Agreed, they find themselves in a horrendous political situation of their own making. They are in some part responsible for supporting the man who felt compelled to create this disaster.

@@helmskiand that just reveals your ignorance and personal bias!!! This mess started in 2014 (with the roots going much further back) with the coup and the insidious meddling and agenda of the West!! Despite a peace agreement aka the Minsk accords being established, the brutal attacks on the ethnic Russian civilians of the Donbas by the far right Ukrainian regime, not only continued but escalated!! Putin both refused requests to take back the territory of the Donbas, and to green light Russian military intervention ( being highly criticised for waiting 8 years to do so and being too trusting and moderate on the issue) Far from starting it, Putin committed himself to pursuing and honouring diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict, when every other side were either violating terms or working in bad faith!! It would seem you are similarly as inflicted as the Neo cons, and have sadly fallen hook line and sinker for their perverse and egregious propaganda !!👎🏻

@@helmski Russians support the american deep state, military contractors and the WEF?

@@helmski So much copium...one could build a orbital habitation ring.... *in kerbal space

So why does Putin want to exterminate all russians? He forces russians to go to the front and shoot at them when they don't want to advance. More russian soldires in Novoprokopivka now die by russians shooting them than by ukrainian fire.

The Neocons hate themselves. They project that self-hatred on almost everyone else.

I'm sick of all this childish behaviour by adults

The only thing they don't hate apart from themselves has to be endless war!

I think in fact they hate themselves too.

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Back in the early 2000s Russia also saw many Islamist terror attacks, killing several hundreds. Putin often asked about a common European Security Framework, even joining NATO. The simple fact is that NATO needs a common enemy to promote arms sales.

Excellent point. The Cold War against Russia didn't end when the USSR fell. Why? Because Putin was elected and he prevented the West from unleashing Liberalism, the Banksters, and the Corporate Profiteers on his nation, as they had done to exploit so many other nations before Russia. THAT is why Putin is so hated!!! He saved Russia, in no uncertain terms.

Just goes to show you the kind of morons cheyney and his kind are these people are on both sides of the atlantic, are we ever going to be free of them.

Cheney is a Neocon and these people were traitors from day one, not even Americans in their hearts, but entirely obsessed with Eastern Europe, and with becoming the overlords of globalism.

The usual insular toxic genocidal US neocon regime mix of « ignorance and arrogance »

Really? I've seen too many europeans (and not ex soviet ones) denying Russia as a part of Europe long before this war. Culture? Lol, an average european do not think we have one.

But Russia has left the chat, and guess what, in the Asian and African chats, Russians represent the good side and interesting sides of Europe, which is classical culture and art, literature, and eventually, non-Constantinian Christianity.

Europe is rouled by USA and it follows USA orders against russia

The US destroyed NordStream Pipeline which has driven Russia even closer to China and Asia. The US sees this as an extension of the Cold War against Russia-China. The US has made the opinion of Europe irrelevant.

@@ziggys. Yeah, we made many mistakes with Poland...like not crushing you when you became Hitler's first allie and then got a chunk of Czechoslovakia for it. Or that most of the civilian labour in the death camps were Poles. Our biggest mistakes was not stopping on the vestula and going around from the South. Should have left you ingrateful bas to the Germans to finish off. They were quite pissed at how you betrayed them. 60.000 Poles served in the Wehrmacht. Most died. We should have left you to the Germans, no one would have any problems with you Poles now.

This is a gambit to put Russia in the spot politically, daring them to refuse referenda to avoid recognizing the new territories.. Meanwhile the regular elections in Ukraine have been cancelled, and that's fine.

Oh, no, it's not forgotten and they'll never forgive us for defeating their beloved n@#$m

Saved Europe? With mass assaults, robbery, and countless murders of civilians?

correct

The problem is their arrogance combined with a genuine depth of ignorance (our academe is in a mess).

Even these men are limited in what their ideology (and maybe self-interest) allows them to take on board and develop.

Europe, will be destroyed due to the repercussions of this war. The economy and societies, not a physical war. The Neocons are well aware of the likelihood, and so is the WEF, which spoke out early for a war, of European demise. US sees itself as the beneficiary of a European demise, getting industry, talent, and money.

Russia doesn't take orders

That's quite true, although Putin has since stated that he requires a "signal" from the West that they are willing to negotiate on realistic terms, before sitting down with them. By which he means the new reality of the annexed territories now belonging to Russia.

@@mysticone1798 Oh cool! Has the President confided in you for a long time or have you just met recently?

Except that it is obvious to most in Russia that there is no one to negotiate with in that pile putrid swamp called the West.

But by whom? We must call out the war hawks that are indeed going to bring Apocalypse, unless they get stopped by all means.

@@neovxr the deep state? davos people, wef guys, globalists..

The west won that Crimean war. They're losing this one badly....

It's no Anglos or Turks in positions of power in the US establishment. This is a verboten topic, of course. Pale fo the settlement.

Sure loser LMAO

Idiots and comics brains are too big or maybe too little to accept defeat and surrender when it's abundantly clear there's no possible victory for them. They're so egotistically driven with pride that they're willing to sacrifice all the people of their country and ultimately themselves and not operating in or on behalf of the best interest of the masses of the people, the victims, the ones that are suffering and the ones that have made the sacrifice.

Zelensky may have to be removed to make way for peace in Ukraine.

​@@mysticone1798ot killed. Wonder who would get his mansion??

Lindsay Graham gets the mansion.

an extreme neocon.

Kotkin is a sick guy. He is driven by hatred.

exactly. Also prof. Tim Synder at Yale, home of the Kagans

A very entitled, conceited fellow, this Kotkin.

These people will ruin societies and civilizations if left to their conniving and scheming.

still are.

True, except that the original key neocons were all Anglos.

​@@vaska1999Were they?

@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 A remarkable number of neo-conservatives are of Eastern European descent. For example, A. Bidens grandpa is from Kiev. (He was called Blenchen. In 1904 the family Blenchen migrated to the US and called themselves Blinkin. The next generation turned that into Blinken.) V. Nulands grandpa comes from Moldova and her grandma from Belarus (they were called Nudelman). Kagan, from Lithuania. Etc. In Canada, C. Freelands grandpa was the Ukraine nazi-collaborator Mikhaylo Chomiak.

I think Poroshenko and Holland have both admitted the purpose of Minsk 2 was to arm Ukraine as well.

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As another commentator put it: Ukraine now has severe paranoia and lots of people are prosecuted or arrested for treason. Nobody dares to put in a good word for Russia. But all that Ukrainian oppression may actually backfire when there is a vote taken.

Agreed Usually, he sets about spinning for his US paymasters in a manner most disturbing for an articulate English academic - where impartiality, balance and accurate factual assessment are fundamental « givens » Strangely compromised First time here that he appears almost reasonably balanced and open to considering the legitimacy of the Russian position Since he comments on the French speaking world, he should begin by reading the most authoritative scholarly work of Swiss intelligence officer and UN doctrine authority, Colinrl JACQUES BAUD Baud highlights the facts impartially: Russia’s preemptive operation prevented an imminent, planned, announced U.S. proxy war attack on the civilian populations of the Donbas - they asked Russia for military protection which required Duma approval since Russia had no forces in Ukraine prior to Feb 2022 - and a U.S. neocon plan to cleanse ethnically Russian Donbas and occupy it, prior to attacking Crimea in keeping with a Ukranian decree announced by U.S. neocon agent Zelensky in early 2021. How could Russia not react to an unprovoked US neocon proxy war attack on its defense security, economy, culture and existence ? Baud points out that Russia’s operation was legal under UN legal doctrine to PREVENT a civilian population from an imminent genocidal bloodbath. Blinken and Kuleba signed in October 2021 a « U.S. Ukraine Charter » whereby Ukraine committed to applying for NATO membership - the U.S. neocon regime having already de facto built, armed, trained and directed Europe’s largest military for e on Russia’s border since the U.S. neocon coup d’état of 2014 which led to the Russian population’s « independence within Ukraine » demands. The Charter envisaged more or less selling the vast naturally rich assets and control of the development of Europe’s largest region to the U.S. neocons. As a telling sign of things to come, US fund BlackRock purchased some 20% of Ukraine’s richest lands at « distressed asset » prices - a surface area equivalent to that of ITALY no less - with the able assistance of US neocon puppet Zelensky and his Kiev cabal. Such « privatization » operations amount to blatant commercial colonization on Russia’s doorstep - in full knowledge of Russia inseparable millennial historic, cultural, spiritual and civilizational link with a region that was artificially divided from Russia by Bush Senior when US operative Gorbachev was conned into weakening Russia’s unity. In a referendum at the time of this « peaceful » dissolution of the utopian Soviet Union, the multi ethnic populations of the Russian borderland Ukranian regions voted FOR remaining part of Russia. Bush rushed to Ukraine, made fiery fiery speeches, promising to back Ukraine’s independence… and the artificial creation of a desperate country that had never really existed for any length of time prior to the Soviétisation of the region - began. The U.S. neocon divide and rule ta ti s as set out by the published Brezhensky neocon doctrine has been robotically pursued by the U.S. neocon regime The illegal undercover regime change operations began in 2004, grew violent and polarizing with the coup d’état of 2014 that brought the hard right polarization of Porochenko and the Bandera extremists and killing squads backed by the U.S. neocons to power Followed by the U.S. neocon puppet installed by the oligarch Kolomoisky who also funded murderous hard right groups 14,000 were massacred in the Donbas This context proves US neocon culpability and Russia’s legitimacy. What the Ukraine conflict reveals is the U.S. neocons indifference to Ukranian lives - and by calling the out of control dysfunctional US Neocons’ bluff - the underlying US neocon aim of weakening, demonizing and Balkanizing the world’s largest and most naturally rich country is what the U.S. neocon unprovoked attack on Russia is all about. Putin’s sun is to have been the world’s most successful leader in restoring Russia as one of or the most important world powers in the space of 25 years - as its friend and neighbour China lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty at a speed unprecedented I human history. With the consolidation and growth of BRICS+50, accelerating global dedollarisation and the dumping of fictitious and risky U.S. debt as the neocon regime teeters on the permanent brink of default - a newly reconciled and more cooperative multipolar world order is uniting to counter the genocidal horrors and tyrannical abuses of U.S. neocon hegemonic projections, thereby pushing the progressive implosion, decline and fall of the lethal and universally loathed « Empire of Lies » once and for all. In short, it is heartening to witness this academic shifting to less ambiguous ground at last.

Interesting - the readiness of the Germans to accept their servitude under the US neocons is puzzling. They need to get back their Tuetoborg mentality with regard to oppressive, overbearing imperial powers.....

What do these Germans make of the tennis player Alexander Zverev? An ethnic Russian born in and representing Germany.

@@pbworld7858 They only criticize him and don't lose a single good word.

@@Warkurus Do you know what was all the Nazi shouting about at his recent US Open match? Was it aimed at him?

@@pbworld7858 I don't know anything about that, sorry.

2som9097, A "deed pole" is something entirely different to what you are stating. A deed pole is a legal document. You need to get your facts, understanding and spelling right before you start "an international" incident. The world is run by lunatics already so be careful with the language.

@@ziggys. Says the random internet troll.

NATO mission, keep the US in, Russia out, and Germany down.

​@@robertgriffin6668good mission

I meet Europeans all the time from many different places, they all seem to rabidly hate Putin and the Russians. Save for the French who have a healthier mix of opinions.

@@catocall7323 I'm sorry for them I don't feel hate for any humans in the world, best wishes

If the Europeans are so open to all cultures why were they gloating and demonising Russian people at the start of the war confiscating Russian assets. Imposing sanctions outdoing each other in the effort. They thought they would be drinking vodka in Moscow while dividing up Russia and its territory once they destroyed the Russian economy. In their arrogance the Western tools underestimated Russia and destroyed Europe by cutting ties to cheap energy and resources. How is this working for them? The Europeans need to grow some brain cells to understand what they did themselves, will affect all for generations to come. "It is better to die on your feet than on your knees"

Simplistic & inaccurate review of history, the removal of some missiles did not automatically make anything safer, in fact nuclear missiles in place ready to use are what prevents some kinds of war that would occur if conventional forces were able to be used with impunity. The Cuban crisis was invented by the US, pushed the world near war, and it's end only resumed the status quo before the crisis. You have no idea what is going on here, the Russians are going to have their victory, because they must. You can't negotiate with Nazi Ukrainians.

Russia does not trust the West any more. Every time it did in the past, the West cheated

The US must agree to roll back NATO military installations to their 1991 positions and put in writing its commitment never to invite or allow Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. Those are the minimal preconditions for a new, fair security architecture in Europe. In return, the Russians must agree to hold a new set of internationally observed referendums in the 4 regions that used to be Russia, were then annexed to Ukraine, and are Russia once again, to determine the will of the majority of their residents as to which country they want to be a part of.

The US thinks that they own the planet

Americans need someone to hate so they don't have to reflect inwards. We're always good so someone else must necessarily be El Diablo.

Any country that doesn’t bend the knew to the USA is intensely hated by Washington. Period

Eurasian integration is a threat to maritime island nations like Britain and US. Halford Mackinder.

@@unibks4382 The Neocons are totally obsessed with Mackinder, though they are reluctant to explicitely tell, but for example, there is a guy named Gerard Toal, who did, and a couple of others. Then also, there is Dovid Katz, who suggested that behind the words of Tim Snyder there might be a lot of revanchism and "holocaust revisionism" which means the double holocaust cult that says Putin = Hitler.

End of nato will bring peace, Nato is a warmongler

Let me whisper these three little words in your ear: Responsibility to Protect.

@@vaska1999, So whom are you referring to? The "western NATO" protection racket. Or the responsibility for a people to protect it's people from being murdered. Are you referring to the US/Neocon invasion of Ukraine and setting up a puppet government?

Problem here is, we Russians just dont give a damn about western moralization or what that cesspool parastical West thinks. If you want war, you will get war. Everyone here pretty much now hates EU, you arent Europe you arrogant sons of...we own 1/4th of Europe, the richest 1/4th. You are the back end of a continent called Eurasia, soon to be the backwater, irrelevant, poor, freezing degenerates. Bye bye. You dont like what we did? Come fight us. You wanted us as enemies, you got it. And dont tell me the excuse its not the people's fault, it absolutely is: you elected, tolerated and followed the satanic clowns that own you.

Americans are gun nuts

But now Europe is being colonized by their former colonies. Karma is a bitch!

@@ziggys. No they aren't. They haven't been in like 100 Years. Especially post-Soviet where the territory they did gain from WWII had to be given up and Russia today was initially not even interested in getting any land from Ukraine when Russia went in on February 2022. Russia caring about their National Security does not equate to colonialism otherwise you may as well put every country on Earth as a colonial power today and given that Europe and the US keeps proving to be a credible threat to that because surprise, they wanna colonize Russia, it only seems like Russia is a colonial power. Also, France is a colonial power still. The UK to some extent is as well though most of it now is due to financial connections rather than with military as the UK lacks a relevant military force and France is slipping as well.. I say the last major colonial power globally would be the United States (followed by minor colonial powers such as Israel and France and France is losing their grip).

If a federation is a form of colonialism, then the USA is definitely a colonial occupier of North America. Do not do victory dances of virtue when you are standing on very thin ice.@@ziggys.

Russophobia is a sickness.

It is the interest of the USA and its controllers. It is not in the interest of the American people. There is a difference.

The CIA control over the Ukrainian state is far too strong.

Are you serious ? ,,Ethnic ukrainians"? ,,Ukrainian " is rather about citizenship.Like ,,british".Ethnically they are russians in South East or ruthenians in the western Ukraine .

I suspect that Russia has come to the same sentiment about Europe. It is just not worth the headache when the global south is ready to do business with Russia minus debilitating entanglements.

@@richardparker1338 I'm a little jealous, because Russia appears to have a bright future ahead of themselves, whereas the west seems to be in rapid decline.

@@richardparker1338 You probably just think about negative attitudes towards Russians as a people, not about negative perception of Russia as a state.

​@@xxvxxv5588dude everyone in the west hates putin

@@robertgriffin6668 both Russia and the West in decline because of demographic.

Its their land. They will leave for Russia and their historical lands will follow. The idea they should leave because of the innate racism of the western Ukraine's is ridiculous.

@@davidthompson1369 That is not how international law works. It’s Ukraine’s land not any individuals.

Do you support Kosovo Albanians moving to Albania then? This would include NATO occupation force also leaving Serbian Kosovo land.

​@@helmski Rules-based international order - based on whatever rules the US happens to choose, you mean?

@@twangbarfly no, the US has been in violation of international law as well and should be held accountable. I’m talking Law not your feeling.

You evidently don’t like what he has to say 😂. Respect to Russia from Ireland for finally standing up to this American BS. The sane people of the world need Russia to break this USA hegemony once and for all. 🇮🇪💚🇷🇺

DON'T BE AN IDIOT! He's just sensible unlike the Psychopaths and their supporters i.e. You, who support a nuclear war and the American century when most of the world doesn't want it!

Are you lecturing us from the States?

When you shake hands on a deal like the Minsk Agreement with the Collective West you need to count your fingers afterwards. To find it was a only to give Nato time to arm Ukraine. Shows they wanted a war with Russia, they thought was for the taking. They got it wrong! What now that Russia is turning its trade Eastwards? No more cheap energy coming from Russia! Winter will be cold and people who had no say will suffer and watch what took decades to build destroyed in a year.

As a romanian I can tell you are mistaken..You are considering all the bolshevics as being russians.In fact the comander en chief of Red Army during the civil war was an ukrainian jew,Leon Trotsky. For 37 years,after Stalin's death,USSR has been ruled by 4 ukrainians ( Hrushchev,Cernenko,Brezhnev and Gorbachev) Rusia hasn't even had her own comunist party.

‘’The Heat Will Kill [us all] First’’, I’m afraid…

@@fabiengerard8142Do not be afraid of those changes because I am convinced that they will also lead to positive changes even in the western part of the world, they will certainly sting for some but for the majority of people it will lead to the better. Our rulers will learn the valuable lesson of compromising with others.

@@Abbadoss Your leaders may learn a great many things, but until they have freed themselves from their American overlords their learning will count for nothing, as is currently the case.

@@twangbarfly You are right about that, but sometimes miracles can happen that make people and countries change their minds about many things.

Humanbeing is geneticaly sick!!