I don't see how anyone can still claim it's the new cold war, since it's obvious that one of the combatants faked their agreement to end the original cold war.

Fighting global terrorism? Maybe stop doing it.

Imperium has to have enemies .There must be excuses for imperial wars, for incurring enormous costs, for explaining one's information, that innocent people are dying all over the world out of simple greed. America, don't kill us - the rest of the world 😢😢😢

The basic NATO narrative of the Ukraine war looks like this: Putin = Hitler (and Stalin, before and after WW2) 'Zelensky = Churchill NATO = Roosevelt This is an obvious simplification even of WW2 in Europe, but the supposed parallels between the two conflicts have been milked to no end during the ongoing war, to hide all the very real differences. (It's also plain that Kiev's so-called 10pt peace plan is mostly built on a combo of how Germany was treated after WW1 and after WW2).

As Americans begin to question the "Defense Budget", we may wonder what there is to defend? The USA used up domestic supplies of resources to create profits. After profits were drained from the resources, business slowed. Then the Infrastructure was delivered to Colonies to exploit their resources. It worked for the British Empire. The Spanish and French as well as Dutch used the colonial Exploitation to embellish their lifestyles too..... The US Empire has disguised itself as a Policeman. It might symbolize a Crooked Cop but it has been increasing the money available to threaten other Nations, so they give up resources. The Nature of Colonial Empires is pretty obvious, the USA seems to be just changing the names of the aggression, to suit their image. The Empire seems to have died in 2014 when the New Development Bank announced their Loan Program? The Colonies all began to head for the BRICS Wall. The Supply Chain is now hidden behind that BRICS Wall. The G-7 Nations Economic status seems to have run into that Wall, and crashed. The use of Fiat Currency seems to have prevented them from announcing the end?

Putin fan-boy

@@andrewackerley9985 Biden is a humiliating embarrassment.

You are right

@@andrewackerley9985. If it’s evil, democrats love it! Sodomy, against God’s Chosen People, choice to take new life, disrespect our country and veterans, destroy our economy, destroy our country, teach children how to perform homosexual acts with grownups… -did I leave anything out? Would you like to add anything -democrat?!!

The opposite of woke is intolerant, don't make assumptions about Russians.

Trump is his own man unlike Biden. Biden is manipulated (read puppet) and is even guided walking.

Completely wrong but Trump was elected to represent us and not himself; but he still looks it over from all sides before doing it. I prefer that he did instead of just obeying the Easter bunny or whatever a Kenyan sodomite tells him to do.

Trump did not drain the swamp, he did nothing to stop the illegal immigration to the USA, etc, etc .....

Yeah ,Trump does what he was told and NOT Biden 😂..Biden is an independent prez but he wears Depends 😂. Just like Obama who doesn't rely on teleprompters right?

​@@toetz4491Biden is worse. But that doesn't eliminate Trump's flaws. The fact is that Putin is the greatest statesman in history after Abraham Lincoln.

Their are a few problems with your narrative. 1) the open aggression started long before the language bill of 2019. Long before their was any issues between ethnic Russians and Ukranians. Long before the Ukranians spoke out against the Russian Orthodox Church. 2) their was no forbidding of speaking Russian. No one was told to abandon their heritage. 3) you can not "ask" a foreign country to invade your country to help you. That's called treason and is a crime against your country. 4) if a minority group in the United States or any country for that matter "ask" a foreign country to invade militarily on their behalf then they are terrorist

​@@DomAtaGlanceYou're right, the Ukraine crisis was formented for years before. The Orange revolution in 2008, the Maidan massacre in 2014. Victoria Nuland bragged that the US had spent billions before the Maidan. Ukrainian officials have acknowledged that the US has the final say in government appointments. Ukraine is a proxy of the US to try and weaken Russia.

@@DomAtaGlance

@domgrace. There are so many narratives here. Do bass

The Wagner Group was specifically formed in early 2014 to go into the Donbas to attack Ukrainian police and security forces. Before this there had been no problems in the Donbas. Consequently 13,000 people died in the Donbas over 8 years as a result of Moscows directive to agitate in the Donbas. Most of those who died were killed were civilians and were killed by indiscriminate Wagner shelling. Why did Russia do this? Well we found out in Feb 2022.

It's not only you Russians who are shocked by the zombie way and stupidity in the West. It's us who have to live here too who are shocked. It's the insanity stage before the demise.

Western society? It's not monolithic, and a significant number of people around the world, aren't political.

@@stuartwray6175you know what he means…🤦‍♀️🥴

@@stuartwray6175 You don’t have to be political in western countries to have undoubted picture of what Russia is. My coworker is French and all what he remember from his school time about Russia is GULAG, Stalin,dictatorship and alcoholism . Some educated people know words Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

You are 100% correct. We are going down very fast. It is ridiculous and stupid.

Fix your gramma

The West is losing Africa. It is happening surprisingly quick.

He appears to be a nationalist, and Bill Burns covers his popularity and taking care of the economy for his people in his 2019 book after the crisis of the 1990s when the oligarchs were selling off the homeland to a bunch of foreign business interests. He uses a figure such as 80% approval ratings for Putin and Burns doesn't say the poll is rigged. The authoritarian tendencies are only supported because the population knows they are under threat and all populations, as can be seen after 9/11 tend to gravitate to a strong man with Bush's tough talk and approval for Constitution limiting measures like the Patriot Act and the illegal invasion of Iraq around 70-80%. This "nationalist" (patriot, love of country angle) has always been a challenge, even during the cold war period and the rejection of colonialism. The leader of Iran in 1953 was a nationalist. The leader in Guatemala in 1954 was a nationalist. However, they were painted as hard core communist to justify removing them. Many Americans would like restrictions on Chinese purchase of farm land and other property within the United States. Since the Elites of the West are mostly signed up to the non-Democratic WEF project (using Zbig Brzezinski's own terminology in his 2004 book) they have a serious problem where they are actually betraying the sovereign-national interest of the countries they declare they are patriots for in favor of building a global neo-feudalist order where they get to be the aristocratic elite of that new global system. To the extent that politicians such as a Putin or a Trump or whoever can win elections by appealing to Nationalist/Populist impulses this Trans-National Elite will simply call them fascist and anti-Democratic. Note Bernie Sanders had very similar sounding nationalist/populist impulses, but from the left and he seriously challenged and gained appeal to the masses against an established political elite. Of course it like the pot calling the kettle black.

Putin is a murderer and a psycho and puts his people in jail if they say what the state doesn't like

Yes .lm not fooled. She's hyper passive aggressive

Let me guess the parts where you agree with her she is on point and the parts where you disagree with her she is clueless

mixing truth and lies is one of core techniques used in information warfare/propaganda done western style. she is pretty bad at this - lies should to be more subtle, fewer in number and with more focus on framing and leading, instead of force feeding this low tier hack attempts

​@@DomAtaGlanceshe is a spook...loud and clear. You are in a infowar...

She's passed her expiry date.

What is your point exactly

Zelensky and Netanyahu are both non Semitic European Jews.

It seems that the isis attack on the concert hall in Moscow was a direct blowback from Russias foreign policy decisions.

Ivan, think of something else, your post is just a copy of the Kremlin narrative.

ACTUALLY OPPOSITES, ONE IS CALM AND MEASURED, TRUMP IS FRIVOLOUS, ALWAYS GIVES REST TO HIS BRAIN, ESPECIALLY WHEN TALKING

Trump is the complete opposite of Putin

@kateoneal4215 , that's not what she said , the American politicians and elite throw this all together to attack as well the arrogant Trump ( selfcentered ) for election 2024 , the evil Putin are Hitler , than you try to hurt two birds with one stone , and so you keep the American citizens ignorant .

@@vijjreddy that's not what Vanden Heuvel says . The governments in the west use this for leading their citizens away from the reality , either political and/or economical .

President Putin is a good man and a man of God. I believe Trump is also. They both care DEEPLY about their counties.

Russia took Crimea from the Turks in 1783 and have since never left.

But they did. The Russian military illegally entered soviergnn Ukraine territory and imposed their will on the people there. That's called an invasion. If not then what is it?

Jacques Baud tells much of the truth, but then mixes in a few falsehoods too. eg Sometimes he'll make believe that Crimea held the referendum before Russia took over.

@@DomAtaGlanceyeah but Ukraine only acquired the territory under a back room political arrangement, and then proceeded to systematically neglect Crimea for 7 decades!! It was probably the most welcomed ‘invasion’ in history..🤷🏻‍♀️🥴

@@TrickShepherdif we kept going back no territory would be legitimately anybody’s…🤷🏻‍♀️

Wow explains 🇷🇺 Orthodox Church closures and the 🇺🇲 elites connection 🤔♥️

No he wasn't. Cool story though.

The devil is done with Elenskystein...👹

@@DomAtaGlance he said: I am ready to kneel before Putin to return Crimea was his original qoute, said on some interview before election.

@@S1lverarrow ah yes because a statement made at some point prior to an election certainly describes the entire platform of said politician.

Easy answer, never.

That's a useless question.

@@Alex-lg6nz The answer is the point, that counts. To find a better life in the own country is for most of the peopble better than emigrate. There is no mass immigration to Russia, but a qualified one. Farmers an Ranchers, craftsmen as carpenters,, builders, engineers etc., tradesmen from Europe find a new existence in Russia. In Russia pioneer spirit is possible more than in the overregulated EU. The question is not at all useless - the answer counts very much.

In what way is that loone

Yushenko won in 3rd voting round, which is completely unconstitutional and his wife used to work in Reagan administration, maybe!?

First round did not work out. SO Maidan was their plan B, that is why they don't have plan B now.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

@@punapeter * under capitalism so as to ensure democracy can never be used to interfere in profit making no matter the harm to society or nation that results. You forgot that bit.

@@Nine-Signs *WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY* We are a *Democratic* (adj) *REPUBLIC* (noun). Did you Pledge Allegiance to a Democracy? No. You pledged "allegiance to the flag and to the *THE REPUBLIC* for which it stands." It doesn't mean Republican. It means we have representatives! *NOT MOB RULE* Regardless we don't even have that because it was lost in the Nov. 22, 1963 Coup D'état, when the MICorpratocracy Ike warned us about, stole the country. They own all the politicians. The squad voted for them too. The Republic is lost. If you allowed the MIC to make it into a Democracy your vote is moot next to theirs. “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” You didn't know that bit.

Our own business elites covet the success or wealth of the Eastern European oligarchs or kleptocrats that emerged in Eastern Europe after the demise of the Soviet Union. I suppose in a best case scenario many neocons wish to have a position of authority in an orderly society. “This country would work a lot better if I were in charge, and were allowed to do what I want”.

Warned about by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World Revisted in 1958 in his chapter on propaganda in democracy (vs the chapter for totalitarian government's propaganda). Distraction is the key. Also pointed out by in a book by a former National Security Advisor in 2004 called "The Choice" where simplistic narratives of good vs evil are needed to motivate the public for war and keeping them away from complex geopolitical and historical motives that influence the conduct of nations.

This is a Pascal original, it seems! He has said a lottaz great statements, but deserves his name on such gems.

Nobody is looking to be hero here. Nobody asked Putin to invade, why do you confuse the cause with reaction

@@wojteks4712 What Pascal is pointing to is the longtime demonization of the character Putin. Putin, in reality, is actually one of the most rational actors in the Kremlin, but since propaganda pretends that he is a megalomaniac, Zelenskyy and the West become great heroes trying to stop him. I have been against Russia's invasion of Ukraine from the start. But I understand why he did it instead of waiting for a possible NATO-Russia armageddon over Crimea (and relentless civil war too). You can read US Marine Capt Matthew Hoh's online article _A War Long Wanted_ for a summary. And your criticism is always welcome, because it's so important we understand all factors before creating artificial caricaturizations and "solutions".

Project Ukraine? How about a nation? Which has right to exist and reform without being invaded by it's oppressive neighbor

Yes.britain has been anti slav for centuries

There is no Ukraine.

​@@docastrov9013interesting how many genocidal fascists are commenting here

Your two brain cells are too little to be able to think. They are sufficient to copy Russian propaganda, though.

Where do you get your knowledge about him and Russia from?

@@neutralitystudies from watching Putin and his career from 1999, plus I’m a Russian American with family in Russia, I speak Russian, know Russian history, and I know geopolitics and war. I also get some info from EX U.S. military and intelligence people like Major Scott Ritter, Col. Doug Macgregor, Col. Richard Black, the Duran, Marine Brian Berlaric, Garland Nixion, Jeffry Sachs and a whole bunch of others.

@@OlegUshyarov Interesting. Defenitely much better than anything I could have access to without the language skills. And what is your assessment?

@@neutralitystudies my assessment is that Putin is on the right and winning side of history and the USA/Nato/G-7/E.U. are on the wrong and losing side of history. I think Putin is extremely intelligent, patriotic, capable, and honorable unlike the leaders of NATO past and present. 95% of all the things said about Putin in the collective west is nothing but fake news, Russophobic nonsense and anti-Putin/anti-russian propaganda and projection by western elites and their mouthpieces.

The assessment is that you people are complicit in the genocide on the Ukrainian people.

Then you are a threat to US empire.... 😂😂

Then you condemn Putin

@wojteks4712 Condum NATO/USA/West and their neo-natzis puppet in Ukraine. Yes I do. Then you are bot.

'that'?

The Russians signed the international treaty of the Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing Ukraine sovereignty and integrity in exchange for all the nuclear missiles on their territory. Thus negating any claim to Crimea or Donbass. Typical of Russia and their sycophants that they don't have honor and are faithless infidels.

What a BS 🤣 Baud is Russian-paid.

Trump is a mouth masquerading in the chaddiest way: "Sleeepy Joe is even dumber than me..." - well, true.

@@zetristan4525 there is an almost perfect 1:1 correlation between the people who hate Trump and the people I hate. He gets extra style-points for that.

@@zetristan4525 I also agree with pretty much everything you said, btw

@@conflict_monitor Thanks for your good humor. Why should folks hate Trump, when he's mostly a joke? When can we have ranked choice voting, so that people don't focus on which old fart they fear the most to wreck the ship?

@@zetristan4525 I've noticed (over the last 54'years) that humans are quite gullible I was markedly less terrified of a global cataclysm when he was President. He limited the bulk of his aggressive impulses to just talking shit on Twitter

Ukraine is sitting on Putin's brain. That's the problem with him.

Not. Full of errors.

Ukraine is a fake country, largely created by the Bolsheviks.

And then when Ukraine declared it's independence Russia was asked if they approved of and agreed to respect Ukraines borders and Russia agreed. As they did many times over the years. So sorry but you can't just wake up one day and say no we don't think your borders are what they are

@@DomAtaGlance But you can. Ukraine fucked up, and Russia will correct the bullshit.

​ @DomAtaGlance Yes. Russia did agree to respect Ukraine's borders when it declared its independence. In 2014, the Maidan coup brought a hyper-Russophobic regime to power which, as its first official act revoked the Russian language's status as an official language. This is the equivalent of revoking the official status of French in Quebec or Spanish in California. Russian speakers protesting this action were violently attacked, culminating on May 2, 2014, with the massacre of more than 40 Russian speakers, in Odessa, when their attackers set a government building they had retreated to alight with Molotov cocktails. Civil war intensified. Russian, French, German, and Ukrainian diplomats negotiated the Minsk 1 and 2 agreements in Sept., 2014 and Feb., 2015, to end the violence. These were approved by the UN Security Council, and Kiev did not implement them. In Dec. 2021, the Russian Federation presented a proposal to end the crisis to the U.S. and NATO, neither of whom agreed to discuss it. Russia intervened militarily in Feb. 2022 to force Kiev to the negotiating table. Negotiations occurred in Istanbul in March and April, 2022 and produced a draft agreement that the U.S. and U.K. instructed Kiev not to sign. One can hardly accuse Russia of "waking up one day and invading their neighbor."

@@billappledorf you are severely mistaken sir. The maidan revolution was not a "coup". The president of Ukraine Viktor yanakovych willfully boarded a Russian helicopter and left them country under his own recognizance. He was not chased out, he was not overthrown, he was not forced out. He left in the middle of the night under the cover of darkness. In the morning when Ukraine along with the rest of the world realized that their leader had abandoned ship the elected officials of the Ukranian govrtment moved to immediately fill the office of president with an interim president untill new elections could be held and a new president could be elected .neither the interim president or the elected president brought with them anything remotely close to "hyper Russia phobia". In 2012 a law was put on the agenda to cement Russian as an official language in Ukraine. 2 days after the fleeing of yanakovych the parliament of Ukraine moved to amend the bill, fearful that it would be used to undermine the Ukranian language. Ultimately the interim president that you claim was hyper Russia phobic actually VETOED the decision by the Ukranian parliament in order to protect the law. If you don't believe me all you have to do is look up Ukraine language law of 2012 After the president of Ukraine vetoed the decision by Ukraines parliament it becomes pretty hard to make the claim that ethnic Russians in the east were violently attacked for protesting the action. Unless you are telling me they were protesting the support of their law. Or are you telling me they aren't smart enough to even know what they are protesting? In reality their was no violence against ethnic Russians. The violence that took place was actually perpetrated by ethnic Russians against the Ukranians loyal to their country. Like we saw in Odessa when Russian backed sepretist attacked a group of Ukranian loyalist with bats, knives, clubs and firearms. When their group began to be beaten back by the Ukranians who were defending themselves they retreated to the Odessa trade union building where they had prepared Molotov cocktails and baracaded the premises. I haven't seen anyone seriously suggest that it was the Ukranians who had Molotov cocktails with them. Where would they be kept? I. Their pockets? Molotov cocktails can not be concealed and taken for travel. They can only be prepared and kept at a defensive fortification like the Odessa trade union building. What the Russian backed sepretist did not anticipate was that someone in their ranks would throw a cocktail from the 3rd strong and botch the throw causeing it to explode inside the building and the baracades meant to keep the Ukranians out actually worked to keep the Russians in. Unfortunately "in" is also where the fire happened to be. Ukranian loyalist watched on in shock and horror as the fire enveloped the building and killed many. It was no massacre. It was a tragic accident where a group of men caused their own deaths. In my opinion anyone who goes against their own country in support of a foreign power is a traitor and scumbag and deserves nothing less than death. So I cry no tears for the barbequed scumbags in Odessa. As far as minsk goes, it was not kyiv who caused minsk failure. It was valdimir.putins refusal to remove troops from eastern Ukraine that caused minsk to fail

We can take what? Putin is good at what? Chess, while America plays checkers?

@@punapeter More monopoly. There is no profit in checkers nor chess.

@@Nine-Signs How would you know? I guess you never won.

I played the interview at 1.25x speed, and thought she was superb. Always seeking honesty and a fully balanced view.