
11:14 Entertainment and propaganda
14:57 How conscious are Western politicians when they repeat Kremlin arguments?
23:02 Kraut’s video on Putin’s ideology
26:49 Navalny team’s recent communications
29:50 Starmer’s efficacy in supporting Ukraine from UK
32:08 Rory Stewart
33:50 Western covert anti-Russian propaganda
37:23 Viatcheslav Morozov’s situation
39:08 Post-Ukraine Russian propaganda
41:31 Recent films from Navalny’s organization as propaganda
42:35 Brief comment on Adam Curtis’ take on Russian propaganda
44:48 Empathy, woke culture, and Trump
47:20 Mainstream media’s attempts at neutrality while missing dangers
49:55 Can people in Putin’s circle step down from their jobs
51:37 Azov brigade in propaganda
55:47 Putin’s nuclear blackmail
1:02:10 Christopher Miller’s commentary / problems with shows like Kyle Kulinski’s / domestic narcissism
1:07:12 Propaganda’s effects among different demographics
1:09:25 Putin’s mysticism
1:10:30 How has the war impacted the education system in Ukraine?
1:11:22 American narcissism / culture
1:13:58 Types of Russian propaganda
1:15:48 How do pro-Putin Russians feel about Oleksandr Usyk’s boxing win?
1:17:01 Dangers of AI propaganda
1:17:42 Putin’s day-to-day life
1:19:26 Comment on Margarita Simonyan
1:20:42 Russian propaganda and Zelensky’s legitimacy
1:24:18 NATO expansion
1:27:29 Ukrainian casualty reporting
1:30:48 Can Russia be a center of economic and geopolicical power?
1:33:58 Chinese-style firewall to increase efficacy of Russian propaganda at home
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Thank you so so so so so so much!!!!
Thank you, Vlad, for this live with us. Thank you, amalfitano and Rachel, for moderating. Thank you, beautiful community, for your ongoing support of Ukraine. Lots of love and listen to you soon.
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About Finland since it was brought up.
We have built some resilience against Russian propaganda because it is a widely known and accepted fact that the Kremlin's influence attempts never stopped.
We tried to normalize relations with Russia since 1991 but never dropped our guard completely, having been burned so many times in the past. This current state of affairs is unfortunate but also normal. More normal than the past thirty years.
I'm also moderately confident that our education system helps. Media criticism is taught in elementary school.
I'm most confident about Finland being a high-trust society -- we trust our authorities and each other generally -- and a functioning democracy. This can, of course, change but I don't see Russia being effective in changing this. When it comes to our neighbor to the east, we are a united front.
Yep. It's about trust within the society. Americans don't know much about anything. But they do know when things aren't working at home.
This pro-Russian sentiment over here was never about NATO, antimilitarism, etc., etc. They don't know enough about those things to even have real opinions on them. Instead, it's strictly about using government as a dumping ground for discontents that they're unwilling to confront in their own home or work lives.
Americans can't protest their bosses, their banks, etc. There is no real market competition. So they may as well blame it all on this mysterious 'government' thing that they don't really understand. Far from jeopardizing the relationship with your boss, he actually seems to LIKE IT when you do that.
It's a wonderful seedbed for Russian propaganda to grow in. There is absolutely no way to actually solve any of the problems without involving government, so this self-defeating tendency only becomes more and more intense over time.
And, to be fair, the American government really is very incompetent. There's a lot to be unhappy about. None of the people running that seem to know how or even want to solve all these problems bearing down on the people.
looking longingly from America…
I always miss live events BUT it lets me watch the comments from the beautiful community without the temptation to chime in.
You can do that live too, you can hide the live chat feature. I usually do.
A bit late to this chat.
Thanks for taking the time and making us think.
Lots of love, dear Vlad!
Thank you for another opportunity beyond just the surface. So appreciate all your hard work vlad, and hope your health stay strong.
Thanks so much!
Thanks again Vlad. Will have to save this one for later just wanted you to know that it's always so lovely to see you! ❤💛🌻
Thank you for this live stream, Vlad! 🌻
Thank you again for your conversation.
Thanks big V
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Your description of American culture made me chuckle, I cannot deny any of the charges laid but I don't want it to change either.
Some Americans believe that NATO was threatening Russia. They're just as ignorant as Russians who bought that narrative. NATO is for defense only. It's in their charter.
Very useful Vlad thank you. I could even say that you have calibrated my mind with the times we are living in or helped me calibrate it in the last year or so. Very cool! Love and respect to you. Slava Ukraine!!
Thanks Vlad
A special thank you for time-stamping it!
Hello Vlad from Mass.
This was really good. You lay it all bare, and the way you do it makes it not feel as bad (even though it is bad) I appreciate your pacing.
Well, now we need a boxing news channel with Vlad.
HHHHHHALO beautiful community 😊
hiii Vlad! Im so happy to see you again 😍
Thanks for mentioning Tim Snyder. It's nice to find other intellectually honest people to listen to. I encourage you to drop more names :)
Konstantin, INSIDE RUSSIA
I've had some experience of Mr Starmer as well. I was involved in a legal case when he was DPP. He was compassionate in his approach to both sides of the case, I was very impressed actually.
I also hope that his legal training will mean that a level of intellectual rigour is brought to the PM'ship. But in other ways, I don't think he's at all ready for the post-truth domain, I don't think he gets populism, and there are certain clear messages that he could be passing to the British people which he isn't, and I find that concerning.
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Very interesting discussion. Thank you Vlad.
More greetings from kiwiland!
Ahhh😊. You found me 😁. I jumped in when it came on the News at dinner some time back to provide my positive encouragement 😊. That's all I got. You little humans aren't getting away without my moaning 😊. Hahaha. MY apologies. Keep safe Up there 😊
We can see & hear you loud & clear in Australia.
timestamps incoming after a break
Thank you, Sunflower.
Please enable the automatic captions if you can (unless you have a reason to have them disabled) :)
they take a while to generate but will be there after a few hours!
Thank you.
Timely video as I was just reading, "Russia's War" by Jade Mcgleyn who is an expert on Russian propaganda
Hi from Singapore Vlad!
Hello back! I’ve come through Singapore probably over 20 times, sometimes staying for a night or two - when living between Australia and U.K!
The accounts on FB who are against voting and spend plenty on time on that subject it's high and I often wonder if they are just normal people or paid ones.
Thanks vlad! Sorry to miss the live glad to catch up! Keir has been shamelessly non-commital.
Australia.
About Putin's ideology. People like Hitler or Stalin often publish their ideas before they get power. Actually reading what they say can be surprisingly revealing. Putin didn't have time to do that, and TBH I doubt Putin has an actual ideology. He's knee-jerk reacting to KGM ideology from the Soviet Union. But this is just my opinion.
Dear Vlad, at 1:24:49 you mention a name of Mary st. Rott (or something to that effect) with respect to NATO expansion. I tried goggling that name in any possible way, but came up empty-handed. Could you please write her name here or provide a link to one of her publications on the subject? Thank you.
Sorry - Not One Inch, by Mary Sarotte!
@@VladVexlerChat great. Turns out I even had her ebook. Listening to one of her talks now
If you watched it all, click like. ❤
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I actually just saw a video (Daniel Orain's latest) where a russian soldier talks to Russian children and says Ukraine will run out of people soon. While we have enough to keep fighting for a while.
Do you see the ability to build some semblance of a factual consensus among generations that came of age with the internet as significant to your diagnosis of the illness afflicting democracy as chronic rather than terminal?
Having enormous influence does not make a country an empire. It is worrisome because you are one of the more academic and respected (read 'legitimate') commentators on Ukraine. When you say 'the US is an empire' it creates a soundbite that wouldn't be out of place in a broadcast by Alex Jones, Russell Brand, David Icke, the Russian state, etc.
How to be maximally effective with a message while not sacrificing truth?? How to have style as well as substance when communicating facts about the war etc.? What's ethical to use? (Shock value etc)
Thanks for this Vlad. Glad to see you in good spirits (and hopefully better health). I would very much like to hear more of your thoughts about what you think NATO got wrong about their expansion. From my perspective it was perfectly natural and predictable that every single one of those countries that border Russia would literally break the door down to get into NATO. What did Russia expect? Was it really surprised? Since NATO has never waged aggressive war in Europe, the only feasible objection to NATO at its borders is that it precludes any possibility of Russia retaking these places by force, a reality that is all too well demonstrated by Ukraine's plight. Those former soviet states transformed themselves to become eligible, because unless I'm mistaken, only legitimate democracies can become members. Russia had a similar opportunity to transform itself but Putin derailed that process with his "empire-think". Russia has never been good at developing soft power at almost anytime in its history. All the west wanted was for Russia to be something like a normal country so we could trade with them more. That's just an American perspective. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the topic as your are able. Best health to you.
Putin's war in Ukraine has nothing to do with NATO expansion. It's just a lie, just like many other lies about the reasons Russia invaded Ukraine. Putin called it "liberating Russian nationals", when the Russian army killed even Russian nationals in Ukraine. It was all about greed...
A lot of people who support the wsr in Russia actually aren't very nice people. It's my personal experience from being there.
Four Livestreams I wanted to participate in at the same time! I was moderator on one, so the decision was made in that direction. What a great topic for this moment!
I didn’t ask this question today because I think the topic of discussion was not appropriate for it. The question is more philosophical, but I will repeat what I already wrote.
"I have an idea that is worthy of philosophical considerations. After watching Yuri Dud’s latest interview with Maia Sandu, I couldn’t get this idea out of my head. In short, Maia Sandu justifies extremely undemocratic actions (banning the media, banning parties, refusing to appoint elected deputies) by defending democracy. And with this, the question arises of how justified this is and whether democracy can really be defended by authoritarian means and where this line is drawn. Only in suppression without physical impact? In political exile? Or in direct elimination?"
actualy it is a legal question that can /must be reviewed frome ethical and philosophical viepoints.
Democracy is not based on Majority but on a Constitution, this legal system must be defendable against attacks by word or by sword.
For how this can be done e have Lawmakers and Judges to interpret the Laws and apply them.
@@slippingsnake You apparently haven’t watched the video I’m talking about, you can check it out, there are subtitles. At the moment, Ukraine is also using non-democratic methods, but there is an even clearer explanation that there is a war in the country.
In general, this is a complex question, so I think it is interesting.
@@user-nl6zv6hz6x " You apparently haven’t watched the video..."
true :)
But Germany has plenty of examples, like Holocaust-Denial (illegal), lately plans to reinstall an emporer (by some clowns, now on trial) or Protesters demanding a Caliphat in Germany (legal).
So what you call a complex question is part of a democratic process.
In 2021 a friend of mine's gf was studying politics at a Rome university and she graduated with a thesis on "protected democracy" which I never got a chance to read.
But it is certainly in the realm of democracy to take measures to protect from the risk of political operators using democratic means to gain power only to then dismantle democratic institutions and degrading it.
But of course there are risks and problems.
If a pen is mightier than a sword, social and other media is that pen cubed.
That means information of any kind is currently the strongest weapon of the forces who have no qualms about weaponising everything - and logically they have done exactly that. Make no mistake: all western democratic systems and all people not living in the wild without any media are under attack constantly.
Arguably the biggest problem with this pretty much one-sided (at least disproportional) informational-warfare is its effects trough public psychology. Its effects are similar to CoVID19: infectious and only partially possible to imunize against. Not the best analogy, but like many strands of the same origin it can infect anybody not taking precautions or even if they do, but have weak immune system (read ignorance). Unfortunately those infected by varied info-viruses originating from Autocratic-axis are rarely curable and spread their own variants, proportionally to their reach. Talking heads (both paid, organised or incentified directly by autocrats and not) and politicians are superspreaders.
There is no definite cure, but you can shop around for success stories combating the info-war coming from autocratic forces, mainly Kremlin and those covertly infected by it. My best example is Baltic states and their new laws against Kremlin's media, agents, fake narratives, justifying agression, war, genocide and other influences. Secret services were some of the initiators of these laws based on intelligence. As Vlad said - "know thy enemy" (and don't let him poison the feeble minds among you).
Last example might bring up question about freedom of speech in "the west", unfortunately free speech comes with particular responsabilities. In the info-war "freedom of speech" is one of the main weapons in the west and most people using that term are informational enemies. It's rather an effective counter-measure against shutting down autocratic-axis disinformation psyops and everyone hushed up while spreading autocratic-axis (mostly Russian) black/gray-propaganda will be apparently the loudest and most active proponents of "free speech". It simply cannot exist in current form while this global hybrid-war goes on and intensify. In conclusion, as democracy and global peace proponents we have to counter Kremlin's greatest weapon against us by the most effective measures. Shutting down these info-weapons should be both organic and with legal basis.
Simple answer to your question: YES.
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Im looking a Franklin Roosevelts speech to Congress for his lend lease bill , the four freedoms speech. This luminous statement of the United States committment to protecting liberal democratic ideals globally, Jan 6 1941. For us that was also a memorable day: it was the anniversary of the horrific battle of Waggon Hill Jan. 6 1900 at Ladysmith with out which we would have lost the Boer war against a repulsive fundamentalist , racist enemy that represented the worst of European heritage.
FDR achieved something which endured to this present day : democracies did emerge out of the barbarism of Germany and Japan. Britain was forced into reform and better self understanding partly because of Churchill's humanity and honesty and courage that permitted painful criticism even the obvious contradiction between democracy and rule by force in India.
But our ideals if not as clearly stated and consistently persued as those of the Great Republic were similar ultimately we forged a close relationship based on those ideals. But we compromised with anti liberal , racist opinion in our own public and in the South African public. The blood we spilled fighting for freedom and a better world at Ladysmith was wasted. If the Boer Republics could not be transformed then we shouldnt have conquered them esp a great cost. There were water cooled machine guns , barbed wire , trenches at Ladysmith. South Africa which had to be unstable was given Dominion status much too soon after the war. The bad political morals of the Dutch corrupted the English in Cape Town and Natal.
The USA now talks in FDRs terms still. But we are allies with Isreal and Saudi Arabia which are not liveral democracies at all. This is as corrupting as tolerating the anti liberal Boers after we conquered them. We need to be cautious about whom we trust and treat as allies , at least. ..even if we do have a vision of freedom for the whole world like Churchill or FDR. And at this point were jaded . We as tired of colonial wars and crusading and all the cant of libersl colonialism as Britain was in 1945. We need some sort of reset. And if we do retain presence in Europe still need to withdraw from Isreal and Saudi Arabia. They degrade us , just as tolerating Boer racism degraded the allegedly liberal British Empire.
It is crazy that I get trump donations ads on pro Ukraine commentators videos.... weird
It's crazy that I saw the Kremlin's propaganda even in comments to the love story about Macron and now his wife. Russian bots and trolls are everywhere....
Disappointed I missed this live. Rationality seems like the best defense against propaganda. Here in the US not only does rationality not exist among the lower educated who buy the propaganda and vote accordingly, but it seems, like civics, is increasingly rare in the ranks of the formally educated. Without the basic tools, what can be done?
Even among the well-educated who were recruited when they were students at their universities, became communists, visited Moscow where were recruited to work for Kremlin.
Do you think that if democratic societies were first committed to (constitutionally enshrined) the necessary fundamentals of effective democracies (free education, state funded elections, state funding of independent broadcasters…….) we would perhaps be much more immune to baseless propaganda.
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I used the Boer war , indeed the battle of Waggon Hill to illistrate the infelicity of organic involvement with ideologically incompatible peoples. Its better to be smaller and consistent and honest. So we can not make successful propaganda against Russia and remain involved with Isreal which is a fascistic apartheid state at least out side the green line.
Id like to point out that the Boer war did have value to us it wasnt just stupid agression . Our German enemy was supplying Transvaal from Delagoa Bay and our Dutch ir Boer enemy had access to modern German weapons. Theres a long story of our attempts to control Delagoa Bay and the sea link to Transvaal. The war on a German auxillery like Transvaal was not meaningless after fabulous discoveries and development of gold mining sufficient to change world liquidity and finance as Californian and Australian gold earlier had. In an age of competitive empires ( which resembles the post Breton Woods word emerging) we could not allow Germany to control these resources.
A thing that seems almost bizarre to me in folliwing this EuroCentric channel ( nice liberal Europeans mind you) is the inability to grasp the significance of Frances collapse ( and incompetent propaganda) in old French Equatorial Africa and French West Africa, and Russias expansion of control over movement and production of untraceable gold, and Russia was successful in destabilizing and gaining control of gold resources in Sudan. And that was the main point of the Wagner Group , extending Russian Criminality to Africa. And its a very great tragedy by the way. I absolutely dont understand why the abortion of democratic hopes in ecowas or millions fleeing murderous russianized criminal armies in Sudan is not worthy of serious concern. And if WE in America somehow are supposed to care about Germany or Poland why should we not care about Africa , how is it more distinct from us than Europe. And unlike Germany these suffering african regions have never made viscious wars agsinst us. But the Russians have been creating streams of untraceable criminally produced gold from Africa for some time. Now the will probably get total control of Canadian mines in Mali and Burkino Fasso and as they took our mines in Siberia and Chinas proxies stole our gold mine in Kyrgyzstan. You cant remain this parochial and understand anything.
I liked Vlads characterization of Russia fascist ideology as porridge , lumpy partly burned porridge. And that is true of the fascist nationalism from 1880 to world war one. Which is really the world view of the whites who fought the revolution ( with us as rather idiotic allies ).
I think Vlad is Russian and Isreali and British and European which is fine. Immigrants bring their perspectives when they settle in the English speaking world . But our world transforms them too some sort of new hybrid is born english speaking ultimately British and Irish and Punjabi or Syrian or Russian or Mexican or Jewish. Im not sure the membrane between French or German or other European cultures is as permeable , that make us different and despite geographic isolation Britain is more like the USA than Germany.
If you want a sort of pan European nationality well one doesnt need blood and soil but you maybe need rootedness , locality soil. Its maybe surprising but radically diverse people can feel British or American and Canadian part of the project , citizens who take responsibility . Long ago Churchill was an MP for a Manchester constituency with a Jewish presence when this was still rare and foreign borns of all sorts were rare. He was anxious that we would not could not tolerate too many foreigners. But look what happened, we did! But its not necessarily possible for small rural , poor societies like Slovakia.
Beyond that the transition from the middle ages is very different in eastern and even central Europe including Germany. Despite brilliance in detailed things like engineering or Chemistry Gernany has a very crude poorly developed political culture. The puzzling interest in metaphysics in Germany speaks to the survival of mideaval mind sets in Germany. But by its size it must lead if there was to be a successful Europe. But like France before DeGalle there has been continuous failure. Id suggest Euro Hopefuls study the wars of unification in the 1860 , and WW One and Two again. Germanies military weakness , its failure to find energy security , the low birth rate , its lack of a way to keep its trade routes open all are very severe failures. And peripheral regions like Britain and Scandinavia and France need a plan b , local alliances etc that could substitute for German failure. Putin knows Germany. He speaks the language , i dont. And im sure he has competent historians he can consult. His huffing and puffing and assumption of the moral weakiness and delusion of the west is only partly false. GERMANY is morally weak , unable to fight maybe conflicted and capable of ignominious collapse like France in June 1940..we may be liberal democracies but we not the same as Germany . Putin doesnt know that. And Hitler similarly was unable to understand us. France never was really well constructed and successful it continually had civil wars and collapse until it built a fragile and decent third republic. The costs of world war one undermined it. De Galle maybe built something enduring maybe. But i feel deeply anxious about the American withdrawal which has to happen. Deglobalization in trade and the military is a non partisan issue. And Biden has gone further with what Trump began . Concievably Germany could reform and mature intellectually but so far theres no sign of it. Id beware of staking the future of Britain on Germany . And i wouldnt assume Putin cant seduce Germany and make it a vassal as he almost did with Merkel. The chancellor is so bad one wonders if hes been bribed. And the greens are insane, you need energy to live. And if you dont have oil or nat gas you need nuclear power like France. Germany needs to be able to police trade routes. The USA has no strategic interest in the Persian Gulf and Isreal . The Isreali lobby is ever more shrill its going to be ineffective at some point in keeping the USA in the eastern Mediterranean.
I get that the "h" at the beginning of each video is an inside joke, but there's really nothing wrong with it.
At its core, what's the difference between propaganda and an alternative perspective on politics and economics? Isn't it incumbent on all parties involved to at least KNOW the point of view of the opposing side in its entirety and be prepared to weigh its arguments and appreciate its logic?
What is logic to the ignorant??? Knowledge is powerful. Propaganda is about lies, twisted to benefit someone information.
Another intellectual Russian - Konstantin, channel INSIDE RUSSIA.
Deliberately distorting reality is not a view, it is manipulation.
@@stephenhill545 Do you have an unassailable monopoly on “reality”? Let’s see yours and theirs and compare the two.
I hope you are over pessimistic about the threat to democracy. I think many of us are embarrassed by the disaster of Brexit, the clear moves towards autocracy by the House of Commons and the blatant corruption of Boris Johnson. Hopefully these things and the war have woken us up.
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Ukraine will most likely have lost fewer troops than Russia, for two key reasons:
1) Just by the logic of war: Russia are the invading force and therefore lose more, without an extreme imbalance of capability
2) Russia puts a lower price on human life, and Putin does not (at this point) need to be alarmed about losses.
Putin doesn't care about other human lives, only about his own. And if Russia looses this was, then his life is over.
Krystal Ball? Surprised you think she is knowledgeable.
About US politics? Sure she is.
@@VladVexlerChat Yikes! Now I am shocked!
Being knowledgeable has little to do with whether or not the conclusions and interpretations one comes to with that knowledge are right or useful. Case in point, Vexler himself.
@BasilAbdef Your opinions are based partly on your knowledge. Krystal Ball's knowledge of Russia and Ukraine history is lacking, to put it mildly.
@@Cryptantha Oh don't get me wrong, ignorance doesn't help at all, but knowledge alone is not nearly enough.
1:09:25 really, really disappointed by the answer here because it, like Russian propaganda, emotionally pushes a point without providing any substantial evidence or arguments in its favor, implying that those who disagree are a deluded, marginal minority. There's no firm evidence to support the idea that Putin and his cronies are "mystical." Without that, it's just a theory - a valid theory that has some strong arguments in its favor, but still only a theory, not an established fact. There are other theories, and they're supported by valid arguments too. You can't just say "you're flat wrong" to someone who doesn't share your position without providing verifiable evidence or at least some strong arguments against theirs. Russian propagandists do this all the time, only they take it to the extreme, of course. "The West is evil," they say. "And if you disagree, you're wrong. Flat wrong. You're a marginal minority, a misguided fool, or perhaps even a traitor and a foreign agent!" Good luck trying to dispute that. Most people wouldn't even try, they'd just accept that they're wrong and suppress any critical thinking they might have had. That's why Russian propaganda is so successful.
lol i know more about Ukraine than us
That's an exaggeration. But I'm paying more attention to Ukraine and Russia than the US
us as in the US?
It might help counter Russia if better news etc was made available in the Hungarian language and other small local balkan languages. Here i noticed less educated people even if they could conduct a trade in Canada in English got knews from Hungarian etc broadcasts and took on the Russian viewpoints.
Yr not European your British and no they are not intrrchangsble. Anyway yr not toxic just wrong
I would stop worrying about Anerica we ll do just fine . We are the oldest most stable and nature democracies and political cultures , even compared to Briton let along the parts of Europe that continue under a blood red mideaval fog....
There is unanimous support in Anerica for deglobalization and a tighter definition of the American sphere. There is unanimity in cobtaining and fighting China and North Korea.
It would be helpfuful if western Europe defeated Russia. If it cant its pitiful. And there needed to be better thinking about strategy and Nato which would involve Germany esp being less parasitic on USA protection. You can not defeat Russia with out assistance from Turkey. And Germany cant survive at all unless it can guatd trade routes say for nat gas from Qatar which dont matter to the USA. Europe is singing songs as dated as the ones from the Boer War and First World War we sang in school. Europe recovered long long ago by the 1950s. The USSR crashed and Russia is much much less powerful. Theres a nuclear issue . Maybe the USA needs anuclear presence to defend Europe. But the conventional fighting against Russia should be done by Europeans not us. Yes Canada should have ramoed uo production of nato shells , yes we should have provided vast numbers of drones etc. Cheaper weapons along with exquisite very exoensive weapons , we still could. But this is Europes war.
If globalized markets survive in grain , oil , nat gas etc Turkey could be weaned off of Rissia just with Money. If globalization breaks down radically the USA and Canada can suplly turkey with grain pulses oilseeds and oil. At the monent supplying it with nat gas is a problem. Cyprus and Greece are a problem for tirkey we coukd solve , and there is nat gas if the Greek agression could be over come. But you can not defeat Russia with out Turkey . Nato perpetuates difficulties caused by Cyorus and Greece. A friendly turkey also would make the Suez canal safer.
And needless to say Germanies bizarre green politics , majical politics has to change. Germany needs nuclear power like France or it will always be tempted to surrender freedom and become a Putin vassal. The Euro , hard money fiscal conservatism benefits only Germany and harms the periohery of Europe. Germany needs its own currency, and it would then find it needs spending and debt that will keep that currency from soaring. But these arent American problems.
The USA has the only self sustained fully soveriegn economy in the world. Beyond that it has Canada Australia and Japan as real allies nit treacheroys allies. It has control of the pacific . In remaking the world order the USA needs to abandon Isreal and Saudi Arabia which are not useful to us. That will happen. The Isreali lobby had peaked. Relations with Saudi and Isteal degrade us , irs not our business to sustain a blood soaked feudal dtate or a wuadi fascist absolutely mad apartheid state. We must work with Vuetnam which although being a corruot dictatorship is not as offensive to our values as Saudi and Isreal. But Vietnam is useful to us in fighting China . The eastern Mediterranean and Persian Gulf is irrelevant to us , a waste of resources.
The second thing most importat to Canada and the USA would be an improvement of government and control of criminals in Mexico. Frankly Mexico is more important to us than Europe. And this is not easy. Mexicans make romantic heros out of bandits and revolutionaries , its complex. But the weakness of honest federal authority is deeply rooted in culture that can not easily change . Still it functions. A Mexican federal court will gove an honest opinion. You can supply a mone even in crime controlled regions , with armed convoys , protect it with guatds. Mexico City is one of the great cities of the world. But this is our business not Europes. America and Eurpe are seperate maube coooerative entities. But we are seperate . Britain coukd be be patt of us. Amd maybe it should wait and see if Germany collapses before marrying the EU.
Love vlad. But tiresome word salad. Totally unlistenable.
Sorry!!
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Oh. I don't even remember leaving that unbeautiful comment (too much 🍷).
Keep up the good work!
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@@kenbroadbent7288 Listen to another intellectual Russian - Konstantin, channel INSIDE RUSSIA.
Vlad, in the book "Through the Eyes of the Enemy: Russia's Highest Ranking Military Defector" by Stanislav Lunev..
When Stanislav, writes "Almost anything Russian GRU wants from the USA can be obtained through Israel"
Was that 'Russian propaganda' ?