Who do you think could replace Vladimir Putin? Will it be one of the minigarchs, the oligarchs, or someone else entirely? Let us know what you think in the comments! To learn more about the politics of modern Russia, see iai.tv/video/bill-browder-on-surviving-putin?TH-cam&+comment&
It's difficult to see how Russia, so vast, so centralized, so divided into the few excessively rich and so many disenfranchised poor, with so little production, and so much extraction and exploitation, and such a long history of autocracy and kleptocracy, can survive in a modern world. Which is, I suppose, why they are so determined to recreate the past. Other countries have a future, but Russia has only a past.
I might think that, where Putin's generation of former KGB agents may dream of restoring a version of the Soviet Union, the post Soviet generation might view that period as a failure. Not that they don't crave power, but the old SU may not be their model to emulate.
12 minutes to answer the first question. You can always count on Mark Galeotti for a double helping of intellectual green vegetables. (Thank you Vlad Vexler.) Time to take a nap and digest all this goodness...
Thank you very much for doing this video. It adds a lot of clarity and bigger picture explanation of Russia. That Putin is lazy is a fantastic insight.
Respectfully disagree that putin isn’t concerned what is after him and that is why all his “moves to the east” are the game he plays with the west; putin will drop this idea as soon as he gets what he wants from the west ( which is very likely based on how the west downgrades and reacts correspondingly to his threats )
Agreed. Russia's gravitating to China is not a naturally desired development but rather a response to West's rejection of Russia's stretched out hand of cooperation for two decades after the Soviet collapse. Historically China just happened to be the obvious ally under the circumstances. The biggest issue was that Russia wanted to cooperate on open and equal terms whereas the US only wanted to add a yet another member to its list of subservient democracies. This differing perspective on the role of Russia in the proposed international discourse could have been left alone at the "agree to disagree" level. Instead, US initiated various challenges to Russia's fading geopolitical pride, thereby igniting it back to relevance amongst the Russian public. Back in the 90s, everyone in Russia loved America. One had to have a special kind of talent to squander that and force Russia to embrace China.
@@BuckeyeRutabaga and you believe that Russia’s wars against Moldova (1992), the war against its own territories like Chechnya from (1994 and 1999), against Georgia (2008), Ukraine (2014 and ongoing), Syria (2015) were because there was not enough “love” towards Russia? Killing “wanted” people in London and elsewhere were because of the USA and the collective West? Just note, that it all had been happening while Russia was a member of the selected group of countries called G8 (G7 plus Russia). What the heck did Russia want then?:)) the third Rome official status :))?
@@ИринаРасторгуева-ф1в История никогда не ошибается. В России есть история поклонения тиранам, прежде чем они их ненавидят - или до того как они их убивают.
@joiedevie3901 вы ошибаетесь, это я вам как историк говорю и специалист по средневековой Европе). Просто современные европейцы плохо знают свою историю и своих тиранов. К тому же страдают манией величия. Почему то считают, что имеют право учить других как жить. Считают, что опыт микроскопических стран ЕС можно тиражировать на огромные и густонаселенные страны с совершенно другой историей, традициями и менталитетом. И Россия лишь одна из них. Эпоха европоцентризма закончилась в прошлом веке, только вы этого не заметили. Думаю у США получится вам это объяснить. Ничего личного, просто исторический процесс не стоит на месте.
@@ИринаРасторгуева-ф1в Позвольте мне сказать вам, что мы не в средневековой Европе, и тот факт, что вы ссылаетесь на этот период, показывает ваше нежелание признать, что вы ошибаетесь. Достаточно взглянуть на последние два столетия политической нестабильности в России, начиная с восстания в декабре 1825 года и заканчивая нынешними условиями, чтобы увидеть тенденции современной российской политики. Вы правы, что Европа была высокомерной. Это не новость. В этом отношении Россия также очень европейская как имперское государство. Если вы историк, которого называете, то грустно, что вы ведёте карьеру, в которой понимаете так мало.
@joiedevie3901 вот видите, вы меня обесцениваете как специалиста только по тому, что моё мнение не соответствует вашему). Высокомерие у вас в крови). У меня диплом был про средневековой Франции, но это не значит, что я не изучала весь курс всеобщей истории). Историки рассматривают все процессы в динамике. Только дилетанты могут утверждать, что не нужно смотреть далеко в прошлое, что бы понять проблемы современности. Обыватели вообще живут только текущим днём , поэтому их так легко обмануть. Именно они целевая аудитория пропаганды. Я прекрасно знаю историю всех европейских империй, структуру и методы существования. Именно по этому предупреждаю, что распространять на Россию те же критерии, пытаться впихнуть её в рамки своих про европейских ожиданий это ошибка. Россия евроазиатская страна, она шире ваших шаблонов. Ментальность другая, хотя и схожа, но ни в коем случае не тождественна и принципы существования Российской империи были внешне схожи, но по сути другие. Европейские специалисты видят в РФ проекции своих проблем, забывая, что там суть другая. После всех своих многочисленных социальных трансформаций современная Россия превратилась в совершенно другое социальное общество, которое европейцы не могут воспринять адекватно из за устаревшей запрограммированности. Но не могут себе признаться в этом. Своеобразная психологическая историческая слепота. Не зря в России есть поговорка "что русскому благо,то немцу смерть". Немец в донном контексте собирательный образ иностранца. Поэтому все европейские интервенции приводили к непредсказуемым результатат. Текущая ситуация тому подтверждение. Попытка объединения против России, приводит к развалу нынешней международной системы. Давно пора, устарела ещё в прошлом веке. США всегда были хорошим триггером распада..
@MuhabaOtaki russia is not though. They are on steroids because of spending on military. But that will produce no long term gains. So when they stop, everything will collapse. All the while, estimates are that the inflation is around 20%.
@@qp9vp😂 Прошу вас, продолжайте так де думать и дальше. Пока нас недооценивают, мы побеждаем. Вы и сами это видите. А если ещё нет, подождем следующий год...
I think there will be a power struggle after Putin, in fact this might actually end the war, I think Russia after this war is over, will go back to the 90s but this time on steroids, where the oligarchs ruled a weak Russian gov but this time , with a weak Russian army and the oligarchs have a much increased military power in the form of their PMCs , also with a weak Russian gov and military , Russian provinces and republics will have a bit more autonomy even forming their own militias and doing their own policies. The new Russian federation post putin post war will look more like a Russian confederation, where Russian provinces and republics pay lip service to be part of the Russian federation but actually de facto their own semi independent nations. while still recognizing Moscow as the capital of Russian politics and economy , but the real rulers are the Russian oligarchs and their PMCs. and Russia becomes a great game between USA and China. a great game of influence.
Correct me if I’m wrong: all this talk about and fear of Russian wealth and power and it’s all mostly being fuelled by European nations buying their energy resources no…?
Hopefully not. She lost her prestige among the Russian opposition after her notorious speech on decolonization of Russia. It turns out, she doesn't understand that Russia is still an empire and that it will disintegrate sooner or later. In fact, she is against the disintegration of Russia into several independent states. The majority view within the opposition is that Russia needs to split up into several (or many) independent states.
Add a disclaimer: Mark Galeotti is fully or partially funded by government agencies. The music you get is what they pay for. That brings an important question. What's after Mark?
You have economists like Jeffrey sacks who confirmed that the United States refused to give financial help to the weak government that survived the dissolution of the soviet union,and also, how can you say that the Russians didn't understand capitalism when western advisers were literally all over Yeltsin,you are trying to relief yourselves from the fact that what was happening in Russia during that time was the West design,and if it had continued no one in the West would have paid attention to it as long as your interest is met,how about buying votes in Russia in 1994/1995 election in a bid to re-elect Yeltsin,the West is as corrupt as any other people the difference is the language used to express it.
@@jamesmiller2735 you start by saying that the West wouldn’t finance the post Soviet rebuild, and then state that the West was the architect of post Soviet Russia. Which is it? There can be no doubt that the West failed in its duty of care, but I would also argue that Russian culture continues to be imperialistic even when Western powers have evolved beyond that and in the case of the US they are in active retreat. The Russian psyche is extremely flawed and that’s what makes it a basket case more than anything else
@willwilliams9582 Yes, they encouraged Yeltsin to privatize state assets, including the oil and gas terminals,which they through the use of Russian faces bought back for peanut,instead of genuinely supporting the Russian state so that they could start building real institutions and economy,now they are acting as though everything that happened in Russia after the dissolution of the soviet union came out of thin air,when in reality they wanted to turn Russia into Nigeria.
@@larssoderstrom1666 I agree, and reading Anna Politovskaya's 'Putin's Russia' is also an eye-opener, though more about Putin than Russia as a country.
@@larssoderstrom1666 Navalny may have been exceptionally courageous, and I love the fact that he stood up to Putin, but he also has odious positions on many areas. So I won’t be reading his book anytime soon. If you had quoted Nemtsov to me, that would have been a different story.
@@ТимурЗуев-е4г it's an interesting point of view. Many eastern Russians favour decentralisation. Believing that it will result in a more even distribution of wealth.
@@seanniemeyer5437 Believe me, we are not even talking about the distribution of wealth, but about the fascistization of the regime and the impossibility of development for regions and peoples.
I enjoy and appreciate much of your content - particularly the science discussions with brilliant scientists such as Denis Noble. I do NOT appreciate this banal russophobic propaganda. Mark Galeotti is a spooky commentator - probably state funded - whose geopolitical analysis has consistently been shallow, implausible and wrong as long as I've been noticing..He reminds me of an overgrown public schoolboy who never stopped playing with toy tanks. Is there nothing in Britain any longer that isn't polluted by the brain-dead anglo-neocon agenda?
I suggest you listen to (or watch videos or read books by) Russians. Another person worth listening to is Jade McGlynn (Silicon Curtain's recent interview) but that regards the war in Ukraine rather than Russia. Almost no one in the Western Hemisphere has the foggiest idea of what Russia represents, its history and its mentality. If you do actually take the time to deepen your knowledge of Russia, its history, its mentality and its aims, you will find that the "brain-dead anglo-neocons" are far too lenient when judging Putin and his 'agenda'. If one wants to uphold the belief that human rights, relative individual freedom and democracy are preferable (not perfect but preferable) to tyranny, then one should do whatever one can to help those people who struggle against tyranny. Unfortunately America, as leader of the West, has betrayed Ukraine, dragging other countries into betrayal.
Maybe if Russia decided to join us in this 21st century there'd be less Russophobia. Or better yet, stop trying to influence our elections. It's not like your average Russian has any political sway.
Certain words are very good markers. Like "russophobic" is a clear marker of a russian sympathizer or bot along with "anglo-saxon". Those words were basically invented by russian state propaganda. And there wasn't a single counterargument to Mark's claims, but labels and emotional appeals.
is Russia the only country where they struggle for power? is there no struggle for power in UK? or is the batten just past to someone else "here I messed up you have a go?" or US at the moment are Trump or Harris not struggling for power? or anywhere else the same
Over the last few years, looking at the effective power in Russia, despite even the wild sanctions, how over the years completely different areas of the country have become better, more comfortable, and looking at Europe, the United States, where in some countries real regression, even without any sanctions and existential wars, began to really suspect that not everything is clear in the optimal form of government. Long ago, philosophers spoke of the “enlightened despot” as the best form of government, but what will happen if Putin is replaced by an unenlightened, ineffective despot? How difficult it would be to change him with the power that Mr. Putin has concentrated in presidential hands. On the other hand, in the US, the country is paralyzed every few years by a terrible political struggle, where many assessments of the situation in the country, and decisions are the result of partisan partisanship, rather than honestly optimal decisions for the people, with terrible politicization, and brainwashing of the people by the MSM and media servants from both parties, and from the “intelligence community” to make democracy “function properly”. In the EU, England, Germany, where people have hated for over a decade where the country is going, how it is getting worse, new, independent political forces can't break into the arena, they vote for one faceless politician after another, parties replace others, but nothing changes, including the negative trends that people vote against. And the media is just as controlled by the elites and the “intelligence community” despises the simple stupid plebs, and their incorrect complaints about migration policy, for example. There is no ideal, different countries have their pros and cons, but in Russia, it seems to me, the situation is more honest, the "intelligence community" controls the population and the state, without hiding much, and in the West it is necessary to hide and form the "correct" opinion of the population with the strongest control of any narrative in MSM and now, after 2016, Trump, Brexit. and on social media.
It would be funny if another Gorbachev or Yeltsin is elected after Putin. The amount of political turmoil and chaos would probably cause a serious revolution. The system they have gets criticized by the west but even US citizens think it's better since they don't have to deal with the bullshit unnecessary exploitation privatization offers. Industries that should be nationalized are and industries that benefit from privatization are left alone in Russia - seems pretty reasonable to me. It's funny that the U.S. thinks privatization is the golden goose when it's poisoned our food supply, our air/water, and throws people out onto the street because they can't afford healthcare. Amazing system of perfect governance we have, LOL. Russia isn't perfect but they have a better balance of responsibility and authority than the U.S. has. Western oligarchs and big business have a ridiculous amount of unchecked power even against it's own government.
you guys are still projecting your own power structure on the russians, this analisis altough having some observations of some elements into russian power index, your conclusions about it's evolution , at least your public comunication about its evolution and its fundamental structure is baseless and wish full thinking at best. it seems that to most intelectuals in the west , the narative is hoping for the most favourable scenario, whilst absoluetly disregarding the worst case scenarious and preparing contingencies for each. you're just pitching to the russians to try to get rid of putin so you can both steal the resources and acces the market together with oligarchs in peace , i mean your level of intelect is frankly abismally low if you think those people are that stupid , and not because their patriotic or anything like that, really, you guys haven't really thought this through haven't you. please be like us, please please, and as always , before reaching the state of you, who is going to clean up the mess, what insurances are there for the different structers , you think ending up in london in a golden cage compared to beeing a god in russia and on the planet is a better deal? thats at best a retirement plan. as always, lazy
I somewhat agree with you. Your arguments aren't that great though. If you are unaware I'd point out that historians are particularly unreliable in modern geopolitical analysis. This is because that field of knowledge - especially in the U.S. and Western countries - rely on what's called intellectual deceit. It's pretty common and obvious from videos like this and arguments from other historians that comment on modern geopolitics. Historical narratives often simplifies geopolitics into linear cause-and-effect stories and leave out important scientific, cultural and sociological analysis. Geopolitics are driven by non-linear, interconnected systems which require more multi-disciplinary fields to analyze so I'd take the word of actual scientists more seriously over any historian.
@@andrice42 thank you, it was more of rant on my part than a provision of a full analisis, that costs money, but the jist of it is my outrage with his theory that he is spreading around lately that the oligarchs would somehow magically take power after putin and by some miracle would install rule of law in russia to preserve their wealth, i mean that is like hoping to win the lottery, it just triggered me. what these people refuse to analise is the actual power structure over there and how dangerously fluid and fragile it is most of the time , an yes, as you said, one factor in all of this ecuation is the specific culture of how they interpret power over there
I hope Russia stays the bastion of trad values and Conservatism and a more patriotic leader comes in makes Russia the Superpower but less wars(cuz I don't want my gas bills or food prices going up )
Isn’t law and order a trad value? Russia is a gangster state! Isn’t freedom of speech a trad value? There is near zero freedom of speech in Russia! Big on taking personal responsibility for yourself and your family? Why are so many men alcoholics? Would be super curious to know if this is right gun control, I suspect Putin is very anti the right to bare arms! It’s possible to believe the wokism is bullshit without being a murderous autocrat who siphons off hundreds of billions of dollars worth of wealth as you preside over a gangster state.
I like understanding of Russian Political System be MG even in minor details, but his conclusions.... quite strange . Anyway he is more competent in topic than russophobe Kotkin.
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Who do you think could replace Vladimir Putin? Will it be one of the minigarchs, the oligarchs, or someone else entirely? Let us know what you think in the comments!
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@@TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas lol theres islam the diktator aaaaaaaaaaand yall nvr havr healtchare no matter what
This is one of the best interviews of Mark Galeotti I've watched or listened to. A very helpful insight into Russia today.
Always pleasure to listen to Mark Galeotti
Great interview. You asked all my questions 👍
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Excellent questions. MG is always insightful.
Mark Galeotti is an international treasure
Yes. But in a "multi-polar" world he's our treasure.
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Galeoti on bass, stephen kotkin on rhythm, timothy snyder keyboards/vocals with anne applebaum on drums?
@@dustyfairview9062 Dr. Fiona Hill on the cymbals please.
@@dustyfairview9062 well, place for Kotkin is near of the restroom (его место около параши, как мы говорим).
Fine TH-cam..... Place for negative comment about Kotkin competency about Russian History and understanding of political system.
@@dustyfairview9062 you forgot Fiona Hill
Great interview! Thank you guys!
Good interview. The interviewer didn't get in the way of the interviewee, who was allowed to get on and speak.
"onterviewee" corny ass lmfao
The 3 best experts on anything Russia, Marc, Galeotti, and Marc Galeotti.
Centuries of serfdom formed a Russian pattern of behavior: servility to those above, tyranny to those below.
Exactly, Putin's generation and older never stopped being Serfs
Right back to before the Mongol invasion and empire before 1240CE
Mark Galeotti needs to be protected
Produce clones for backup.
This was an illuminating interview great stuff.
Except it's all lies.
This was fantastic
Tx mark
It's difficult to see how Russia, so vast, so centralized, so divided into the few excessively rich and so many disenfranchised poor, with so little production, and so much extraction and exploitation, and such a long history of autocracy and kleptocracy, can survive in a modern world. Which is, I suppose, why they are so determined to recreate the past. Other countries have a future, but Russia has only a past.
I might think that, where Putin's generation of former KGB agents may dream of restoring a version of the Soviet Union, the post Soviet generation might view that period as a failure. Not that they don't crave power, but the old SU may not be their model to emulate.
I think we need regime change at home first and maybe deal with our own oligarchs 😂
Great talk MG
12 minutes to answer the first question. You can always count on Mark Galeotti for a double helping of intellectual green vegetables. (Thank you Vlad Vexler.) Time to take a nap and digest all this goodness...
Thank you very much for doing this video. It adds a lot of clarity and bigger picture explanation of Russia. That Putin is lazy is a fantastic insight.
Excellent analysis of Russia ...viewed through a British lens.
Mark Galeotti and his stains in the tea cup. He knows it all from outside.
So.. mafia. :P
Thanks for the biography!
What exactly is the point of the discussing the time after putin when we cannot deal with him now ?
This time may be 15 years away from now.
This Man likes to hear himself talk,he imagines how other think and then considers he is right.
I can't wait for post Putin. Can we fast track it? Evil 😈 has gone out of fashion.
a hero among us
Respectfully disagree that putin isn’t concerned what is after him and that is why all his “moves to the east” are the game he plays with the west; putin will drop this idea as soon as he gets what he wants from the west ( which is very likely based on how the west downgrades and reacts correspondingly to his threats )
you dont remove the dependencies he is creating with China so easily
@ watch it:)
Agreed. Russia's gravitating to China is not a naturally desired development but rather a response to West's rejection of Russia's stretched out hand of cooperation for two decades after the Soviet collapse. Historically China just happened to be the obvious ally under the circumstances. The biggest issue was that Russia wanted to cooperate on open and equal terms whereas the US only wanted to add a yet another member to its list of subservient democracies. This differing perspective on the role of Russia in the proposed international discourse could have been left alone at the "agree to disagree" level. Instead, US initiated various challenges to Russia's fading geopolitical pride, thereby igniting it back to relevance amongst the Russian public.
Back in the 90s, everyone in Russia loved America. One had to have a special kind of talent to squander that and force Russia to embrace China.
@@BuckeyeRutabaga and you believe that Russia’s wars against Moldova (1992), the war against its own territories like Chechnya from (1994 and 1999), against Georgia (2008), Ukraine (2014 and ongoing), Syria (2015) were because there was not enough “love” towards Russia? Killing “wanted” people in London and elsewhere were because of the USA and the collective West? Just note, that it all had been happening while Russia was a member of the selected group of countries called G8 (G7 plus Russia). What the heck did Russia want then?:)) the third Rome official status :))?
Putin traveled over 90 times to Finland in 90s and after that.
I would feel so much if the issue was the struggle for meaningful law after Putin
One has only to look at how the USSR showed its true feelings about Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev to see what is in store for Putin.
Вы не правы 😂
@@ИринаРасторгуева-ф1в История никогда не ошибается. В России есть история поклонения тиранам, прежде чем они их ненавидят - или до того как они их убивают.
@joiedevie3901 вы ошибаетесь, это я вам как историк говорю и специалист по средневековой Европе). Просто современные европейцы плохо знают свою историю и своих тиранов. К тому же страдают манией величия. Почему то считают, что имеют право учить других как жить. Считают, что опыт микроскопических стран ЕС можно тиражировать на огромные и густонаселенные страны с совершенно другой историей, традициями и менталитетом. И Россия лишь одна из них. Эпоха европоцентризма закончилась в прошлом веке, только вы этого не заметили. Думаю у США получится вам это объяснить. Ничего личного, просто исторический процесс не стоит на месте.
@@ИринаРасторгуева-ф1в Позвольте мне сказать вам, что мы не в средневековой Европе, и тот факт, что вы ссылаетесь на этот период, показывает ваше нежелание признать, что вы ошибаетесь. Достаточно взглянуть на последние два столетия политической нестабильности в России, начиная с восстания в декабре 1825 года и заканчивая нынешними условиями, чтобы увидеть тенденции современной российской политики.
Вы правы, что Европа была высокомерной. Это не новость. В этом отношении Россия также очень европейская как имперское государство. Если вы историк, которого называете, то грустно, что вы ведёте карьеру, в которой понимаете так мало.
@joiedevie3901 вот видите, вы меня обесцениваете как специалиста только по тому, что моё мнение не соответствует вашему). Высокомерие у вас в крови). У меня диплом был про средневековой Франции, но это не значит, что я не изучала весь курс всеобщей истории). Историки рассматривают все процессы в динамике. Только дилетанты могут утверждать, что не нужно смотреть далеко в прошлое, что бы понять проблемы современности. Обыватели вообще живут только текущим днём , поэтому их так легко обмануть. Именно они целевая аудитория пропаганды. Я прекрасно знаю историю всех европейских империй, структуру и методы существования. Именно по этому предупреждаю, что распространять на Россию те же критерии, пытаться впихнуть её в рамки своих про европейских ожиданий это ошибка. Россия евроазиатская страна, она шире ваших шаблонов. Ментальность другая, хотя и схожа, но ни в коем случае не тождественна и принципы существования Российской империи были внешне схожи, но по сути другие. Европейские специалисты видят в РФ проекции своих проблем, забывая, что там суть другая. После всех своих многочисленных социальных трансформаций современная Россия превратилась в совершенно другое социальное общество, которое европейцы не могут воспринять адекватно из за устаревшей запрограммированности. Но не могут себе признаться в этом. Своеобразная психологическая историческая слепота. Не зря в России есть поговорка "что русскому благо,то немцу смерть". Немец в донном контексте собирательный образ иностранца. Поэтому все европейские интервенции приводили к непредсказуемым результатат. Текущая ситуация тому подтверждение. Попытка объединения против России, приводит к развалу нынешней международной системы. Давно пора, устарела ещё в прошлом веке. США всегда были хорошим триггером распада..
I wonder if any of this makes sense if Russia is developing economically way faster with China as an ally than with the west
@MuhabaOtaki russia is not though. They are on steroids because of spending on military. But that will produce no long term gains. So when they stop, everything will collapse. All the while, estimates are that the inflation is around 20%.
@qp9vp so its like the USA but they are gaining way more nowadays due to better gas prices with China
"everything will collapse" 😂
@@qp9vp😂 Прошу вас, продолжайте так де думать и дальше. Пока нас недооценивают, мы побеждаем. Вы и сами это видите. А если ещё нет, подождем следующий год...
I think there will be a power struggle after Putin, in fact this might actually end the war, I think Russia after this war is over, will go back to the 90s but this time on steroids, where the oligarchs ruled a weak Russian gov but this time , with a weak Russian army and the oligarchs have a much increased military power in the form of their PMCs , also with a weak Russian gov and military , Russian provinces and republics will have a bit more autonomy even forming their own militias and doing their own policies. The new Russian federation post putin post war will look more like a Russian confederation, where Russian provinces and republics pay lip service to be part of the Russian federation but actually de facto their own semi independent nations. while still recognizing Moscow as the capital of Russian politics and economy , but the real rulers are the Russian oligarchs and their PMCs. and Russia becomes a great game between USA and China. a great game of influence.
@@johnwalsh4857 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂
You need to stop thinking.
I think there will a six sided civil war
@@rajivshah6128 see I am right when I am swarmed by bots hahaha
@@johnwalsh4857 I see I have triggered the brainwashed pea brain zombies with their heads up their unwashed a..es. 🤣🤣🤣
Well, it wont be Navalney ex
he never talks about Putin's annihilation of the Ukrainian people and culture.
You're delusional.
@@siweiss9214 actually he does.
good, they are the same people
The USA, has a Washington Sector. It supports defense scripts that strengthen defense markets and uses freedom as the catalyst. 👁️
You mean the mini orcs!
This is whatUS will be like under trump
That is the real risk
Correct me if I’m wrong: all this talk about and fear of Russian wealth and power and it’s all mostly being fuelled by European nations buying their energy resources no…?
Storytelling. Anyone knows that you have hungry wolf's no matter organization.
No oligark, but lady Navalnaja is next president of Russia ❤
Hopefully not. She lost her prestige among the Russian opposition after her notorious speech on decolonization of Russia. It turns out, she doesn't understand that Russia is still an empire and that it will disintegrate sooner or later. In fact, she is against the disintegration of Russia into several independent states. The majority view within the opposition is that Russia needs to split up into several (or many) independent states.
she is a clown, propped up by the west, no one takes their family seriously 😂 there is a world beyond your tv screens
Wishful thinking. It will most probably be another silovnik, that is someone from the security agencies or military
West must be strkng to not axept nobody else as president of russia( no federations!) , then from persons which suffered from kgb regim!
STOP.
There can be no Russia after Putin.
Add a disclaimer: Mark Galeotti is fully or partially funded by government agencies. The music you get is what they pay for. That brings an important question. What's after Mark?
@@VZ3301 Your mum
So switch to another channel!
@petermilne1203 Do you think this is Mark Galeotti's channel? or is it your emotional reaction?
@@VZ3301 You’re mental. Medication time!
sunds like english barons 300 years ago⚔🏹🛡
Just like human nature
do western people believe this nonsense? 😂
truly enlightened
He considers himself an expert and yet all he projects is wishful thinking…
You have economists like Jeffrey sacks who confirmed that the United States refused to give financial help to the weak government that survived the dissolution of the soviet union,and also, how can you say that the Russians didn't understand capitalism when western advisers were literally all over Yeltsin,you are trying to relief yourselves from the fact that what was happening in Russia during that time was the West design,and if it had continued no one in the West would have paid attention to it as long as your interest is met,how about buying votes in Russia in 1994/1995 election in a bid to re-elect Yeltsin,the West is as corrupt as any other people the difference is the language used to express it.
@@jamesmiller2735 you start by saying that the West wouldn’t finance the post Soviet rebuild, and then state that the West was the architect of post Soviet Russia. Which is it? There can be no doubt that the West failed in its duty of care, but I would also argue that Russian culture continues to be imperialistic even when Western powers have evolved beyond that and in the case of the US they are in active retreat. The Russian psyche is extremely flawed and that’s what makes it a basket case more than anything else
@willwilliams9582 Yes, they encouraged Yeltsin to privatize state assets, including the oil and gas terminals,which they through the use of Russian faces bought back for peanut,instead of genuinely supporting the Russian state so that they could start building real institutions and economy,now they are acting as though everything that happened in Russia after the dissolution of the soviet union came out of thin air,when in reality they wanted to turn Russia into Nigeria.
jamesmiller2735
Complete BS-Read Navalnys new excellent book and educate yourself
@@larssoderstrom1666 I agree, and reading Anna Politovskaya's 'Putin's Russia' is also an eye-opener, though more about Putin than Russia as a country.
@@larssoderstrom1666 Navalny may have been exceptionally courageous, and I love the fact that he stood up to Putin, but he also has odious positions on many areas. So I won’t be reading his book anytime soon. If you had quoted Nemtsov to me, that would have been a different story.
As a Russian who lived a long life in the USSR and Russia, I can say that only deep and real federalization can make Russia a normal country.
@@ТимурЗуев-е4г мечтать не вредно
@@ТимурЗуев-е4г it's an interesting point of view. Many eastern Russians favour decentralisation. Believing that it will result in a more even distribution of wealth.
@@seanniemeyer5437
Believe me, we are not even talking about the distribution of wealth, but about the fascistization of the regime and the impossibility of development for regions and peoples.
@@ТимурЗуев-е4г I agree 💯 %
Russian are Putin ,????? For Tarots cards answer
Sorry: Old news!
Sorry but many people still don’t get it, so the messages need to be repeated.
This guy is a complete idiot-know-nothing propagandist. The interview is a disgrace of falsehoods.
Surely, comrade.
@@danilabezmenov3489 Yes, obviously...at least for anyone who's informed.
Okay comrade arent yall should do the ACAB thing again?
I enjoy and appreciate much of your content - particularly the science discussions with brilliant scientists such as Denis Noble.
I do NOT appreciate this banal russophobic propaganda. Mark Galeotti is a spooky commentator - probably state funded - whose geopolitical analysis has consistently been shallow, implausible and wrong as long as I've been noticing..He reminds me of an overgrown public schoolboy who never stopped playing with toy tanks.
Is there nothing in Britain any longer that isn't polluted by the brain-dead anglo-neocon agenda?
I suggest you listen to (or watch videos or read books by) Russians. Another person worth listening to is Jade McGlynn (Silicon Curtain's recent interview) but that regards the war in Ukraine rather than Russia. Almost no one in the Western Hemisphere has the foggiest idea of what Russia represents, its history and its mentality. If you do actually take the time to deepen your knowledge of Russia, its history, its mentality and its aims, you will find that the "brain-dead anglo-neocons" are far too lenient when judging Putin and his 'agenda'. If one wants to uphold the belief that human rights, relative individual freedom and democracy are preferable (not perfect but preferable) to tyranny, then one should do whatever one can to help those people who struggle against tyranny. Unfortunately America, as leader of the West, has betrayed Ukraine, dragging other countries into betrayal.
It’s so depressing isn’t it. And this over privileged Brit couldn’t fight his way out of a paper bag.
Maybe if Russia decided to join us in this 21st century there'd be less Russophobia.
Or better yet, stop trying to influence our elections. It's not like your average Russian has any political sway.
@@aftdel "It’s so depressing isn’t it".
Not moreso than the war thing. It screams of low self-esteem.
Certain words are very good markers. Like "russophobic" is a clear marker of a russian sympathizer or bot along with "anglo-saxon". Those words were basically invented by russian state propaganda.
And there wasn't a single counterargument to Mark's claims, but labels and emotional appeals.
What a load of propaganda!
Have another shot of vodka, comrade.
@@jim2376 wow what a clever and insightful comment. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@@rajivshah6128 You are welcome. Cleverer than your 5 word rubbish.
@@jim2376 wow you are on a roll. Keep regaling us with your thoughts boy.
Go for it.
@@rajivshah6128 Here's a potato 🥔 and a cabbage 🥬. Make some soup for Putin's serfs at the troll farm.
Putin looks like a main chracter from a horror movie😀
After Biden 😂
is Russia the only country where they struggle for power? is there no struggle for power in UK? or is the batten just past to someone else "here I messed up you have a go?" or US at the moment are Trump or Harris not struggling for power? or anywhere else the same
Over the last few years, looking at the effective power in Russia, despite even the wild sanctions, how over the years completely different areas of the country have become better, more comfortable, and looking at Europe, the United States, where in some countries real regression, even without any sanctions and existential wars, began to really suspect that not everything is clear in the optimal form of government. Long ago, philosophers spoke of the “enlightened despot” as the best form of government, but what will happen if Putin is replaced by an unenlightened, ineffective despot? How difficult it would be to change him with the power that Mr. Putin has concentrated in presidential hands.
On the other hand, in the US, the country is paralyzed every few years by a terrible political struggle, where many assessments of the situation in the country, and decisions are the result of partisan partisanship, rather than honestly optimal decisions for the people, with terrible politicization, and brainwashing of the people by the MSM and media servants from both parties, and from the “intelligence community” to make democracy “function properly”. In the EU, England, Germany, where people have hated for over a decade where the country is going, how it is getting worse, new, independent political forces can't break into the arena, they vote for one faceless politician after another, parties replace others, but nothing changes, including the negative trends that people vote against. And the media is just as controlled by the elites and the “intelligence community” despises the simple stupid plebs, and their incorrect complaints about migration policy, for example. There is no ideal, different countries have their pros and cons, but in Russia, it seems to me, the situation is more honest, the "intelligence community" controls the population and the state, without hiding much, and in the West it is necessary to hide and form the "correct" opinion of the population with the strongest control of any narrative in MSM and now, after 2016, Trump, Brexit. and on social media.
It would be funny if another Gorbachev or Yeltsin is elected after Putin. The amount of political turmoil and chaos would probably cause a serious revolution. The system they have gets criticized by the west but even US citizens think it's better since they don't have to deal with the bullshit unnecessary exploitation privatization offers. Industries that should be nationalized are and industries that benefit from privatization are left alone in Russia - seems pretty reasonable to me. It's funny that the U.S. thinks privatization is the golden goose when it's poisoned our food supply, our air/water, and throws people out onto the street because they can't afford healthcare. Amazing system of perfect governance we have, LOL. Russia isn't perfect but they have a better balance of responsibility and authority than the U.S. has. Western oligarchs and big business have a ridiculous amount of unchecked power even against it's own government.
No. In the US and UK the mechanism is different. It’s called democracy. It does not tolerate genocidal maniacs.
@@gsd2085 I don’t really understand what you are saying.
you guys are still projecting your own power structure on the russians, this analisis altough having some observations of some elements into russian power index, your conclusions about it's evolution , at least your public comunication about its evolution and its fundamental structure is baseless and wish full thinking at best. it seems that to most intelectuals in the west , the narative is hoping for the most favourable scenario, whilst absoluetly disregarding the worst case scenarious and preparing contingencies for each. you're just pitching to the russians to try to get rid of putin so you can both steal the resources and acces the market together with oligarchs in peace , i mean your level of intelect is frankly abismally low if you think those people are that stupid , and not because their patriotic or anything like that, really, you guys haven't really thought this through haven't you. please be like us, please please, and as always , before reaching the state of you, who is going to clean up the mess, what insurances are there for the different structers , you think ending up in london in a golden cage compared to beeing a god in russia and on the planet is a better deal? thats at best a retirement plan. as always, lazy
@@alex990ism try a spell checker.
I somewhat agree with you. Your arguments aren't that great though. If you are unaware I'd point out that historians are particularly unreliable in modern geopolitical analysis. This is because that field of knowledge - especially in the U.S. and Western countries - rely on what's called intellectual deceit. It's pretty common and obvious from videos like this and arguments from other historians that comment on modern geopolitics. Historical narratives often simplifies geopolitics into linear cause-and-effect stories and leave out important scientific, cultural and sociological analysis. Geopolitics are driven by non-linear, interconnected systems which require more multi-disciplinary fields to analyze so I'd take the word of actual scientists more seriously over any historian.
@@andrice42 thank you, it was more of rant on my part than a provision of a full analisis, that costs money, but the jist of it is my outrage with his theory that he is spreading around lately that the oligarchs would somehow magically take power after putin and by some miracle would install rule of law in russia to preserve their wealth, i mean that is like hoping to win the lottery, it just triggered me. what these people refuse to analise is the actual power structure over there and how dangerously fluid and fragile it is most of the time , an yes, as you said, one factor in all of this ecuation is the specific culture of how they interpret power over there
Ло, ваш гость просто дурачок и вешает вам лапшу на уши. Приятного аппетита.
Good luck this winter, Ivan!
@@justintabatabai8063 напугал ежа голой жопой 😂
@@xpehbam4078 drink more vodka!
@@xpehbam4078lmaooooo
This guy destroyed his credibility appearing on times radio.
He's a liar.
I hope Russia stays the bastion of trad values and Conservatism and a more patriotic leader comes in makes Russia the Superpower but less wars(cuz I don't want my gas bills or food prices going up )
Isn’t law and order a trad value? Russia is a gangster state! Isn’t freedom of speech a trad value? There is near zero freedom of speech in Russia! Big on taking personal responsibility for yourself and your family? Why are so many men alcoholics? Would be super curious to know if this is right gun control, I suspect Putin is very anti the right to bare arms! It’s possible to believe the wokism is bullshit without being a murderous autocrat who siphons off hundreds of billions of dollars worth of wealth as you preside over a gangster state.
Cross fingers
I like understanding of Russian Political System be MG even in minor details, but his conclusions.... quite strange . Anyway he is more competent in topic than russophobe Kotkin.