It did not age well for Zeinab Badawi. The problem is, these BBC commentators look like idiots when they are looked at in retrospect. McCain is giving her valid information, and she is saying idiotic things like, "Putin has never said he wants to invade eastern Ukraine...." (Actually, Putin has made it very clear for a long time that he is still mad that Gorbachev would not let him leave the Dresden barracks to put down the Eastern European trends toward democracy.) This is the problem with the media. They have a Weltanschauung and they will not report anything that differs from that view. They ask questions to show their viewers/listeners that they are smarter and better than the interviewee. This is particularly true when interviewing Republicans or British interviewing Americans. The mems are that (1) Americans obviously are not as sophisticated in diplomatic affairs as those older and wiser Europeans and (2) Republicans/conservatives are stupid. How's that working out for the audience? They are getting dumber and dumber watching the BBC, NBC, ABD, reading the Washington Post and The New York Times. And they don't even realize the effect they are having on the electorate in these democratic countries. The media are destroying democracy in order to save it. They will be multiple autocracies and war.

What a pity he didn't win the republican candidacy against Bush.

It didn't.Putin has no interest in doing that.He tried everything to avoid this war.

I'm not sure how well this actually aged. Is it cool that McCain predicted the Ukraine war? Yes. Is it absolutely terrible that nobody wanted to listen to him just because he was a Republican? Also Yes.

@@ShadowLancer128 Except trumpist Republicans are the ones who actively try to stop ukraine aid packages and let Putin win.

Yeah, follow the money.

Mccain even mentioned Moldova and there have been lots of talks going on that Moldova is next after Ukraine falls

yes, completely and everyone thought he was a warmonger at the time.

Yes he has been right all along. He also said: "Russia is a Gas station, controlled by the Mafia, pretending to be a country". Which is probably the most spot on description of Russia that you could give in a short sentence.

He was right it was created exactly as this warmongering 🤡 planned it

stopped clocks and all that...

He isn't a moderate he is a democrat in disquise

@@PunchingCacti Hell no. During the 115th Congress (2017-18) McCain voted with Trump 83% of the time. More so than Mike Lee and Rand Paul. Just names. No arguments.

@@davidnavarro4821 Trump was a pretty shitty conservative too so thats not much to brag about

@@PunchingCacti Trump was a totally shitty President that’s for sure but he wasn’t a Democrat and neither was McCain.

He was a disgusting war hawk.

Not at all. The USA silently invaded Ukraine before 2014, committed a coup there in 2014 and planted puppets there in the government, which have allowed and cheered to murder of 14000 people in the Donbas from 2014-2021, so before this falsely so called 'war'. The crime of the people in the Donbas and in Crimea is that they speak Russian. The Ukranian oligarchs funded neo-nazi militias to hunt them + jews + roma.

McCain was a great guy, and the interesting part is that he commented on what was happening while most others preferred to close their eyes.

​@@tshevwar criminal calling other people war criminal

@@garymccormick7551 Prove it.

@@garymccormick7551 And we're still waiting for you to prove it.

he not only understood it, he orchestrated the illegal coup in 2014, encouraged the ukrainians to start a war against Russia. To him and his fellow felons; piss off, USA, and go to hell, as God intended. Mind your own business inside your fuuked up country. deal with low wages, high crime, drug addicts and you rich tax fraud government. leave the free world alone

Nah he was just a warmonger who demonized Russia for a living

Lies

It's the other way around. This guy lies like crazy. Eastern Ukraine was part of a genocide made by Ukraines ultra nationalistic right wing people.

No, john Mccain overall was a TERRIBLE senator. Voted 99 percent of the time in favor of corporations, against basic social justice, and never met a war he didnt like. I’ll admit to some degree he was a man of character and stuck to his principles, however most of his principles were awful. It shouldnt be a shocker that a warhawk like mccain was able to see through putin’s bullshit. And i’ll give him more credit than that i think he knew in detail the depths of Vlad’s evil intentions on a level other warhawks didnt. To his credit, he was always spot on with his views on Russia and Obama did screw up royal during the Crimea situation. That said i also understand why Obama failed with Russia. Foreign policy in general is a hella complex thing and while i consider myself a firm Leftist, not a Liberal, and somewhere between a Social Democrat and a full on Socialist, i’m more centrist when it comes to Foreign Policy and never been one for Isolation policies or the blatant statement that the US should mind its business and let countries do whatever they want, thats how the Holocaust happened. Im not saying the US should invade russia or start killing Russian trumps in Ukraine, but there have to be hard lines set and support for Ukraine or Vlad will literally just use nuclear ransom to control half of europe

He would have made a great president! As would Bernie Sanders, but unfortunately you yanks keep digging up the doozies. We didn’t think it could get any worse than Bush - but then you unleashed the orange cretin on us…………👎🏾🇦🇺

To pay for his crimes?

​@@johnchisholm2896 To wip the Republicans back to their place.

​@@johnchisholm2896how's life at the troll farm?

@@joeywelander1833 you're disgusting

@@johnchisholm2896To lead the USA and the free world against Russia and his crimes.

Nbs

@make a wish He was spot on.

@make a wish he was, look at what russia is doing to ukraine now

Wow, he really was. Shame about what he Republican party has become that this guy is hated by a large part of the party now.

@@beefknuckles I think they will change for the better soon

Hahahaha what a fucking moron. He started it all up you idiot!

his is dumb man

@@MegaFarah78 in the middle east the people reject their own freedom, insisting on their own continued oppression and corrupt leadership that steal all your oil and keep most of the profit to themselves. All because the lack of freedom and the authoritarian dictatorship is so much in line with Santas big book of fascist little elves. Middle east is so fucked up man. Tyrant after tyrant after tyrant. It's all about murdering your way to power and then oppresssing someone, until someone murders you and takes the power and starts oppressing someone else. Constantly fighting each other. You do realize that that is what the democracy is for right? It's for turning all this fighting civilized. Democracy is a proxy for a civil war. And that civil war is fought between parties and even within parties, without any bloodshed. It's civilized way of fighting for the power. Voters determine the outcome. Middle East continues to be uncivilized. We constantly see many young men entering our free countries, fleeing war in the middle east and leaving women and children behind. And then we sometimes see them go back to the middle east to fight and chop the heads off of all the infidels. The only thing that really unites people in the Middle East is their hatred for the zionist state Israel and their hatred of the free world. It's a barbaric culture down there. Even the Russians are more civilized with their pretend-democracy, at least the lesser intelligent part of the Russian population think that they are civilized and believe they have democracy and the smarter part of Russian people knows they don't have democracy but want to have democracy. Middle East straight up doesn't want anything to do with democracy. They'd rather keep all their barbaric internal fighting with full-on bloodshed.

He was

How exactly is this accurate? Russia has done absolutely nothing to expand. Crimea voted to be Russian so they incorporated Crimea. Russia might be the least imperialist country on the planet. Now the USA on the other hand....

​@@shonuff4323whatever you are smoking, I want some of it.

@@shonuff4323 That has to be the most asinine thing I have read in weeks. Good jorb.

@@Nimish204 Are you pretending the last 30 years didn't happen?

​@@shonuff4323lol Russia the least imperialistic country 😂 Answer this, how do you think Russia became the Worlds biggest country? It was not an accident

circuis

I second that. Even though I might not agree with John McCain on everything, I highly respect the man. RIP

Who cares?

I know you may not understand from an outsider's perspective, but BOTH of the Republicans and Democrats are the right and left leg of the same military industrial complex machine. There was a time many years ago when Democrats were against war. Now it's a blur between the two parties.

If you think trump and McCain Are the same thing you couldn’t be more wrong. And to be a Republican means to be In support of trump. Because all Republican politicians are afraid of trump and fall right in line with him. So even if you don’t vote for trump but vote for a Republican politician, you’re still supporting trump. Let’s not forget, trump tried to withhold arms from Ukraine until he got “intelligence” about the Bidens.

His forign policy can be simplified as "WAR WAR WAR"

Yup, one of the missed opportunities to have a real great President.

Not as much as Western trolls who praise this warmonger and repeat his propaganda

Did they asked Russian to counter his statement? No. So this is BBC information only flows in one direction... He is warmonger, he very much set up and support this war and any other, because he profits from it...

Yes, real >>american

I'd say the earth took a breath of relief when this man died, an utter warmonger and a liar, and if you think he was a great man, then no wonder every U.S. government is worse than the one before it and why the U.S. is being left in the dust by the rest of the world and going down the drain.

@@muhammaDEsmustafa I couldn't agree more.

@@muhammaDEsmustafa the rest of the world like iran, nicaragua and north korea 😂😂

@@lmao.3661 Mud hose again.

trump discredited and disrespected him for no reason.. the maga and republican people cheering trump because of such comments broke cain... he was a decorated hero.. a smart man who wanted the best for its country.. its a shame and one of the reasons why russia got that big of a threat, because trump and others (like fox news etc..) blurred the facts around this threatening state. i think the trump comment was something like this( i dont like guys that let them get caught like cowards.., because cain was taken war prisoner.)

Which one?

@@shake4259 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ipdkY5ykvajQlZs.html

100%

Prophetic? Hardly. The writing was on the wall in early 2000s. No one decided to do anything bc of cheap gas/oil greed

You're not forced to have just two parties. Politics in USA has a serious problem of representativity

Is Russia in Taiwan or is the USA in Taiwan?

@@hongry-life China is trying to be...

@@wishusknight3009 But in fact the USA is. Btw the USA will be sending troops again into Iraq. It's called an invasion. Their Ukraine vs Russia project is on hold now and their next project is Taiwan vs China then. Haiti invasion also in the works. With 'USA' I mean + EU + British empire, so 'the western world'. Or actually: the oligarchs behind the curtains funding this all, because those psychopaths have these mental diseases like unlimited greed and power lust.

Majority have an attention span of a squirrel. The mass is dumb.

Yup

Almost scary how right he was

No, he wouldn't have. He would have been another Reagan. And the GOP already did enough to plunder the economy.

All these bot comments are telling.

BASED

@@kaktus_sanchez Based on a serious case of substance abuse. Even back in their empire days, life was crap for your average Russian serf. They had famine upon famine. An egg is expenive but no egg? That's free.

@@kaktus_sanchezare you brain dead or something?

I like how you see a man predicting how a far right extreme conservative will invade Ukraine and create an imperialistic authoritarian state and what yoj learned is that a black person in TV is the downfall of western society

WTF are you even on about? Did you forget to take your meds ?

I appreciate the flair of including a motivational speech in the standard Kremlin narrative blah blah blah... nice initiative and thank you for the much-needed variety, I think I actually started to hear a symphony swell in my head towards the end. Really, the repetition of the same 5-8 bullet points of verifiable bs makes me wish I was the type of idiot to have a gun in the house so I can blow my brains out spontaneously at the 100th mention of a US-backed coup, after which Obama literally just told his new pawns "welp, good luck!" and hopped away without giving them any weapons to fight, as McCain says. Which sure is stylistically different from how past US-backed coups were carried out, but maybe coups don't need weapons for your new puppets to play with or any significant follow-up/a plan/a crap to give about the region the country is in (which Obama famously didn't, given his reply in 2012 to Romney saying Russia was the biggest national security risk was that the "Cold War called and it wanted its foreign policy back" and was a China hawk). Maybe the US does coups just out of habit or addiction now, or just to prove they still can, even if the fallout is seen as a huge inconvenient distraction from actual geopolitical goals. In the real world, the medal for the Crimea theft given to various war criminal hero liberators shows that the start date for the mission was 20 February 2014. Which is particularly interesting as the snipers did not do their massacre until 21 February and Yanukovych did not "flee for his life" (after 3 days of CCTV footage showing leisurely loading of endless tacky (like, the Russian kind of tacky, not the regular kind) truckloads of totally public sector salary possessions, mind you) until early hours of 22 February like a little bitch. Or like a little Putin, who sure was MIA on the crisis line until it was clear that Moscow was safe, like a true Russian patriot. The only evidence for a "western coup" is a leaked call where Nuland was discussing who of the protesters would be best positioned to hold the country over until the next election in the deal she was brokering between them and Yanukovych. She had a preference for which of the three would be best in the PM role since Yanukovych needed to replace his (the one with government experience and the logical choice, shocker). That's the whole thing. Then there was an election in May. Then another in 2019. So the guy she chose was effectively in charge for three months. That's the whole thing. Yanukovych's annoying dead son was whining about western coups from December 2,, so basically one day after the POS coups did their favorite thing and beat a few dozen college kids peacefully protesting because they had to clear them to install a Christmas tree and this caused hundreds of thousands to join the next day. All cops being bastards caused the Maidan Revolution, except in the minds of schizophrenics in the Kremlin and their bitch-ass dead puppetsons who are certain that the US must surely stage as many events as their loser country does for something as casual as filling a stadium. Therapy might have helped not see the CIA behind every corner, but alas the paranoid freak has outsourced his personal traumas to the world and his idiots, useful or otherwise, spread the western-backed coup gospel far and wide, always with no detail or explanation, never mind any actual evidence. But hey, at least you had a motivational speech! Really is interesting about the whole February 20 thing though. Somehow the liberation of Crimea started two days before the event that supposedly provides the justification for stealing land like a bitch because "Kyiv junta, illegitimate, poof magic, no treaties such as Budapest Memorandum apply, everyone knows change government turmoil in sovereign states nullifies all of the country's borders and treaties,I steal land now, all dots and is crossed, sanctions are Russophobic since we did things so lawfully, like, it would totally work in Russia, I don't understand why you Russophobes don't accept our world-renowned judicial system where social media posts (only if true) get you ten years in jail and a mutiny with a private army that shot down pilots gets you a payout and a relocation package, it just makes sense, just like Crimea always being Russian and us always being innocent victims, if you don't let me steal land I will nuke you or at least pout on the bench for an hour, because being the sorest of losers is one of the Russian society's main cultural traits (be it losing their SMO, their fencing match badly, or their superpower status 30 years ago,, which the denial and inability to come to terms with is really at the core of everything else, isn't it). The only people who could possibly prepare an operation in advance of presumably shocking events to come in the next few days are the coup plotters though, so it must be nothing since it's not Obama that has a medal for the liberation of Crimea starting on February 20th, and certainly no one could ever suspect Russia to be behind the coup, because everyone knows it was a western-backed coup, perfectly proven by overly overwhelming evidence that Nuland, as a diplomat, had an opinion about something diplomats should have opinions about, 100% smoking gun. Actual documented GRU presence/meetings in Kyiv around the 20th-21st makes me even more sure that this was a CIA-backed coup as I'm sure the Russian spies were only there to hunt down all the CIA operatives stage-managing the snipers. No evidence of any, but evidence is unneeded to know that the CIA-backed coup is the justification for why Russia was forced to do a crisis management land grab in Crimea that otherwise would not have happened except it started two days before said provocation happened. It all makes sense once you understand that time is not linear and the CIA probably has time dilation weapons it was testing for use against ethnic Russians and so that explains everything perfectly and biolabs in Ukraine, QED. Unless... it's not like he had a top pick for who would best fill in as PM for a few months so things settle down as a stop-gap until elections as part of diplomacy while working as a diplomat or anything equally defitive, but there is audio via the Surkov tapes in which be is coordinating all the various payouts for people to be "protesters" in Crimea, and Odesa, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Kherson, Luhansk. Most fizzled out, two regions had critical Ghirkins in enough numbers to almost pass off the local criminals and drug addicts and mafia types agreeing to take such money are actual independent separatists and it's totally an organic civil war and the Russian military totally isn't just waging war on Ukraine(because Obama legitimately did not care about this region and couldn't be bothered to react more than he absolutely had to to Russia being a clown show, never mind that Ukrainians gave up nukes and were actually promised something more, hope the smug prick loses a kid so he actually feels something real).

Kremlin propaganda is all you spreadz

​@jasminekaram880 Kremlin my fckin ass, it's not a narrative it's a simple concept you can't understand for some reason which is that NATO was originally invented to protect Europe from the Soviet Union which does not exist anymore so why did NATO persist for 3 decades, don't say because of Russian aggression cuz that shit didn't start until after NATO was already on Russia's border which is a valid security concern. NATO is an aggressive offensive organization, when they killed Qaddafi that was not defensive, when they bombed Afghanistan, that was not defensive, when they destroyed Syria, that was not defensive and when Serbia was bombed in 1999, that was not defensive either. This is all a tactic pushed by people like John McCain and Mike Pompeo to move closer and closer to Russia's borders to provoke them and to make money from the weapons companies who are desperate to empty their stocks. This is a valid security concern Russia has had long before anybody heard of "tHe TYrAniCaL DIctaToR pUtiN." NATO didn't only expand but swallowed almost all of Russias neighbors, which any country would see this as an aggressive posture like if Mexico, Cuba, and Venezuela jumped into an alliance with China to counter the US, you would quickly see aggression. The encirclement from an Alliance that did all those horrific acts I mentioned before is lead by the US which is the only country to ever use nukes mind you and says Russia is enemy #1. Also don't forget how our Boris Johnson told Zelensky to pull out of the peace talks in Turkey which would have solved everything but Zelensky as the agent he is did as he was told.

To much honor.