Neocons' Five Scenarios of Russia's Future: ALL Wrong!
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- In this edition of Issues of Contemporary Politics with Dr. Brovkin I discuss an article by Stephen Kotkin published in Foreign Affairs May-June 2024. His views are typical of the Neocons' vision of Russia, that it is backward, that it needs technologies from the West, typical arrogant presumption of Western superiority and so on. And then I provide a short outline the way i see Russia's future and its role in world affairs.
Dr. Brovkin is a Russian born American historian who came to the US fifty years ago, became a Harvard Professor, served as an editor of a major journal, served as a consultant for various US gov agencies and as a teacher at various Universities and schools. he is now retired and authors seven books on Russian history and politics. His lates book From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of its Identity (London: Routledge, 2023) is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Routledge and other platforms
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Europe calling Russia a vassal is rich. They need to look in the mirror
Projection is the name of the game.
Newsom needs to be President and Hillary Vice President and Pelosi Secretary of State😂.
Russia is a great nations, they are people who dignify their family unit, respect their cultures, they value their purpose in their well being as a nation who are good othordox chrisitians who only worship one true GOD, they are belivers and truly belive the almight GOD, they are blessed nation,
They can calling us how they want, for us Russians it’s doesn’t matter. We understand what under this words European try to hide their weakness. They understand what without stealing resources they is small weak countries.
Europe is the definition of vassal
Thanks again Dr Brovkin. Lovely to hear a positive take on Russian prospects, here in Norway where 95% of adults are gravely infected with Russophobia.
In Sweden myself, it’s depressing
Not to mention Finland, the worst of all. Horrible.
Hollywood has a lot to answer for in this respect with its designation and depiction of the Russian as the standard dastardly villain.
@@sherbetdab1200 They even have Vladimir Harkonnen in the "Dune", a recent movie! Ridiculous.
Очень печально все это читать. Одно могу сказать точно: русские хорошо относятся к норвежцам, финам и шведам. И к другим нациям тоже. Приезжайте в Россию, сами в этом убедитесь. Всем добра и мира ❤️
Dear Prof. Brovkin,
Let me express my deepest respect for your noble work in the field of education.
I believe that 99% of communication problems between individuals or nations arise from ignorance.
well said
Ignorance of other cultures is just stupidity. US still thinks it is the leader of the world.
& Brainwashing Propaganda ! 🇷🇺💲🇨🇳
@@joni8090 To call it "brainwashing propaganda" you have to provide arguments in support of your viewpoint. But you don't have any for two reasons: you are not a historian like Professor Brovkin and none of those arguments exist.
@@robinhood5935
🤣 So you're saying :
That , American Geopolitical Imperialistic Neo Con Ideology is Not enforced by Brainwashing & Propaganda !
Believe me it is , A.Hitler proved that & I don't have to be a Professor to know it ! 🤣
I know , you Misunderstood my Comment , silly boy ! 🤣🤣🤣
The Paris Olympics put the spotlight on French decadence.
very true
"Degeneracy*"
@@vladimirbrovkin4052 This more than just showing what the west has become but a warning what happens with this current mentality of social experimentation gone awry, with the practicum of radical theory testing since the 90s .
Absolutely, that was a disgrace.
How could Western atheists understand Russian Christian Orthodox believers ??? How could blasphemy understand faith ??? Russia's enemies can not understand her the least.
Yes well said
I totally agree
They left their christian Root and embrace atheistic godless society
Orthodox is the greatest to me, although I'm catholic
Most russian christians aren't believers, especially the young.
🪆🕊️🐦🔥🇷🇺 I am glad that you break through the walls of disinformation about Russia. 🇷🇺 in Europe we have been at least a century cut off from Russia and were provided with negative or no information. The Russian Federation is a beautiful and strong country. Europe and the world can benefit from its rich spirit and culture and history, as well as its cheap gas and oil supplies.
Nowadays I watch a lot of private videos from Russian people showing the life of the people all over this huge country...
🐦🔥with greetings from Munich
All the propaganda against Russia is centuries old. That has been impossible to ignore.
Propaganda is a terrible tool, it can make people to believe practically anything as seen in the world today. MSM is our worst enemy. Our world here in the west has become an Orwellian nightmare.
No information??? Since when do YOU have an internet connection???
Europe could have extended to the Pacific. Now Asia will extend to the Baltic. What a tragedy for Europe.
The Collective West led by the Anglo-$axons play the Great Game at enormous cost to themselves because one day Third Rome will pose an existential threat to the Third Temple & Balfour Declaration. 🤔
Balfour Declaration happened because Britain feared Russia the largest country in the world with 11 time zones stretching from Europe to the Pacific Ocean would take over the declining Ottoman Empire
Europe is not even a continent.
Integrating Russia was the last chance for Europe to retain a superpower status but Europeans decided they prefer subordination to the U.S. Their choice.
@@marko1263 I think it is likely result, not sure many had any say and if it was a choice most probably were not aware of that.
Thank you Dr. Brovkin🤗🍀
👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Unbiased realities and opinions.
Love Russian 🇷🇺 from Nigeria 🇳🇬
thanks
Bless Putin and his patience.
Kotkin is a clown and represents how low the West has fallen and how ignorant they are about Russia. Just imagine this person teaching students in an ‘elite’ university like Stanford. I stopped watching his speech within a few minutes when I couldn’t hold his lies anymore.
But Russians still worship the west and anyone who sides with it.
You are the clown, and Brovkin is putins troll
The reason why you stopped the watching. Because you can’t stand and handle THE TRUTH you have been brain washed or worse
@andre8860 i personaly know what russia is, what soviet is. It is you my mate branwashed by this professor, putin troll. Yes, Kotkin have some small impressions when he discuss russia. This guy sells you snake oil.
@@andre8860clowning?
Hi Dr. Brovkin. Greetings from Australia. I enjoy your podcasts about Russia. Russia is a sovereign and independent Nation, it has many friends in this world. It does not need the WEST.
thank you, true
Thank you, Владимир Николаевич! To the core, as always
spasibo vam
Mr Kotkin has supped from the Anglo chalice... supped deep, he is intoxicated by the neoimperialist koolaid. Thank you Dr Brovkin for your expert dissection of the "messaging" of the Anglosphere's myths and sepia tinted "perspectives".
Stephen Kotkin sees the world with one eye closed. Russia is a different country, and rightly so. It is a country for families. It is a country for human beings. It's relieving to see Russia as different to the utter trash prevalent in Western societies. By not listening to Russia in 2021/22, the West has awaken it. Fear the awakening of Russia as a massive economic and military power in years to come!
And non woke and pro morals.😊.
And Russians don’t need a biologist to define a woman.🧍♀️
The isolators have themselves become isolated
One day, by objective history, Vladimir Putin will be acknowledged as not only one of the greatest leaders of Russia - but also rightfully - one of the greatest World State leaders and Statesman.
I agree
Kotkin (formerly Princeton, now Hoover) is to Russia what Snyder (Yale) is to the Ukraine. Both are academics (trending toward pseudo-academics... if they’re not already there yet) serving as blindly biased apologist-propagandists of the Conventional Wisdom of the Uniparty, the D.C. Establishment and the Western MSM. Far from providing any particularly new insights or profound analysis, they and their ilk - e.g. Michael McFaul - engage largely in academo-infotainment for the uninformed in the form of superficial public lectures, TV appearances and the like. Initially I tried to hold my nose, take them seriously, and suffer through their blather. More recently I’ve come to the conclusion that life is simply too short for this and that there is an infinite range of other, more useful things to do with one’s time than to nit-pick through their not infrequently worthless and all-too-often simply nonsensical trash. What is, however, concerning to me is the extent to which their pathetic, borderline-phony “scholarship” calls into question the once solid reputations of the institutions that they and their like-minded colleagues represent. Nowadays I really don’t take much of what is generated by the Ivies, the Ivy-Equivalents or Oxbridge very seriously unless it comes from their STEM departments or related facts-based disciplines. Everything else, in particular what we see from the social sciences, the humanities, and the “-studies” departments seems to at least be in serious danger of having been tainted, polluted, degraded or even comprehensively debased by the perverted Zeitgeist that people like Kotkin and Snyder so exquisitely embody. Sad, but that’s where many of our once-great institutions have ended up these days. And make no mistake: Since the U.S. government tends to recruit a good part of its personnel from these institutions the impact these developments are having is increasingly catastrophic. “καὶ γνώσεσθε τὴν ἀλήθειαν, καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια ἐλευθερώσει ὑμᾶς...” used to be the guiding principle of one of America's key centers of national power. Not so much anymore. Because it’s simply not compatible with the Geist of people like Kotkin, Snyder and McFaul.
I fully agree. As you said, Russia In many ways is multipolar in itsself which it has turned into a real advantage, completely different than Europe+US, which geo-politically got stuck in a world of the past. If Europe would come back to its senses it would try to use everything Russia has to offer, from cheap resources, high tech engineering products, top of the line research, reliable cheap transit routes to Asia, a.s.o.
I fully agree
Indeed. .. isolation has backfired just like sanctions 😂
The next country who never understands that's not part of the West, is Poland
Ukraine before that, when US Empire abandons it when useless to demolish Russia.
#Betrayed
That is not true. (90 percent of Polish history is fighing the Germans, "Drang nach Osten" other Germanic invadors, The Teutonic Knights of Prussia, the Swedes, ...the Hitlerites. Poland may seem to play it both ways because germanized Russia under Romanovs wanted to end Poland and succesfully erased the Country throug partitions with Germany. Later the Soviets wanted to end Poland and collborated with Nazi Germany in 1939, together partitioned Poland again. Generally speaking Russians do not appreciate Polands frontier status and history of struggle with Germandom, Russians themselves collaborate with Germans, to the detriment of Poland. Stalin not only collaborated with Hitler on dismembering Poland (Ribentrop-Molotow agreements) but also had 20,000 Polish POW's needlessly executed in Katyn. So the Poles through history in order to survive learned to play it both ways. Now that the Anglo-Germanics and their Jews of the Neocon persuasion entered the scene Poland behaves accordingly.
Polish people are slavs that were convinced that they are Europeans equal to the actual Europeans😂😂😂
@@Treasure_hunter_21 And a poorly educated Colonist from America like yourself would know what a European is? To most Americans only Germanic Nordics, the English, Swedes, Norwegian, Germans, Austrians, Nordic French and Nordic Italians are true Europeans. In reality Germanics ALL these Scandinavian races are bastardized, inbred with Neadertals (there have been DNA studies) who invaded the European Continent and cause mayhem there until this day. Because of them Europe it is the bloodiest Continent. The history of Europe is a history of Germanic invasion and non-germanic peoples trying to rid themselves of the invaders.
What a great find on TH-cam for me, Mr. Brovkin. Thank you for your inputs on very important geopolitical topics. Subscribed and oh gosh, so many uploads to catch up with.
thank you and check out my history playlists such as Russia under the Communist regime and Russian history and Russia under Yeltsin and Putin. Welcome!!!
Tjank you Dr. Brovkin 👍😊
Brilliant conclusion Dr Brovkin.
Can you dialogue with Judge Andrew Napolitano and Colonel Douglas MacGregor?😅
I would love to but I cannot invite myself. I listen to them almost every day
@@vladimirbrovkin4052 - I hope the invitation comes soon
@@richardenders6606
Same here ✌️
I have listened to Kotkin on several occasions. It wasn’t easy. Either Kotkin is utterly clueless, which I doubt is the case. If so, however, then his credentials need to be revoked. In reality, unfortunately for Mr Kotkin, he has no choice but to perpetuate his personal variety of the nonsensical neocon narrative. What a terrible position to be in.
I wholeheartedly wish Russia all the best, and even greater economic success!
And no more interventions and wars!
But, I have a bad feeling 😔
Greetings from Croatia
As always interesting analysis. Neocons live in a different world, I am afraid!
@SigiSarn they may , yet they have always got their way …. in Russo-Ukraine war with $5 billion of investment they have destroyed a SLAVIC Nation.
@@kibakobo
Eastern Slavs: Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians.
Western Slavs: Poles, Czechs, Silesians, Slovincians, Slovaks, Kashubians, Moravians, Lusatians.
Southern Slavs: Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Macedonians.
What Slavs are you talking about?
@@evgen-cy6so I believe he is saying … they destroyed Ukraine (a Slavic nation).
just remember - unlike the west, russia never betray its friends!
Baltics? Ukraine? lol grow up
@@Johnwick52923 What are you talking about? How did Russia "betray' them? They just declared Russia as it's enemy.
Baltics and Ukraine betrayed Russia
Ignorance is a bliss lol @@Johnwick52923
Calling Baltics a friend of Russia is next level delusional 😂
Funny - But true - should be name of this video!.😊
Excellent commentary Dr. Brovkin!!👍
Excellent
Hi Dr. Thank you
Vladimir, I completely agree with your assessment 👏 👍 👌!!! It is 💯% spot on!!! Preach it brother 🙌 👏 🙏 😊!!!!
Much appreciated
The Russian Empire have Oreshnik but needs euro tech lmao. These people are deluded with nothing to back it up
I heard the west want to steal the technology of oreshnik
Thank you Doctor for the invaluable illumination
Thank you for the channel, the videos, all your hard work aimed at bringing the truth to light. God bless you and your family!
Same to you!
Thank you for your channel, dear Prof. Brovkin! I find you very fascinating. 🌹🌹🌹
Kotkin is liar for money and for sure a member of American sadistic oligarchy . God help his students
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Bravo Mr Brovkin.We Africans really want Russia and Chinato strengthen the emerging multipolarity.We are fed of US hegemony.
Absurd 😮💨 Given the choice to immigrate to the 🇺🇸👏 10 out of 10(!) Africans would JUMP
@@christopherfritz3840shut it neanderthal
Great stuff. Greetings
Dr. Brovkin, this is brilliant!!! We need more people like you. Do you have a Russian version of this? I'm a Russian speaking Japanese living in Tokyo, and I have friends like me (Russian speaking Japanese) who would love to hear what you're saying in this video.
Great analysis! Dr !❤ you are always great ❤
Thank you kindly!
Thank you! Kotkin still lives in the shadow of Stalin and cannot let go of his old cold war mentality, and his take about China was completely devoid of reality. I speak as a Chinese native.
very interesting obsevation
Thank you for the analysis sir
I learn SO MUCH from you, Dr Brovkin.
Another wonderful commentary!
Blessings from Australia....❤
P.S. We, too, suffer from Russiaphobia!
Very sad, as Australia should be leaning towards BRICS and away from Washington, but we have buffoons as Politicians!
This will change when Australians realize that they will gain more by joining the neighborhood they live in rather than the bankrupt Britain
PSA: "Foreign Affairs" is the journal of Council of Foreign Relations- just as "The Atlantic" is Atlantic Council's and NATO's publication, though FA is upfront about it.
good point
Excellent report. Thanks Vladimir.
Thank you too!
Marvelously clear and true ! SUPER ! 🙏🏼💖🙏🏼💖🙏🏼💖🙏🏼
So glad!
Thank you Vladimir
The American people, trusting American system, abdicated their responsibilities. It is depressing. However perhaps they will figure it out and get their power back.
Great report Dr Brovkin.
thank you
I recall taking a summer course w prof Kotkin in 2007, for which I received a b+ on the final paper. My paper argued, based on my time in China, that it would be a rival great power by 2020, and would need a new accommodating attitude from the US. The only specific criticism in red was that China would remain a regional power till at least 2030. Hindsight is 20/20, but I’d say based on geopolitical weight thrown around nowadays, I was more right than wrong. This was before I’d spent time in Russia, after which my views became much more developed. Even ‘lubricated’, my conversations in Russia (in Russian with Russians) were most helpful.
You were right then and right now
Владимир, вы такой приятный человек. С иронией смотрите на творящееся безумие и ставите негодяев на место. Всегда приятно вас послушать.
spasibo
As a hellene myself im one of the few who understand your cultural critisism love from ελλας
When I entered an Orthodox church in Athens, I was surprised to see and feel as if I was in Russia
Excellent program 👏 👍
thank you very much
Lastly, the company which I work here in Moscow raised its profit 5 times in the last two years. You analyse is very accurate and realisitic, profesor.
If you are in Russia and if you read Russian, I have one of my books published in Russia. It is available at Litres,ru; Ozon.ru; Wildberries.ru The title is: Velikaya Oktiabrskaya Katastrofa.
@@vladimirbrovkin4052 Thank you for the recomandation, sir. Gradually I'm learning to read the beautiful Russian language, and I will be well pleased to read all of your books soon. God blessings
Thanks for the video 🙏
Great comments on France and EU
thank you
@@vladimirbrovkin4052 the people in Greece stand with Russia in spite of the government supporting EUcraine, hi
Thank you 🙏
most welcome
Tel them about tupolev sold to France as Concord !!!
Excellent.
thank you
Totally facts Dr..❤🫡
thank you
You are right, Professor Brovkin. For many years Russia and Russian leaders wanted to be part of Europe/West, but not anymore. Russia is now truly sovereign and part of the bigger world. The EU countries have isolated themselves.
well said. thank you
Спасибо
spasibo vam
Russia is Eastern dynasty but in Europe, even Lenin acknowledged that. That’s why they work well with China, Vietnam or else, but not Europe. Europe after Roman Empire did not know any dynasty
Don't forget that the Romanov dynasty was thoroughly Germanized. Last Tzar Nicholas II was close cousin of King George V of England, they looked like twins. Search goolge please and see for yourself. Romanovs Russia was so aggressive towards neighbors because it was collaborating with Germany. See history of Poland, partitions of Poland by Russia together with Germany. Katherine the Great under her rule Poland was dismembered was Germanic. Later the Soviets also loved collaborating with Nazi Germany. In 1939 collaborated on the attack on Poland. Agreed on partitioning Poland according to Molotov-Ribentrop secret agreements. The Romanovs hated the Chinese, considered Oriental people in general to be inferior. Standard Germanic propaganda. Today, Putin is first to seek collaboration with Germany. He even speaks fluent German and was close friends with Former Chancellor Shroeder. Russians, Russias elites, have an obsession with Germany and Germans.
@ actually, Slavic and Germanic was part of a system of dynasty originated from Central Asia, which in turn learn from Chinese and Persia. The xenophobic and racism in 19th century was the product of bourgeois imperialism that discriminate non-European nations.
@@inhcaominhpham9512 Yes Slavic people have a large admixture of Oriental. Many combinations of letters in Slavic languages are of sounds of Oriental origin "SZ' CZ, Z', Z' TRZ, CZY, S"I....many others. Ukrainians are racially the most Oriental nation in Europe, ...many are descendants of the Mongol army that stationed there for many years and later re-treated back to Mongolia. If you look at the Cephalic Index maps Ukrainians have the most round Oriental type heads in Europe, ...many to this day even look a little bit Asian. Russians on the other hand are mixed with the Nordic people from Scandinavia and have long heads, much narrower faces, many are even Redheads. Ukrainians are the most Asian nation in Europe. Orphaned children of Ghengis Chans army. Not surprising that as orphans of great warriors they fight like crazy, ...but also as orphans did not develop their own state or have a vibrant elite! To this day nobody really likes them in Europe. Neither the West nor the Russians. Not even Hitler liked them with whom the Banderites collaborated. Sometimes I think the purpose of this War is really to exterminate them! The West does not give them enough weapons to win, while Russians do not advance teritorially and end the war. The killing takes place on a fixed frontline and every day a 1000 or so Ukrainians are either killed or maimed, severly wounded.
I don't understand
@@usereddie215I don't understand but is it true the Romanov had close ties with European king's
Then why the west sent Nazi Germany against the Slavic people and why the west created communism to destroy Russia
Can I read the book in the original russian?
No. I wrote all my books except one in English. However I published one book in Russian and in Russia. It is available only in Russia. If you are there or can get it from there, here it is: Velikaya Oktiabrskaya Katastrofa available from Litres. ru; Ozon.ru; Wildberries.ru. Where are you? If you are outside Russia, I can help you get it. Write to me a email.
ist das buch "from vladimir lenin to 👀vladimir putin" auch auf deutsch erhältlich? und wenn ja, wo? 👀❔🥋🥊🔥🚚🥂🐬👣🗣👁🙏👍💋😇 danke
Dr. Brovkin, do you have anything to share about the notion that Trump wants to move away from a global model to regional competition?
yes, check a couple of my recent videos on Trump
@@vladimirbrovkin4052 I have seen those videos, they are wonderful.
Thank you for your work.
Thanks for listening
Dr Brovkin you are correct, Europe has failed its citizens in many ways ,
For EU being such a christian part of the world it was indeed a shock when the Pope agreed to same sex marriages turned my stomach.
Then the disgraceful display of France which showed their complete disrespect to the church .
Under the EU europe needs to change their direction or will be abandoned by the rest of the civilations
With the worst ever in history governments in US UK & Europe along with Canada seem to be driving for self distruction.
Our european futures are now depending on countries with great leadership like Russia .
@roger55es while I agree with many good points in your reply - I don't believe that the Catholic Pope has agreed to homosexual "marriage". This can be easily verified by a quick google search - he may have approved a "blessing" for couples who are homosexual (since all persons can receive a "blessing" whatever their moral state) but a "blessing" is NOT the same thing as a MARRIAGE.
Now I can see how this may be confusing for someone unfamiliar with the technical terms "blessing" and "marriage" used in Catholic Theology. Basically the idea is that - yes homosexuality is a sin and homosexuals cannot be "married" - however as human beings the fact that two people are involved in homosexuality does not mean that they are irredeemable and cutoff from the grace of God. By blessing those involved in serious sin (whatever species of sin this may entail) the Catholic Church does not deny sin but seeks to call down the supernatural grace of God to help the persons involved in serious sin - repent and be saved. In fact this is what God does all the time - otherwise NO ONE would ever by converted and translated from a "life of sin and death" into the "Kingdom of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ."
So for example we have St Paul teaching in Romans 5:8 that "... God demonstrates his love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
Indeed the official teaching of the Catholic church is found in its Catechism which is on the Vatican website and teaches the following:
"2357 ... Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved."
Distinctions - are important - especially in theology.
Hope this helps clarify this issue - God bless and keep you - JJJ
Thank You Dr. As always a very good video and well argued. It would not surprise me to see this particular article being used to form a circular argument for political purposes and to justify further actions and escalation against Russia by the west….!
The more Russia's enemies are ignorant of it and fall into fallacies the better for Russia, as the failed sanctions and isolation showed.
thank you
thank you, professor.
THank you Dr. Provkin for this superb analysisi of the Russia.
Glad you liked it!
Great analysis
thanks
What do you think professor about a global north aliance and a rail tunel under bering strait?
do you mean Russia and US and Canada and Norway? Tunnel is a great idea
@vladimirbrovkin4052 there are certain maps and ideas that separates the world in two, global north and global south.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South
While south struggles with lots of thirld world and only few second world countries. Global North - Europe, Russia America/Canada and few others. Are almost 100% first worlders. This means can became an united common space due to level of civilization uniformity. An old project idea. A tunnel under the water between Siberia and Alaska can unite them as a land too.
Certain political maps cut the world in two. Global north - Russia Europe and US/Canada. While Global South struggles with many thirld world and secon countries. Global north are almost entirely first world space. Due to level of civilisation uniformity. This can be seen as a good space for a new federation over the existing political structures mentioned above. A tunnel under the sea between the Siberia and Alaska can unite them by land transport too.
Bonjour professeur Brovkin . Thank you so much for your analysis. You are wright. We , French people, are very shame to be French … ❤ Happy new year
merci. I recently read a book describing the visit of Nich0las II to France in 1902 if I am not mistaken. I could not believe how much the French praised Russia then, their culture and values all in common. That is what they said then a glorious alliance. And now it is painful to see how the French President is sending weapons to fight Russia.
Great work - only the best health to you! BTW, people who compare Russia to France or the rest of Europe, like the dubious Mr. Kotkin (in my opinion a CIA agent) have lost their minds completely and irreversibly.
thank you
Congratulacions. Good vídeo.
thank you
Excellent video! Thank you 🙏🏾
Glad it was helpful!
You are 💯% right, Dr. Brovkin❣️
MAY GOD ALWAYS BLESS AND PROTECT THIS EXTRAORDINARY, LOVABLE MAN VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH PUTIN ❤️, ALL PEOPLE LIVING IN RUSSIA 🤝 AND BEAUTIFUL MOTHER RUSSIA AS WELL❣️
thank you
Russia will never be like France? Well, thanks for the compliment, I guess. 😄
not the way France is today
@vladimirbrovkin4052 👍🏻
Very well said and accurate, благодарю Владимир !!
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Russia will prevail, EU and NATO dont.
Go Russia 💪🇵🇹🤝🇷🇺
thank you
Thank you, prof. Russia is Heartland, the Pivot of History and the Dawn of Multipolar World Order.
well said
also what do you think the peace deal in ukraine will look like the maps ect and will russia and usa at least try to be buddies or work together
The answer to this question is in the skill of diplomacy. After all that happened, sanctions, missiles, I do not think the Russians are in the mood to be buddies, but for starters, a normal working relationship is possible and it would be a big step forward.
really good video much respect
thank you
Imagine a waisted life on antiRussian propaganda.
That is Kotkins life work
You see people like Kotkin like to be given Fellowships, grants, invitations, publications conferences. To get all that they have to say what is expected of them, i.e. denigrate Russia. It started in 2014
Thank you Dr. B , great topic.
If people read Marx , all three volumes, they would understand western economics was doomed to failure eventually. With US as the idyllic icon and leadership could only accelerate it's demise as an empire.
What you recognize about the US there's no depth in this mostly manufactured culture by a corporate built country. The wealthy corporations and individuals who invested in the US industrial revolution made great profits and paid the lion share taxes to the period up until the end of WW-2.
With them paying those taxes infrastructure and a large middle consumer class was established. Housing, rents, energy, food was in great abundance and the middle class grew. But by the 60 s the tax burden was shifting, income tax Federal and State began to grow, gasoline tax, communications tax, local county purchase taxes, sometimes call the hidden taxes while the same time corporate & certain individual tax loopholes began to develop shift the burden of the US Treasury income onto the middle and lower classes... the era of trickle down economics was into full swing by the 1980s.
It's by no accident that the US national debt has reached $30 trillions, it's so only the bare minimum trickles down for the public, it's social fabric and infrastructure, while the financial, real estate landlord and insurance classes have boom along with the technology sector to join the other institutions of finance, real estate and insurance sectors to extract rents and price increases from the public, the government works together with these sectors to maximize profits for the wealth classes openly to steal from its own public and worldwide.
The rehtoric to down grade Russia is especially sickening for two reasons, it's false and it's highly directed at the general public to mislead and misdirect , it should be called treason to knowingly give the public false fact to support a narrative as what was created in Ukraine.
These statements made in article are for plunder, profit and war, made to prepare the minds of the western public for the " With us or against us" ideology of western warfare. Supremacist use every trick in the book to infect the general population with illusion of grandeur and programming necessary to take others resources for their own.
While the Ukraine war didn't require the general public to give it's soldier loved ones it stole $100s of billions from the public at time where a great portion of the US population is struggling to stay afloat as costs keep rising which can be seen in all US major cities
Thank you for your though provoking comment. Very acute observations on the trajectory of US elites and priorities.
Russia has energy plenty of wheat production now powerful military orshenic missiles with nuclear power and on an on…….
I am a Christian (protestant) who moved from EU to Russia because here traditional values of christianity are well preserved. I meet many Westerners which did the same and all of us are very happy here.
very interesting, congratulations
I agree with the analysis, although Russia is now rebuilding its civilian airplane industry because it pretty much died and military jets are on par or almost on par... Russia was buying a lot of western tech as it was easier than do it in house so it will take some time to produce machinery, components etc in Russia.
You are right and in this sense sanctions were a blessing in disguise as they forced the Russians to do things themselves
Thank you Dr. Brovkin I appreciate the amazing work you do God bless Mother Russia.
thank you
Whenever the US „offers“ any relations you want to remember Kissingers words about that. Look at Scott Ritters evaluation. Much more realistic.
I follow Scott Ritter all the time
Я обожаю свой народ. Находясь 2000 лет на грани уничтожения, мы умудряется защищать Россию
тогда, когда сами русские её предают. Ну что же, и я желаю России возрадиться из пепла, как птица Феникс.
That is a symbol on the front cover of my book featured in this video
Да, предали имеются среди русских, но большинство не такие. А среди предателей далеко не все русские.
Русский это не только и не столько гены, сколько принадлежность к культуре. Те, кто предают Родину - не русские. Это ВЫРУСЬ.
Can you please make a video based on what trump said on the 22nd of January.
Putin must make a deal or more sanction.
I think is a good subject to discuss.
Thank you
Dear Professor Brovkin,
Why did Russia fail (relatively) to emerge as a Capitalist power but the Eastern European and Baltic countries did? And why did the Kadet party never get more than 2% votes in Elections? Sincere questions, you don’t get to ask a Harvard Professor that every day 😅
Russia has become a capitalist economy. And its GDP counted by parity stands at the fourth in the world. As to 2% in elections, that is somewhat misleading. In the cities the Kadets won 25 % in elections to the Constituent Assembly in November 1917. That is more (in the cities) than any other party. The SRs won because the peasants voted for them and they the peasants were the absolute majority of the population. The Bolsheviks got 15% only thanks to the votes in the army, tired of the war.
I discuss all that in my book: The Mensheviks after October in great detail.
@ ok, thank you sir!
I would not underestimate the influence of EU transfer funds. Eastern European countries like Poland are not true powerhouses but receive billions upon billions of Euro in subsidies to make them look strong and possibly prepare for war with Russia. Poland has been receiving 8-15 billions of Euro per year for nearly two decades! There is also an enormous pool of private speculative money that follows EU transfer funds. Russia never received such help. Eastern Europe is a bubble in essence. When you look at sums of money transferred from EU to the East, countries that border Russia received the largest per capita allocation. This is not a coincidence. Fostering and subsidizing enormous prosperity on Russia's borders is supposed to highlight western superiority and stimulate political change, color revolutions and ultimately territorial revisions.
@ interesting, will read about it further
Now some serious critical points. Fifth scenario is probable Vladivostok to Lisbon. But then we have Turks and Caucus. It won’t be an exclusive to Russia but a COHESIVE EURASIAN LANDMASS.
2. Bridge is Turkey and Iran. Between east and west.
3. ……already have trains running to Tehran via CIS states. Tehran. Ashkhabad. Tashkent. Bishkek. Almaty. Yining. Urumqi. 😮.
Merci.
merci a vous
Yes, as a very non-neoconservative European, I didn’t believe otherwise.
However, my peaceful perspective is a lonely path, in the shadows of a western hegemony that frightens me - blaming «others» for our own choices the last 40 years… 🙄
I still believe that the West Europeans are clever enough to understand that a change of course is imminent and necessary