There was a guy I was flirting back and forth with, but he was always a hard core tankie type. ...Vladimir Putin kept me from getting laid.😡

@@grmpEqweer Maybe you dodged a bullet, you never know with tankies

Ditto. The "Alt-Left" VV talks about is hardly left (imo) and nothing unintelligent they say at this point is shocking. But Chomsky, West, Wolff? Ugh, their tankie takes have been just horrific.

@@jeffreyhanc1711 I think that Vlad talking of 'americacentrism' is spot on.

American imperialism is generally bad. However America isn't the only imperial power in the world and not everything it does is bad. The way American leftists will swoon for any counter party, be it a major or regional imperial power is... frustrating.

@@bilic8094 You can't compare your word vomit with an actual intelligent argument.

@@bilic8094Russia is invading its neighbours, speaking about restoring Russian imperium, allying with countries like Iran and North Korea and threatening to nuke western capitals, but there's nothing to worry about?

I am western european, and i strongly feel that eastern european intellectuals have been ignored by the western europeans while they were right all along.

Current Russia is worse than UdSSR in the sum of its years and Ukraine needs NATO more than Sweden and Finland.

@@bilic8094 Why can't anyone compare Russia to the Soviet Union? The leader of Russia is a former member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who was a KGB officer. He is literally a product of the Soviet Union.

Budapest Memorandum, ahem...

​@@Too-Odd Thats a hilarious reversion of reality. Putin is habituationally threatening the west with nuclear distraction since 2008, started the biggest recent war in europe, yet somehow the west, who had been going so easy on russia (see ressource trade and high tech exports) supposedly kept the cold war on. Not to mention, "Ukrainian coup". I guess the parliament voting against teh president and the president resignating is a bit too complicated for some fascist sympathizer like you?

​@@Too-Oddrussia broke the Helsinki accords.

​@@Too-OddAnd when it comes to the Budapest Memorandum, it was broken by Russia through its economic war and the unilateral sanctions against Ukraine in 2013. Which led to the Euro Maidan. The signatories, Great Britain and the USA, have kept to the letter of their treaty commitment through their support. Which was completely foreseeable. Incidentally, China has made similar promises to Ukraine, including military aid. But it is known to be just as dishonest as Russia

@@Too-Odd No idea what you mean. It's really blatant how proponents of war lie their way out of all kinds of treaties. If you have the nerve, you can read the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights on the admittedly confusing Internet platform of the European Parliament. The case of the Netherlands and Ukraine against Russia. Which is why Russia was kicked out of the European Parliament and declared a state sponsor of terror. All crimes are listed separately in the judgment.

Left in Ukraine is definitely not the same as left in the US (and the rest of western Europe that can't seem to get off America's despite talking shit all the time)

Zelenksky and his fascist regime puppets of the imperialist west aren't a solution

I completely agree and if such a regime were to attack our Canada I would hope and pray we would react with at least half of the bravery, courage and love of place Ukraine has shown.

as an Ukrainian leftist, you're either dead or somewhere else, but definitely not in ukraine

Good luck to your country on its new status as ground zero for the restart of European neoliberalism, im sure your new series of right wing corrupt nationalist governments will be infinitely better than the other corrupt nationalist government out east

Well said!

This makes me sick. One thing is to have no clue about the facts, another is to fabricate ones to suit your agenda, and denying the victims justice in the process!

His many demonstrated false citations are another damning thing about him. He deserves to be pilloried. His Cambodian genocide denial knocked him out of the realm of respectability for about 15 years, but in the 90s it was all forgotten about and people started listening to him again. Chomsky is a total villain.

@@MaggieKeizai I think in the same way John Pilger has turned out to be...

Chomsky has always been one one mindset, one that you'll find in lots of western socialists and is easy to boil down: America = bad, and therefore anyone that opposes America = good

Sometimes better to become an ally with your enemy, rather than with the enemy of your enemy.

Yup, which makes them liars and worse.

Sometimes the enemy of my enemy can still go have fun with himself.

This! They just wanted the US to be sufficiently undermined so that they could take over. And when this was done toward Soviet imperialism, they were supporting an ideological ally. So win win for them back then. How the modern left rhetorically justifies their support for an almost fascist modern Russia, I still don't understand. That part is just weird all around.

The German variant with Sahra Wagenknecht and Alice Schwarzer makes this abundantly clear. Sahra has become a hero among some far right AfD types.

You have hit the nail on the head. Despite often claiming to be open minded internationalists, a lot of these people are very parochial and naval gazing in their outlook.

This is something the American left and right have in common: It's inconceivable to them that the USA are not the main reason or reason at all for something good (political right) or bad (political left) happening in the world.

That's not exactly the problem. The issue is they feel ONLY the US practices imperialism. So other countries either get a pass for their actions via an excuse ("Russian security concerns") or are not viewed as being imperialist (i.e., China) which itself excuses their actions.

The Anti-American crowd in America are more American centric than American exceptionalists

That's a good distinction - although I think this sentence become obviously true when we say "existential threat". NATO is only an existential threat to Russia conceived as an empire.

Exactly. For many in Russia, there is a clear and unbroken continuity between the Russian Empire the Soviet Union and the Russian federation. They're all just Russia in the minds of these people. Sometimes it has more territory sometimes it has less. But any territory ever had is rightfully Russian.

@@VladVexler , there's an even cleaner, closer shave to make: a group of well-working dynamic democracies with poplular power-transitions in the former Soviet space is a threat to the current Russian monarchy. Russia doesn't even need to have imperial ambitions to have its monarchy threatened by democracies. Great video!

I agree with this, but I think it should be phrased better. NATO threatens nothing except Russian imperialist and expansionist AMBITIONS. Russia can be as imperialistic as it wants, just not at the expense of its neighbors, who (as sovereign nations) have the right to choose their own path and what international agreements they sign.

it does not matter what russians are saying. NATO never threatened russia, because it was created to CONSERVE russia! NATO's primary goal is to RESTRAIN genuine antirussian developments in the west (military-wise)

This! The hypocrisy of Africans and Asians in particular when criticising American colonialism is just nuts. If you’re anti-colonial / imperial then you MUST logically be agains the war. Not to mention that in 2002 in Rome Putin specifically supported Ukrainians security decision autonomy

@@dro355 Never ask a CCP shill what the Chinese were doing in Tibet, Xinjiang, Manchuria or Vietnam. Surely couldn't have been.... imperialism 😆

Yep.

100% agree. Well said.

​@@dro355 ...In '02, I'm guessing he felt the need to appear harmless. You know, to avoid buildup of defenses against the imperialist war he was dreaming of, one day. Just a guess.

Exactly. Chomsky and others refuse to ask, “Why do Ukranians and others want to join NATO? The EU?” They know the answer already and it’s inconvenient for them.

Is easy, but is not simple to just support NATO, I'm not Russian, but if NATO get stronger with Ukraine is just worse for basically half of the world freedom

@@filiperosa7496 Why would it be worse for 'half of the world freedom' if a defensive military alliance gets bigger by new members joining it to have security guarantees against aggressors? This makes no sense.

NATO removing freedoms, eh??? The most free countries in the world are in NATO. There is nothing inherent in NATO to set up authoritarianism...

Vlad i suspect from this post is a ruzzian troll.

@@andreasschmidt5857 they don't let anyone join and use their military to gain economic advantages of the third world, some countries in Africa are forced by pure miliary presence to sell resources to EU, they don't have freedom

The US is currently involved in combat operations in Ukraine AND pretty much the entirety of the Ukrainian government is on US/Western financial support.

The US empire has gone bad like a spoiled steak. It need a fresh blood and will stop at nothing to get it.

​@@renstein8210 No we are not actually involved in combat operations in Ukraine.

@@0816M3RC Yes, yes you are. The United States provides a lot of intelligence for Ukrainian operations. Satellite imagery, Global Hawk surveillance of the Black Sea, AWACS coverage of the air space over all of the territory of Ukraine. These are combat operations.

@@renstein8210 In what alternate universe is this combat? Does that mean radio operators and intelligence analysts have combat experience? Does that mean the Western and Eastern blocs were actually in a hot war until 1991? If you were talking about the handful of Western special forces in Ukraine (who were probably not directly involved in combat operations) you might have had a leg to stand on, but this is just nonsense.

Lenin at least had ideology. Modern Russia has too few things to offer. All they are offering to the public is "we are great, we won great patriotic war, obey us", a big dose of whataboutism, and ruined mental health of the nation.

Got it in one

far right? how far? lmao even if he was Lenin himself they would still support their bankster owners and their capitalist imperialist endeavors.

"Empire" would be cool if he wasn't just worried about NATO. He also simps for Israel.

Cut out the "far right religous" part and that about sums up Lenin tbh

Yeah, because they were supposed to remain neutral. And wanted to remain neutral, or at least the people did, before the maidan coup in 2014. Only after a US backed coup put in place a right-wing pro-US government did Ukraine restart talks of joining NATO. And if you don't think there was a coup you're simply uninformed and buying into western propaganda. In 1962 when they found Soviet Nukes near their coast, in cuba, the US and USSR almost went to war. Rightfully because of security concerns from the US. Ironically they had been doing the same to the Soviet Union in Turkey. So you're telling me it's legitimate for Cuba to be a security concern to the US and Ukraine isn't a legitimate security concern to Russia? Talk about double standarts

Absolutely correct!!! Yet to these commies who enjoy capitalism ( they are all very rich) want the middle class to disappear. They should move to Russia post haste

Thank you! I wish I could give you a 1000 likes instead of 1. 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦

Amen, Slava Ukraine!

Countries aren't poker chips.

These leftists somehow believe that the Baltic States, Eastern Europe (including Ukraine) have no agency of their own, no sovereignty, that they are merely US pawns. How wrong they are!

"I've been confused by these people's idea that Putin has to be given something. Given what? My country isn't a cookie that is to be given to anybody." - This is one of the best comments I have read on this issue. And, in a sense, "Chomsky and the like" have a very imperialistic stance, as if it was, like you wrote, up to the US to "give" countries to Russia. That is fundamentally imperialistic. So these guys, always decrying US "imperialism", are in effect proposing that the US, not the Ukrainians, decides the faith of Ukraine. That is imperialism. Interesting...

That’s how I see it too. Infuriating

Imagine that supporters of that rapist in your country started criticizing the “anti-rape west” and questioning whether rape wasn’t deserved in some cases. And when you cancelled their speaking engagement to your group or organization, they complained they were being cancelled, de-platformed, and silenced.

And that's coming from people who like to (sometimes rightly) complain about victim-blaming.

But they do and the West do nothing serious to stop them.

So you're telling me you actually believe a hole country of tens of millions of people are all criminals, rapists, terrorists and slave owners... And I'm sure you've never actually talked or even been near anyone from russia... but you systematically de-humanize a whole ethnicity with the information you get, which I'm sure comes from the mainstream western media... And also claim THEY are the ones who are indoctrinated and brainwashed by propaganda.... Riiiiiiiight

EXACTLY. Russia starts from a a position that its neighbours in the near west are NOT sovereign. They are just Russian satellites that have had their strings cut. The fact that these non-sovreign satellites have joined a non-aggression defense pact in NATO is akin to a lawnmower or a flower bed deciding move to a different yard. How can your property decide to no longer be your property anymore? Its nonsensical but its the way the Kremlin thinks.

Chomsky's position is that countries are _only_ self-interested if and when they are _opposed_ to the West.

They don't believe you. They don't think you even have your own opinion.

As a leftist myself, that's the one thing that bothers me most about about these kind of leftists' arguments. Everything is so US centric, to the degree that they are incapable of thinking that things might be unrelated to the US. And the Russo-Ukrainian war for the most part doesen't really have anything to do with the US. And addition to that, because US imperialism is apparently the root of all evil in the world, we should support Russian or even Chinese imperialism instead. No, imperialism is bad no matter what.

"Chomsky's arguments are not only one-eyed US-centric, they also imply that no country has the ability and/or knowledge to determine its own security policy, which borders on intellectual dishonesty." He's working off of Cold War era political "Realism" which divides the world into a polarized spheres of influence by the leading super-powers. It's a perspective grossly out of touch with reality and completely ignores the idea of national sovereignty.

Well maybe Russia wouldn't of thought like that if Nato stuck to it's Motto of defensive alliance but as we seen on many occasions Nato was an offensive alliance.

"upholding international law" Which the US is the biggest violator hahaha... the koolaid on this channel is strong.

You don't have to be anti American or even anti Putin to see that the over-arching conflict is Russia defending herself like she has in centuries past.

1990s catastrophe, millions dead in former eastern bloc: supported by US policy and American NGOs 1996 fraudulent Russian election : American policy makers and private oligarchs openly brag about rigging Russian elections to ensure catastrophic Yeltsin stays in power 2000: yeltsins protege, Putin, wins election, his ascension is openly celebrated by the west 2000s: Putin begins to push back against Russian oligarchs like khodorkhovsky, who profited off of the misery of the 90s : west starts to turn against him Color revolutions, supported by US state department funded NGO the National Endowment for Democracy, puts western-aligned, corrupt neoliberals in power in former soviet republics like Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and others 2014: Ukrainian nationalists overthrow president and install pro western government, with open backing by the US and American state NGOs like the NED 2014: Russians in eastern ukraine revolt, fearing reprisals, are equipped by Russia, war in donbass begins with tens of thousands Ukrainians dead, nationalist Ukrainians want to prolong and extend war until total victory, Minsk protocols signed instead by west and Russia 2019 : zelensky elected on a platform of neutrality and reconciliation between Russian east and nationalist west. Immediately received pushback from nationalists, quickly acquiesces to them, desire for ukraine to join nato is written into ukraines constitution, it is unable to be ignored or rejected by an elected official 2021: joe Biden is elected, accelerates efforts to support Ukraine and Russians fear that Ukrainian entry into nato is inevitable 2022: Russian invasion Now tell me that america has nothing to do with it

@@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517 Most sane invasion supporter.

International law 1.01 is what ever the UNSC agrees it is , Biden and Putin held 3 summits , they both resolved to go to war ,if they didn't get what wanted ,no matter what the cost , or profit as the US oil and gas sector can attest , the US Russian trade in nuclear fuel continues unabated ,not as much as it was in the run up to the war though , wake up and smell the daisies

Agreed.

Chomsky has been doing it for years. Look up his milosevic antics. I basically ignore the whole anti war (when its the west) left. Same reason i never liked Corbyn, hes balls deep on this stuff.

well you might wake up and realize leftists are most of the time as bad as death plague.

They are agents of KGB and now Russia. This is great time to see them coming out from closet. Moscow giving them such orders to tell the naked propaganda.

@@Ukraineaissance2014you are pro war? Because one guy is annoying? 😂 your standards are laughable

That twisted intellect will find a way to blame it on the USA - mark my words.

lol you missed the point my friend

@@NestNext No friend, you missed the point. It’s the usage of the royal “we” repeatedly when referring to war that is telling. Individuals don’t go to war with each other. Nations do. Unless I missed something huge, Sachs is an American, and America is not at war with Russia. Watch some more interviews with him, he does it repeatedly, it wasn’t a one-off utterance. That he so fluidly and thoughtlessly says “we” instead of “they” indicates a lot about his world view. Thanks for wasting 4 minutes of my day, buddy.

@@seanmcdonald4686 it took you 4 minutes to say the same nonsense you said in one sentance earlier. When he says we he is reffering to the NATO militarisation that pushed Russia in a corner and forced it to react, an issue that was raised by numerous politicians scholars and bureocrats even before ru invaded ukr, for gods sake even joe biden warned about NATO expansion not to mention Wiliam Burns.

These American leftists, especially Sachs, obviously consider the war to be between the US and Russia, with Ukraine as a junior partner on the American side. They feel that the decision to cut off the flow of weapons into Ukraine is really a lever that the Americans should pull to induce “peace talks.” They want to hamstring the Ukrainian military to the point where recovering any of occupied Ukraine would become impossible. They don’t feel that Ukraine has the right to manifest the future that they see for themselves. They don’t see Ukraine fighting for Ukraine with weapons purchased by Ukraine. They see America creating Ukrainian debt. To be fair to these brilliant dinosaurs, US foreign policy should always be scrutinized closely, but that does not mean that the US can’t be a valuable ally. Americans have a tendency to view other countries as secondary in ANY situation, and the language they use indicates to me that these Americans are no different. They just can’t imagine that the outcome of the Russo-Ukrainian War could be determined primarily by Ukraine, not the US.

Thank YOU.

It is sadly not only limited to American leftwingers.

Not to mention these are people that (supposedly) supported “Decolonization” or “opposed” Apartheid in South Africa… So much for the right to self determination, right?

Not Americas problem. Spend that money in Hawaii and stop NATO world domination.

@@theholodomorisnttaughtinam2796the US should get out of Africa too.

​@@ericp1139Kremlin bot

A very good point.

Which is extra hilarious given how much more powerful the US and NATO is than Russia.

These are Soviet alligned leftists. They are just a mindless horde, which only serves the Kremlin and their current leader. They might have been once ideologically left, but over the years this faded away into the same Soviet dependencies, which plagued the eastern bloc until it collapsed. Thinking for themselves is considered treason, questioning the Kremlin is a treason, so they remain quiet, even if they know deep inside, that the Kremlin is the biggest spreader of fascist propaganda. I had once a chat with such wannabe leftist, I told them that the Nr1 source for right wing propaganda is Russian state TV and they still were convinced, that Putin has no control over it and America is the issue for Russia spreading right wing propaganda.

Ditto for the people of Crimea.

​@@renstein8210 You mean the invaders squatting on stolen land?

@@0816M3RC The Ukrainians? Squatting on land (Crimea) that they have no right to? I agree.

I'd say most Americans are globally illertate, being so far from everyone else. History is not nessicarily a shared experience.

Not just the American left. In the UK the mainstream left was led by a guy who literally regurgitated RT's script on Ukraine

Wait till you get a load of the American right! I welcome the leftists that have cavalier attitudes on the war. It lets me know who the disingenuous money grubbing moles are and not to trust anything they say. A good example is Tulsi gabbard, I knew she was a mole years ago due to the talking points she constantly pushed. They were far to alike with lines coming from the kremlin.

we have some morons, thou. I bet Korwin-Mikke still has his mouth full of praises for Putin.

Amazing how most apologists for russian imperialistic tendencies never had to suffer under russian imperialism.

Since the end of WWII or even the end of the Cold War, the United States and its NATO allies have invaded far more countries than Russia.

Coming from central europe and what used to be soviet occupied Czechoslovakia I habe no words to express gow angry that makes me. Vlad has good video about how even anti-Putin russians suffer from.this imperialist worldview and I think much of the same is true for these people. Fact of the matter is that all of the new NATO members were falling over each otger to get in EXACTLT because of russia

Yep, agree. Of course, the current situation in former Eastern Bloc countries is complicated in many ways but the analysis Vlad has criticised in this video is miles off the mark. These commentators have no idea about what is going on. Odd that Hungary is part of Nato but Orban is good mates with Putin for example, yet Poland is dead against Putin but otherwise aligns with Hingary against much of EU. Reality is always much more complicated than is portrayed in many media outlets.

@@Michael-uw1rc reality is not that complicated, Orban is a corrupt politician, he does not give a shit about Putin or the EU, he is milking both for his own personal ! gains, he will be removed hopefully if the Hungarian people are getting their act together eventually

Everything east of Germany is russia to them

R.I.P Dawn Sturgess. Please google her.

My pleasure. Much of the left gets it completely of course.

All tragedies of twenties century happened because of total misunderstanding of actual Jungian nature of Russia

Hey, it happens. A ton of movements are completely coopeted by posers who want to surf that movement to the top. As cooptations go, this is was not even that successful. Not that sizeable of a chunk of the left fell for this. I think that this is entirely solvable. We exclude the people who have proven themselves to be covert pro-imperialists and we move forward. At least now we know who is who.

@@VladVexlerI would say I get it but my reasons are several at once, it's complicated. One could say, enough is enough. The underwear poisoner carries a loong tradtion of insanity and psychopathy. He governs by Stockholm syndrome and for some reason he still believes he can get away with it.

@@VladVexler i get that most of this is some kind of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" mentality, doesn't matter the nature of him. And it seems people aren't able to understand that while we sure should not accept the current state of affairs, it could be much worse. I'm brazilian, and people here are too far off the european reality, so the left here often has a simplistic "all that makes the world more multipolar" must be good defense of appeasing russia. One problem is the language and geographical barrier, if people here were exposed to content in portuguese from people that are affected by the war, or excellent content like you it would be way easier for them to understand.

But...but they exist but i just cant link things because youtube 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

I remeber there was an agrwement and there was some sort of paper work to my knowledge.

Thinking that Russia beating America in this proxy war will be a good thing doesn't mean you think Russia is good.

America is very bad and evil. Most of the stuff we have done - Ike Indonesia - 99.9% of Americans don’t even know happened. We have a very good CIA, they are very good at their job.

@@TheKeendark Yes it does. We have a left-wing coalition in the parliment (made up mailnly of social democrats, with some democratic socialists and soclibs mixed in). While it doesn't get nearly as many votes as I'd like, this is mainly due to the fact, that the political scene is dominated by two right-wing parties (nationalistic right, and liberal center-right). In the meantime, number of people identifying as left-wing in Poland is steadily growing, especially among the younger generation. Many of them simply vote for liberal center-right as the "lesser evil". As is often the case, our political class is generally more right-leaning and conservative than the society itself. However, if you look at grassroots activism, the left is surprisingly strong in Poland.

Polish left = anywhere else right

@@dubokailegala Libs in Poland often get labeled as "left", while mainstream, moderate left gets labeled as "commies". Thats true, and it's annoying as hell. But as I said before, we *do* have actual left, which would be considered mainstream left in the West, but in Poland it is considered "extreme" for some reason.

None of these tankies ever want to speak with people who've had first hand experience of ruzzian authoritarianism. (I speak as a British centre-leftist here.)

its interesting. thats a tendency with alt-right in many places. they believe Russia is like some "conservative Christian bastion"...where is in reality, I myself from Lithuania, I would NEVER even think to describe Russia as "Christian conservative bastion" 😅 almost opposite of that.

Oh no there is an actual treaty, that there is no NATO presence in East Germany. But that only applies to East Germany.

Same. I saw that Chomsky (who contributed much value to public discourse over the years) video and was absolutely shocked. Just shocked. I still can't believe what I heard. Definitely a significant dent on his legacy....

My dream is to become a climate change activist. But first I'll need my own private jet but give me some street cred.

@@peterkramar6555 Don't do an I do, do as I proselytise! Ain't that the truth...

A lot of these people are old men. They thought the end of the Cold War was the end of the threat. They refuse to understand that since 1991, Russia has changed from an autocracy into a kleptocracy. As "honest" left wingers, they will NEVER understand Putin's mind. They just can't comprehend infinite evil greed.

​@@mysterioanonymous3206 chomsky gets a pass since he is 100 billion years old

Exactly! Ukrainians have been begging to join NATO and EU because they have an insane neighbour russia!

Walesa also did talk with Yeltsin about Poland joining NATO, and Yeltsin was okay with it. Yeltsin did understand that Poland is East of (West) Germany, the formerly last NATO country. And that conversation was after the often cited 1990 discussion about “NATO expansion” related to the German reunification… those earlier conversations were only attended by Americans, Russians and Germans - so they couldn’t make any binding promises about any other European country but Germany.

@@Lorenz1973 Yeltsin was a very pro Western leader. Of course he was okay with Poland in Nato. He also was okay with the aggressive form of capitalism the west wanted in Russia and allowed it to happen. This is why Putin happened. One can argue that the decade of the 90s in Russia was an attempt by the west to completely exploit Russia. It was also a demographic disaster for Russia with the average life span for men falling under 60. This is why Putin happened.

Amen!

Warshaw pact has the unique distinction of being "defensive" allience that invaded itself TWICE

I wasn't aware Kissinger is still alive. I'm glad Biden never invited that POS to the WH

That they are still alive, being one.

Indeed.

There was a wonderful cartoon in an alternative magazine put out by the satirical Church of the Subgenus that showed how the world political system was actually not one of left and right...but a loop where the far-left and the far-right became one and the same. I think it had Lyndon Larouche in there at the junction...but I think now we'd have many of the same figures on the loop at that point. I first thought about that cartoon (which I should have saved) when I recall General Flynn sitting with the Green Party candidate for President at a fancy Moscow dinner back in about 2015. And who be sharing their table...Vladimir Putin and the heads of Russia Today!

​@@gerrelldrawhorn8975The idea of a loop goes back a long way. I first encountered it in the '70's, and it probably wasn't new then.

Thankfully all political/social commentators i watch regularly are pro-ukraine. But i have been disapointed by quite a few people that i liked but didnt watch all the time.

It is heartbreaking to hear people you know to have love and compassion within them say the most outrageous dehumanizing things without batting an eyelash. I am with you, don't despair

Russell Brand (who I was never a big fan of, but had some respect for him) seems to have turned into an anti-West conspiracy theory nutter, which is sad.

@igotes he is one of the people I liked, and lost, until this video. He and I aren't BACK...but at least I can see where he's coming from - inaccurate assumptions and broken logic and all. And I can forgive him. Like he cares. :D

I think everything non-physics related Einstein said (of the things he actually said) were quite silly, too (or took him a lifetime to get.) Chomsky revolutionized so many fields (IT, Linguistics, Psychology...) but also spreads crackpot ideas about so much more than the things he helps us better understand. Genius does not magically make you know things, have moral intentions or let you see things disspassionately. That is just how it is. If you have "intellectual heroes", you are probably not very intellectual. People need to give these people less weight.

Yeah all his arguments can be summed up in america bad.

@@annoyingcommentator1582that’s why intelligence =/= wisdom. You can be wise but not necessarily intelligent, and likewise you can be intelligent but not wise. Albert Einstein was both of those, Noam Chomsky is not. Chomsky is just a Dollar Store Karl Marx.

I'd love to see you actually try to refute any of what he claimed

It boggles my mind how some people actually take Noam 'gendocide denier' Chomsky seriously.

i think Finalnd was called 'pink' for not being entirely red but cooperating with the USSR after the end of the 2nd world war. From the economical point of view that benefited Finland greatly.

Finland was a part of Russia..

Finland fought along with Nazi's...

Like a Cuban who is afraid of USA

@@stefanmilojkovic Cuban, Mexican, El Salvadoran, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Guatemalan, Honduran, Chilean, Columbian, Panamanian, and even Canadian.

The Baltics, Nordics, Poland have zero illusions about Russia.

​@@EEX97623That's because they live right next door to fascist Russia.

@@WhizzRichardThompson that's because they all want their own piece of it.

​@StelzCat we want Russia to stay in Russia, don't spread like cancer cell or sth...

​@@StelzCatfunny how Russian propagandists always attribute Russian imperialist ambition to oponents at the time, be it USA, NATO, Poland, Ukraine... as if Russia was such a peaceful nation 😂

Putin himself wrote like 15 page long essay about Ukraine being part of Russia in 2021 but somehow, the brainless leftists online believe that it was about NATO, US imperialism, biolabs, or some nazis in Ukraine. I say that as someone who is politically on the left spectrum but I don't share some of their views on foreign policy. Many of their foreign policy takes seem to be aim for people with the brain of a child.

😅😅😅😅 just rubbish

Lol

Yet NATO expanded before Russia

@@FazeParticles, Yeah. Countries that were afraid of being invaded by Russia joined NATO. Ukraine should have joined. Then they wouldn’t have been invaded.

Bruh....

Well yeh,they started a war in Moldova and Georgia in the early 90s using the same pretext as in Ukraine today, there are Russian minorities in the Baltic states which could be used as an excuse to reoccupy those countries, which is why they joined NATO in the first place.

As a European I hear this every day. But it is ridiculous. It's actually a tool of socialist communist extremists aimed at promoting a peaceful utopia only to take control and create a communist dictatorship

Old thread, but i disagree with having strong military as a good thing. The reason there is war in ukraine is the existence of authoritarian states. We have lost our chance after the 2nd world war. When only the us had the nukes this would be easy to democratise the soviet union. We wouldn't have problems with china, North Korea and iran today. Democracies don't want and don't need to spend 30% of gdp to be safe. Democracies don't have wars with Democracies. It is always dictatorship vs dictatorship or dictatorship vs Democracies. This is why the most important requirement to become a NATO member is democracy, and this is why russia was refused. This is the reason why Democracies don't need to spend large amounts of gdp for defence. If our leaders did the right thing at the right time we would be spending 0.2% of gdp for defence instead of required 2% right now, we wouldn't have wars and russia with their natural resources would be in the world top economies, if not the top.

@@distiking In theory it would be great to have only stable democracies with a minimal need for armed forces. But since there are authoritarian and dictatorship countries out there, it would be stupid for the democracies to neglect it's military.

Do you have source

@@maciejkaczorowski1272 could you be more specific?

I mean do u have sorce in article about it or video

Type in Noam chomsky: Russian-Ukraine war, Finland and Sweden joining NATO That should do it. About a year ago.

Finland joining NATO was the nail in the coffin for any idea to the contrary of reality. Putin initiated obscene aggression against Ukraine, killing over one million people in the process, because Ukraine was swinging to a pro-wester way of thinking. His war provoked Finland and Sweden to immediately join NATO. These facts are self evident. Blow hard retar|)s cant argue their nonsense when the entire world has seen this.

The USSR's collapse was a triumph over imperialism, first and foremost, a victory for nationalism, second, and, at last, though least, a sign of capitalism's success.

Try putting a Russian base in Mexico and see how the US would react.

@@bilic8094 Your analogy would be perfect if not for the fact that russia constantly threatens to nuke the whole west

​@bilic8094 why would Mexico accept that?

@@bilic8094 Also it would make even more sense if Mexico felt threatened by USA and the will of the people were to have russian bases

Forgive him. He is going through dementia, like Biden, but unlike Him, Biden is supplying Ukraine with arms, aid, and logistical support.

Leftism is a mental disorder

Same! He has absolutely gone off the rails! It's really sad.

Weird how someone can be profoundly based and also profoundly mistaken.

@@AGHathaway He was always off the rails, he refuses to acknowledge the Bosnian Genocide as a genocide and often defends Cambodia Genocide. The man is a tankie, his theories on Manufactured Consent border on conspiracy theory. Anything the west does is bad and therefore any dictator no matter how vile, must be a force for good.

As an East Coast American, I have a lot of hatred for smug Europeans. The British fended for themselves in WWII prior to US involvement so I have to acknowledge this and today Europeans make excellent espresso. The world is not black and white, only shades of coffee beans. Russia is the darkest of beans.

How is it that a random KZfaq comment has more sense than Hasan Piker?

Yes if only Zelensky would negotiate the war he and NATO provoked according to those clowns. Upside down world from the so called progressive left. One single thing I think is important to do as a leftist and that is to be against invasions by fascists on a democratic nation fighting for its life. It is kind of a bare minimum.

No magical treaty will end the war. When the Ukrainians state, “this war started in Crimea, and it will end in Crimea” they are dead serious. Everyone thinks if NATO stops supplying weapons, the war will end. NOTE! I have been in and out of Ukraine for going on 9 years now and own a home there. The Ukrainians will not accept any treaty giving one inch of ground to Russia. They will fight with sticks and stones first. 😢

The question is: to negociate... what? The Russians do not respect any treaty (Budapest 94, Istambul 99 & Minsk Agreements). The fact that Russia (through Putin) expect that countries respect "oral promises" but they do not respect "signed treaties" for me is mindblowing!

@@mihaidumitrescu1325 Russia is not a "side" in Minsk agreements. Russia is an observer, like Germany and France. What is wrong with you, do you really not check what you write at all. OSCE resolutions are advisory in nature and their price is the same as that of verbal promises.

@@user-nl6zv6hz6x that is totally totally incorrect. I will tell you "what is wrong" with me. We all know the "little green men" were, infact, Russian troups that were acting under the command of Putin. What does Russian mean? Paid by the Russian Government and under the orders of the President. How was the President in charge? By giving money to Wagner (he said that) and by presenting him with orders (Wagner themselves recognize Putin as supreme leader) Minsk Agreements: 1. 10. Withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment, as well as mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine under monitoring of the OSCE. Disarmament of all illegal group 2. 1. Immediate and comprehensive ceasefire in certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine and its strict implementation as of 15 February 2015, 12am local time. 3. 2. Withdrawal of all heavy weapons by both sides by equal distances in order to create a security zone of at least 50km wide from each other for the artillery systems of caliber of 100 and more, a security zone of 70km wide for MLRS and 140km wide for MLRS Tornado-S, Uragan, Smerch and Tactical Missile Systems (Tochka, Tochka U) If Russia does not see itself as "part in conflict" (which is weird, because the DPLR & LPR are, indeed, following Putin's order and follow aggressive war besides their teritory at this moment), Russia should have withdrawed her forces AT LEAST with article 10, which says: "Withdrawal of ALL foreign forces". What is there more to talk? On the issue of Moldova: www.peaceagreements.org/viewmasterdocument/1604 there is THIS document signed by the Russian state. There is no justification for Russia to not abide it ;) Way more powerful than "Baker's promise", don't you think?

Regards back! Of course a lot of leftists get this, including in the West.

​@@VladVexlerYour analysis ignores the human factor : the "macho" president fishing shirtless in Siberia, flying in a Sukhoy, slaying a dragon, aso, is now... sexually impotent. Alina Kabaeva is 31 years younger and the "macho man" who's secretly or subconsciously terrified he is mortal, needed a big victory to deliver to his much younger mistress/wife. Maybe a psychologist or psychiatrist could tell us more. As for the NATO promises, less than a year before Gorbachev died, he personally answered Russia TV saying there was never any NATO promise regarding a possible expansion. Furthermore, the Warsaw Pact was still formally in ace at that time. But all in all, the parallels with Hitler in the 30s are absolutely striking and I don't see any solution to this except war with NATO. I suspect Putin's hidden plan was from the very beginning this and not Ukraine.

the problem isn't the left, or the right. The problem is when ideology blinds reality checks in any part of the political spectum

​@@VladVexlerthis was fantastic. Liked, subscribed, and hit that bell. Thank you for this.

​@@VladVexleryes the same lefties that do everything to make the rich richer and privatise everything

Hello dear you and thank you!

I think there's another aspect to the psychology here too. They feel special for being able to identify the subtle US imperialism that people often miss, and as a result they can't look at old-school, straight-ahead annex-your-neighbor imperialism without having to add a layer to it that only they can see.

@@1574meyeah. That is something all conspiracy theories have. The idea that they are special and oh so smart for figuring out the true meaning that the “average” person is just to dumb or deluded to see. Add that with the popularity of bashing on America for everything on the modern internet

"Both sides" have made horrible errors behind the scenes. But people think they must pick one side to blame. Ukrainians are paying with their lives, limbs, eyesight, trauma for this "double-sided betrayal". 🇺🇦💔

I think a major part of the psychology is the fear of nuclear war. They all talk about nuclear war a lot. Actually, I would say that it is their primary concern, to the point that they are more concerned about alleviating their fear of nuclear war than they are about the safety and well being of Ukrainians.

Truly. America-centrism is the air Americans breathe and move through. It's always there and very hard to notice without making a conscious effort. And I won't deny that the same is true for a Western-centric perspective more general in Europe as well but that doesn't make it any less bizarre when viewing it from the outside.

Many non-Americans are just as American-centric. That’s why Russian propaganda about what led to the war works in places like India, China etc.

What about the Republican right& their constant denial of accepting money from the Oligarchs to undermine American Democracy?

@@unvergebeneid And yet look at how not a small portion of the world blames the US not only for this war but the majority of the world's ills. You'll have to excuse us for often taking these accusations centrally and seriously. America is always damned if we do and damned if we don't. Trust me, the vast majority of us would love to completely withdraw from the world that loves to hate us above all other true evils.

​@@kkpenney444I agree, but one has to look at who are doing the criticism and how they benefit from what they are asking. When asking for aid, what's the grift. A business contract...is it required to have a family member of a well situated politician or military officer as 51% shareholder (without putting any investment forward). Or is aUS intervention removing their opportunity to strip land and the property of some group who has done better through hard work (and, yes, culturally based ideas of cross family alliances).

Thank you so much!

Praise to the Karkhiv Kid Finder

I'll have to give Vaush another look

The left are inherently confused and utilitarian - whatever seems more popular, will be what they morph into, causing great destruction while they do.

This really struck a nerve with me. So many Americans treat Ukrainians like we are not real people with real experiences, views and opinions but victims of us propaganda and don't think for ourselves. And I also see very clearly how attitude of some leftists is affected by the typical patriarchal victim image: we are constantly denied the right to feel anger or being supportive of our army. We have to be this sad sad whining in the corner, waiting to be saved victims. Otherwise, we are immediately painted as villains. Just as conservatives would claim that every woman, who actively seeks justice after being assaulted, is setting a man up. Not so different after all.

Exactly. Other commentators I follow have observed that these American leftists suffer of the same imperialist superiority complex they condemn. They deny agency and right to self determination to all countries that are not the US or Russia.

American diabolists refuse to accept other people have agency. The narrative they sell affords people like Pinochet and other right wing authoritarian goons no culpability in their own crimes.

American speaking up for my fellow countrymen; I find it disheartening (and a little frustrating) that people seem to see this as 'typical' for us when from here it only seems to be such for those of us who are reliably being the loudest about our politics. We're a large and very diverse nation. Neither Tucker Carlson nor Richard Wolf can claim to speak for us.

@@hannat6406 I think your comment only applies to a politicized segment of the population, namely the MAGA right and more ideological left. I am not American, but pretty close, and I think that outside the above camps, most Americans look at Ukrainians as anything but anyone's puppets. In other words, as a people with a very strong will, identity and mind of their own. I mean, people compare Zelensky to Churchill. Sending you a churchillian "V" (for Victory) while at it! :-)

ინთელიჯენტ კი არა შენნაირი გამოყლევებულია. გიხაროდენ :)

@@ddmtsa რა არ მოგეწონა? :დდდ ანალიზი გააკეთა სიტუაციის ძალიან კარგად და თუ რამე სხვას ფიქრობ, შეგიძლია, გამოხატო აზრი და არ გადახვიდე პირდაპირ შეურაცხყოფაზე :დდდ

ბოდიში მომითხოვია! ჩვეულებრივი დასავლური პროპაგანდაა, რომლის მსხვერპლი ხარ შენც და მთელი აღმოსავლეთ ევროპაც, რომელსაც კომენტარში ახსენებ.@@lazarebedukadze7244

not all of us, some of us are just you run of the mill nordic far-left democratic eco-socialist, protesting against our wars in the middle east but also Kremlin war-criminals

Hear hear.

Not meeeeeee (o_-) (and I'm a middle-aged anti-imperialist leftist)

@@EminencePhront Perhaps more pro-absolutely-anything as long as it is anti-western and especially anti-USA. If these guys had had been in power in 1939-1940, we would all been speaking German now. "Talking" with Putin is no different than talking with the Austrian corporal.

Prove it

Thanks for being here!

Indeed, it is very good. One piece of constructive criticism, posted here so Vlad might see it: the audio mix makes it hard to hear what Vlad is saying at some points, when there is a video clip (with sound) playing in the background. I think making Vlad's track louder with respect to background audio would fix it.

@@mnorth1351Yes! Please lower all the music tracks and sound effects, so we can hear what you have to say! 🙏🏿

That 45 degree helicopter off-camera view is distracting and, frankly, silly. This pretentious videography isn't how better content is made. Please drop it. I love your actual, sincere content, thank you.

@@lighthousesaunders7242sooooo - you are confused. Most people who love the Chat channel only discover it because of the main channel. The way KZfaq shares videos to people who really treasure them is if people who semi like them watch a bit too. This video is an extraordinary investment of time - given my health, it took weeks. It shows a great commitment to reach a wider audience with healthy content. There could be a world in which it’s not like this, but it’s not this one. As it is - 90% of my content pushes wildly against the algorithm. So! Think about it! And thank you hugely for appreciating this community. You a deeply welcome and it is a massive privilege to have you here. With gratitude.

Thank you!

Thanks so much!

I think it depends a lot on how close you are to Russia. In France you can take a loan from some russian bank and run for president. In India, people got to be convinced why the far-off war in Ukraine is worse than the far-off war in Yemen. And for a large minority of US conservatives, us over in Euroland are just another far-off theater.

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Have you supported sanctions against US for illegal aggression on Iraq and Syria? US troops are still in Syria without anyone's approval....

⁠@@BojanPeric-kq9etAny country is free to sanction the US. Sanctions are not god ordained or Bipartisan. For example Western countries who disagree with Russia have sanctioned them(refused to trade). Countries which have closer relations have not. This is such a low IQ point.

@@BojanPeric-kq9etThe United States didn’t invade Iraq and Syria and target civilians or attempt to annex them and make them part of the United States. How can you be this dumb and not know the difference?

I think the thing that misleads them into thinking that way is that the US is, in some ways, responsible for starting unwarranted foreign wars and such, so they don’t trust the US’s claimed reasoning for this intervention either. To me, the real leftist position should understand that yes, the US may be bit hypocritical here, yet we should still be willing to accept that imperialism is a global issue and that any reduction of it, even from fellow imperialist governments, is still a net positive

​@@BojanPeric-kq9etUN approval not enough for you?

Same here. There are similar contrarian fucks on the other side of the spectrum. This contrarian stuff kind of runs perpendicular to the left/right thing.

Think they have spent so long rightfully blaming the west over Vietnam, Iraq, and more that when Russia is in the wrong they can't get away with blaming the west .. Kaliningrad has been surrounded by the EU and Nato for years and not one nato tank has even hinted at invading it .. Putin knows a nato invasion was never happening this was always about bringing ukraine back under putin control regardless of what Ukrainians wanted

A real world test of international solidarity and many have flundered it HARD.

@@Vulcano7965 The vast majority of the world is against America though.

Chomsky is not a contrarian. If he was he would have said that Russia was justified. He explicitly condemned the invasion but literally believes there is no way for Ukraine to ultimately win.@@halfalligator6518

Plus the orange one used the carrot of aide for corruption.

and if anything, it is a proxy war between the us and china.

Ex-CIA Director Leon Panetta openly called this a proxy war. It´s on video. Look for it. I guess the former director of US intelligence is a dope.

I do call this a proxy war, but my usage of the term is neutral. This is a good proxy war where the proxy needs all the support it can get.

​@@VladVexleryou have never been to a war, have you? You have never sent a son to a war, have you?

My pleasure and thank you!

Chomsky denies the Bosnian genocide

If you love American foreign policy so much, why don't you go live in Libya, Iraq or Afganistan?

@@michaelh878 I do not really see any connection between what I wrote and your question. Moreover, I have no idea know where your assumption comes from...

@@michaelh878 Typical whataboutism. This is exactly what Vlad said in the video - USAmerican imperialism is both good and bad. Russian one is only bad. The levels of bad are WAY different. Whataboutism has been the Russian/Soviet government's excuse for many decades. We used to tell this joke: Western journalist: "How many monthly salaries does an average Soviet worker need to be able to afford a car?" Soviet politician: "And you beat the black people!"

Ahoj, krajane! 👋When I hear prof. Chomsky, I hear the same condescension toward us as from Putin, or as Chamberlain in 1938. They would tell US what WE should do. It was OUR choice to join the NATO, FFS! We're an independent country, we can make our own decisions, and we're done being pushed around. The Brits (and the French, too, from what I've heard) tend to do that, look down on anyone from "the East" (not all of them; of course, this is a generalization). His, and that of the others in this video, patronizing way of talking about Ukraine reminds me of Munich. Sure, let Hitler have the Sudetenland, who cares about some bloody Czechoslovakia? Let Putin have Crimea, sure he'll stop there and not go any further...

Yes! Agreed

Yes, I’m probably somewhere close to political centre, with some left and right leanings. I’m totally against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and see Putin as a thug. An intelligent and wily thug, but a thug nonetheless. I have some friends though who are so anti-Biden (I have no problem with that) that they are actually pro anyone who is perceived to be in opposition to him. This is very weird and anti-intellectual thinking, but it exists nonetheless.

I don't think there was any fooling going on there, tbh.

Good idea!!!!!

I pity the fool who can't see that the 2014 "Maidan revolution" was just another US regime-change operation and that notions of left-wing or right-wing politics are irrelevant

I think that’s fair.