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No, she's a propagandist from the mafia security state, and she should be held to account for facilitating mass mvrder, mass manipulation, mass surveillance and mass extortion, along with her puppeteers in Langley.
Remarkable interview! It’s so refreshing to hear an interviewer who actually makes the effort to ask questions that are worthy of the depth of knowledge of the interviewee. Fiona Hill always has an interesting perspective. I especially appreciate her use of England and Wales as examples of the complexity of historical traces between “empires” and their neighbors/conquests.
Yes, it really makes you think! The next time someone tells me Ukraine should be Russia cuz it once was, I'm gonna say, then I guess we have to give our country back to the Native Americans! 😊 I love it, what a great argument!
I wish Fiona Hill was National Security Advisor to this and the next President. Nobody I've listened to, since 9/11, 'gets' geo politics the way she does. Thank you IAI for publishing this, here.
Gosh, I could listen to her all day - she's clear, intelligent, well-informed, interesting and down to earth. One could wish that more people in power were more like her.
Not bad for a girl born and bred in a working class mining area in Durham, Northern England. Is she?. Her father was a coal miner by the way. Read her book. "There is nothing for you here" by Fiona Hill.
This interview is some of the best content found on TH-cam. Fiona Hill has a perspective on world leaders that few of us will ever get in person. The depth of her knowledge, honesty and ability to articulated her views are incredibly valuable. I always learn something new when listening to her and I am deeply grateful for her insights.
@@tristanphillips351 She also has a book "There is Nothing For You Here" which is both insightful and humorous. Any politician would do well to read it, not just for understanding Russia, but for tackling domestic problems like unemployment in depressed post-industrial cities in the US and UK. After reading it you'll see where she got the title, which is quite touching.
@@christopheryellman533 No-one can read another’s thoughts. We have to rely on our interpretation of pattern of behaviour of others. What is YOUR interpretation of Putins pattern of behaviour?
@@Johan-vk5yd Unlike you, Johan, I don't interpret his "pattern". National leaders manage a large and complex portfolio of responsibilities which do not lend themselves to a simple pattern. Instead, I have watched many of his international press conferences and speeches at meetings such as the Bucharest Summit in 2008. He is very well prepared and gives thoughtful answers. He is determined to uphold Russian standing in the world. He has brought Russia out of a very difficult economic situation in the late 1990s. He chased the worst of the oligarchs out of Russia so that the assets of the state could be protected. He has always been open to negotiating with the west, but not from a position of weakness. If you watch some of the primary material, you won't need these hack journalists to tell you what to believe.
Thank you from South Africa for a most interesting and informative discussion of the difficult global situation in which we live. Hers is the mind we need if ever we can come to grips with bringing Putin to book, ending the war and establishing a world order where there is respect for the rights of the individual and the rule of law.
Totally fascinating interview. had to listen to it 3 times. As a Slovakian who was born into a Communist Czechoslovakia, I still see a generation of my parents who crave 'the old days' where middle Europe was protected by USSR. I don't believe many people in the West, especially politicians, understand this historical context.
Indeed! Most people in the West, politicians included, focus on the own nation's history. (Spaniards think more about Franco than Stalin...) The countries sacrificed at Yalta thus live in another historical context than the countries that after 1945 were dominated by the US.
I could listen to the honorable Fiona Hill, speak all day. She was/is a great servant to humanity and civilization. Wise. Well informed. Unlike 98.9% of what you normally listen to or hear on TH-cam. Listen to Fiona first. Please.
20:23 "Our systems are quite limited in the information that gets brought forward." THIS IS and has always been my beef. It is very difficult to stay truly informed and just hearing mostly personal politics and personal political attacks does nothing for us as civilians to make informed decisions at the voting booth. We end up voting on our emotions or reactions to other people's squabbles. We have to create systems that force our politicians, especially in democratic systems to come forward regularly and sit down and explain their position on issues in a cohesive manner ~ like at a round table with a facilitator to guide the discussion. They should be civil and issue based. That way we could hear more of what is at stake in an issue and what exactly is on the table to be decided. And maybe the people should vote on the biggest issues in ballots, rather than politicians in the halls of Congress. This representation business is not working out well for us. Politicians love their jobs, money, and power and only care about holding onto it. It is time for steep changes in 'our systems' as Fiona expresses here.
The problem with your proposal is that votes do not force politicians to do anything. A politician or political party can promise the heavens and deliver almost nothing while in office and STILL get reelected.
Are operating under the assumption that Western Democracy is seeking Citizen Input? I can assure you after 50 years of participation that the Average Voter has no power at all.
Nine (9) wars on non NATO countries, since the fall of the Soviet union! Putin's desperately trying to stall, for rearming and recruiting more Cannon fodder!! Everyone who knows him, says so! 🇺🇦💙
It's about general education in geopolitical diplomacy. We are very Anglo centric and nearly no foreign foreign language education. Our system reenforces geopolitical ignorance. Now we have a major Presidential Candidate who knows Nothing about NATO or Pacific alliances or EC economy. It's worse than than is easy to say in a few words
Ms Hill is always thoughtful and in my opinion correct on the issues at hand, particularly when it comes to Russia in the modern era. I would love to take an international relations class with her. She should be teaching our future world leaders.
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Thanks Ms. Hill for the aerial view you bring. I wonder if countries are really willing to create level playing fields and shared notions of history. In US we can’t seem to find common ground and each side has their own story of “what happened” in the past. I really hope that your optimism can flourish in the minds of our fellow earthlings as we look to the future.
Fiona Hill is wise beyond the grasp of most people -- including myself. At some point, we, as humans have to start listening to people like her if we are to thrive.
@@tristanphillips351 nonsense. She worked for the US govt. Does it really mean she is acting out your conspiracy theory? She knows what she is talking about.
@@sararichardson737 yeah! It's a pity, but Britain has not yet been able to harness its talents (unless they are born in the social classes that can afford to send their kids to Oxford).
@@jmolofsson so much talent and ability overlooked or rather shut out because they are Non U or PLU (people like us). I quit the UK and languish abroad.
As a signatory of the Budapest Memorandum, we should have had troop in Ukraine to defend their sovereignty when we observed Russian troop buildup on the Ukrainian border.
Ukraine was, is and will be used by everyone as a convenient tool to solve their own problems. It's a common thing in global politics, as much as blaming your own mistakes on others. Wait for 20-40 years, just to see how everyone don't understand and hate Ukraine for being so aggressive and resentful towards past events.
President for 23 years? What is wrong with the people of the country? Are they actually happy with his leadership? Ms. Hill is always intuitive and informative. She has an extensive knowledge.
Relatively happy. Consider what was prior, or what worse could be. Putin has brought Russia out of the Soviet Collapse, into a world energy export leader, with rising economics ahead. The US "sanctions" have actually made Putin and Russia stronger. Contrast that with the last 40 years of the self-serving clowns running US? Only thing they have really done is put US in massive and ever increasing debt.
Great short talk. M.Hill has always been someone to listen to. Especially as she was inside the Profa admin of 45 and even if if she had no constructive impact, was a witness. The long term disregard of Putin’s nature by the successive Western European and US admins since his rise remains problematic at best. Obama took his eye of the ball re-Putin, and Netanyahu’s colonial visions.
To be clear, former President Obama had such Republican opposition during the economic downturn, that what he did accomplish at home was amazing. The world has suffered from Reagan Republicans' neocon worldview and now the fallout from Trump's MAGA isolationist extreme nationalism.
To be clear, former President Obama's accomplishments at home during the economic downturn are amazing considering Republicans' opposition to any progress. The Reagan Republican neocon worldview, and now the Trump MAGA extreme nationalism are continuing to cause conflict and regression.
Fiona Hill's analysis of Putin is very acurate and on point. Very illuminating but frightening as well. Her Analysis of Donald Trump is equally as illuminating. She has done well from the educational chances she's had and good luck to her. She shows how we humans are a very selfish Fiona Hill should be a world leader she makes sense...
Fiona is so smart and wise… not always found together. Hope the leaders of democratic nations take her views into consideration as they deal with these issues
It's a reminder of the time when Gorbachev took over. A lot of people commented that from Eisenhower to Reagan U.S. Presidents dealt with only 2 Soviet leaders, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. In the same time we had 7 presidential administrations, 4 Republican, 3 Democratic. It's no surprise that continuity of understanding and perspective of the Soviet Union shifted in the US while matters there remained (relatively) constant.
The Soviet Union ended 32 years ago. The US (and its vassals in Europe) has spent those decades trying to break up the Russian Federation, Balkanize it, and steal its VAST resources.
Nine (9) wars on non NATO countries, since the fall of the Soviet union! Putin's desperately trying to stall, for rearming and recruiting more Cannon fodder!! Everyone who knows him, says so! 🇺🇦💙 (🙏☮️)
Good question about neutral countries !!! Oh, and terrific points brought out about what is history and its effects. Hell, just a fantastic interview and, most of all, fantastic Fiona Hill. Thanks.
It is uncanny how Fiona Hill manages to sum up historical examples that actually make solid sense to any layman - and in a way that comes across as really impartial! The interviewer came up with convoluted questions that I struggled with understanding, but Fiona managed to clarify in her answers and explanations. I am in awe of this woman's intelligence and eloquence!
I’m currently reading her book and went hunting on TH-cam for a refresher on how her voice sounds, so that I can hear what I’m reading in my mind’s ear in her inflection and accent! So much respect for this accomplished woman.
This is brilliant. What an incredible, intelligent, and grounded view on recent events. I am also from the northeast and county Durham. It's incredibly liberating to hear her speak in a tone of voice that I totally trust and believe in
It is not a court/legal case or a beauty contest. Eventually it boils down to the number one real question of power. Powerful countries want an order around their borders in line with their perception of security, and they will try to achieve that. If they are powerful enough they will achieve that, if they are not then they will lose. Time will show .
When we consider Russian relations with other Nations of Asia, they appear to be among a large group of Friends? When we inspect NATO relations with former Warsaw Pact Nations, the relationship appears strained at times. The amount of money spent since Victoria Nuland began to work in the State Department, is only one indication of corruption that makes the USA the equal of Kyiv...... Kyiv has seen more Empires struggle over their Region than the United States appears to accumulate. The US did agree to respect the treaty rights of Red Cloud in 1868. But some fool found gold.
Not really, they want to steal Ukrainian resources and will invent whatever story they need to cover for that. That's why the justification changes with every interview.
Putin ideology is borderless though. Across the Russian Federation there are giant billboards of Putin with slogans declaring that the Russky Mir or “Russian World” is borderless. Westerners don’t yet have a grasp on this doctrine. What it boils down to is that Russian Imperialism has no respect for sovereignty, self determination or agency of any smaller neighbors. They feel that they own this land in principle but have yet to physically possess it. Baltic and Caucasian countries are well aware of this doctrine. The Baltic countries were wise to team up with NATO because anyone who does not eventually winds up being invaded like Chechnya, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine.
The US Empire with Military Bases in locations around the Planet, seems to be the aggressive gang? The ability of a Woman with an agenda, serving the needs of Bankers to exploit other Nations, with Fiat Dollars that lost support long ago, might appear a wee bit hypocritical when she tries to implicate Putin as aggressive? Ukraine being given $50 billion to attack Russians appears to the World as an aggressive move. The delivery of another $40 billion from the IMF to bribe Oligarchs like Rinat Akhmetov, seems to emphasize that effort to buy the Kyiv Government. But the stability of the US Fiat Dollar to actually display any financial stability seems to indicate that the US Empire needs the resources that now appear to be hidden behind a BRICS Wall. Without resources the US Economy has nothing to offer.
@@glebarhangelsky4351 after 50 years of participation in Conventions in the USA, it is pretty clear that Democracy is not involved in the process in that region. I agree.....
Incredible lady ,extremely pragmatic, phenomenal understanding of modern history and her delivery is concise, easy to understand her opinions. I love this lady.
One thing is certain, violence never solved anything. Empires don’t last forever and never will. Territorial grabs generally produce opposite effects than expected. Putin doesn’t realize that his is only wishful thinking that causes lots of suffering in Ukraine.
Violence helped Putin to stay in power, despite having all chances to be deposed and sentenced for life in 2013/2014. Russian opposition had an opportunity to seize power, but too fragmentated and civilised to act upon it.
This woman is an example of the great benefit that immigration has brought to this country. She grew up in working class England, took advantage of educational opportunities there and in the US and now is highly respected for her knowledge of and incisive perspective on world events - particularly as it applies to Russia and Putin. She is truly the preeminent expert on Putin.....
Mrs. Hill is very correct about the importance of setting Historical understanding correct. In the US, for example, politics plays a strong role in history education. To the point that the same books have different contents depending on the state you live. All to cater to political rhetoric (i.e.: Civil War facts, slavery, Civil Rights movements, etc). If we grow up with different/distorted views of our history (shapes our minds and thought process), how can we agree later on important things? My guess is that the distorted views happen by design...
@@ГлебВерховский-п2р Pluralism is certainly not good in regards to history, truth and facts. Sorry the situation in Russia is like that. Here several versions of history are disputed as correct, despite historical records, and that is exploited in different ways by politicians of the worst kind.
@@corujariousa Pluralism is the only way that leads to the truth. The right version sooner or later wins. Starting with one single (and usually wrong) version is a way to a disaster.
No, distorted views are outcome of complexity of the social system we live in. It's so complex that any planning never guarantees only envisaged outcomes, or even desired ones. E.g., a large country cannot be controlled from a single centre, hence even if a single centre exists in addition to regional centres (federal vis state parliaments/governments) it can hardly enforce any homogeneity of outcomes.
Interesting.....thanks. Having interacted with Ukrainians, they definitely believe they are a real nation and I've not seen levels of bravery and resolve like I have in Ukrainians in my lifetime.
Someone’s identity has nothing to do with a belief about oneself. It has something to do with being. A cat doesn’t believe itself he is a cat. He IS a cat. Ukrainians don’t have to explain themselves why they are a nation with their own unique identity. Russia is an abuser that is begging for love from Ukraine. And an abuser will tell you anything to earn your trust.
Which Ukrainians? East Ukrainians or West Ukrainians? By the way, did you know that the largest receiver of Ukrainian refugees is Russia, not any Western country?
Doesn’t matter if she is right or wrong, the history line works well for every power to justify its actions in present… name me any exceptions please if its not true
History is important for the present and the future. You can't cancel history, you only learn from it. In this case Russians know they've been invaded several times through Ukraine and that explains the Paranoia. Secondly why isn't she speaking about the coup and the civil war?
The dream for the US/UK imperialists is the end of history, which they openly proclaimed in the 90s… what does that mean? It means they want to stop objective historical development of competing ideas, nations, generations etc and establish US based neo liberal order across the entire globe
Putin is completely rewriting history to justify its actions. In the new Russian history books they seriously claim that they are great saviours of the world who have never attacked anyone, but won every war. Russians during Putin have adopted a mentality of total moral superiority and dehumanisation of Ukrainians and the whole western world. They truly believe almost every other nation should be ruled by Russia.
The dream of the US/UK imperialism is the end of history that they proclaimed in the 90s.. this is a world order based on the model and views of the west… thats why they hate even the idea history continuing its objective evolutionary process
American military base in your country is a double edged sword. Some countries benefit from this protection. Strategically though, America doesn't want to risk loosing these bases so meddling in affairs in that country or surrounding country would should be carefully considered
Only Russia is invading and annexing countries.. Neither Nato nor the US have annexed ANY countries since WWII.. the bases are to counter Russian and Chinese aggression, which was amply demonstrated in the Korean war of 1950-53
Dr Fiona Hill has substantial intellectual skills. She • understands the geopolitics at a local level, • can place this on national and international levels, and across history, and • is able to communicate her analyses to both high level stakeholders and laypeople.
Fiona Hill is still Brilliant and interesting and well thought out. She is definitely a person with significant input into what’s happening in the world today.
I adore Fiona Hill! I agree totally with everything she says. Smart lady, world leaders should listen. Prime ministers, Kings, Presidents, men, listen to Fiona Hill and act on her statements. Now.
Ms Hill is a dreadful woman. Saw her before congess and it was clear she has an enormous ego and thought she ought to be running Kiyv. A Trump hater of the worst kind, totally supported by Amanpour now, which says it all.
Fully agree with Fiona Hills: when one speaks Russian doesn't mean one is Russian by nationality. It was the policy in the Russian empire and then in the USSR to make different peoples speak Russian. Using mother tongues in society life, in literature was often prohibited.
The English did the same thing in Scotland. They effectively banned the speaking of Scots Gaelic after the Battle of Culloden, along with other aspects of Highland culture, accelerating the destruction of an ancient way of life. It was commonplace throughout the British Empire to enforce the use of English. It’s what empires do.
@@marynamalitskaya3534 I was also born in the Soviet Union. We learnt the Ukrainian language at school ( the country was called Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic). But it was the second language to Russian. In most schools, universities, newspapers, on the radio and television and so on Russian was language Number one.
@@marynamalitskaya3534 , would you be so kind as to read carefully? I said " OFTEN prohibited". Just in case, the Valuev decree 1863 and the Ems decree 1876 prohibited the Ukrainian language in different spheres of life. One more thing, to protect the language of my own country is not at all " why are you, guys, always like that".
I certainly agree with everything Fiona is talking about,she is such a smart lady and very much aware of troubling things around the world ,there’s so much for us to do if we don’t want to loose our democracy especially here in the USA ,she is brilliant in what she does for sure !
Putin said he had NO intention of invading Ukraine, as Russian tanks lined up at the Ukrainian border. He said it was just "Western paranoia". EVERBODY saw the tanks, and heard Putin's denial. Then Russia invaded. Enough said.
Honestly it was clear Russia was gonna invade in the end of 2021. And the CIA ran around saying, "We have intelligence that Russia's gonna invade!" No sh*t Sherlock. I have access to no intelligence and I can see Russia's gonna invade! What's the West gonna do, watch the war happen like they watched Crimea be taken? Also given Bush said Ukraine could join in 2008, why wasn't Ukraine added in 2009, since Finland joined in a year? I mean cause it was clear from 2008 when Russia objected, that Ukraine joining NATO was their redline and yet the West did nothing to help Ukraine. Just kept promising Ukraine NATO membership one day...as Ukraine lost more and more territory. Even today, Ukraine is gonna join... one day....angering Russia. Probably by that magical day when Ukraine can finally join NATO, Ukraine won't even exist. The West and Russia should be ashamed of what they've done to Ukraine!
@@goenzoy712 That's not true. Putin does not care about NATO, he understands that it is a defensive block. His goal is to wipe out Ukrainian national identity and russianize Ukraine.
I do find myself very largely agreeing with Fiona Hill's slightly gloomy, frustratingly opaque outlook for solving the Ukraine problem. I absolutely understand her point about not permitting Putin to read history backwards (with his own ingenious slant) and use it as the model by which we should settle scores. Time has moved on. We live in the present. NATO may have moved East but it has never been anything other than a mutual defence agreement and has never been a threat to Russia. Russia has outraged Western alliances by an invasion of a sovereign nation with the intention of setting up a puppet government. In all honesty, it was not his intention to blitz it to pieces, but once resistance was encountered : in for a penny, in for a pound! Everything Fiona mentioned about Putin I found to be objectively true; he sees himself after twenty-three years in power as some kind of modern Tsar, a man with a mission for his country. It is very difficult to deal with such a mindset around a negotiating table, however many "extras" you draw in for counterweights!
Thank u so much for the interview. I met many people from former soviet union & the common complain was always this one: oppression & scarce of food for the population. God bless all the ones who came to the west right after the greatest leader of ever: Gorbatchev: a well read & boad minded Sir who realised his country was so far from well being like in the west.
How about we let Ukraine decide for themselves who they want to be allied with? Eastern Europe decided too and after decades of stagnation and poverty they are catching up with the Western European countries.
@@tijldeclerck7772 Totally correct, ignore the rubbish from people who hate their own lives and the system the west lives under because they feel short changed by it and just want the world in chaos.
@@tijldeclerck7772 letting Ukraine decide for themselves who they want to be allied with is a great idea until you realise that the west doesnt really believe that everyone should be able to decide for themselves who they want to be allied with. Only those who choose the West or serve western interests should have a right to self-determination. I lived in turkey for almost 7 years and i worked for a company that employed alot of Ukrainians for over 2 years. One thing i learnt that doesnt get talked about enough in the English press is that there are some Russian speaking ukrainians who dont agree with the direction their government took after 2014 and these people were fighting a civil war with the government in Ukraine before 2022. The position that western governments have taken on the war basically says that these people dont have a right to self-determination.
@@tijldeclerck7772 NATO promised that after East Germany joined West Germany in NATO, there would be no more expansion of NATO to the East. That promise has been broken time and time again. Understandably Russia doesn't want American nukes on its border - just as America didn't want Soviet missiles based in Cuba (and Moscow backed down). Countries have to get on with their neighbours and NATO countries have made no attempt to make friends with Russia - if anything, the opposite has happened. The Americans have encouraged Ukraine and Georgia to become NATO members - but all the European countries said this was a bad idea - however Britain and the USA pushed it through. The USA Ambassador to Moscow also warned in 2008 of the likely consequences. Either NATO generals were stupid or reckless and now we have a war. Keep on this way and it will become worse. It is America that caused this - it doesn't care a jot for Ukrainian lives, it just wants to increase its hegemony. If Ukraine "wins" there will be American troops in multiple places in Ukraine. Personally I would prefer to live in a Europe that stretches from Lisbon to Vladivostock - rather than a USA that stretches from Los Angeles to Minsk. The result of this American conflict is that Europe has lost access to cheap Russian fuel - buying instead expensive American Shale gas and Europe has lost access to the Russian market. This is a disaster for Europe - just as it has been a disaster for Ukraine. The only country to gain has been the USA..
@@michaelmazowiecki9195why? Was Ireland ever capitol? Don't believe this anti-colonial bullshit, Ukraine was capitol region. Just in WW1 Germany needed to cancel Russia and delegitimised corrupt Moscow branch of Rurik dynasty from all angles. Now Zelensky is claiming Ukraine successor of ancient Russia. Finally this has started to unfold in natural direction. I am praying that world saw that Russia just wants to reunite, remembered gratitude for all sacrifices for humanity Russian people did in 20th century and steered this civil war (at least in 1991 Ukrainian people voted in favour of preserving union) to constructive, just and, if posible, lawful resolution. The problem is that NATO supports all kinds of separatists including radical islamists and nazi collaborators and has broken international law system in 1999
@@Leonid-e5i English conquest of Wales was done by the 14th century and Wales integrated within the English legal system etc to the point that the Union Jack does not have a Welsh element. A far better UK equivalent of Ukraine v Russia is Ireland v England where English rule has been imposed to a greater or lesser degree with tragic consequences for the Irish for the past 800 years.
I totally agree with Ms Hill’s view on Russian revanchism and obsession with its imperial past. How we can collectively encourage Russia to evolve and move on from this world view is going to be a major theme of this century.
@@GiambattistaRossi Thanks for your thought provoking comment. Britain abandoned any pretense to be an imperial power after World War Two and the Suez Canal Crisis in 1956. Turkey has a lingering imperial reflex to its foreign relations but in reality it is a regional power flexing its muscle in its immediate environs - Syria, Libya and the Black Sea - where its incursions are not with the intent of subjugating or colonizing the local people unlike Russia in Ukraine. Perhaps the same could be said about Iran in its religious solidarity with Shia militia in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. What distinguishes Russia from Iran or Turkey is its imperial mindset (the recent Carlson “interview” of Putin is proof enough) that transcends the level of projection of self-interest or mere geopolitical tension.
@@paulsummers9533 empire never abandons their feeling to be. It is the mindset that stays in it. Uk like many others still pretend to think as an empire.
@@GiambattistaRossi As an Australian, I feel the UK has been reduced to a little island with “soft” global power and reach thanks to the language it exported.
This says it all. On 19 November 1999, when Putin was PM, both Russia and Ukraine signed the Charter for European Security. Clause 8: " Each participating State has an equal right to security. We reaffirm the inherent right of each and *_every participating State to be free to choose or change its security arrangements, including treaties of alliance,_* as they evolve.' ... *_"no State ... can consider any part of the OSCE area as its sphere of influence.”_* On the same day, Yeltsin said to Clinton "Just give Europe to Russia... you know it has to be done...". (P562 _"Declassified Documents Concerning Russian President Boris Yeltsin · Clinton Digital Library"),_ Yeltsin was trying to do another Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact. Despite this, US continued, to this day, to lie that Russia is "in" the UN when it is not a member and the UK, France and US sneaked it in in violation of the UN Charter, arming it with impunity, influence, and "get out of jail free cards" to buy and corrupt vulnerable countries. Despite the fact that a regime unlawfully claiming a permanent membership and veto in the UN was expelled by a 58% majority resolution of the General Assembly in A/RES/2758 in *_1971,_* with *_no power of the UNSC to veto,_* the US, corrupt UN bureaucrats and astroturf propaganda outlets like "KickRussiaOut" continue to lie that it "cannot be done". Despite the fact that both the UNSC and the UN General Assembly ruled that States "cannot automatically continue the membership" of Federations which ceased to exist, in A/RES/47/1 in _*1992, *_ and the fact that even Yeltsin wasn’t stupid enough to claim “inherititance”, the US, the corrupt UN Secretary-General, and sites like KickRussiaOut repeat the troll factory lie that the kremlin somehow "inherited" an expired membership of a state which Russia itself had left while it was still in existence containing other member states, before it ceased to exist.
All this was before the 2014 Coup in Kiev. Let alone, before recognizing Kosovo's independence from Serbia, which opened a can of worms where the US only shot itself in the foot. Regarding now Crimea having the same rights under this pretext to leave Ukraine and join Russia, which it ended up doing.
@@victorsamsung2921 "Crimea having the same rights under this pretext to leave Ukraine and join Russia," Yes, agreed. If citizens wish to do that, then they do it, peacefully but usually not peacefully because not everyone suddenly wants to join Russia. if the door is opened to the possibility, some will take that door and generate armed conflict when someone does not get his way.
@@anonemaus4445 I think the point being made here - using Ms Hill’s reasoning -is that nowadays we should no longer feel obliged to accept borders drawn up by former colonial powers- just because it was the done thing a few hundred years ago doesn’t make it ok to continue doing now
You have to listen to her as a learned scholar and expert. However don't forget as a US establishment figure she comes from that perspective. Additionally, the points about spheres of influence are slightly absurd. The US has the Monroe doctrine! Search the 2 main reasons the US gave for joining the 1st World War (1 of which is that Germany was making secret military treaties with Mexico). Can you imagine what would happen if the Chinese started making treaties that could post Chinese military in Mexico or Ireland? The West has a fit about China having 1 military base in the Arabian gulf and potential one in the Pacific thousands of miles away from any Western country or their direct interests.
I doubt whether Ukraine needed a lot of convincing. They would have been well aware that, in appeasing Putin, the Maidan would have been all for nothing. Putin had, and has, no interest in maintaining the pre 2014 borders.
This is an excellent interview. I believe Fiona Hill has a good and realistic understanding of Russia’s psyche and Putin’s view of Russia’s place in today’s international setting. I agree that Russia remains an empire at heart. I believe that Russia cannot disengage from an “imperialist thinking” of considering the Baltic States, Ukraine and Central Asia as Lands of Russian State influence. I cannot consider the possibility that Russia will change this version of “imperialist thinking”. Putin’s Russia and the Russia of any successor of Putin will retain Russia’s “imperialist thinking” because it offers security and wealth to Russia. I agree that sovereignty and territorial integrity are concepts that have completely different interpretation by Russian policymakers. I think that Russian policymakers have developed a different interpretation of sovereignty and territorial integrity in order to justify expanded borders for Russia. I think, Russia has no alternative as an “imperialist thinking” State but aim at controlling the Baltic States, Ukraine, Central Asian Turkish States and excreting controlling influence over Finland, Poland and Romania. These policy aims amply documented by Putin in his Pre Ukraine invasion “letter of offering” to the West have remained a centerpiece of Russian policy for decades….maybe even since the expansion wars of Catherine the great in 1760’s.. Russia’s “imperialist thinking” policy is based on Russia’s perception of needing defensible borders and needing a buffer zone to protect Russia from invasions. It appears that Russian policymakers look at non Russian ethnic lands as sources of wealth, labor and soldiers to support Russia’s “imperialist thinking”. I believe, Russia has interpreted a different version of history by necessity to support its “imperialist thinking”. I am looking forward to an interview of Fiona Hill to address Russia’s economic and political policies in European Russia and in Asian Russia during the present times of a stalemate in the war in Eastern Ukraine.
Brilliant !! We are greatly disadvantaged by her absence from the present administration. I felt that the interviewer did a very good job with the questions.
"Nobody has a sphere of influence anymore" glad that debates are over and fighting is going on to cure such delusions. Literally mentions NATO expansion in the same sentence.
well if she is right, then - by the same logic - England should let go of Scotland, to say the least. Then, of course, she should push to dissolve the "commonwealth" with other ex-imperial provinces.. Am I wrong?
@@josimpson7999 yeah that OLD (but not that old, actually, just over 1 year) argument - (quote from WIKI on the subject): "A second referendum on independence has been proposed, particularly since the UK voted to leave the European Union in a June 2016 referendum and since pro-independence parties increased their majority in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. In June 2022, Nicola Sturgeon proposed the date of 19 October 2023 for a new referendum on Scottish independence, subject to confirmation of its legality and constitutionality.[10] *In November 2022, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled that the Scottish Parliament did not have the power to legislate for a second referendum"*
Furthermore, the Commonwealth is a voluntary group of nations including states that were never part of a British Empire. At least get some facts right.
@@CMDR_Hal_Melamby I do understand; but you surely don't. Why on earth would the supreme court *OF ENGLAND* rule that way? I posted that in *bold* for the extra slow - it wasn't bold enough for you, though
Compared to duplicitous and mendacious charlatans like Boris Johnson - who sabotaged the peace deal between Ukraine and Russia early on in the war - Putin is a veritable saint.
Fiona Hill is great - she’s a deeply experienced Russia expert - fluent Russian speaker - has met Putin in the Kremlin. Unlike Tucker Carlson, she knows what she’s talking about. Tucker allowed himself to be played by Kremlin handlers, and either was aware about and didn’t care, or was too dazzled to notice. His behaviour is entirely shameful. What a clown.
@@philipmulville8218 Tucker Carlson has done the world a service by allowing Putin to articulate his desire for peace (bypassing the warmongering MSM) along the lines of the peace agreement already signed by Zelensky before it was sabotaged by Johnson at the behest of America's Military Industrial Complex. Those crooked individuals in the West who have promoted this entirely unnecessary war resulting in 500k deaths should be held to account.
So refreshing to see someone in the west with a great realistic understanding of the Putin regime and how it must be approached! Thank You for this content!
This is her schtick , a propagandist , pretending to be an expert on Putin and Russia , a fountain of BS is what she is . She comes off like she's clairvoyant , can read Putin's mind . Complete nonsense.
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No, she's a propagandist from the mafia security state, and she should be held to account for facilitating mass mvrder, mass manipulation, mass surveillance and mass extortion, along with her puppeteers in Langley.
If you your comments are full of rus bots, you either doing it right or very wrong.
The bots are US/5e mafia; the Russians don't need bots when they have the truth on their side @@vaultsjan
She's bang on
She's not wrong, she's simply not helpful in the grand scheme.
Remarkable interview! It’s so refreshing to hear an interviewer who actually makes the effort to ask questions that are worthy of the depth of knowledge of the interviewee. Fiona Hill always has an interesting perspective. I especially appreciate her use of England and Wales as examples of the complexity of historical traces between “empires” and their neighbors/conquests.
Yes, it really makes you think!
The next time someone tells me Ukraine should be Russia cuz it once was, I'm gonna say, then I guess we have to give our country back to the Native Americans! 😊 I love it, what a great argument!
I wish Fiona Hill was National Security Advisor to this and the next President.
Nobody I've listened to, since 9/11, 'gets' geo politics the way she does.
Thank you IAI for publishing this, here.
Lol she got this Russia thing so wrong
@@hmmm2564 Bad. Her fancy accent makes her silliness believable to people who don't actually know what's going on. That's how she gets paid.
@@richsackett3423 😂 not surprised
how so?@@hmmm2564
@@hmmm2564 Did she? How? You know better, obviously - tell us.
Gosh, I could listen to her all day - she's clear, intelligent, well-informed, interesting and down to earth. One could wish that more people in power were more like her.
Not bad for a girl born and bred in a working class mining area in Durham, Northern England. Is she?. Her father was a coal miner by the way. Read her book. "There is nothing for you here" by Fiona Hill.
she is mad Arthur
@@aaronl7045 "mad Arthur" ?
@@aaronl7045 Get treatment.
@@aaronl7045 Arthur Scargill? He's mad, that's true.
What an excellent insightful exchange, I truly enjoyed this interview. Thank you for sharing this conversation.
This interview is some of the best content found on TH-cam. Fiona Hill has a perspective on world leaders that few of us will ever get in person. The depth of her knowledge, honesty and ability to articulated her views are incredibly valuable. I always learn something new when listening to her and I am deeply grateful for her insights.
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@@tristanphillips351 She also has a book "There is Nothing For You Here" which is both insightful and humorous. Any politician would do well to read it, not just for understanding Russia, but for tackling domestic problems like unemployment in depressed post-industrial cities in the US and UK. After reading it you'll see where she got the title, which is quite touching.
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Insane warmongering imperialism for people who have convinced themselves of being smart and progressive
Really? All I get is a big yawn ... Tucker Carlson's interview was the real eye-opener.
Thank you for sharing this interview. Ms Hills insights helps to get a hold on reality in these troubled times.
False propaganda by the west .Arthur
@@aaronl7045 WTF are you talking about?
It is nothing but warmed-over cliches from Miss Hill. She modestly claims to have direct insight into Vladimir Putin's thinking.
@@christopheryellman533 No-one can read another’s thoughts. We have to rely on our interpretation of pattern of behaviour of others. What is YOUR interpretation of Putins pattern of behaviour?
@@Johan-vk5yd Unlike you, Johan, I don't interpret his "pattern". National leaders manage a large and complex portfolio of responsibilities which do not lend themselves to a simple pattern. Instead, I have watched many of his international press conferences and speeches at meetings such as the Bucharest Summit in 2008. He is very well prepared and gives thoughtful answers. He is determined to uphold Russian standing in the world. He has brought Russia out of a very difficult economic situation in the late 1990s. He chased the worst of the oligarchs out of Russia so that the assets of the state could be protected. He has always been open to negotiating with the west, but not from a position of weakness. If you watch some of the primary material, you won't need these hack journalists to tell you what to believe.
Ms. Hill is an astute and thoughtful observer of geopolitical issues in Europe. I look forward to her insights. Thanks for this posting.
Thank you from South Africa for a most interesting and informative discussion of the difficult global situation in which we live. Hers is the mind we need if ever we can come to grips with bringing Putin to book, ending the war and establishing a world order where there is respect for the rights of the individual and the rule of law.
Totally fascinating interview. had to listen to it 3 times. As a Slovakian who was born into a Communist Czechoslovakia, I still see a generation of my parents who crave 'the old days' where middle Europe was protected by USSR. I don't believe many people in the West, especially politicians, understand this historical context.
Indeed!
Most people in the West, politicians included, focus on the own nation's history.
(Spaniards think more about Franco than Stalin...)
The countries sacrificed at Yalta thus live in another historical context than the countries that after 1945 were dominated by the US.
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Oh we do, it’s the mindset that Brexit appealed to harking back to the “good old days”. The things is they don’t think of the bad old days too.
@@DelsboThat is very true. The past seduces us.
We understand it as a form of Stockholm Syndrome and remembering the past in a better light than it was.
I could listen to the honorable Fiona Hill, speak all day. She was/is a great servant to humanity and civilization. Wise. Well informed. Unlike 98.9% of what you normally listen to or hear on TH-cam. Listen to Fiona first. Please.
In 2014 Australia proposed troops for Ukraine. Not one country, not any leader, provided a scintilla of backing, and look where the world is now.
I am Aussie. Who proposed this?
Then WW3 would have started in 2014.
Australia was only second fiddle to "you know who". The plan was in the making for decades.
No we didn't. PM Abbott raised it internally and it was not taken further. It was an idea but not a thing.
@@buddyrojek9417 PM Abbott.
What a pleasure it is to listen to deep expertise and big picture thinking. I prefer the Fiona Hills of the world to Tucker Carlson types.
Carlson is an intellectual lightweight and stooge in comparison.
Apples and oranges. Ms. Hill is a respected expert on Putin, while Mr. Carlson might in reality be a Putin asset.
Oh yeah! Me too.
Carlson is small beer and a weasel of a man
With respect to you, there is ABSOLUTELY NO COMPARISON between Ms. Hill & that other “Tucker”…. He’s a certifiable idiot!
20:23 "Our systems are quite limited in the information that gets brought forward."
THIS IS and has always been my beef. It is very difficult to stay truly informed and just hearing mostly personal politics and personal political attacks does nothing for us as civilians to make informed decisions at the voting booth. We end up voting on our emotions or reactions to other people's squabbles. We have to create systems that force our politicians, especially in democratic systems to come forward regularly and sit down and explain their position on issues in a cohesive manner ~ like at a round table with a facilitator to guide the discussion. They should be civil and issue based. That way we could hear more of what is at stake in an issue and what exactly is on the table to be decided. And maybe the people should vote on the biggest issues in ballots, rather than politicians in the halls of Congress. This representation business is not working out well for us. Politicians love their jobs, money, and power and only care about holding onto it. It is time for steep changes in 'our systems' as Fiona expresses here.
It's common for politicians to forget/cancel history. Funny how racism persisted in the 20th century throughout the US.
The problem with your proposal is that votes do not force politicians to do anything.
A politician or political party can promise the heavens and deliver almost nothing while in office and STILL get reelected.
Are operating under the assumption that Western Democracy is seeking Citizen Input?
I can assure you after 50 years of participation that the Average Voter has no power at all.
Nine (9) wars on non NATO countries, since the fall of the Soviet union! Putin's desperately trying to stall, for rearming and recruiting more Cannon fodder!! Everyone who knows him, says so! 🇺🇦💙
It's about general education in geopolitical diplomacy. We are very Anglo centric and nearly no foreign foreign language education. Our system reenforces geopolitical ignorance. Now we have a major Presidential Candidate who knows Nothing about NATO or Pacific alliances or EC economy. It's worse than than is easy to say in a few words
Ms Hill is always thoughtful and in my opinion correct on the issues at hand, particularly when it comes to Russia in the modern era. I would love to take an international relations class with her. She should be teaching our future world leaders.
she would deceive you
She contradicts herself, continually.
@@daryllportas8453 you have to say him
@@daryllportas8453 Give a few examples?
🌎: " The land was changing, methane holes blowing up, water supply would be different too. They decided to take the Crimea port and its waterways. Then, the agricultural area that Ukraine is. Supposedly, they have enough oil to sell, and they would succeed. Their 'leader' has enriched himself. They built many yachts and fortresses to live in. Throughout the world, Scientists, Activists Advocates Artists have been trying for years to provide accurate details. Green Peace has been busy for decades. Finally, the Youth have a voice. Their Citizenship work and environmental insightfulness were removed by prevPrez45 of 🇺🇸 at the Paris Accord 2015. That removed their future assistance by a few men. That included all the other countries at Paris Accord. Men who have never worked in the environment of their countries made such monumental decisions. The rePUB leaders in 🇺🇸 are planning for themselves. Most important? The north american continent was named Turtle Island by our ancestors. We're the Red Nation people. We've been here way longer than others have considered. Until recently. Earth, Nature are in their latest Cleansing Cycle. Don't forget the Mayans chiseled info on stone for future understandings and weather Cycles. Thanks for your words and reading these.
Thanks Ms. Hill for the aerial view you bring. I wonder if countries are really willing to create level playing fields and shared notions of history. In US we can’t seem to find common ground and each side has their own story of “what happened” in the past. I really hope that your optimism can flourish in the minds of our fellow earthlings as we look to the future.
Fiona Hill is wise beyond the grasp of most people -- including myself. At some point, we, as humans have to start listening to people like her if we are to thrive.
Thank you for this interview. Always appreciate the chance to hear Fiona Hill's assessments.
@@tristanphillips351 nonsense. She worked for the US govt. Does it really mean she is acting out your conspiracy theory? She knows what she is talking about.
Please read - "The U.S. tried to change other countries’ governments 72 times during the Cold War" Washington post: 23rd Dec 2016:@@ianstevenson3628
She would never have made it this far in the British government. Too plebeian. US harnessed her talent. She’s a star.
@@sararichardson737 yeah!
It's a pity, but Britain has not yet been able to harness its talents (unless they are born in the social classes that can afford to send their kids to Oxford).
@@jmolofsson so much talent and ability overlooked or rather shut out because they are Non U or PLU (people like us). I quit the UK and languish abroad.
As a signatory of the Budapest Memorandum, we should have had troop in Ukraine to defend their sovereignty when we observed Russian troop buildup on the Ukrainian border.
@@corgigirluser ask NULAND
Ukraine was, is and will be used by everyone as a convenient tool to solve their own problems. It's a common thing in global politics, as much as blaming your own mistakes on others. Wait for 20-40 years, just to see how everyone don't understand and hate Ukraine for being so aggressive and resentful towards past events.
@@corgigirluser lol He is the reason the war started... FFS
@heathclark318 no he wasn't, Putin was the reason.
President for 23 years? What is wrong with the people of the country? Are they actually happy with his leadership?
Ms. Hill is always intuitive and informative. She has an extensive knowledge.
Relatively happy. Consider what was prior, or what worse could be. Putin has brought Russia out of the Soviet Collapse, into a world energy export leader, with rising economics ahead. The US "sanctions" have actually made Putin and Russia stronger. Contrast that with the last 40 years of the self-serving clowns running US? Only thing they have really done is put US in massive and ever increasing debt.
Imagine that.. We are actually happy with him and his ratings show it.
Always appreciate Fiona Hill and her wonderful brain. We sure need her at the DNC this coming year. Dennis
Hear Hear!
The DNC is haughty, self-enamored, and full of hubris. Hill would be turned away at the gate - too intelligent and reasonable.
Great short talk. M.Hill has always been someone to listen to. Especially as she was inside the Profa admin of 45 and even if if she had no constructive impact, was a witness. The long term disregard of Putin’s nature by the successive Western European and US admins since his rise remains problematic at best. Obama took his eye of the ball re-Putin, and Netanyahu’s colonial visions.
To be clear, former President Obama had such Republican opposition during the economic downturn, that what he did accomplish at home was amazing.
The world has suffered from Reagan Republicans' neocon worldview and now the fallout from Trump's MAGA isolationist extreme nationalism.
To be clear,
former President Obama's accomplishments at home during the economic downturn are amazing considering Republicans' opposition to any progress.
The Reagan Republican neocon worldview, and now the Trump MAGA extreme nationalism are continuing to cause conflict and regression.
So natural an enviornment to conduct an interview with an intelligent lady.
Fiona Hill's analysis of Putin is very acurate and on point. Very illuminating but frightening as well. Her Analysis of Donald Trump is equally as illuminating. She has done well from the educational chances she's had and good luck to her. She shows how we humans are a very selfish Fiona Hill should be a world leader she makes sense...
Hey bro! Today you forgot get your dementia pills😂😂
Well done .......Fiona Hill....so intelligent/perceptive !
Educated and insightful. Love hearing her analysis
YES!!! Always like to hear Fiona Hill's perspective on Russia. It's been a while.
Excellent. Fiona Hill is an expert in her field of endeavor.
Fiona Hill is a breath of fresh air.
Fiona is so smart and wise… not always found together. Hope the leaders of democratic nations take her views into consideration as they deal with these issues
It's a reminder of the time when Gorbachev took over. A lot of people commented that from Eisenhower to Reagan U.S. Presidents dealt with only 2 Soviet leaders, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. In the same time we had 7 presidential administrations, 4 Republican, 3 Democratic. It's no surprise that continuity of understanding and perspective of the Soviet Union shifted in the US while matters there remained (relatively) constant.
Also, the USSR was a one-party system. To all practical purposes, so is Russia today.
The Soviet Union ended 32 years ago. The US (and its vassals in Europe) has spent those decades trying to break up the Russian Federation, Balkanize it, and steal its VAST resources.
what about Andropov and Chernenko?
@@igorfazlyev right. Not that they lasted very long, or had real power like the other two.
Nine (9) wars on non NATO countries, since the fall of the Soviet union! Putin's desperately trying to stall, for rearming and recruiting more Cannon fodder!! Everyone who knows him, says so! 🇺🇦💙 (🙏☮️)
very interesting. Thank you, Fiona.
Good question about neutral countries !!! Oh, and terrific points brought out about what is history and its effects. Hell, just a fantastic interview and, most of all, fantastic Fiona Hill. Thanks.
It is uncanny how Fiona Hill manages to sum up historical examples that actually make solid sense to any layman - and in a way that comes across as really impartial!
The interviewer came up with convoluted questions that I struggled with understanding, but Fiona managed to clarify in her answers and explanations. I am in awe of this woman's intelligence and eloquence!
I’m currently reading her book and went hunting on TH-cam for a refresher on how her voice sounds, so that I can hear what I’m reading in my mind’s ear in her inflection and accent! So much respect for this accomplished woman.
Fiona Hill is incredibly fascinating.
This is an illusion that you can not choose the side. Thank you for this interview from Ukrainian.
This is brilliant. What an incredible, intelligent, and grounded view on recent events. I am also from the northeast and county Durham. It's incredibly liberating to hear her speak in a tone of voice that I totally trust and believe in
Well she is clearly one of the better analysts but some of her assumptions are simply wrong
And I did read her book about Siberia cover to cover
Having a lot of knowledge is relatively easy but explaining it in an understandable way is a gift. She’s got it
Thank you Ms. Fiona Hill for your service.
It is not a court/legal case or a beauty contest. Eventually it boils down to the number one real question of power. Powerful countries want an order around their borders in line with their perception of security, and they will try to achieve that. If they are powerful enough they will achieve that, if they are not then they will lose. Time will show .
When we consider Russian relations with other Nations of Asia,
they appear to be among a large group of Friends?
When we inspect NATO relations with former Warsaw Pact Nations,
the relationship appears strained at times.
The amount of money spent since Victoria Nuland began to work in the State Department,
is only one indication of corruption that makes the USA the equal of Kyiv......
Kyiv has seen more Empires struggle over their Region than the United States appears to accumulate.
The US did agree to respect the treaty rights of Red Cloud in 1868.
But some fool found gold.
You forgot to say totalitarian powerful countries. Also Russia think she is entitled to rule satelite counries of USSR.
Not really, they want to steal Ukrainian resources and will invent whatever story they need to cover for that. That's why the justification changes with every interview.
Putin ideology is borderless though. Across the Russian Federation there are giant billboards of Putin with slogans declaring that the Russky Mir or “Russian World” is borderless. Westerners don’t yet have a grasp on this doctrine. What it boils down to is that Russian Imperialism has no respect for sovereignty, self determination or agency of any smaller neighbors. They feel that they own this land in principle but have yet to physically possess it.
Baltic and Caucasian countries are well aware of this doctrine. The Baltic countries were wise to team up with NATO because anyone who does not eventually winds up being invaded like Chechnya, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine.
What is power? Is it the power of nations to provide opportunity fir a good life for every citizen? I wish this was the definition.
Hey, Fiona! What about Kosovo? How does that work with your arguments?
The US Empire with Military Bases in locations around the Planet, seems to be the aggressive gang?
The ability of a Woman with an agenda, serving the needs of Bankers to exploit other Nations,
with Fiat Dollars that lost support long ago,
might appear a wee bit hypocritical when she tries to implicate Putin as aggressive?
Ukraine being given $50 billion to attack Russians appears to the World as an aggressive move.
The delivery of another $40 billion from the IMF to bribe Oligarchs like Rinat Akhmetov,
seems to emphasize that effort to buy the Kyiv Government.
But the stability of the US Fiat Dollar to actually display any financial stability seems to indicate that the US Empire needs the resources that now appear to be hidden behind a BRICS Wall.
Without resources the US Economy has nothing to offer.
It is for beacon of hope and world's policeman to decide, what rules to apply, not for us humble usual people and countries.
@@glebarhangelsky4351 So you do not believe in Democracy?
@@danielhutchinson6604In small Greek ancient town or Swiss canton - a bit, in big empire - absolutely not.
@@glebarhangelsky4351 after 50 years of participation in Conventions in the USA,
it is pretty clear that Democracy is not involved in the process in that region.
I agree.....
Great interview. To me, we can’t, and should not appease Putin
go and fight in UKRAINE then
Interesting and an intelligent program. Host is very knowledgeable and well informed ❤👍
Incredible lady ,extremely pragmatic, phenomenal understanding of modern history and her delivery is concise, easy to understand her opinions. I love this lady.
One thing is certain, violence never solved anything. Empires don’t last forever and never will. Territorial grabs generally produce opposite effects than expected. Putin doesn’t realize that his is only wishful thinking that causes lots of suffering in Ukraine.
Putin is sick, vain and paranoid. But the trouble is that he understands perfectly well what a tragedy he has created.
Violence helped Putin to stay in power, despite having all chances to be deposed and sentenced for life in 2013/2014. Russian opposition had an opportunity to seize power, but too fragmentated and civilised to act upon it.
When a police officer apprehends a criminal, is that violence?
@@erickborling1302Well, it is if the cop is arresting a critic and not a criminal.
This woman is an example of the great benefit that immigration has brought to this country. She grew up in working class England, took advantage of educational opportunities there and in the US and now is highly respected for her knowledge of and incisive perspective on world events - particularly as it applies to Russia and Putin. She is truly the preeminent expert on Putin.....
Our loss in the UK.
she is a war hawk, she should not be anywhere near positions of influence
@@afterburnerfox and Putin is a war monger
@@afterburnerfoxcause she support Ukraine defending itself?! Or something else?!
Shes a myopic narcissist think tank shill for corporate empire.
Mrs. Hill is very correct about the importance of setting Historical understanding correct. In the US, for example, politics plays a strong role in history education. To the point that the same books have different contents depending on the state you live. All to cater to political rhetoric (i.e.: Civil War facts, slavery, Civil Rights movements, etc). If we grow up with different/distorted views of our history (shapes our minds and thought process), how can we agree later on important things? My guess is that the distorted views happen by design...
Pluralism is a good thing. In Russia, we have one single version of history. The wrong one.
@@ГлебВерховский-п2р Pluralism is certainly not good in regards to history, truth and facts. Sorry the situation in Russia is like that. Here several versions of history are disputed as correct, despite historical records, and that is exploited in different ways by politicians of the worst kind.
@@corujariousa Pluralism is the only way that leads to the truth. The right version sooner or later wins. Starting with one single (and usually wrong) version is a way to a disaster.
No, distorted views are outcome of complexity of the social system we live in. It's so complex that any planning never guarantees only envisaged outcomes, or even desired ones. E.g., a large country cannot be controlled from a single centre, hence even if a single centre exists in addition to regional centres (federal vis state parliaments/governments) it can hardly enforce any homogeneity of outcomes.
@@ГлебВерховский-п2р so you, the god of history itself, have decided that its the wrong one
Interesting.....thanks. Having interacted with Ukrainians, they definitely believe they are a real nation and I've not seen levels of bravery and resolve like I have in Ukrainians in my lifetime.
Someone’s identity has nothing to do with a belief about oneself. It has something to do with being. A cat doesn’t believe itself he is a cat. He IS a cat. Ukrainians don’t have to explain themselves why they are a nation with their own unique identity. Russia is an abuser that is begging for love from Ukraine. And an abuser will tell you anything to earn your trust.
Which Ukrainians? East Ukrainians or West Ukrainians? By the way, did you know that the largest receiver of Ukrainian refugees is Russia, not any Western country?
@@ludviglidstrom6924
And the latest maker of refugees is......???
Great hearing Fiona's point of view here. Thank you.
One of my two favorite FIONA's! Fiona Hill and Fiona Macleod!
Fantastic Historical Analysis about International Perspectives:)!
Would Love to Chat about This
Amazing how on point she is here given what Putin said in the recent interview.. going back to the 9th C
Doesn’t matter if she is right or wrong, the history line works well for every power to justify its actions in present… name me any exceptions please if its not true
History is important for the present and the future. You can't cancel history, you only learn from it. In this case Russians know they've been invaded several times through Ukraine and that explains the Paranoia. Secondly why isn't she speaking about the coup and the civil war?
The dream for the US/UK imperialists is the end of history, which they openly proclaimed in the 90s… what does that mean? It means they want to stop objective historical development of competing ideas, nations, generations etc and establish US based neo liberal order across the entire globe
Putin is completely rewriting history to justify its actions. In the new Russian history books they seriously claim that they are great saviours of the world who have never attacked anyone, but won every war. Russians during Putin have adopted a mentality of total moral superiority and dehumanisation of Ukrainians and the whole western world. They truly believe almost every other nation should be ruled by Russia.
The dream of the US/UK imperialism is the end of history that they proclaimed in the 90s.. this is a world order based on the model and views of the west… thats why they hate even the idea history continuing its objective evolutionary process
The US officially has 823 military bases all over the world. So talking about spheres of influence in this context is somewhat embarrassing)))
American military base in your country is a double edged sword. Some countries benefit from this protection. Strategically though, America doesn't want to risk loosing these bases so meddling in affairs in that country or surrounding country would should be carefully considered
Only Russia is invading and annexing countries..
Neither Nato nor the US have annexed ANY countries since WWII.. the bases are to counter Russian and Chinese aggression, which was amply demonstrated in the Korean war of 1950-53
Thanks for letting us know Yagubov
I'm sure most Australians prefer US bases to bases of any autocratic regime's.
@@RomanGolubev_A well they have their own military, I'd prefer no bases at all
Dr Fiona Hill has substantial intellectual skills. She
• understands the geopolitics at a local level,
• can place this on national and international levels, and across history, and
• is able to communicate her analyses to both high level stakeholders and laypeople.
It is interesting to hear the British lecture the Russians about Empire.
They were once family.
But then one lost imperialism, and the other sought it.
Agreed - they sought it in Argentina, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine,…
@@Gordonthevetof course......😅😅😅
a voice and wisdom that should not only comment, explain and open eyes - it should lead and initiate developments.
The world would be much better.
hosted by institute of Arts and Ideas. How appropriate! Very creative interview a lot of ideas presented :D
Fiona Hill is still Brilliant and interesting and well thought out. She is definitely a person with significant input into what’s happening in the world today.
Fiona HiLL
Great lesson!
Thank you ‼️
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I adore Fiona Hill! I agree totally with everything she says. Smart lady, world leaders should listen. Prime ministers, Kings, Presidents, men, listen to Fiona Hill and act on her statements. Now.
I agree. Listen to her and then do the opposite 😅😂
Ms Hill is a dreadful woman. Saw her before congess and it was clear she has an enormous ego and thought she ought to be running Kiyv. A Trump hater of the worst kind, totally supported by Amanpour now, which says it all.
Fully agree with Fiona Hills: when one speaks Russian doesn't mean one is Russian by nationality. It was the policy in the Russian empire and then in the USSR to make different peoples speak Russian. Using mother tongues in society life, in literature was often prohibited.
The English did the same thing in Scotland. They effectively banned the speaking of Scots Gaelic after the Battle of Culloden, along with other aspects of Highland culture, accelerating the destruction of an ancient way of life.
It was commonplace throughout the British Empire to enforce the use of English. It’s what empires do.
I was born in USSR. Using mother-tongue language was encouraged.
@@marynamalitskaya3534 I was also born in the Soviet Union. We learnt the Ukrainian language at school ( the country was called Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic). But it was the second language to Russian. In most schools, universities, newspapers, on the radio and television and so on Russian was language Number one.
@@НатальяМожаева-н8кis that mean what you said? Ukrainian language was prohibited? Really? Why you’re, guys, always like this?
@@marynamalitskaya3534 , would you be so kind as to read carefully? I said " OFTEN prohibited". Just in case, the Valuev decree 1863 and the Ems decree 1876 prohibited the Ukrainian language in different spheres of life. One more thing, to protect the language of my own country is not at all " why are you, guys, always like that".
The most insightful and intelligent discussion/analysis of current world politics 👌 👏 👍
Thank you Fiona HiLL 🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝
Fiona Hill has a depth of integrity that's admirable. I hope we can get her back but she is really amazing.
I certainly agree with everything Fiona is talking about,she is such a smart lady and very much aware of troubling things around the world ,there’s so much for us to do if we don’t want to loose our democracy especially here in the USA ,she is brilliant in what she does for sure !
I have great respect for this woman.
Putin said he had NO intention of invading Ukraine, as Russian tanks lined up at the Ukrainian border. He said it was just "Western paranoia". EVERBODY saw the tanks, and heard Putin's denial. Then Russia invaded. Enough said.
And a single declaration of Ukraine never to join NATO would have send this tanks back to the barracks
Honestly it was clear Russia was gonna invade in the end of 2021. And the CIA ran around saying, "We have intelligence that Russia's gonna invade!"
No sh*t Sherlock. I have access to no intelligence and I can see Russia's gonna invade! What's the West gonna do, watch the war happen like they watched Crimea be taken? Also given Bush said Ukraine could join in 2008, why wasn't Ukraine added in 2009, since Finland joined in a year? I mean cause it was clear from 2008 when Russia objected, that Ukraine joining NATO was their redline and yet the West did nothing to help Ukraine. Just kept promising Ukraine NATO membership one day...as Ukraine lost more and more territory. Even today, Ukraine is gonna join... one day....angering Russia. Probably by that magical day when Ukraine can finally join NATO, Ukraine won't even exist. The West and Russia should be ashamed of what they've done to Ukraine!
@@goenzoy712 That's not true. Putin does not care about NATO, he understands that it is a defensive block. His goal is to wipe out Ukrainian national identity and russianize Ukraine.
Your wrong! NATO has been gobbling Country's next to Russia for years! Putin finally put his foot down!
It's not really about Nato, so no, it wouldn't have helped
I do find myself very largely agreeing with Fiona Hill's slightly gloomy, frustratingly opaque outlook for solving the Ukraine problem. I absolutely understand her point about not permitting Putin to read history backwards (with his own ingenious slant) and use it as the model by which we should settle scores. Time has moved on. We live in the present. NATO may have moved East but it has never been anything other than a mutual defence agreement and has never been a threat to Russia. Russia has outraged Western alliances by an invasion of a sovereign nation with the intention of setting up a puppet government. In all honesty, it was not his intention to blitz it to pieces, but once resistance was encountered : in for a penny, in for a pound! Everything Fiona mentioned about Putin I found to be objectively true; he sees himself after twenty-three years in power as some kind of modern Tsar, a man with a mission for his country. It is very difficult to deal with such a mindset around a negotiating table, however many "extras" you draw in for counterweights!
But why you people fought tooth-n-nail war in 1982 for Falkland Islands which is Argentina's back-yard?
Thank u so much for the interview.
I met many people from former soviet union & the common complain was always this one: oppression & scarce of food for the population. God bless all the ones who came to the west right after the greatest leader of ever: Gorbatchev: a well read & boad minded Sir who realised his country was so far from well being like in the west.
Nobody ever talks about "Nyet means Nyet" - read it to understand why Russia invaded. and how it could have been avoided..
How about we let Ukraine decide for themselves who they want to be allied with?
Eastern Europe decided too and after decades of stagnation and poverty they are catching up with the Western European countries.
@@tijldeclerck7772 Totally correct, ignore the rubbish from people who hate their own lives and the system the west lives under because they feel short changed by it and just want the world in chaos.
@@tijldeclerck7772If that is the case, then why was the west involved in the 2014 revolution against their elected president?
@@tijldeclerck7772 letting Ukraine decide for themselves who they want to be allied with is a great idea until you realise that the west doesnt really believe that everyone should be able to decide for themselves who they want to be allied with. Only those who choose the West or serve western interests should have a right to self-determination. I lived in turkey for almost 7 years and i worked for a company that employed alot of Ukrainians for over 2 years. One thing i learnt that doesnt get talked about enough in the English press is that there are some Russian speaking ukrainians who dont agree with the direction their government took after 2014 and these people were fighting a civil war with the government in Ukraine before 2022. The position that western governments have taken on the war basically says that these people dont have a right to self-determination.
@@tijldeclerck7772 NATO promised that after East Germany joined West Germany in NATO, there would be no more expansion of NATO to the East. That promise has been broken time and time again. Understandably Russia doesn't want American nukes on its border - just as America didn't want Soviet missiles based in Cuba (and Moscow backed down). Countries have to get on with their neighbours and NATO countries have made no attempt to make friends with Russia - if anything, the opposite has happened.
The Americans have encouraged Ukraine and Georgia to become NATO members - but all the European countries said this was a bad idea - however Britain and the USA pushed it through. The USA Ambassador to Moscow also warned in 2008 of the likely consequences. Either NATO generals were stupid or reckless and now we have a war. Keep on this way and it will become worse. It is America that caused this - it doesn't care a jot for Ukrainian lives, it just wants to increase its hegemony. If Ukraine "wins" there will be American troops in multiple places in Ukraine. Personally I would prefer to live in a Europe that stretches from Lisbon to Vladivostock - rather than a USA that stretches from Los Angeles to Minsk.
The result of this American conflict is that Europe has lost access to cheap Russian fuel - buying instead expensive American Shale gas and Europe has lost access to the Russian market. This is a disaster for Europe - just as it has been a disaster for Ukraine. The only country to gain has been the USA..
Not sure if Wales-UK relationship is the best counter example to Ukraine-Russia relationship.
A better comparison is the Irish-English relationship
@@michaelmazowiecki9195why? Was Ireland ever capitol? Don't believe this anti-colonial bullshit, Ukraine was capitol region. Just in WW1 Germany needed to cancel Russia and delegitimised corrupt Moscow branch of Rurik dynasty from all angles.
Now Zelensky is claiming Ukraine successor of ancient Russia. Finally this has started to unfold in natural direction. I am praying that world saw that Russia just wants to reunite, remembered gratitude for all sacrifices for humanity Russian people did in 20th century and steered this civil war (at least in 1991 Ukrainian people voted in favour of preserving union) to constructive, just and, if posible, lawful resolution. The problem is that NATO supports all kinds of separatists including radical islamists and nazi collaborators and has broken international law system in 1999
@@michaelmazowiecki9195why?
@@Leonid-e5i English conquest of Wales was done by the 14th century and Wales integrated within the English legal system etc to the point that the Union Jack does not have a Welsh element. A far better UK equivalent of Ukraine v Russia is Ireland v England where English rule has been imposed to a greater or lesser degree with tragic consequences for the Irish for the past 800 years.
@@michaelmazowiecki9195 I still don't understand the difference
Great analysis thank you Fiona Hill.
An eloquent, insightful historical lesson. Thanks, Fiona!
It's so refreshing to hear Fiona Hill talk such a vast amount of commonsense.
I totally agree with Ms Hill’s view on Russian revanchism and obsession with its imperial past. How we can collectively encourage Russia to evolve and move on from this world view is going to be a major theme of this century.
what about UK? Turkey? Iran? These are not economicists country.... they think as empires
@@GiambattistaRossi
Thanks for your thought provoking comment.
Britain abandoned any pretense to be an imperial power after World War Two and the Suez Canal Crisis in 1956.
Turkey has a lingering imperial reflex to its foreign relations but in reality it is a regional power flexing its muscle in its immediate environs - Syria, Libya and the Black Sea - where its incursions are not with the intent of subjugating or colonizing the local people unlike Russia in Ukraine.
Perhaps the same could be said about Iran in its religious solidarity with Shia militia in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.
What distinguishes Russia from Iran or Turkey is its imperial mindset (the recent Carlson “interview” of Putin is proof enough) that transcends the level of projection of self-interest or mere geopolitical tension.
@@paulsummers9533 empire never abandons their feeling to be. It is the mindset that stays in it. Uk like many others still pretend to think as an empire.
@@GiambattistaRossi As an Australian, I feel the UK has been reduced to a little island with “soft” global power and reach thanks to the language it exported.
@@paulsummers9533 I live in London. I experience Brexit and it is a sign of empire renaissance.
Too much power tends to corrupt, Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
This says it all.
On 19 November 1999, when Putin was PM, both Russia and Ukraine signed the Charter for European Security.
Clause 8: " Each participating State has an equal right to security. We reaffirm the inherent right of each and *_every participating State to be free to choose or change its security arrangements, including treaties of alliance,_* as they evolve.'
... *_"no State ... can consider any part of the OSCE area as its sphere of influence.”_*
On the same day, Yeltsin said to Clinton "Just give Europe to Russia... you know it has to be done...". (P562 _"Declassified Documents Concerning Russian President Boris Yeltsin · Clinton Digital Library"),_
Yeltsin was trying to do another Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact.
Despite this, US continued, to this day, to lie that Russia is "in" the UN when it is not a member and the UK, France and US sneaked it in in violation of the UN Charter, arming it with impunity, influence, and "get out of jail free cards" to buy and corrupt vulnerable countries.
Despite the fact that a regime unlawfully claiming a permanent membership and veto in the UN was expelled by a 58% majority resolution of the General Assembly in A/RES/2758 in *_1971,_* with *_no power of the UNSC to veto,_* the US, corrupt UN bureaucrats and astroturf propaganda outlets like "KickRussiaOut" continue to lie that it "cannot be done".
Despite the fact that both the UNSC and the UN General Assembly ruled that States "cannot automatically continue the membership" of Federations which ceased to exist, in A/RES/47/1 in _*1992, *_ and the fact that even Yeltsin wasn’t stupid enough to claim “inherititance”, the US, the corrupt UN Secretary-General, and sites like KickRussiaOut repeat the troll factory lie that the kremlin somehow "inherited" an expired membership of a state which Russia itself had left while it was still in existence containing other member states, before it ceased to exist.
Ukrainian pipe dream. Keep dreaming.
The state is the party. The party is the state. The party still exists hence so does the state.
All this was before the 2014 Coup in Kiev. Let alone, before recognizing Kosovo's independence from Serbia, which opened a can of worms where the US only shot itself in the foot. Regarding now Crimea having the same rights under this pretext to leave Ukraine and join Russia, which it ended up doing.
@@victorsamsung2921 "Crimea having the same rights under this pretext to leave Ukraine and join Russia,"
Yes, agreed. If citizens wish to do that, then they do it, peacefully but usually not peacefully because not everyone suddenly wants to join Russia. if the door is opened to the possibility, some will take that door and generate armed conflict when someone does not get his way.
@@victorsamsung2921 There was no coup in 2014. Ukrainians protesting for greater freedom abs integration with Europe is called DEMOCRACY.
Great interview! Thank you! ❤
You are spot on Fiona.
So Ireland should be United.
How on earth was that your takeaway from this interview??? 😂😂
@@anonemaus4445 I think the point being made here - using Ms Hill’s reasoning -is that nowadays we should no longer feel obliged to accept borders drawn up by former colonial powers- just because it was the done thing a few hundred years ago doesn’t make it ok to continue doing now
Ireland should be United. And then they should become part of the U.K.. And then the UK should re-join the E.U.
Yes
Absolutely
You have to listen to her as a learned scholar and expert. However don't forget as a US establishment figure she comes from that perspective.
Additionally, the points about spheres of influence are slightly absurd. The US has the Monroe doctrine! Search the 2 main reasons the US gave for joining the 1st World War (1 of which is that Germany was making secret military treaties with Mexico). Can you imagine what would happen if the Chinese started making treaties that could post Chinese military in Mexico or Ireland? The West has a fit about China having 1 military base in the Arabian gulf and potential one in the Pacific thousands of miles away from any Western country or their direct interests.
"The US has the Monroe doctrine!"
And Manifest Destiny.
Oh here we talk about 1st world war again… stop adding ancient history to present. Same thing putin does.
Fiona Hill was also reportedly
persuading Kiev to reject Russia's peace deal togheter with BoJo at the begining of Russia attack
I doubt whether Ukraine needed a lot of convincing. They would have been well aware that, in appeasing Putin, the Maidan would have been all for nothing. Putin had, and has, no interest in maintaining the pre 2014 borders.
Exactly thank you for making this point
Thanks Fiona! Well explained
this whole interview was a case study in agit-prop
Ms Hill is so wise..could listen to her all day
One of the critical people I listen to when she's got something to say.
The USA took 7 western states from Mexico by force how about your theory on spheres of influence applied to the Monroe doctrine?.
This is an excellent interview. I believe Fiona Hill has a good and realistic understanding of Russia’s psyche and Putin’s view of Russia’s place in today’s international setting. I agree that Russia remains an empire at heart. I believe that Russia cannot disengage from an “imperialist thinking” of considering the Baltic States, Ukraine and Central Asia as Lands of Russian State influence. I cannot consider the possibility that Russia will change this version of “imperialist thinking”. Putin’s Russia and the Russia of any successor of Putin will retain Russia’s “imperialist thinking” because it offers security and wealth to Russia. I agree that sovereignty and territorial integrity are concepts that have completely different interpretation by Russian policymakers. I think that Russian policymakers have developed a different interpretation of sovereignty and territorial integrity in order to justify expanded borders for Russia. I think, Russia has no alternative as an “imperialist thinking” State but aim at controlling the Baltic States, Ukraine, Central Asian Turkish States and excreting controlling influence over Finland, Poland and Romania. These policy aims amply documented by Putin in his Pre Ukraine invasion “letter of offering” to the West have remained a centerpiece of Russian policy for decades….maybe even since the expansion wars of Catherine the great in 1760’s.. Russia’s “imperialist thinking” policy is based on Russia’s perception of needing defensible borders and needing a buffer zone to protect Russia from invasions. It appears that Russian policymakers look at non Russian ethnic lands as sources of wealth, labor and soldiers to support Russia’s “imperialist thinking”. I believe, Russia has interpreted a different version of history by necessity to support its “imperialist thinking”. I am looking forward to an interview of Fiona Hill to address Russia’s economic and political policies in European Russia and in Asian Russia during the present times of a stalemate in the war in Eastern Ukraine.
Brilliant !!
We are greatly disadvantaged by her absence from the present administration.
I felt that the interviewer did a very good job with the questions.
Fiona Hill is brilliant. More people and that includes politicians on high level schould listen to her and that would improve the world order.
"Nobody has a sphere of influence anymore" glad that debates are over and fighting is going on to cure such delusions. Literally mentions NATO expansion in the same sentence.
well if she is right, then - by the same logic - England should let go of Scotland, to say the least. Then, of course, she should push to dissolve the "commonwealth" with other ex-imperial provinces.. Am I wrong?
Not that old argument again! 🙄
At the last vote, Scotland voted against independence. Keep up!
@@josimpson7999 yeah that OLD (but not that old, actually, just over 1 year) argument - (quote from WIKI on the subject):
"A second referendum on independence has been proposed, particularly since the UK voted to leave the European Union in a June 2016 referendum and since pro-independence parties increased their majority in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. In June 2022, Nicola Sturgeon proposed the date of 19 October 2023 for a new referendum on Scottish independence, subject to confirmation of its legality and constitutionality.[10] *In November 2022, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled that the Scottish Parliament did not have the power to legislate for a second referendum"*
@@dave_m31370and your point is?
A copy and paste of text you don't understand, clearly.
Furthermore, the Commonwealth is a voluntary group of nations including states that were never part of a British Empire.
At least get some facts right.
@@CMDR_Hal_Melamby I do understand; but you surely don't. Why on earth would the supreme court *OF ENGLAND* rule that way? I posted that in *bold* for the extra slow - it wasn't bold enough for you, though
Excellent analysis..
Especially compared to the post-Tucker interview reaction of many on the right who are declaring him to be a Very Fine Fellow.
Compared to duplicitous and mendacious charlatans like Boris Johnson - who sabotaged the peace deal between Ukraine and Russia early on in the war - Putin is a veritable saint.
Fiona Hill is great - she’s a deeply experienced Russia expert - fluent Russian speaker - has met Putin in the Kremlin. Unlike Tucker Carlson, she knows what she’s talking about. Tucker allowed himself to be played by Kremlin handlers, and either was aware about and didn’t care, or was too dazzled to notice. His behaviour is entirely shameful. What a clown.
@@philipmulville8218 Tucker Carlson has done the world a service by allowing Putin to articulate his desire for peace (bypassing the warmongering MSM) along the lines of the peace agreement already signed by Zelensky before it was sabotaged by Johnson at the behest of America's Military Industrial Complex. Those crooked individuals in the West who have promoted this entirely unnecessary war resulting in 500k deaths should be held to account.
She is the Chancellor of my Uni :D
Wish to meet her one day!!
Thank you, Fiona! I was private sector in Russia through all of this (from 1990 on) and it was fascinating.
So refreshing to see someone in the west with a great realistic understanding of the Putin regime and how it must be approached! Thank You for this content!
Fiona Hill’s analysis is very informative and articulated immaculately; a joy to listen to. Her books are superb also, thanks for this video!
This is her schtick , a propagandist , pretending to be an expert on Putin and Russia , a fountain of BS is what she is . She comes off like she's clairvoyant , can read Putin's mind . Complete nonsense.
Always love listening to Fiona Hill’s wisdom. I have to admit she put my thoughts and feelings into very cogent reasoned arguments.
Wisdom ? You've been had , bud.
@@JohnR-z9h Butt Hurt MAGA or Russian Troll? Not much difference.
@@JohnR-z9h You russian bro?
Lol but she was Soo wrong
@@hmmm2564 What precisely was she wrong about?
She's really a treasure, clear and insightful 😎
Thank you!
Excellent informative talk thank you 👍