Yes, the war in Yugoslavia was one of the first crimes committed by NATO, but above all by the US... It's a very long story, but it has great similarities with the war in Ukraine, which was also caused by the US. And if you follow the historical facts, you will see that in the war in Yugoslavia and now in the war in Ukraine, the US and NATO supported the same forces that were supported by Nazi Germany in WW2?! By accident?! I don't think so! And what is worst of all, in addition to all that, the US keeps not only all the media in the US under control, but also in the EU and NATO countries, as well as in the case of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The same is true in the case of the conflict in Yugoslavia. They are making false propaganda, that the US and NATO have nothing to do with it?! And that they just "want to help"?! But of course only to the side that agreed to be puppets. The same thing happened in Yugoslavia, the Serbs did not want to be puppets of the US and NATO, as J. Sachs and J. Mearsheimer, Doug Megregor, who is even a participant, talk about this in detail. of that conflict... Instead, they decided to satanize the media and various other organizations controlled by the US through propaganda, the Serbs for disobedience. And on this occasion, reward their puppets of the Croatian Ustasa, Muslims and Mujahideen in Bosnia, and the Albanian terrorists of the KLA. .. Let's not just talk about the invented "genocide in Srebrenica"?! That crime does not meet even the most basic definition of genocide, so that it could be treated as genocide at all?! Any resemblance to the Ukrainian conflict is intentional! So, the same story is in Buca in Ukraine. Where the Russians are set up with the help of propaganda and the US media to stanaziate, as well as in the Serbian image, a fabricated "genocide"?!
@@SRB.4S the Ustasa movement is just a response to Serbian irredentism in 1920s. The same goes with Muslims in Bosnia, Croatian Paramilitary organisations and Albanian KLA in 1990s.
@@SRB.4S It's really funny to hear from you that Srebrenica is made up and not real, like... Ratko Mladic never said "kill all men of fighting age", right?
@@neriflst Are you sure it was like that?! "it was the will of the Croats for independence when Austria-Hungary ceased to exist"?! That movement was so "great and good" that only 20 years later, another "great and good man" A. Hitler only supported it?! I would be ashamed to even mention that. And you are proud of it, with the same fabricated facts. What is the movement for "independence of 1861"?! What battle did you fight in Austria for Croatian ignorance?! None ! From 1861 to 1914 and the beginning of WW1, more than half a century has passed! The same people from that "movement for independence" tortured and killed as the main puppets and puppets of Austria in Serbia in 1914-18. As long as Austria was not defeated, then they remembered that they "want an independent Croatia"?! Only when the boss whose loyal servants you marionettes were for 9 centuries, and that is when Austria-Hungary was defeated! Then you were like "wanted independence"?! It is normal that no normal person in the world will support or recognize such a movement. Except for the sick brains of Hitler and Nazi Germany and the Vatican, some 20 years of cassini! Even the Croats did not support him, that movement, or at least the majority of Croats, at the end of WW1, since there are still pictures of the welcoming of the Serbian army and King Peter, in Split and long cities, with banners long live King Peter and the Serbian army! Well, I suggest you look at that and how many people gathered at those events! The Croatian historian Tvrtko Jakovina also spoke about that, only the good will of the Serbs was the formation of the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. They could, like Italy, get what they wanted, as the victor in the war. In that case, Croatia would be Zagreb and three other villages. Unfortunately, the Serbian king decided to make the Kingdom of Yugoslavia instead of Serbia, which is a tragic mistake. To create a state with the scum and puppet of the Nazis and the Vatican. What was seen in WW2 when the Croats welcomed Hitler's Nazi army "as liberators" with an outstretched hand, like Ustashas and Nazi Catholic clerical fascists?! Comedy! Why not only have pictures but also videos! So throughout their history, Croats were puppets, whether of Hungary or Austria-Hungary, of Hitler and Nazi Germany, and now of the US and NATO. And they always sought protection from their boss. And in return they will faithfully serve him butcher and kill for him. Like in WW1 and WW2, when at least 350,000 Serbs were killed, probably much more than that, not to mention Jews and Roma... Under the protection of the Catholic Church and Nazi Germany. On the territory of the puppet state of Nazi Germany, the so-called Independent State of Croatia. Where from the very name "independent" that it was not, you can see a huge complex! Since, as historical facts say, Croatia as an independent state did not exist from 1097 until, if we do not count the puppet NDH, until 1991, which is practically 9 centuries! Of course, if we accept the fabrications that before 1097 Croatia existed at all?! Since there is no historical, archeological or any evidence for that.
@@cadicamo8720 Ukrain shouldn't intervene between Russia and western affairs that's their purpose what do you think if Ukrain [you're country] didn't forget it's purpose Ukraine is a buffer zone between Russia and west that the truth
A Russian here. Im 33 years old and last 20 years i”ve lived in Spain. Im a children of both countries. I have never imagined that we will live a civil war, thats my view of this conflict. We, Russians, asked and pleaded for an agreement which was sent down to the toilet. The diplomacy have failed from both sides, but i cannot be surprised by that because West thought that their point of view and their way of doing are above than the rest of the world. Those called “leaders” of West are just puppets, no one really has the power to stop it. The man behind the curtain is pulling the strings and seems to me that the main target is bring destruction upon Europe. Difficult times are ahead of us and seems to me that this aint over yet. Next generation of Russians political elite will be the veterans of this war and they will never forget and will never forgive. Being a bit cynical: this war woke up Russian military from the dream of old Soviet strength. Its like a huge knock down but its not knock out. What history taught us is Russia never loses when the destruction of Russian is on the table. Peace in the World!
I’m Australian, and I agree with you, but I put this war solely on the hands off the west. NATO expansion eastward towards Russia border was an act of aggression, and an act of war by bringing Ukraine in. We all know that the west removed the democratic elected government of Ukraine, and installed a western puppet, a puppet that was aggressive to Russia Also just two month after this war broke out, China made an alliance treaty with the Solomon island, and straight away Australia and the U.S. called this a act of aggression by China, and even threatened to invade the Solomon if this went through. There should be buffer between two world powers, no gap is dangerous to mankind
@@SuperRustamm 33 years old and yet still stuck in Soviet mentality of Russia being a "great power" with an inalienable right to Ukraine. The Ukrainians just wanted to finally rid themselves of being part of the Russian "sphere of influence" and who can blame them. That is the source of this conflict and not the supposed failings of the West
Frankly Britain has had pure vitrol for any potential continental European power be it Germany, Russia or France and this reaches levels of insanity and self destruction. Even as their own nation plunges into a third world state they continue to expend whatever declining military power they have left to kill other Europeans. Utterly despicable.
It's especially not a surprise if you know which forces control the USA, the UK - as well as continental Europe. It's the same people and their names all end in Berg and Stein, they're not natives;
@@Human-le9nt had that impression that Putin withdrew his troops to set a conducive climate for the Istanbul talks. But that got buried by Boris Johnson’s visit and subsequent Zelensky’s tearing up the agreement with Russia.
The UK has child poverty equaling Bangladesh, And more persons per 100K displaced p.a. Because of Floors. No disrect meant to Bangladesh, just saying in comparison to these countries GDP p.c. and sose of ecomomy.
I am guessing the health metrics of Mississippi are the way they are because of the high percentage of single-mothers, particularly black women. Over 35,000 years ago it was known that a single-mother and her children were very vulnerable to death.
Ultimately, it does not matter if the West lifts its manufacturing output, because if there are not enough troops to use said weapons then they are simply not going to be used or indeed not used properly. Ukraine has been calling on neighbouring countries to return Ukrainians that left the country at the outset of the war and has been "press ganging" its population into the military, where the average age is now 45+. The war need not have happened, but players such as Boris Johnson convinced Zelensky to rebut any notion of a negotiated settlement. Biden's rhetoric has also changed, going from "we will support Ukraine for as long as it takes" to "we will support Ukraine for as long as we can". The Western military products are also more complex and require greater skill levels to operate and maintain, whereas the Russian products are [generally] more utilitarian and robust requiring less skill to operate and, in most cases, maintain. I hope an English translation of that book is available soon. You can never have too many books
Unsubstantiated nonsense. Putin repeatedly stated that he wasn't going to invade, then offered Ukraine zero security guarantees during peace negotiations.. After war crimes were discovered at Buka, Zelensky decided to continue the fight. Also, Boris Johnson told Putin that Ukraine would be blocked from NATO prior to the invasion.
Very interesting. Perhaps a number of these points are not so surprising if one pays attention to relatively recent history. The first thing is that this war did not begin in February 2024. It begin with the US instigated and funded Maidan coup in 2014. If one looks at the Rand think tank documents the plan was to draw Russia into a war in Ukraine, sanction it heavily so that it would collapse as a unitary state. It could then be balkanised and the West could steal its resources. The West - NATO has put huge efforts into training and arming Ukraine for this purpose since 2014. In addition to this although Ukraine is one of most resource rich countries in Europe it is the most corrupt, with the people as a whole not benefiting from their country’s wealth. The Ukrainian people were lured and propagandised into believing that by joining the EU that there would be huge benefits for them. Alas that was not the case and their President, Yanukovitch saw this and wanted Ukraine to be able to be linked to both Russia and Europe. This was not the US plan. Hence the 2014 coup. Russia had since around 2008 begun to prepare its financial system for sanctions- though even they were surprised at how resilient their economy was as events unfolded. The West has underestimated Russia possibly because they have forgotten WW2. 80% of the fighting in WW2 was on the Eastern front. Russia really won the war against the Nazis. (It did have some material assistance from the US especially in the early stages). However there are between 30 and 39 million reasons why the West and its Ukrainian proxy will not defeat Russia - those are the updated estimates of the Soviet Union’s casualties in WW2. Russia has not forgotten. In addition to this Ukraine has a very difficult Nazi problem. For an idea of the ugliness of this I refer you to the Ukrainian Banderite Nazi active support for Germany during WW 2. They were responsible for many massacres of Jews and many other people during that war. I also draw your attention to the ethnic cleansing of Poles in the Volhynia region in WW2. The estimates of the slaughter of this people go from 100,000 upwards. That Nazi ideology is still very much alive in Western Ukraine and has been fostered by the West. The West’s so called liberal democracy and so called values are illusory. Western wealth has been built on colonisation, subjugation and exploitation of a huge number of countries around the world. The West still exploits and colonises Global South countries but now by economic and financial systems. And it, particularly the US sanctions and regime change wars to enforce its hegemony and exploitation. Such a system will inevitably collapse as all empires do - so perhaps not such a surprise. After WW2 the US, in Operation Paperclip smuggled many high ranking Nazis out of Germany to the US because they were useful to them. Theses were people who should have been in trial at Nuremberg. With regard to the British attitude to Russia. They have been very hostile to Russia since at least the mid 19th century when they perceived Russia as a threat to their empire in India. This threat was mainly in their minds but it certainly engendered a real hostility and antipathy that has not abated in the British deep state and establishment to this day. There are other elements to this as well. The Ukraine war - a Western proxy war against Russia has put in the spotlight the massive propaganda machine of the West. And that is a huge subject on its own. Finally, with regard to Russian manufacturing capabilities, Alexander Mercouris has spoken of visiting Russia some years ago and seeing massive factories only relatively small parts of which were being used. However the unused parts were carefully looked after and ready to be used when needed. In addition to this although the US has the most expensive military in the world it is not the most effective. The corruption in the military industrial complex has been well documented. Many of its weapons systems have not lived up to the hype in Ukraine. While the Russian MIC has some corruption it is far more efficient in terms of what is spent.
Brilliant comment, thank you. You might want to check out my Russian History playlist - th-cam.com/play/PLDQM15vyFoOQ2EdFzmOtf9rSsNC9csyHW.html I may also do a video on Todd's discussion of Russophobia and Britain's bellegerence during this war.
@@mariansteele5735 Thanks for your very good summary. Tied in with what you mentioned is the US strategy since 2003 to " disaggregated Europe" and particularly to sever Europe from Russian energy and Russia from European trade.
It did work, in terms of forcing Kyiv to the negotiating table, so it wasn’t a mistake. The mistake was not realising the extremity that the West would go to in order to prevent a negotiated solution.
@@boggisthecat You said it. There is reason a rescuer will kick away a drowning person when they flail in a panic. The West is drowning and Ukraine got too close...
It was the better move they wound up with 20% of Ukraine the entire eastern border with only 190,000 troops vs 700,000 Ukr If they had just declared war and slammed 190,000 troops straight into 700k Ukr it would’ve been a disaster but the Kiev feint allowed them to hold the area they wanted with 3x less men
Merci Monsieur pour diffuser la pensée de Todd Todd a eu une médiocre couverture médiatique pour son livre, généralement taxé d’agent du Kremlin mais son livre se vend très bien et j’espère qu’il sera bientôt traduit
GDP is nearly a useless metric in regard to manufacturing capacity for the hard reality of war. For one thing, in the U.S. about 80% of the purchasing of consumer goods is done by women. So, the market is focused on meeting the needs of women (one only needs to watch TV commercials to figure this out). This is terrific for the sales of cosmetics and luxury goods but not artillery shells. Add to this the West's mania for sending its manufacturing capacity to 3rd World countries and you have a prescription for war-weakness. All of this highlights the emptiness of Western bellicosity.
Indeed. Not only Todd makes this point. The distinguished economic historian Adam Tooze makes the same point about GDP being a poor measure of reall economy, including in US vs China comparisons
An interesting analysis which reflects closely a lecture that I have been giving for some time. In essence, the USA is using the war in Ukraine and also its allies, to facilitate a desperate rearguard action to maintain its world hegemony, which is an integral part of its political philosophy and self-esteem. NATO and European countries have essentially been hijacked and groomed to support and legitimise this probably doomed initiative. It is not easy to explain this shift except perhaps in the case of the UK which followed George W Bush slavishly into Iraq, against considerable public outrage. As a UK citizen, I too was surprised and aghast at the alacrity with which the UK adopted a bellicose posture in 2022 although one suspects that the political machinations of the charlatan Boris Johnson were a significant factor. This is contemporary politics: in the event of a crisiis the USA attributes the roles of hero and villain (no nuances), and proceeds on that basis without regard to precedents, past history and the long perspective.
Liberalism is a totalitarian materialistic ideology that only succeeds with infinite growth and expansion. It is degenerative and wishes to destroy everything that is of value to most humans.
I have heard it said that Ukraine war will go down as the time that USA ceased to be the global Hegemon, similar to how UK ceased to be the global hegemon after the 1954 invasion of Egypt as part of the Suez canal crisis. Do you have any thoughts about this as a Brit?
@@annyer262it’s the time when other countries no longer fear USA liberal order. Fear was their greatest tool for a long time. It’s not just the war in Ukraine it’s also abilities of the Houthis to run off the US naval carrier group tail between legs Even minor countries are thinking of we get Russian weapons US can’t tell us anything anymore they will have to actually bargain in a mutually beneficial way no more strong arm
I am surprised that the superiority of Russian offensive and defensive weapons was not among those 10 highlights. The converse is true of Western/USA weapons.
I am surprised western propaganda/brainwashing was not among top 10. According to an australian study, 80-90 % of "slava Ukraina" on social media was nothing but bots. My guess they were produced by AI and paid for by CIA. Unfortunately almost every Norwegian got brainwashed by this propaganda (Russia evil)
@@lesliethomas7234 Anyone who's been watching Russian for a decade or so isn't surprised. What baffles me is that the so called experts failed to recognise or understand Russian advancement across much of her military equipment, and on top of this, the Russians military doctrine.
I Think it has a lot to do with electronic warfare, e.g. jamming spoofing satellite and gps signals. We were in Afghanistan and iraq for 20 years, they arent russia and we not prepped to go up against Russia...
@@theburningarchive Heh , Martianov is pretty biased , is ru nafo , nothing ru does can go wrong if you watch him , i like more Simplicius ( he can do mistakes too , i caught some miself but is not shy to point flaws in ru situation ) and Big Serge (that man is flawless) . For maps ...DPA , better late than wrong
I would say besides many differences, In Ukraine we have a cluster of nations fighting one relatively small demographic group. That group is consistently rendering their opponent's weapons null and void.
Because it’s more impactful it’s really a NATO war and NATO is depending on it going their way the results will majorly shape the future for even the Congo
because this war is desired by bankers (private banking cartel), "investors" (BalckRock et al), and war profiteers from the dishonorable MIC to the dishonorable Arbuthnots.. Ukraine has been used by US as a patsy that was first corrupted (see the intentional nazification/banderization of Ukrainian populace) and then enticed by promises of a EU membership aka "material prosperity for all." These promises have a visual presentation in the person of Nuland-Kagan.
The reason Ukraine was so strong, is not because it was independently motivated to be so, for it has no natural enemies, during this time. The reason it was so strong, was because it was prepped, and prepared by the west for a confrontation with Russia.
That is true. I think Todd also makes some valid points about Ukrainian society. I may do a video about that when the climate of discussion of the war changes a little.
US aggression against Russia Is what it's been all about from the very beginning. Putin makes Biden look stupid, and that is more than he can handle. So now millions will die to satisfy a demented old man's lust for a piece of Putins ass. "GO AWAY JOE" 👎
Maybe this is the reason Ukraine is so weak now... This war marked a tactical and strategic paradigm shift for which America is not prepared. The combined arms warfare (aka panzer division) is a thing of the past, just like carrier fleets.
All the information is already available in open sources, another book is not going to change anything. The collective West chose its evil ways long time ago on its own volition. While the West rulers openly support evil in Ukraine and Izrael, the West's public prefer to turn a blind eye or pretend to be misunderinformed.
@@theburningarchive80% of the world as quickly turning away from America. A day will come soon when the common American has to explain why they allow things to be this way without protesting. Their only honest answer will be they were too busy chasing the shiny things.
In the west there aretoo many people with their hands in the same pocket.The ego of the west is there down fall. No wants to be the first to take their hand out of the cookie jar. It's odd how greed takes people back to their childhood actions.
That's a fact, and once connected the individuals hopes of success hinges on the effectiveness and depth of that pocket. They can't speak against it otherwise they're done. So the same corruption just keeps growing and growing.
Thanks for shedding light on a verry important piece of work by emmanuel todd. The ukraine war is unexpectedly bringing into focus who we are and what is becoming of us.
very true. great comment. Regrettably, I think many will look back on what they did and said in these years with shame and silence. But not me. thanks for this insight
He didn't mention an 11th surprise! The 11th surprise is the fact that the west drove Russia into a close alliance with China, the very country that the US had identified as their main competitor and challenger this century. Western leaders were too stupid to realise that would happen! China has been greatly strengthened by this alliance and is now in a far stronger position to challenge US hegemony because they now have full access to Russian oil, gas, other raw materials and grain to grow their economy and so to challenge the US more effectively as a political, economic and military power. I think he should have also added a 12th surprise which is the stupidity of western leaders brought about by hubris, arrogance and absolute ignorance. Western leaders thought, for example, that they could simply brush aside Russian objections to ukraine joining nato and refused to negotiate with russia on nato membership for Ukraine because they thought Russia was a has been power and little more than a glorified gas station that supplied the west with cheap gas. He covered western hubris, arrogance and ignorance in part in his 10 surprises but i think it merits a 12th surprise all on its own.
Yes and the severing of economic ties between Russia and the West is really hurting America and Europe. Russian streets are now full of Chinese cars instead of American ones.
Considering the bellicosity of the 'Whig Commonwealth' it should be noted that at the same time the British military capability was undermined e.g. by *the 2010 'Strategic Defence and Security Review'* - a policy which Rob Johnson, resigned director of the novel 'Office of Net Assessment and Challenge' within the British Ministry of Defence, characterized as Britain now being incapable of engaging in military confrontation _on any scale_ (including counter-insurgency as during two decades of failed occupation/Westernization of Afghanistan). In other words, Great Britain - and by association the 'Commonwealth of Nations' - have been set up for catastrophe. The question is by whom - and to what end ?...
I should do a video on Todd's ideas on bellicose Britain because its Russophobia is all pervasive in Western media. Certainly it appears a broken power today.
@@theburningarchive "(...) bellicose Britain (...)" I'm German with some historical training - and I recognize the pattern, e.g. William Gladstone in tears about a barbaric Germany (see Paul Kennedy: 'The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism 1860-1914'. 1980.) while the British Empire was perfectly content to sign an Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902-1922) without blinking about their military expansion into Korea, China and Russia... Looking through Your interest in literature, I'd commend the novels by Benjamin Disraeli which catch the nature of political caucuses as de facto secret societies - ahead of the 'New Course' by Orange Order House Hannover (see also the defense of the Bavarian 'Illuminati' by Thomas Jefferson, exposing the former American colonies as _Jacobin_ in it's political culture). Take any Stuart monarch and replace their names in the Whig press with the word 'Putin' or 'Xi' and the continuity of usurping Whig barons is evident (though not academic, I commend Justine Brown's studies in Jacobitism...). If You were interested, I'd send You a rant per email that wouldn't make it into Your comments, seemingly due to corporate automatic filter algorithms - containing book titles that reflect the social networks around All Souls College (Millner, Rhodes, Curtis, Kerr) that would appear in the US as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations ect. ?...
Are we counting abortion? I was watching some street scenes in Russia, and I can't wrap my mind around all the children and obviously intact families. As an American, I couldn't believe my eyes. There were more children visible than I've seen in the last ten years, 😢😢😢😢
Russia was never going to lose this once it became clear that western sanctions were not going to have the desired effect and that nations in the global majority regions were not going to isolate Russia. There was no hope for western ambitions at that point, none at all. The western powers ought to have cut there losses there and then (and spared the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians as well as leaving the survivors to a totally devastated, economically unviable state).
No surprise for myself in regard to industrial capacity & GDP due to in reference to the former, being witness to the de-industrialisation of manufacturing capacity overtime within the UK's once large industrial sector, since Thatcher introduced neoliberalism via Hayek, which has been continued ever since by both major parties. My old hometown like many others is to put it bluntly a shithole with most employment being based on precarious service jobs that replaced the largely better provisions supplied by manufacturing, resulting in a smaller example of that which is referred to in the US as The Rust Belt & flyover country. As to the latter economist Michael Hudson has been banging on for years in regard to the dubious nature of GDP due to it's non-productive elements eg rent seeking & the factor of earnings generated through foreign corporations are included in GDP despite the profits leaving the country. Looking forward to more - thank you.
I'm born and raised in America. I was a semi truck driver for 12 years and I went all across the rust belt all across the Midwest and I would see whole ghost towns that had huge manufacturing buildings just sitting there empty full of cobwebs. And now all the towns are full of people that are addicted to drugs living on the streets. It's terrible crisis happening right now. I live in Tucson Arizona in the streets are full of zombies on fentanyl.
@@jasonrohrssen3394 Tragic - the drug of choice in my old hometown is something called Monkey dust - the local newspaper regularly features photos of people who look like undead zombies.
Shame on you America As for his & his flwrs lies, I cannot imagine how they are allowed breathing the air after ending the lives of so many innocents 😢
The weakness of the western military industry is a result of the change from fordistic production towards post fordistic production. Smaller quantities, just in time production. Infrastructure like storage facility were demolished, cargo rail infrastructure to the storage facility also aboslished. Furthermore there was lots of outsourcing of fordistic mass prodution to china, which is now playing on an other geopolitical side. Germany for example is reliant on producing machines, which do not require large quantities of material and fordistic mass prodution, but few higly specialized well engineered parts
Interesting observations of Western ideological isolation and the assertion of future self destruction of the West . Core to NATOs thinking is pre nuclear conventional warfare , confidence based on ochlocracy ( NATO mob rule) , and delusions re military superiority ( hubris) . That the UK and countries like the Netherlands send warships off the coast of China reflects colonial arrogance , of which the Chinese have only too recent memories .It is a long way from the north Atlantic ! In WW2 the Japanese ( contemptuously considered funny little Asian people by the British ) rapidly conquered most of SE Asia ( including British , French and Dutch colonies ) between 1940 and 1942 in spite of presumed western imperial military superiority . Maybe ' non action' by Russia will lead to western nemesis in time ?
A very interesting analisys! I will subscribe, then read the book and make up my own mind. At this moment, I agree with the first 9 'surprises'. But I struggle with the last. I've also studied history and based from that, I know European countries can very rapidly change into 'war economies'. Even with the liberal oligarchies. The biggest mistake I think we in Europe made was the feeling we would be protected by the USA. It goes even to the point that, whenever we discussed about an independent European army, the USA stepped in to prevent it. (with this I mean from the Bush sr. admiration onward). And we accepted it. In the last decade, Putin was building up a 'war chest' so he came prepared and the West was'nt. Looking forward to see you're next video! Greetings from The Netherlands.
No.Russia was not prepared for such a big war.They went into Ukraine with only 190000 troops thinking that the war will last 1 month.The biggest mistake they did was to underestimate the stupidity of the west.When Putin realised that the west wants a war he just did what Stalin did to Hitler.
May i make another point? .... just go out and look at the physical state of young people in broken 3rd world Britain. And ask yourself how would they perform in 1939 and in Ukraine....... you know the ze answers.
For those interested, may I also suggest you read the book by Jacques Baud (former Swiss Army Intelligence, who worked in Ukraine) called "The Russian Art of War - How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat." It is excellent, and up-to-date as of October / November 2023.
I wasn't surprised that the Ukrainian military put up such a good fight against Russia initially. It can be discussed forever, but I agree with those who have said that Russia went into Ukraine under strength, not because they didn't believe that Ukraine was militarily capable - they're essentially Russian, after all, but because they wanted to demonstrate that they meant business and hoped for a swift political agreement that would recognize their genuine concerns about western military build-up on their borders (and address the persecution and murder of Donbass civilians). Frankly, if Ukraine had turned its army westward I think it would have rolled over everything between it and the English Channel. They were the best (non-Russian) army on the continent by a distance, and would have rolled over pretty much all their opponents (with the possible exception of Poland) with relative ease. perhaps the French airforce would be problematic, but on the ground, I think Ukraine would have won it handily.
@@Asgard2208 Your"argument" is a coping technique. Russia went under strength because they are inept and arrogant and thought Ukraine would fall quickly. That's the reason behind the use of an absurd phraseology like "SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION". Keep trying
This war is not about NATO and Russia, but about decades of imperialism of a consortium of countries, controlled by business groups that are true global robbers. Western ideas were embraced when Western companies industrialized peripheral countries and increased the standard of living of these countries. The Western dream was sold. However, with the sending of Western factories to China, the industrial deconcentration that was seen in poor countries raised serious questions about the Western dream. The situation only worsened with the law fair, the infiltration of NGOs, the colorful revolutions, the spread of the woke discourse and the interventions as in Euromaidan. All ignored by the population of Western countries. In fact, the view of Westerners is that poor countries do not develop because of corruption, the lack of educational policies, the lack of freedom, the dictators who end democracies. They do not know or forget that much of the corruption is encouraged by companies in Western countries, that the absence of education is the result of diversion of investments to Western agendas, where in the poor country one is entitled to sex change surgery, but does not have basic sanitation for example. Dictators emerge in response to a local ruling class aligned with Western interests of exploitation of the population.All this is ignored and analyzed only superficially by media groups linking to large corporations and super-rich families of the West. The war in Ukraine is about the enslaved global south and the west living the opulence with the looting it promotes to the poorest population on the planet.Russia needs to win this war because it symbolically represents the liberation for a fairer capital system, which seeks to break the relationship between big capital, infiltration in governments and the arms industry. It is a new pact in which the local elites of poor countries become supporting actors on the international scene and not just puppets for Western capital.
I will write in my native language, because this video made me laugh, and I feel the need to explain why. I'm not so proficient in Englsih to explain properly. Jedino iznenađenje (za Zapad) jeste činjenica da je bilo šta od ovoga - iznenađenje za Zapad. Naprimer, Britanija nije postala američki vazal 2022, već verovatno još od Tonija Blera naovamo, a moglo bi se ići i dalje u prošlost, u vreme neposredno posle Drugog svetskog rata koji je okončao (konačno, posle smrtnog udarca tokom Prvog svetskog rata) britansku imperiju i učinio je dužnikom i podstanarom Amerike. Britansko oduševljenje ratom protiv Rusije nije nikakvo iznenađenje takođe, uzevši u obzir da Britanija kuje planove za osvajanje/rušenje Rusije još od Krimskog rata, a verovatno i od ranije. Ideja da se "rat više nikada be može dogoditi u Evropi", jeste ridikulozno utopistička ideja nekoga ko ne zna apsolutno ništa o: Americi nakon Drugog svetskog rata, Evropi samoj, i, najzad, ljudskoj prirodi. Tzv. "iznenađenje" Zapada nakon što je njihov plan za izolaciju Rusije propao, takođe nije nikakvo iznenađenje, ako se razume superiorno/kolonijalni/rasistički stav koji Zapad oduvek gaji spram ma koga i ma čega što nije - Zapad. (Po zlu čuvena Boreljova bašta i džungla rasistička poredba.) Ukoliko se razume kompleks superiornosti od kojeg Zapad pati vekovima, i (ne manje bitno, štaviše) način na koji se Zapad ponaša(o) spram ostaka sveta kroz sve te vekove (kolonijalna osvajanja, genocidi nad domicilnim stanovništvom, rasistički mentalitet Zapada, konstantni pljačkaški ratovi od Vikinga nekada do američke neutažive žeđi za naftom/američka gramziva kultura (mentalitet?) danas itd itd - niko osim Zapada i nije bio iznenađen, najposle. U tom kontekstu, takođe, u tom rasističkom pogledu na svet/mentalitetu, leži uzrok "iznenađenja ratom u Evropi, obziirom da se rat dešava samo u tamo nekim džunglama u kojima žive divljaci (koji nikad nisu beli)". Još jednom, Borelj. Maločas navedeno takođe je uzrok i za "iznenađenje" usled ruske, kako autor navodi, "fleksibilne ekonomije", naročito rasistička komponenta koja podrazumeva da ništa van Zapada nije i ne može biti dobro - kamoli Zapadu doraslo. Najzad, najveće "iznenađenje", "iznenađenje" zbog toga što NATO (NE Ukrajina, jer je ovo rat NATO-a, odnosno Amerike (niko u NATO nije bitan osim Amerike) i Rusije, NE Ukrajine i Rusije) gubi rat od Rusije - nije iznenađenje ni za koga ko posmatra Zapad poslednjih decenija, od šezdesetih godina prošlog veka i, naročito, posle sloma SSSR.a. S tim u vezi, propast Zapada je u toku ne od 2022, već decenijama unazad, i ovo što se upravo dešava zapravo su poslednji stadiji propadajuće imperije. Propasti koja je odavno u toku. Čini se da se na Zapadu prosečan čovek mora obratiti profesionalnom istoričaru (?) da mu objasni kako je voda mokra, ali čak ni to nije nikakvo iznenađenje za ma koga van Zapada. Ovo je knjiga važna za Zapadnnjake (koji su zadržali dovoljno mentalnog kapaciteta da je razumeju) ali u isto vreme apsolutno nebitna (u nekim segmentima čak i sramotno smešna) za bilo koga ko sa Zapada nije. Mi iz džungle znamo da je voda mokra, hvala najlepše.
Thank you. Rod dreher and Christopher Caldwell have recently covered Todd, so I hope that drives some English language coverage your way. I just subscribed. Looking forward to future Todd videos
@@theburningarchive - Caldwell is in nyt. Dreher is on his sub stack and links to Caldwell. I'll try to find the links later today to post, although I've heard yt deletes posts with links
Anglo-Saxons and Europeans have had a supremacist mentality for centuries. The colonial arrogance is still very prevalent. I'm writing from liberated South Africa, whom the Russians helped liberate. How many people even acknowledge this nowadays. Viva Mother Russia! 🇿🇦❤️🇷🇺❤️🇿🇦❤️🇷🇺❤️🇿🇦❤️🇷🇺❤️🇿🇦❤️🇷🇺❤️
They thought they would fight their wars in Africa and the middle east. Also they thought they are far ahead only to discover that everyone is moving with their own pace and not copying. Also Russia knew they were going to fight for a long time.
sounds like an ineresting book. My opinion at the present time is one that others have commented on - our leaders and elites are disconnected from the people. They hold opposing views and have a "religion" known as "woke" . I'll need to get a copy to see if he explores those . Who would go to war for a country that despises it own flag and promotes a relgious one ? btw some of us have been of the opinion that the Ukraine civil war ( for that is how it started ) was lost once the Russian Federation interviened in 2022. As a student of history I wondered how long it would last with NATO intervention ( support).
@@theburningarchive Fais-le! J'ai pu le lire en pdf. En ce moment, je souligne "The Ukraine War and Eurasian World Order". Leginda libro el Glenn Diesen.
His background vida wikipedia - Emmanuel Todd is the son of journalist Olivier Todd [fr] and Anne-Marie Nizan. Todd's paternal grandfather, Julius Oblatt, was of Austrian Jewish background, and his paternal grandmother, Helen Todd, was the illegitimate daughter of British magazine editor Dorothy Todd.[1]
10 is a nice round number, but I still find it shocking that mainstream media has completely failed to provide impartial analysis. DW, BBC, CNN, CBS, etc, even channels that would normally appear critical of the official line were and still are sticking to the official narrative.
Это хорошо, что у вас на Западе, еще остались люди, трезво смотрящие на мир. Возможно эти мысли, со временем, дойдут и до вашего руководства. Но это не точно.
@@theburningarchiveИстория России весьма обширна, и всех ученых, занимающихся этим вопросом я к сожалению не знаю, но некоторых могу порекомендовать. Алексей Исаев, Евгений Норин, Егор Яковлев. Они занимаются вопросами Второй Мировой Войны. Интересные исторические исследования Андрея Фурсова, Евгения Спицына.
Incredible. Todd outlines exactly the things I have been seeing unfold. The last point about about the W self destructs rather than being attacked by RUS might be a translation problem. It is not clear that these are mutually exclusive choices.
IMO the point Todd makes is that the underlying processes are all internal to the western society. The war just exposed the symptoms of a much deeper illness
Нет, Русские буду сражаться до конца так показывает тысячелетняя история. Так что русские не пойдут на самоуничтожение, потому что у России традиционные семейные ценности. Лгбт уничтожит запад
Time and time again critics ignore democratic realities of the West. We will always lag in the start, but the West’s inventive scale and efficiencies of production will always win out in the end. The ‘French school’ of philosophy and critical view of the West’s development and destination have always overhyped the ‘End is Nigh’ mantra. It won’t be geopolitics that end us, but climate over heating and resource depletion wars in 20-40 years hence.
Critics can get caught up in their own rhetoric, true. I think it is important to understand the very particular problems of this time, place and set of political institutions as I argued here johnmenadue.com/the-crooked-timber-of-an-unhappy-dangerous-american-empire/
Why surprises? I found nothing in this war surprising and nothing in politics surprising either. If you want to make predictions in these upside down times, just look at what those governing should not do, and that is what they will do. 🤪🤪Humanity... insanity... being nuts... Same number?
Judging by the amount of surprises he's had, I'm guessing this french "intellectual" follows the mainstream media. By following multiple sources of alternative media, I am able to comprehend reality in almost real time.
Sorry mate...just a lot of assumptions. Starting with 'decline of the Soviet family, Soviet society'. I am a Social Philosopher and Sociologist..amongst many other subjects of interest. And have lived in Socialist Europe, for 22 years, going back many times to see family. No such Soviet decline was visible in the homes of Russians and other Eastern Europeans. Ukrainians had been building defences since the coup d'etat and increased efforts from 2014, when Russia took back Crimea. Billions of Washington's money was invested in Zelensky's military. Furthermore, the initial Russian military movement was to assess not to defeat. That's how most big wars start. And it's a very Russian way of fighting. That's why they win all big wars. Foucault is one of my favourite French critical thinkers. Derrida is another one. But I am not sure that I will rush out to buy the book you present to the audience, here.
These are good points. I am sceptical of Todd's arguments predicting Soviet collapse myself - I would be interested in your views on Zubok Collapse th-cam.com/video/E_pM6ohY6hU/w-d-xo.html. Thanks for sharing your expertise
@@ovidiudraghici9941 Why? Didn't you get free good quality healthcare? Did you live under a bridge as a homeless families live in the US and in other western countries? Didn't you get affordable good quality food? Were your parents unemployed? Didn't you go on free holidays every year. You really have no idea, how ordinary people in the west lived. I went to school in London from 69 to 73, and the poverty I saw in Britain there was frightening. The violence and crime, we never even imagined in Socialist Europe. You differ because you didn't understand..never opened your eyes. Today, I live in one of the wealthiest western countries, Australia. And we see incredible inequality and poverty. One out of seven families are unemployed. Do you know gow they survive? I guess you never had to endure such dirty stuff in Socialist Europe. Our worries in Socialist Europe back then, were how to have better fun each day. And it was because we had security...not worries that western people have. So please, wake up to the real world...not some ideological fantasy. You are not giving credit to your own country, which had a far more equitable Socioeconomic system.
@@theburningarchive Thank you for your request. Yes, I had seen this review before, and couldn't go through it all, as immediately the terminology spelled out that this is just ignorance, based on western ideological hate and fear of Communism and Socialism. Even though Communism had never existed, and European Socialism came in different shapes, that the west still has no idea about. As soon as I heard the term "Collapse of the Soviet Union" , I knew that I will be wasting my time, with something so fake. Because the Soviet Union did not collapse but was rather disbanded by a few members of the Soviet Politburo, namely Gorbachov and Yeltsin. Later, Yeltsin installed Putin, who wasn't well educated in the Social Sciences, and it has taken him many years to realise simple mistakes he announced about the Soviet Union and the Bolsheviks Revolution. As a young person, I remember having many debates with my father, who had been a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party since 1949. And of course, I was critical of some things that the Socialist governments did. But like most young people back then, later 1950s to early 1980s, we wanted to reform the Socialist governments...but not to abolish Socialism. We wanted new energy, new blood, new Socialist enthusiasm...but the old Central Committee and the Politburo were frightened that we will not know how to build a better Society..it was fear that kept them in power, rather than success. By the late 1970's the things started to change, as the old Communists started to die off, and new fresh faces started to appear...but it was way too late..way too sudden...that quick transition kept snowballing, and people like Gorbachov started to trust the old Cold war warriors in Washington. The west took advantage of the naive Perestroika nonsense, and simply lied to the Soviet leadership...never intending to hold their promises. So, the disappearance of European Socialism, was engineered by Washington's false promises. Most of us knew that we could not trust Washington...but Gorbachov was taken in completely. It was sad to watch my old father protesting in the streets, with so many thousands of other ordinary people, against the destruction of our countries. And today, when we reflect on the Chinese and Vietnamese successes in Socialist systems, and then compare these to the Eastern European downgrading, it feels good, that we were correct, when we opposed Gorbachov's nativity, and going back to Capitalism, which we always knew is a gone by, expired Socioeconomic system of our own past. We hope that after the Russian Federation cleans up Ukraine, the Russian people will take on Socialism in a better way. And that will be great for Eastern Europe as well, as so many people want to get back with Russia, and our own way of conducting life...in more equitable way. Many people don't know what Communism and Capitalism systems are, and how Socialism comes inbetween both, as a real world transition from the old to the new... holding elements of both. And that plays out differently in different countries, driven by needs and constructs of each country. Foe example, Romania was a basket case in Socialism, traveling through the country in 79, we actually saw the first beggar in Socialist Europe. Bulgaria was one of the most successful Socialist countries in Europe. We loved so many things about it. And so did many western tourists in the 60s, 70s, 80s. Today Bulgaria is a basket case in the EU. So much more to share. But Utube isn't the place for it. Hopefully, this answers at least a little bit of your thoughtful question. Kind Regards, RZ.
Check out this podcast video on those origins. Thanks Urmăriți acest videoclip podcast despre aceste origini th-cam.com/video/L8oMk2rbrYo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=SdqMvpozLdrALWrT
Its crazy that everybody is pretending like the war in Jugoslavia never happened
It was a war crime, like Hillary and company did to Kahdafi was even unconstitutional
Yes, the war in Yugoslavia was one of the first crimes committed by NATO, but above all by the US... It's a very long story, but it has great similarities with the war in Ukraine, which was also caused by the US. And if you follow the historical facts, you will see that in the war in Yugoslavia and now in the war in Ukraine, the US and NATO supported the same forces that were supported by Nazi Germany in WW2?! By accident?! I don't think so!
And what is worst of all, in addition to all that, the US keeps not only all the media in the US under control, but also in the EU and NATO countries, as well as in the case of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The same is true in the case of the conflict in Yugoslavia. They are making false propaganda, that the US and NATO have nothing to do with it?! And that they just "want to help"?! But of course only to the side that agreed to be puppets. The same thing happened in Yugoslavia, the Serbs did not want to be puppets of the US and NATO, as J. Sachs and J. Mearsheimer, Doug Megregor, who is even a participant, talk about this in detail.
of that conflict... Instead, they decided to satanize the media and various other organizations controlled by the US through propaganda, the Serbs for disobedience. And on this occasion, reward their puppets of the Croatian Ustasa, Muslims and Mujahideen in Bosnia, and the Albanian terrorists of the KLA. .. Let's not just talk about the invented "genocide in Srebrenica"?! That crime does not meet even the most basic definition of genocide, so that it could be treated as genocide at all?! Any resemblance to the Ukrainian conflict is intentional!
So, the same story is in Buca in Ukraine. Where the Russians are set up with the help of propaganda and the US media to stanaziate, as well as in the Serbian image, a fabricated "genocide"?!
@@SRB.4S the Ustasa movement is just a response to Serbian irredentism in 1920s. The same goes with Muslims in Bosnia, Croatian Paramilitary organisations and Albanian KLA in 1990s.
@@SRB.4S It's really funny to hear from you that Srebrenica is made up and not real, like... Ratko Mladic never said "kill all men of fighting age", right?
@@neriflst Are you sure it was like that?! "it was the will of the Croats for independence when Austria-Hungary ceased to exist"?! That movement was so "great and good" that only 20 years later, another "great and good man" A. Hitler only supported it?! I would be ashamed to even mention that. And you are proud of it, with the same fabricated facts.
What is the movement for "independence of 1861"?! What battle did you fight in Austria for Croatian ignorance?! None ! From 1861 to 1914 and the beginning of WW1, more than half a century has passed! The same people from that "movement for independence" tortured and killed as the main puppets and puppets of Austria in Serbia in 1914-18. As long as Austria was not defeated, then they remembered that they "want an independent Croatia"?! Only when the boss whose loyal servants you marionettes were for 9 centuries, and that is when Austria-Hungary was defeated! Then you were like "wanted independence"?! It is normal that no normal person in the world will support or recognize such a movement. Except for the sick brains of Hitler and Nazi Germany and the Vatican, some 20 years of cassini!
Even the Croats did not support him, that movement, or at least the majority of Croats, at the end of WW1, since there are still pictures of the welcoming of the Serbian army and King Peter, in Split and long cities, with banners long live King Peter and the Serbian army! Well, I suggest you look at that and how many people gathered at those events! The Croatian historian Tvrtko Jakovina also spoke about that, only the good will of the Serbs was the formation of the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. They could, like Italy, get what they wanted, as the victor in the war. In that case, Croatia would be Zagreb and three other villages. Unfortunately, the Serbian king decided to make the Kingdom of Yugoslavia instead of Serbia, which is a tragic mistake. To create a state with the scum and puppet of the Nazis and the Vatican. What was seen in WW2 when the Croats welcomed Hitler's Nazi army "as liberators" with an outstretched hand, like Ustashas and Nazi Catholic clerical fascists?! Comedy! Why not only have pictures but also videos! So throughout their history, Croats were puppets, whether of Hungary or Austria-Hungary, of Hitler and Nazi Germany, and now of the US and NATO. And they always sought protection from their boss. And in return they will faithfully serve him butcher and kill for him. Like in WW1 and WW2, when at least 350,000 Serbs were killed, probably much more than that, not to mention Jews and Roma... Under the protection of the Catholic Church and Nazi Germany. On the territory of the puppet state of Nazi Germany, the so-called Independent State of Croatia. Where from the very name "independent" that it was not, you can see a huge complex! Since, as historical facts say, Croatia as an independent state did not exist from 1097 until, if we do not count the puppet NDH, until 1991, which is practically 9 centuries! Of course, if we accept the fabrications that before 1097 Croatia existed at all?! Since there is no historical, archeological or any evidence for that.
Th biggest surprise is Putin’s patience in dealing with the idiocy of western leaders
😂😂 Sure fanboy.
@@cadicamo8720 Ukrain is a buffer zone with forgotten purpose
@@RU_756 Wow looking so badass when repeating Kremlin's imperialist shallow absurdities!🤣
@@cadicamo8720 trollbots aren't allowed here my friend
@@cadicamo8720 Ukrain shouldn't intervene between Russia and western affairs that's their purpose what do you think if Ukrain [you're country] didn't forget it's purpose Ukraine is a buffer zone between Russia and west that the truth
A Russian here. Im 33 years old and last 20 years i”ve lived in Spain. Im a children of both countries.
I have never imagined that we will live a civil war, thats my view of this conflict.
We, Russians, asked and pleaded for an agreement which was sent down to the toilet. The diplomacy have failed from both sides, but i cannot be surprised by that because West thought that their point of view and their way of doing are above than the rest of the world. Those called “leaders” of West are just puppets, no one really has the power to stop it. The man behind the curtain is pulling the strings and seems to me that the main target is bring destruction upon Europe. Difficult times are ahead of us and seems to me that this aint over yet.
Next generation of Russians political elite will be the veterans of this war and they will never forget and will never forgive. Being a bit cynical: this war woke up Russian military from the dream of old Soviet strength. Its like a huge knock down but its not knock out. What history taught us is Russia never loses when the destruction of Russian is on the table.
Peace in the World!
@@SuperRustamm this is indeed a civil war. Next the us will instigate another with Taiwan, which is also a civil war.
I'm German and I agree with you 100%.
I’m Australian, and I agree with you, but I put this war solely on the hands off the west.
NATO expansion eastward towards Russia border was an act of aggression, and an act of war by bringing Ukraine in.
We all know that the west removed the democratic elected government of Ukraine, and installed a western puppet, a puppet that was aggressive to Russia
Also just two month after this war broke out, China made an alliance treaty with the Solomon island, and straight away Australia and the U.S. called this a act of aggression by China, and even threatened to invade the Solomon if this went through.
There should be buffer between two world powers, no gap is dangerous to mankind
Nuclear peace ✌️
@@SuperRustamm 33 years old and yet still stuck in Soviet mentality of Russia being a "great power" with an inalienable right to Ukraine. The Ukrainians just wanted to finally rid themselves of being part of the Russian "sphere of influence" and who can blame them. That is the source of this conflict and not the supposed failings of the West
Britain's most active involvement in the Ukraine conflict really came as no surprise to anyone who knows the history of Russo-British relations.
This is true. I think he tries to explain their belligerence sociologically
Frankly Britain has had pure vitrol for any potential continental European power be it Germany, Russia or France and this reaches levels of insanity and self destruction. Even as their own nation plunges into a third world state they continue to expend whatever declining military power they have left to kill other Europeans. Utterly despicable.
It's especially not a surprise if you know which forces control the USA, the UK - as well as continental Europe. It's the same people and their names all end in Berg and Stein, they're not natives;
@@theburningarchive Ukrain is a buffer zone with forgotten purpose...
Finally someone with a brain.
Russians withdraw voluntarily from Kyiv as part of the signeerattu peace deal in Istanbul April 2022.
That is true. When Todd wrote his book in Sept 22 I think it was not so well documented. Great comment, thank you
@@Human-le9nt had that impression that Putin withdrew his troops to set a conducive climate for the Istanbul talks. But that got buried by Boris Johnson’s visit and subsequent Zelensky’s tearing up the agreement with Russia.
And US neocons sent poodle/clown Boris Johnson to Kiev to tell Zelensky to renege on that agreement.
Speak human.
Kiev, not hyiiiiv.
Or stop being hypocrite and start spelling Moskva properly
Which begs the question. Why would a smart leader like Putin trust again the West when history shows that is futile?
Excellent. Great to see people in Britain using their brains.
Thank you. I must admit though: Good to see my educated Australian accent can still pass muster in Britain. Thanks for the compliment again.
@@theburningarchive My apologies....but thanks again for the video...
Mississippi has health metrics approaching Bangladesh.
Too many people on Medicare and Medicaid. Highest grocery and State taxes. Hard to believe it's a "Red State."
Bangladesh is now a successful, progressive country.
Don't compare the US third world to a civilization like Bangladesh.
The UK has child poverty equaling Bangladesh, And more persons per 100K displaced p.a. Because of Floors. No disrect meant to Bangladesh, just saying in comparison to these countries GDP p.c. and sose of ecomomy.
I am guessing the health metrics of Mississippi are the way they are because of the high percentage of single-mothers, particularly black women. Over 35,000 years ago it was known that a single-mother and her children were very vulnerable to death.
@@RandallvanOosten-ln5wf Poor white families in WV, TN, and AK are not much better than MS.
Ultimately, it does not matter if the West lifts its manufacturing output, because if there are not enough troops to use said weapons then they are simply not going to be used or indeed not used properly. Ukraine has been calling on neighbouring countries to return Ukrainians that left the country at the outset of the war and has been "press ganging" its population into the military, where the average age is now 45+. The war need not have happened, but players such as Boris Johnson convinced Zelensky to rebut any notion of a negotiated settlement. Biden's rhetoric has also changed, going from "we will support Ukraine for as long as it takes" to "we will support Ukraine for as long as we can". The Western military products are also more complex and require greater skill levels to operate and maintain, whereas the Russian products are [generally] more utilitarian and robust requiring less skill to operate and, in most cases, maintain.
I hope an English translation of that book is available soon. You can never have too many books
This is an excellent point. Malcolm Kyunene has made a similar comment about military personnel on the Multipolarity podcast this week.
And in Spanish too!
Unsubstantiated nonsense. Putin repeatedly stated that he wasn't going to invade, then offered Ukraine zero security guarantees during peace negotiations.. After war crimes were discovered at Buka, Zelensky decided to continue the fight. Also, Boris Johnson told Putin that Ukraine would be blocked from NATO prior to the invasion.
lu en français, très bon livre.
Very interesting. Perhaps a number of these points are not so surprising if one pays attention to relatively recent history. The first thing is that this war did not begin in February 2024. It begin with the US instigated and funded Maidan coup in 2014. If one looks at the Rand think tank documents the plan was to draw Russia into a war in Ukraine, sanction it heavily so that it would collapse as a unitary state. It could then be balkanised and the West could steal its resources.
The West - NATO has put huge efforts into training and arming Ukraine for this purpose since 2014. In addition to this although Ukraine is one of most resource rich countries in Europe it is the most corrupt, with the people as a whole not benefiting from their country’s wealth. The Ukrainian people were lured and propagandised into believing that by joining the EU that there would be huge benefits for them. Alas that was not the case and their President, Yanukovitch saw this and wanted Ukraine to be able to be linked to both Russia and Europe. This was not the US plan. Hence the 2014 coup.
Russia had since around 2008 begun to prepare its financial system for sanctions- though even they were surprised at how resilient their economy was as events unfolded.
The West has underestimated Russia possibly because they have forgotten WW2. 80% of the fighting in WW2 was on the Eastern front. Russia really won the war against the Nazis. (It did have some material assistance from the US especially in the early stages). However there are between 30 and 39 million reasons why the West and its Ukrainian proxy will not defeat Russia - those are the updated estimates of the Soviet Union’s casualties in WW2. Russia has not forgotten. In addition to this Ukraine has a very difficult Nazi problem. For an idea of the ugliness of this I refer you to the Ukrainian Banderite Nazi active support for Germany during WW 2. They were responsible for many massacres of Jews and many other people during that war. I also draw your attention to the ethnic cleansing of Poles in the Volhynia region in WW2. The estimates of the slaughter of this people go from 100,000 upwards. That Nazi ideology is still very much alive in Western Ukraine and has been fostered by the West.
The West’s so called liberal democracy and so called values are illusory. Western wealth has been built on colonisation, subjugation and exploitation of a huge number of countries around the world. The West still exploits and colonises Global South countries but now by economic and financial systems. And it, particularly the US sanctions and regime change wars to enforce its hegemony and exploitation.
Such a system will inevitably collapse as all empires do - so perhaps not such a surprise. After WW2 the US, in Operation Paperclip smuggled many high ranking Nazis out of Germany to the US because they were useful to them. Theses were people who should have been in trial at Nuremberg.
With regard to the British attitude to Russia. They have been very hostile to Russia since at least the mid 19th century when they perceived Russia as a threat to their empire in India. This threat was mainly in their minds but it certainly engendered a real hostility and antipathy that has not abated in the British deep state and establishment to this day. There are other elements to this as well.
The Ukraine war - a Western proxy war against Russia has put in the spotlight the massive propaganda machine of the West. And that is a huge subject on its own.
Finally, with regard to Russian manufacturing capabilities, Alexander Mercouris has spoken of visiting Russia some years ago and seeing massive factories only relatively small parts of which were being used. However the unused parts were carefully looked after and ready to be used when needed. In addition to this although the US has the most expensive military in the world it is not the most effective. The corruption in the military industrial complex has been well documented. Many of its weapons systems have not lived up to the hype in Ukraine. While the Russian MIC has some corruption it is far more efficient in terms of what is spent.
Brilliant comment, thank you. You might want to check out my Russian History playlist - th-cam.com/play/PLDQM15vyFoOQ2EdFzmOtf9rSsNC9csyHW.html
I may also do a video on Todd's discussion of Russophobia and Britain's bellegerence during this war.
@@theburningarchiveThank you I will definitely check those out.
@@mariansteele5735 Thanks for your very good summary. Tied in with what you mentioned is the US strategy since 2003 to " disaggregated Europe" and particularly to sever Europe from Russian energy and Russia from European trade.
@@casteretpollux Yes definitely!
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We do live in liberal oligarchy like romans had that kind of democracy before they became one man show.
Should I do another video on the liberal oligarchy theme?
@@theburningarchive yes
Romans had tribunes to offset the oligarchs
Russia mistake in the early stages was trying to use her forces to stage a protest and force a coupe instead of all out war
It did work, in terms of forcing Kyiv to the negotiating table, so it wasn’t a mistake. The mistake was not realising the extremity that the West would go to in order to prevent a negotiated solution.
@@boggisthecat You said it. There is reason a rescuer will kick away a drowning person when they flail in a panic. The West is drowning and Ukraine got too close...
It was the better move they wound up with 20% of Ukraine the entire eastern border with only 190,000 troops vs 700,000 Ukr
If they had just declared war and slammed 190,000 troops straight into 700k Ukr it would’ve been a disaster but the Kiev feint allowed them to hold the area they wanted with 3x less men
True, and they learned from their mistake. The West appears determined not to learn.
@@Ese_osa well it worked … until the West stepped in
Merci Monsieur pour diffuser la pensée de Todd
Todd a eu une médiocre couverture médiatique pour son livre, généralement taxé d’agent du Kremlin mais son livre se vend très bien et j’espère qu’il sera bientôt traduit
GDP is nearly a useless metric in regard to manufacturing capacity for the hard reality of war. For one thing, in the U.S. about 80% of the purchasing of consumer goods is done by women. So, the market is focused on meeting the needs of women (one only needs to watch TV commercials to figure this out). This is terrific for the sales of cosmetics and luxury goods but not artillery shells. Add to this the West's mania for sending its manufacturing capacity to 3rd World countries and you have a prescription for war-weakness. All of this highlights the emptiness of Western bellicosity.
Indeed. Not only Todd makes this point. The distinguished economic historian Adam Tooze makes the same point about GDP being a poor measure of reall economy, including in US vs China comparisons
An interesting analysis which reflects closely a lecture that I have been giving for some time. In essence, the USA is using the war in Ukraine and also its allies, to facilitate a desperate rearguard action to maintain its world hegemony, which is an integral part of its political philosophy and self-esteem. NATO and European countries have essentially been hijacked and groomed to support and legitimise this probably doomed initiative. It is not easy to explain this shift except perhaps in the case of the UK which followed George W Bush slavishly into Iraq, against considerable public outrage. As a UK citizen, I too was surprised and aghast at the alacrity with which the UK adopted a bellicose posture in 2022 although one suspects that the political machinations of the charlatan Boris Johnson were a significant factor. This is contemporary politics: in the event of a crisiis the USA attributes the roles of hero and villain (no nuances), and proceeds on that basis without regard to precedents, past history and the long perspective.
Many thanks. I will do more videos on Todd's book soon. Where do you lecture?
Liberalism is a totalitarian materialistic ideology that only succeeds with infinite growth and expansion.
It is degenerative and wishes to destroy everything that is of value to most humans.
I have heard it said that Ukraine war will go down as the time that USA ceased to be the global Hegemon, similar to how UK ceased to be the global hegemon after the 1954 invasion of Egypt as part of the Suez canal crisis. Do you have any thoughts about this as a Brit?
@@annyer262it’s the time when other countries no longer fear USA liberal order. Fear was their greatest tool for a long time.
It’s not just the war in Ukraine it’s also abilities of the Houthis to run off the US naval carrier group tail between legs
Even minor countries are thinking of we get Russian weapons US can’t tell us anything anymore they will have to actually bargain in a mutually beneficial way no more strong arm
Well, I couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks for the on point contribution.
I am surprised that the superiority of Russian offensive and defensive weapons was not among those 10 highlights. The converse is true of Western/USA weapons.
I am surprised western propaganda/brainwashing was not among top 10. According to an australian study, 80-90 % of "slava Ukraina" on social media was nothing but bots. My guess they were produced by AI and paid for by CIA. Unfortunately almost every Norwegian got brainwashed by this propaganda (Russia evil)
@@lesliethomas7234 Anyone who's been watching Russian for a decade or so isn't surprised.
What baffles me is that the so called experts failed to recognise or understand Russian advancement across much of her military equipment, and on top of this, the Russians military doctrine.
I Think it has a lot to do with electronic warfare, e.g. jamming spoofing satellite and gps signals. We were in Afghanistan and iraq for 20 years, they arent russia and we not prepped to go up against Russia...
Good point. Martyanov makes those points. I think Todd focuses on his core strengths and does not get so much into the military analysis
@@theburningarchive Heh , Martianov is pretty biased , is ru nafo , nothing ru does can go wrong if you watch him , i like more Simplicius ( he can do mistakes too , i caught some miself but is not shy to point flaws in ru situation ) and Big Serge (that man is flawless) . For maps ...DPA , better late than wrong
There is war all over the world, Congo etc but everyone makes a song and dance about Ukraine war.
I would say besides many differences, In Ukraine we have a cluster of nations fighting one relatively small demographic group. That group is consistently rendering their opponent's weapons null and void.
You can’t compare a war of superpowers with a war going on in a third world country
Because it’s more impactful it’s really a NATO war and NATO is depending on it going their way the results will majorly shape the future for even the Congo
@@lesliethomas7234 they’ve basically made Russia their eternal foe and vice versa
because this war is desired by bankers (private banking cartel), "investors" (BalckRock et al), and war profiteers from the dishonorable MIC to the dishonorable Arbuthnots.. Ukraine has been used by US as a patsy that was first corrupted (see the intentional nazification/banderization of Ukrainian populace) and then enticed by promises of a EU membership aka "material prosperity for all." These promises have a visual presentation in the person of Nuland-Kagan.
The reason Ukraine was so strong, is not because it was independently motivated to be so, for it has no natural enemies, during this time. The reason it was so strong, was because it was prepped, and prepared by the west for a confrontation with Russia.
That is true. I think Todd also makes some valid points about Ukrainian society. I may do a video about that when the climate of discussion of the war changes a little.
US aggression against Russia
Is what it's been all about from the very beginning.
Putin makes Biden look stupid, and that is more than he can handle. So now millions will die to satisfy a demented old man's lust for a piece of Putins ass.
"GO AWAY JOE" 👎
Note that resilient ‘Ukrainians’ are mostly Russians fighting Russians.
Maybe this is the reason Ukraine is so weak now... This war marked a tactical and strategic paradigm shift for which America is not prepared. The combined arms warfare (aka panzer division) is a thing of the past, just like carrier fleets.
@@theburningarchive Sure, "intellectual". Ukraine doesn't have NATURAL ENEMIES!!! It's just that evil West prepped the country!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ritter and (to a point) Meirsheimer see wars as a must for the US, that it cannot survive without wars.
Proven by two hundred years of history 😢
Like a shark that can't stop moving
After WW2 the U.S. was involved in more than 200 wars
I am a new subscriber that found your channel after your livestream on The Duran. I'm so glad to have found your channel!
Thanks so much for joining me, and enjoy my backlist. More videos coming soon.
Pres Putin outsmarted the entire West 🤣🤣 he was playing chess while the West played checkers. He truly is Yeltsin's revenge on the West 💕
100% agreed!!!🌹
I hope Todd's book will be translated into English as my French language skills are quite bad. Good video!
All the information is already available in open sources, another book is not going to change anything. The collective West chose its evil ways long time ago on its own volition. While the West rulers openly support evil in Ukraine and Izrael, the West's public prefer to turn a blind eye or pretend to be misunderinformed.
This was no surprise to me i was aware of this for some time...
Bravo. Still you have to admore Todd's courage for speaking out on these points.
The unchecked greed and arrogance towards others, will be met with retribution unawares from the arrogance.
Pride comes before a fall
@@theburningarchive80% of the world as quickly turning away from America. A day will come soon when the common American has to explain why they allow things to be this way without protesting. Their only honest answer will be they were too busy chasing the shiny things.
This is excellent, I agree 100% with the 10 surprising facts!!
thank you
In the west there aretoo many people with their hands in the same pocket.The ego of the west is there down fall. No wants to be the first to take their hand out of the cookie jar. It's odd how greed takes people back to their childhood actions.
Greed is not good.
That's a fact, and once connected the individuals hopes of success hinges on the effectiveness and depth of that pocket. They can't speak against it otherwise they're done. So the same corruption just keeps growing and growing.
No one with more than two brain cells is supried , except at , the gullibility of others....
Thanks for shedding light on a verry important piece of work by emmanuel todd. The ukraine war is unexpectedly bringing into focus who we are and what is becoming of us.
very true. great comment. Regrettably, I think many will look back on what they did and said in these years with shame and silence. But not me. thanks for this insight
He didn't mention an 11th surprise! The 11th surprise is the fact that the west drove Russia into a close alliance with China, the very country that the US had identified as their main competitor and challenger this century. Western leaders were too stupid to realise that would happen! China has been greatly strengthened by this alliance and is now in a far stronger position to challenge US hegemony because they now have full access to Russian oil, gas, other raw materials and grain to grow their economy and so to challenge the US more effectively as a political, economic and military power.
I think he should have also added a 12th surprise which is the stupidity of western leaders brought about by hubris, arrogance and absolute ignorance. Western leaders thought, for example, that they could simply brush aside Russian objections to ukraine joining nato and refused to negotiate with russia on nato membership for Ukraine because they thought Russia was a has been power and little more than a glorified gas station that supplied the west with cheap gas. He covered western hubris, arrogance and ignorance in part in his 10 surprises but i think it merits a 12th surprise all on its own.
Yes and the severing of economic ties between Russia and the West is really hurting America and Europe. Russian streets are now full of Chinese cars instead of American ones.
I suspect Emmanual Todt was listening to Alexander Mercouris....
Or other way round?
Maybe...but I have to listen to that Greasy little GREEK at 1.5x
Good to see that the true significance of this battle is coming to light.
Thank you
Thank you.Great help.
Surprised that the author is surprised by these results
I’m not. We all have a limited amount of information in our feeds.
The United States believes that it is God's gift to the world. The U.S. believes this literally not just metaphorically.
I can’t believe I can do no wrong.
Yeah they do but at the same time they've totally rejected God just look at our society.
Considering the bellicosity of the 'Whig Commonwealth' it should be noted that at the same time the British military capability was undermined e.g. by *the 2010 'Strategic Defence and Security Review'* - a policy which Rob Johnson, resigned director of the novel 'Office of Net Assessment and Challenge' within the British Ministry of Defence, characterized as Britain now being incapable of engaging in military confrontation _on any scale_ (including counter-insurgency as during two decades of failed occupation/Westernization of Afghanistan).
In other words, Great Britain - and by association the 'Commonwealth of Nations' - have been set up for catastrophe.
The question is by whom - and to what end ?...
I should do a video on Todd's ideas on bellicose Britain because its Russophobia is all pervasive in Western media. Certainly it appears a broken power today.
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"(...) bellicose Britain (...)"
I'm German with some historical training - and I recognize the pattern, e.g. William Gladstone in tears about a barbaric Germany (see Paul Kennedy: 'The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism 1860-1914'. 1980.) while the British Empire was perfectly content to sign an Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902-1922) without blinking about their military expansion into Korea, China and Russia...
Looking through Your interest in literature, I'd commend the novels by Benjamin Disraeli which catch the nature of political caucuses as de facto secret societies - ahead of the 'New Course' by Orange Order House Hannover (see also the defense of the Bavarian 'Illuminati' by Thomas Jefferson, exposing the former American colonies as _Jacobin_ in it's political culture).
Take any Stuart monarch and replace their names in the Whig press with the word 'Putin' or 'Xi' and the continuity of usurping Whig barons is evident (though not academic, I commend Justine Brown's studies in Jacobitism...).
If You were interested, I'd send You a rant per email that wouldn't make it into Your comments, seemingly due to corporate automatic filter algorithms - containing book titles that reflect the social networks around All Souls College (Millner, Rhodes, Curtis, Kerr) that would appear in the US as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations ect. ?...
Thank you. I hope the book will be translated into Turkish as soon as possible.
A slip of the tongue, you mean of course that there was a rise in the infant mortality rate not a fall.
Are we counting abortion? I was watching some street scenes in Russia, and I can't wrap my mind around all the children and obviously intact families. As an American, I couldn't believe my eyes. There were more children visible than I've seen in the last ten years, 😢😢😢😢
@@richardscathouseyeah I've noticed that too. Russia has a much healthier social scene than America or any of the West for that matter.
The word “ truth “:should never be used in the same sentence as the word “ West”.
Russia was never going to lose this once it became clear that western sanctions were not going to have the desired effect and that nations in the global majority regions were not going to isolate Russia. There was no hope for western ambitions at that point, none at all. The western powers ought to have cut there losses there and then (and spared the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians as well as leaving the survivors to a totally devastated, economically unviable state).
Yes because most of the world sees the truth and not just what America wants them to see.
who was it who said man makes plans and god laughs
An old Yiddish adage, according to my bref research. Good comment
No surprise for myself in regard to industrial capacity & GDP due to in reference to the former, being witness to the de-industrialisation of manufacturing capacity overtime within the UK's once large industrial sector, since Thatcher introduced neoliberalism via Hayek, which has been continued ever since by both major parties. My old hometown like many others is to put it bluntly a shithole with most employment being based on precarious service jobs that replaced the largely better provisions supplied by manufacturing, resulting in a smaller example of that which is referred to in the US as The Rust Belt & flyover country.
As to the latter economist Michael Hudson has been banging on for years in regard to the dubious nature of GDP due to it's non-productive elements eg rent seeking & the factor of earnings generated through foreign corporations are included in GDP despite the profits leaving the country.
Looking forward to more - thank you.
I'm born and raised in America. I was a semi truck driver for 12 years and I went all across the rust belt all across the Midwest and I would see whole ghost towns that had huge manufacturing buildings just sitting there empty full of cobwebs. And now all the towns are full of people that are addicted to drugs living on the streets. It's terrible crisis happening right now. I live in Tucson Arizona in the streets are full of zombies on fentanyl.
@@jasonrohrssen3394 Tragic - the drug of choice in my old hometown is something called Monkey dust - the local newspaper regularly features photos of people who look like undead zombies.
Great insights ! Thanks for sharing.
exciting to find your channel
Thank you!
Shame on you America
As for his & his flwrs lies, I cannot imagine how they are allowed breathing the air after ending the lives of so many innocents 😢
You might like to read this article I wrote a year or so ago johnmenadue.com/the-crooked-timber-of-an-unhappy-dangerous-american-empire/
The weakness of the western military industry is a result of the change from fordistic production towards post fordistic production. Smaller quantities, just in time production. Infrastructure like storage facility were demolished, cargo rail infrastructure to the storage facility also aboslished. Furthermore there was lots of outsourcing of fordistic mass prodution to china, which is now playing on an other geopolitical side. Germany for example is reliant on producing machines, which do not require large quantities of material and fordistic mass prodution, but few higly specialized well engineered parts
Yeah and they're in big trouble since that pipeline got cut off.
Tank you, very good
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Thanks.
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Thanks!
Thank you kindly
That aside, as an American who discovered Ray Dalio, I would LOVE to read this book in English.
Interesting observations of Western ideological isolation and the assertion of future self destruction of the West . Core to NATOs thinking is pre nuclear conventional warfare , confidence based on ochlocracy ( NATO mob rule) , and delusions re military superiority ( hubris) . That the UK and countries like the Netherlands send warships off the coast of China reflects colonial arrogance , of which the Chinese have only too recent memories .It is a long way from the north Atlantic ! In WW2 the Japanese ( contemptuously considered funny little Asian people by the British ) rapidly conquered most of SE Asia ( including British , French and Dutch colonies ) between 1940 and 1942 in spite of presumed western imperial military superiority . Maybe ' non action' by Russia will lead to western nemesis in time ?
A very interesting analisys! I will subscribe, then read the book and make up my own mind. At this moment, I agree with the first 9 'surprises'. But I struggle with the last. I've also studied history and based from that, I know European countries can very rapidly change into 'war economies'. Even with the liberal oligarchies. The biggest mistake I think we in Europe made was the feeling we would be protected by the USA. It goes even to the point that, whenever we discussed about an independent European army, the USA stepped in to prevent it. (with this I mean from the Bush sr. admiration onward). And we accepted it. In the last decade, Putin was building up a 'war chest' so he came prepared and the West was'nt.
Looking forward to see you're next video! Greetings from The Netherlands.
Thank you - I discuss the history with the US and EU a bit in this video th-cam.com/users/livewLabHZ_bN0U?feature=share
No.Russia was not prepared for such a big war.They went into Ukraine with only 190000 troops thinking that the war will last 1 month.The biggest mistake they did was to underestimate the stupidity of the west.When Putin realised that the west wants a war he just did what Stalin did to Hitler.
Sunrise and sunset
When do you start explaining the content of this book
So, this is IT!
We‘re in some deep shit in Europe 🥴, and it came so fast
It was well planned in advance, not just cutting of Nordstream but the sanctions calculated to ruin EU economies 😢
Major economic hardships are coming to both Europe and America.
excellent points
thanks
May i make another point? .... just go out and look at the physical state of young people in broken 3rd world Britain. And ask yourself how would they perform in 1939 and in Ukraine....... you know the ze answers.
For those interested, may I also suggest you read the book by Jacques Baud (former Swiss Army Intelligence, who worked in Ukraine) called "The Russian Art of War - How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat." It is excellent, and up-to-date as of October / November 2023.
Thanks for the tip friend.
@@jasonrohrssen3394 It's putinist nonsense.
@@jasonrohrssen3394 Reading nonsense won't repair nonsensical imperialist arguments from Ruzzia.
I wasn't surprised that the Ukrainian military put up such a good fight against Russia initially. It can be discussed forever, but I agree with those who have said that Russia went into Ukraine under strength, not because they didn't believe that Ukraine was militarily capable - they're essentially Russian, after all, but because they wanted to demonstrate that they meant business and hoped for a swift political agreement that would recognize their genuine concerns about western military build-up on their borders (and address the persecution and murder of Donbass civilians).
Frankly, if Ukraine had turned its army westward I think it would have rolled over everything between it and the English Channel. They were the best (non-Russian) army on the continent by a distance, and would have rolled over pretty much all their opponents (with the possible exception of Poland) with relative ease. perhaps the French airforce would be problematic, but on the ground, I think Ukraine would have won it handily.
@@Asgard2208 Knowing nothing and understanding nothing and yet writing long posts about that thing uu don't know nor understand?
@@Asgard2208 Your"argument" is a coping technique. Russia went under strength because they are inept and arrogant and thought Ukraine would fall quickly. That's the reason behind the use of an absurd phraseology like "SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION".
Keep trying
@@Asgard2208 Ukrainians are not essentially russians. Fanatical russian chauvinism.
@@cadicamo8720 Yawn
@@Asgard2208 "they are ... ESSENTIALLY RUSSIAN"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Okay, so here’s a question, isn’t the Russian economy being superficially inflated by debts from the war?
Why was you tube hiding this video and channel and Emmanuel Todd's book from me?
This war is not about NATO and Russia, but about decades of imperialism of a consortium of countries, controlled by business groups that are true global robbers. Western ideas were embraced when Western companies industrialized peripheral countries and increased the standard of living of these countries. The Western dream was sold. However, with the sending of Western factories to China, the industrial deconcentration that was seen in poor countries raised serious questions about the Western dream. The situation only worsened with the law fair, the infiltration of NGOs, the colorful revolutions, the spread of the woke discourse and the interventions as in Euromaidan. All ignored by the population of Western countries. In fact, the view of Westerners is that poor countries do not develop because of corruption, the lack of educational policies, the lack of freedom, the dictators who end democracies. They do not know or forget that much of the corruption is encouraged by companies in Western countries, that the absence of education is the result of diversion of investments to Western agendas, where in the poor country one is entitled to sex change surgery, but does not have basic sanitation for example. Dictators emerge in response to a local ruling class aligned with Western interests of exploitation of the population.All this is ignored and analyzed only superficially by media groups linking to large corporations and super-rich families of the West. The war in Ukraine is about the enslaved global south and the west living the opulence with the looting it promotes to the poorest population on the planet.Russia needs to win this war because it symbolically represents the liberation for a fairer capital system, which seeks to break the relationship between big capital, infiltration in governments and the arms industry. It is a new pact in which the local elites of poor countries become supporting actors on the international scene and not just puppets for Western capital.
Many good points there. I am going to come back to the Russia-Ukraine war and my assessment of it in a couple of months, assuming it is safe to do so.
I will write in my native language, because this video made me laugh, and I feel the need to explain why. I'm not so proficient in Englsih to explain properly.
Jedino iznenađenje (za Zapad) jeste činjenica da je bilo šta od ovoga - iznenađenje za Zapad.
Naprimer, Britanija nije postala američki vazal 2022, već verovatno još od Tonija Blera naovamo, a moglo bi se ići i dalje u prošlost, u vreme neposredno posle Drugog svetskog rata koji je okončao (konačno, posle smrtnog udarca tokom Prvog svetskog rata) britansku imperiju i učinio je dužnikom i podstanarom Amerike. Britansko oduševljenje ratom protiv Rusije nije nikakvo iznenađenje takođe, uzevši u obzir da Britanija kuje planove za osvajanje/rušenje Rusije još od Krimskog rata, a verovatno i od ranije. Ideja da se "rat više nikada be može dogoditi u Evropi", jeste ridikulozno utopistička ideja nekoga ko ne zna apsolutno ništa o: Americi nakon Drugog svetskog rata, Evropi samoj, i, najzad, ljudskoj prirodi.
Tzv. "iznenađenje" Zapada nakon što je njihov plan za izolaciju Rusije propao, takođe nije nikakvo iznenađenje, ako se razume superiorno/kolonijalni/rasistički stav koji Zapad oduvek gaji spram ma koga i ma čega što nije - Zapad. (Po zlu čuvena Boreljova bašta i džungla rasistička poredba.) Ukoliko se razume kompleks superiornosti od kojeg Zapad pati vekovima, i (ne manje bitno, štaviše) način na koji se Zapad ponaša(o) spram ostaka sveta kroz sve te vekove (kolonijalna osvajanja, genocidi nad domicilnim stanovništvom, rasistički mentalitet Zapada, konstantni pljačkaški ratovi od Vikinga nekada do američke neutažive žeđi za naftom/američka gramziva kultura (mentalitet?) danas itd itd - niko osim Zapada i nije bio iznenađen, najposle.
U tom kontekstu, takođe, u tom rasističkom pogledu na svet/mentalitetu, leži uzrok "iznenađenja ratom u Evropi, obziirom da se rat dešava samo u tamo nekim džunglama u kojima žive divljaci (koji nikad nisu beli)". Još jednom, Borelj.
Maločas navedeno takođe je uzrok i za "iznenađenje" usled ruske, kako autor navodi, "fleksibilne ekonomije", naročito rasistička komponenta koja podrazumeva da ništa van Zapada nije i ne može biti dobro - kamoli Zapadu doraslo.
Najzad, najveće "iznenađenje", "iznenađenje" zbog toga što NATO (NE Ukrajina, jer je ovo rat NATO-a, odnosno Amerike (niko u NATO nije bitan osim Amerike) i Rusije, NE Ukrajine i Rusije) gubi rat od Rusije - nije iznenađenje ni za koga ko posmatra Zapad poslednjih decenija, od šezdesetih godina prošlog veka i, naročito, posle sloma SSSR.a. S tim u vezi, propast Zapada je u toku ne od 2022, već decenijama unazad, i ovo što se upravo dešava zapravo su poslednji stadiji propadajuće imperije. Propasti koja je odavno u toku.
Čini se da se na Zapadu prosečan čovek mora obratiti profesionalnom istoričaru (?) da mu objasni kako je voda mokra, ali čak ni to nije nikakvo iznenađenje za ma koga van Zapada. Ovo je knjiga važna za Zapadnnjake (koji su zadržali dovoljno mentalnog kapaciteta da je razumeju) ali u isto vreme apsolutno nebitna (u nekim segmentima čak i sramotno smešna) za bilo koga ko sa Zapada nije.
Mi iz džungle znamo da je voda mokra, hvala najlepše.
Thank you. Rod dreher and Christopher Caldwell have recently covered Todd, so I hope that drives some English language coverage your way. I just subscribed. Looking forward to future Todd videos
Thank you. I will check it out. Can you post a link to the Dreher and Caldwell discussion? Many thanks again.
@@theburningarchive - Caldwell is in nyt. Dreher is on his sub stack and links to Caldwell. I'll try to find the links later today to post, although I've heard yt deletes posts with links
Russia waited 8 years to isolate the west before SMO.
true
How would you explain this to someone like Piers Morgan 😂
Such a good question... I will have to think about that. In fact it has given me an idea for a video. Thanks
Don't bother.
Very good. Thanks
Thank you too!
Good analysis
The resistance of Ukraine is very easily explainable: they were preparing for this war since the CI4 cup the 3tat.
True. I plan to do a video on the Russia-Ukraine war later in the year - perhaps when the Ukrainian and Western resistance finally ends.
The Iraq war in the 2000s did not break out ...
Wow 😮, so interesting
Glad you think so!
Thank you man.
I wish i had the time to read the book :(
You are welcome. I plan to do some videos on some later sections of the book soon
At my age, translation gives me migraines 😢
Anglo-Saxons and Europeans have had a supremacist mentality for centuries. The colonial arrogance is still very prevalent. I'm writing from liberated South Africa, whom the Russians helped liberate. How many people even acknowledge this nowadays. Viva Mother Russia! 🇿🇦❤️🇷🇺❤️🇿🇦❤️🇷🇺❤️🇿🇦❤️🇷🇺❤️🇿🇦❤️🇷🇺❤️
So true. America and Britain were not on the right side of history of justice in the SOuth African cause. Great to have you
GDP in not a metric, neither money - it’s guns, manpower, resources and most importantly; Resolve!
The West got sucked in by the allure of money. Good comment.
Ceausescu’a Decree 770 created a lot of children in Romania after 1967. How did that work out for him in 1989?
That was a great social tragedy wasn't it. What is the connection to this video though?
Emmanuel Todd is one of french biggest brains. I drink his words to the last drop
Very true. It is good his book broke through despite some of the propaganda against him
They thought they would fight their wars in Africa and the middle east. Also they thought they are far ahead only to discover that everyone is moving with their own pace and not copying. Also Russia knew they were going to fight for a long time.
What USA do here in Europe?????
Indeed 80 years after WW2! And why still in Japan!
sounds like an ineresting book. My opinion at the present time is one that others have commented on - our leaders and elites are disconnected from the people. They hold opposing views and have a "religion" known as "woke" . I'll need to get a copy to see if he explores those . Who would go to war for a country that despises it own flag and promotes a relgious one ?
btw some of us have been of the opinion that the Ukraine civil war ( for that is how it started ) was lost once the Russian Federation interviened in 2022. As a student of history I wondered how long it would last with NATO intervention ( support).
This is true. It would be interesting to compare the strength of collective spirit in Russia, Ukraine and the USA today. Thanks for commenting
Excellent
Nonsense- don't waste your
Excellent analysis
Idiotic
thanks
tuesday 13th of august 1997 in hong kong ... the time you understand you've already lost
When Britain left Hong Kong?
@@theburningarchive you can delete my answer but the reality wont change
@@theburningarchive retrocession was 1st of july 1997
i cant explain further more you delete my comments
reality is scary for you ...cant be helped
That book is about home truths
Im searching this book en English.
It is not translated yet. I may do another video on full book.
@@theburningarchive Fais-le! J'ai pu le lire en pdf. En ce moment, je souligne "The Ukraine War and Eurasian World Order". Leginda libro el Glenn Diesen.
I never knew 'Todd' was a French surname...
His background vida wikipedia - Emmanuel Todd is the son of journalist Olivier Todd [fr] and Anne-Marie Nizan. Todd's paternal grandfather, Julius Oblatt, was of Austrian Jewish background, and his paternal grandmother, Helen Todd, was the illegitimate daughter of British magazine editor Dorothy Todd.[1]
@@theburningarchive I see...
Can anyone tell me what kind of cat is that? I have a very similar cat.
I love the cat. thanks for noticing! But I don't know its type
Thank for your video Mr. Todd. Deep analysis.
But I must add that your voice sound like G-Man a character of Half Life franchise
This guy?
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Should I play the game?
10 is a nice round number, but I still find it shocking that mainstream media has completely failed to provide impartial analysis. DW, BBC, CNN, CBS, etc, even channels that would normally appear critical of the official line were and still are sticking to the official narrative.
As a result Western population at large thinks they are fighting a good fight and making the policy change impossible.
12. Nuclear escalation threat is dismissed.
Born yesterday? This has been escalated since WW1 😢
Это хорошо, что у вас на Западе, еще остались люди, трезво смотрящие на мир. Возможно эти мысли, со временем, дойдут и до вашего руководства. Но это не точно.
Спасибо! Каких историков в современной России вы бы порекомендовали?
@@theburningarchiveИстория России весьма обширна, и всех ученых, занимающихся этим вопросом я к сожалению не знаю, но некоторых могу порекомендовать. Алексей Исаев, Евгений Норин, Егор Яковлев. Они занимаются вопросами Второй Мировой Войны. Интересные исторические исследования Андрея Фурсова, Евгения Спицына.
I'm not sure that a "liberal oligarchy" is possible. If it is, it certainly has a short half-life.
I explain the idea more in this video th-cam.com/video/tXZYDtBt9k0/w-d-xo.html
In America, supporting degenerates over viable families is the norm of liberal 😢
Incredible. Todd outlines exactly the things I have been seeing unfold. The last point about about the W self destructs rather than being attacked by RUS might be a translation problem. It is not clear that these are mutually exclusive choices.
IMO the point Todd makes is that the underlying processes are all internal to the western society. The war just exposed the symptoms of a much deeper illness
Нет, Русские буду сражаться до конца так показывает тысячелетняя история. Так что русские не пойдут на самоуничтожение, потому что у России традиционные семейные ценности. Лгбт уничтожит запад
Time and time again critics ignore democratic realities of the West. We will always lag in the start, but the West’s inventive scale and efficiencies of production will always win out in the end. The ‘French school’ of philosophy and critical view of the West’s development and destination have always overhyped the ‘End is Nigh’ mantra. It won’t be geopolitics that end us, but climate over heating and resource depletion wars in 20-40 years hence.
Critics can get caught up in their own rhetoric, true. I think it is important to understand the very particular problems of this time, place and set of political institutions as I argued here johnmenadue.com/the-crooked-timber-of-an-unhappy-dangerous-american-empire/
Resource wars. This is such war because it is nothing less an attempt by the USA to seize the assets of Ukraine at the expense of Russia.
I suggest you stop living in the past.
you may be right, but if you talk to your audience as if they are toddlers your message won't ever reach your target
Why surprises? I found nothing in this war surprising and nothing in politics surprising either. If you want to make predictions in these upside down times, just look at what those governing should not do, and that is what they will do. 🤪🤪Humanity...
insanity...
being nuts...
Same number?
It can seem that way I understand. My experience in governemnt and history is that events are chaotic and often surprising
The war is a stalemate and at some point Russia will crumble. That writer is clueless
OK check back in a couple of months for my video looking back on histories of the Russia-Ukraine-NATO war.
Judging by the amount of surprises he's had, I'm guessing this french "intellectual" follows the mainstream media. By following multiple sources of alternative media, I am able to comprehend reality in almost real time.
I think rather he is deliberately engaging with mainstream expectations to point out to more people what the mainstream media have concealed.
Sorry mate...just a lot of assumptions. Starting with 'decline of the Soviet family, Soviet society'. I am a Social Philosopher and Sociologist..amongst many other subjects of interest. And have lived in Socialist Europe, for 22 years, going back many times to see family.
No such Soviet decline was visible in the homes of Russians and other Eastern Europeans.
Ukrainians had been building defences since the coup d'etat and increased efforts from 2014, when Russia took back Crimea. Billions of Washington's money was invested in Zelensky's military. Furthermore, the initial Russian military movement was to assess not to defeat. That's how most big wars start. And it's a very Russian way of fighting. That's why they win all big wars.
Foucault is one of my favourite French critical thinkers. Derrida is another one.
But I am not sure that I will rush out to buy the book you present to the audience, here.
These are good points. I am sceptical of Todd's arguments predicting Soviet collapse myself - I would be interested in your views on Zubok Collapse th-cam.com/video/E_pM6ohY6hU/w-d-xo.html. Thanks for sharing your expertise
As an East European I beg to differ.
As an East European and having lived there in the 70’s and 80’s I beg to differ.
@@ovidiudraghici9941 Why? Didn't you get free good quality healthcare? Did you live under a bridge as a homeless families live in the US and in other western countries? Didn't you get affordable good quality food? Were your parents unemployed? Didn't you go on free holidays every year.
You really have no idea, how ordinary people in the west lived. I went to school in London from 69 to 73, and the poverty I saw in Britain there was frightening. The violence and crime, we never even imagined in Socialist Europe.
You differ because you didn't understand..never opened your eyes.
Today, I live in one of the wealthiest western countries, Australia. And we see incredible inequality and poverty. One out of seven families are unemployed. Do you know gow they survive? I guess you never had to endure such dirty stuff in Socialist Europe.
Our worries in Socialist Europe back then, were how to have better fun each day. And it was because we had security...not worries that western people have.
So please, wake up to the real world...not some ideological fantasy. You are not giving credit to your own country, which had a far more equitable Socioeconomic system.
@@theburningarchive Thank you for your request. Yes, I had seen this review before, and couldn't go through it all, as immediately the terminology spelled out that this is just ignorance, based on western ideological hate and fear of Communism and Socialism. Even though Communism had never existed, and European Socialism came in different shapes, that the west still has no idea about.
As soon as I heard the term "Collapse of the Soviet Union" , I knew that I will be wasting my time, with something so fake. Because the Soviet Union did not collapse but was rather disbanded by a few members of the Soviet Politburo, namely Gorbachov and Yeltsin. Later, Yeltsin installed Putin, who wasn't well educated in the Social Sciences, and it has taken him many years to realise simple mistakes he announced about the Soviet Union and the Bolsheviks Revolution.
As a young person, I remember having many debates with my father, who had been a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party since 1949. And of course, I was critical of some things that the Socialist governments did. But like most young people back then, later 1950s to early 1980s, we wanted to reform the Socialist governments...but not to abolish Socialism. We wanted new energy, new blood, new Socialist enthusiasm...but the old Central Committee and the Politburo were frightened that we will not know how to build a better Society..it was fear that kept them in power, rather than success. By the late 1970's the things started to change, as the old Communists started to die off, and new fresh faces started to appear...but it was way too late..way too sudden...that quick transition kept snowballing, and people like Gorbachov started to trust the old Cold war warriors in Washington. The west took advantage of the naive Perestroika nonsense, and simply lied to the Soviet leadership...never intending to hold their promises.
So, the disappearance of European Socialism, was engineered by Washington's false promises. Most of us knew that we could not trust Washington...but Gorbachov was taken in completely.
It was sad to watch my old father protesting in the streets, with so many thousands of other ordinary people, against the destruction of our countries.
And today, when we reflect on the Chinese and Vietnamese successes in Socialist systems, and then compare these to the Eastern European downgrading, it feels good, that we were correct, when we opposed Gorbachov's nativity, and going back to Capitalism, which we always knew is a gone by, expired Socioeconomic system of our own past.
We hope that after the Russian Federation cleans up Ukraine, the Russian people will take on Socialism in a better way. And that will be great for Eastern Europe as well, as so many people want to get back with Russia, and our own way of conducting life...in more equitable way.
Many people don't know what Communism and Capitalism systems are, and how Socialism comes inbetween both, as a real world transition from the old to the new... holding elements of both. And that plays out differently in different countries, driven by needs and constructs of each country. Foe example, Romania was a basket case in Socialism, traveling through the country in 79, we actually saw the first beggar in Socialist Europe. Bulgaria was one of the most successful Socialist countries in Europe. We loved so many things about it. And so did many western tourists in the 60s, 70s, 80s. Today Bulgaria is a basket case in the EU.
So much more to share. But Utube isn't the place for it.
Hopefully, this answers at least a little bit of your thoughtful question.
Kind Regards, RZ.
Asta e doar o Continuitate a ceea ce au Inceput Sviatoslav vs.Bulan in anul 760 dupa Hristos
Check out this podcast video on those origins. Thanks
Urmăriți acest videoclip podcast despre aceste origini
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