Eurasian societies such as Russian, Chinese, SE Asian, have passed from one political cataclysm to the other - and survived. Instability, frugal living with broken infrastructure and a police state - is their NORMAL! Like sheep, Russian populace simply migrates from one quagmire to the next, they would not know what to do with independence, rule of law, democracy, so they will continue to plod through this war with their 140 million people and will not even feel the 'bump' in the road that was Ukraine. I'm sorry! I hope I am wrong for the sake of Ukraine, Europe and the free world.

Exactly! I completely agree 💯

We're fighting because we believe that the US is the only country entitled to invade foreign nations.

He surely is a complete contrast to some of the fools in the American Congress. Perhaps he should give this lecture to them.

It is heartbreaking. I’m reminded of how Britain begged for aid from us in WWII and how we lagged because of the ugly America First movement. Only now the same people are more repugnant and the need for the brave people of Ukraine is much more urgent. I hate how we’ve limped along, doling out the minimal amount of aid. Please ramp it up!!

Such a good lecture❤ Timothy Schneider rocks!

Now, if we can jet get Putin's Republicans to stop cutting aid to Ukraine to help Trump's/Republican mob boss Putin!

"what they did to the Aleppo", yes lets talk about what Americans did to Aleppo with their support for ISIS and Al-Qaeda. I want to hear how American way of "deposing of Assad" worked for Syrian People

And how do they support Ukraine you *****!!! You could live a peaceful life and work together with east and west. But you let yourself use as a cheap tool against Russia and now you pay the biggest price for it!

@@LaplacianDalembertian "Avdijivka", and check your ears. Syria!, who cares about that place. Not ever russia cares anymore.

Some politicians are in Putin's back pocket. Many on the Freedom Caucus and American First Caucus. The same people who were on Hitler's side pre-American involvement in WWII.

actually Mike Johnson said mainly everything Timothy said. Strange is that more than 50% of republicans voted against the help to Ukraine. It shall be sent to all who voted against the help

@@eddyerle3338 half of the GOP has basically been co-opted by the kgb, a much larger and more worrying slice than on the democrat side

​@eddyerle3338 it should be sent to those who voted for the Putin's congressmen to help them not do do it again

@@PBodytko yes, unfortunately corruption is destroying the US and the EU

I have frequently wondered why radio and TV have never organized short titiles in various languages so we could finally come together.

Those are the guys who should be advising Biden in the White House. The slicky lawyer Sullivan has been a catastrophic choice.

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True as blue

Yes! Ben Can you imagine a debate between our two esteemed presidential candidates and someone of their caliber.

And if we don't stand with Ukraine, WE are in deep, deep trouble.

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It has already happened. US supremacy has ended in humiliation. One-orange-man has been able to take hostage the foreign policy of the entire nation. Trust in NATO and Article 5 - gone. Your precious Constitution - an outdated and ineffective scrap paper. I mean, we Ukrainians managed to elect an ex-convict to the office. Americans will soon do one better and elect a certified traitor...

@@montepr803 It's people like you that make me work so much harder to ensure not one GOP candidate wins in Arizona. Thank you so much for the motivation, troll. As you can see it's working well.

@@ryanreedgibson The good news is people are waking up. Not everyone is buying what you're peddling. As you work hard so do we.

​@@montepr803working hard at posting with "intelligent" emoticons? Tells a lot about your capabilities. But you are right, people are starting to wake up and not in the direction you want to promote.

RIGHT - LIFE in Russia or in China for ordinary people (90% !) is a big CHEAT !!!

I so wish we had been able to prod our government to do more and sooner. Many an American feels as I do and wants to do more, but other than charitable donations and prayers are at a loss of how to do more. We end up focused on our presidential election knowing that as much as our democracy may be at stake, a return of a pro Putin narcissist to the American Presidency would be a blow that Ukrainian democracy would not likely survive.

@@brendap9126 Greetings - too little, too late ! But the real tragedy is: The Ukraine is at risk to disappear, AND Russians will continue to live as pions.

The biggest threat to contemporary civilization is the lack of honesty and conscientiousness - especially among the people who are supposed to inform and enlighten the masses. It's a pity when often the dishonest ignoramuses with an insufficient brain power are trying to "educate" the public on the subject of our - i.e., of the former USSR nations' - reality and history [especially when it is coupled with a strong intention to divide the union of Russian people (i.e., Russians-Ukrainians-Belorussians-Rusyns) - this is the scammers' old colonial trick "divide and conquer"]. Ukraine, being in the Russian state and in the USSR, became the founder of the USSR and of the UN, increased its territory around seven-fold, population - in around 22 times, and finally became the third power in the world by the main civilization characteristics in 1980-ths! As a Ukrainian, I state that the distorting Ukrainian history and reality media personalities and the instigating ethnic strife criminals should be brought to the future Ukraine Nation's Military Tribunal (in the way as it was done for the Nazis by the Nazi-hunting Wiesenthal Institute) - together with the creators and supporters of the scabies/короста on the body of our nation - current puppet néonazi anti-Ukrainian regime in Ukraine. The Hitler collaborators are the main heroes of this regime, the elite force of its army is "Azov" - which was recognized as a néonazi organization even by the US Congress, the slogans and greetings of this regime are copied from the ones of the Hitler collaborators, the anti-nazi are killed by the "death squads" or imprisoned, the national thinker Oles' Busina is demonstratively killed and his killers are funded by the government! The people who really care about the civilization on the planet Earth and the free-thinking Ukrainians will always remember and hunt (again, to bring to the justice - as Wiesenthal did) the war criminals who have brought and/or supported puppet néonazi regimes in Ukraine and started the Civil war in our country ⚡

Ironic when the Commanche language is almost dead, just like most Commanches.

As a European, I think your republicans need to see this

@@glacieractivityI agree with you. But … It is clear that the Republicans do not understand European history and why this war is significant. However, I would argue they do not WANT to know. They are content to stay with the Russian propaganda stories because that supports Trump’s position with Putin.

And Jake Sullivan

Blinken already knows this. He was overruled by POTUS.

​@@cyberpunkalphamale it does seem this way, doesn't it... one gets the vibe from Blinken that he would be conducting this very differently if it were up to him.

All the Western declarations "we won't get involved" before the invasion were a strategic mistake. Deterrence works by keeping all options on the table and making the risk incalculable for the aggressor.

Not with my money!!! I object to all wars! America is encouraging loosing generations of Ukraine men leading to a societal collapse even if the magically win.

Countries are not alive and do not suffer, survive, get "hurt" nor die.

The most corrupt country in Europe, Ukraine canceled the presidential elections, outlawed all opposition parties, denied the majority of its population their basic rights

@@crhu319 But nations do

bjb I like the way you freely speak for the entire world. Is it possible that people in Brazil, South Africa, China, India, Hungary, Slovakia, Russia, etc. might disagree? Are they allowed to have opinions or did you authorize yourself to speak for them?

Well Slovakian citizens just raised money through crowd funding to contribute to Czech missile initiative which their government refused to do. Power to the people ​@@christopheryellman533

@@christopheryellman533 of course it is my own opinion, and you and everyone else is free to disagree with it. But I stand by what I said, because whether they know it or not IMO everyone on the planet owes Ukraine for standing against the tyrants who seek to take over the world. YMMV if you enjoy kissing someone else's ass for the right to live.

​@@christopheryellman533​@christopheryellman533 Правильно comrade! B-but you forgot to mention the most important opinions on the subject - those of the Korean democratic people's republic subjects, the sub-Saharan Africans, Iranians and of course Mr. Lukashenko of Belarus. Glory to mUlTiPoLaR world (dis)order right? 💪🇷🇺💪

No, it very definitely is not. In 2022, the US Congress overwhelmingly authorized a lend-lease bill for Ukraine. Every Senator supported it and all but 10 (out of 435) House members supported it. It created an 18-month window for Ukraine to apply that ended at the end of fiscal 2023, September 2023. Ukraine never applied. If not already forgiven, the repayments would have begun in 2071. If you assume a low inflation rate across those years, then it would roughly have been like getting 4 dollars of gear for every 1 repaid 50 years later. Ukraine's inflation rate is much higher, so, it is a much better deal than that. It is basically aid disguised as a loan to respect the self-sufficiency of the recipient by requiring some burden sharing. In Ukraine's case it would almost certainly just get forgiven at some point. For an American conservative, self-sufficiency is sacred. To undermine one's self-sufficiency is evil, and to honor that capacity is morally required. If Ukraine had taken that aid, their situation would be very different now. They were not abandoned; they made a choice that endangered the flow of aid. Zalensky came to the US to try to bolster support for aid, but he was entirely tone-deaf and actually hurt support. He was angry and very entitled. It just offended people. Members tried to reach out to him about his unwise tone, but he didn't get it. Ukrainian sources followed with the same angry and entitled tone, and support for Ukraine has dropped significantly since then. As an individual, if another individual came to me requesting help for some problem and obviously harboring delusions of entitlement, I would shut that down right away. I would probably say something like, "Don't give me that entitlement shit," and if they could course correct, I would help them. If they seemed daft, I might hold their hand and guide them to correct the course, but there is no way I would help if there was a presumption that I owed them that. No one owes you anything. Via the Budapest Memorandum, the US and UK have obligations they have exceeded and I hope they and other allies continue to act in a supererogative way to enable Ukraine to win. It is the presumption of entitlement that is sick and misled them to a difficult state. Another round of aid will pass; after that, lend-lease will probably be tried again. Hopefully, they will take it next time.

Slava Ukraini. The present signed the 60billion aid from congress today. Love from America 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

Absolutely!!!!!

When you live next to Russia, concepts like freedom, democracy, human rights, sovereignty, and territorial integrity are very, very real. In the Russian World, you live on your knees and you die on your knees. That could have been my life had I been born 300 kilometers to the east.

@@henriikkak2091 Yeah, you're totally right. For us, freedom and democracy are something our ancestors genuinely and honestly suffered for. Democracy, for me, is the thing that the members of my church were tortured for by the Communists. But for the Americans, it's increasingly the thing for which their army has intervened in other countries, sometimes unnecessarily. They fear it's just an airy-fairy pretext. So it's better for them to hear Snyder's specific reasons.

What are these concrete outcomes? I have reached 24th minute at double speed and getting bored of listening to one-sided hysteria with a lack of actual facts. Maybe you could save future readers some time.

@@andyjones1982 This is an appeal to diplomats who are in the audience. He gives plenty of facts in his other lectures, especially the long ones. It's his job.

​@@martavdz4972That's another problem -- the US government has without a doubt abused the "fight for democracy" in recent decades. Now that there actually is a clear-cut case of democracy defending itself against an aggressive dictatorship, we have a "boy who cried wolf" situation. Obviously there is also the issue of most Americans knowing next to nothing about Eastern Europe. In places like Poland we don't need to love the US to recognize that America supporting Ukraine is good and its inaction is borderline criminal.

Always remember, Never forget the beautifull people, families, young, old, men, women, and children of Syria!💔🕊🌹

They have been doing it all over the world, bloodshed instead of pushing for peace. Imperialism

Hundreds per day.

You mean the GOP! Our caucus has done nothing but try to keep the taps open.

The Republicans mostly....

I guess they could spend their time wagging their fingers at Vladimir Putin some more. That would definitely show him!

Please do not say out loud about such things , but yes your quite right this is exactly how the US government thinks about its Ukrainian allies.

Total nonsense why are people fleeing the Nazis conscripting them ?

Totally understand. I'm a Baltic Studies expert from Czechia, so I know a lot about Russia's dark history but also a bit about its culture. Some of the nicest and most fascinating people I've met were Russians and Baltic Russians. The problem is, Russia had and still has some incredible people, but its politics has almost never been good. So I respect good Russians but I'm very tough when it comes to Russian propaganda, army and politics.

@@martavdz4972 75% of Russians are primitive and aggressive. That's why Russia is constantly slaughtering other nations. Even the pseudo-opposition shares imperialist views and wants territorial expansion. Only a small percentage of Russians are not aggressive, but they are not influential, The majority of Russians despise them as 'weak'.

And I gravitated to this content because I disagree with it. There is always the other side of the story, you know. However, leaving aside the question of which side is right, or wrong, or more justified, a more pertinent question regarding this unequivocal support for Ukraine exist: is it good for Ukraine? The paradox of the matter is, the more western aid is sent, the more Ukrainian people perish in the fight they cannot win, and the more territory they will lose. They cannot win on their own, they cannot win with the western support and NATO does not want to fight (because apparently Russia produces more ammunition and stuff than the west combined, and because it has a quiet support from China, because China knows Russia it's their ally against US). This is quite simple and logical.

@@martavdz4972 I heard very recently that one of the Baltic countries decided to phase out the Russian language from the schools. These Baltic countries should be more careful.

@@MJGMJGMJG When you are a country with a population of 1.4 million, like Estonia, with a large non-native fraction of Russians who moved to your country while it was involuntarily a Soviet Socialist Republic, and at your border there are 140 million Russians, you might want to take steps to preserve your language and culture. Wales has a population of just over 3 million people and almost everyone speaks English. (The population of the United Kingdom, of which the country of Wales is a part, is 68 million.) In order to preserve the Welsh language signs are in Welsh first and then in English. Nobody in Wales has to be "more careful."

True.

Palestinians......

I'm not convinced stevencoardvenice cares about Palestinians either. He seems to disregard the lives of Ukrainians. Odds are he sees the lives of Palestinians as political props and would probably be unhappy if Biden is part of a successful 2 state solution. I've seen him carrying water for Russia elsewhere and Russia doesn't seem to care much when human lives are concerned.

Not only you, nearly 300 others died in the shoot down of MH17 on 17 Jul 2014, including over thirty of my countrymen, including many children. To that point Australians had little awareness of what was going on in Ukraine. But after that we did. We will never forgive pudin and his henchmen. We were pleased when the gherkin got his cumuppance but won't be satisfied until pudin himself stands trial on the 298 counts of murder carried out on 17 Jul 2014.

Why were you bombing yourselves? Was there some kind of civil war going on?

@@jasonsmith1155 are you russian bot? We never had civil war. It's russian aggression from the 2014

@@jasonsmith1155 I’m hoping your comment was made in complete ignorance. But probably not- Ukraine is a sovereign nation. This is no civil war.

@@ELL289 But there was a civil war, hence bombing themselves?

So expect the same kind of false flag is what you are saying

But most Americans after are proud the USA was part of WWII and are glad with the result.

Yes. I wish someone from the USA administration would listen to it.

bolton wants to escalate every world wide conflict as long as its good business for defense contractors....mr snyder is academic and inttelectual, Bolton sells himself as military expert or decorated veteran of whih he is neither just a loud voice for violence elsewhere. He doesnt make distinctions about defense like here Bolton is for starting wars and being on the escalating side. He's bought and paid for raytheon, lockeed, northrup grummin etc. sorry not trying to be jerk I just think Bolton is unbearable and without conscience

John Bolton is an idiot!

Yea, me too. When this war started, it kinda made sense, but now it's clear; Mearshimer was just wrong.

LOL

It is you, AM who is the useful idiot for those who want the US to fight never-ending wars. Ask yourself how Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan turned out. In that light, isn't it idiotic to believe Ukraine will be different? You are very useful.

Mearscheimer is not the intellectually honest and earnest academic he's portrayed as. His theories are motivated by his Cold War era conservative politics. He genuinely thinks of Ukraine as being in Russia's sphere of influence and regards Russians as natural US allies against China. If you watch his lectures you will note that he, quite deliberately, downplays facts which show Ukrainians desire for independence from Russia and Putin's meddling and aggression toward Ukraine pre-Maidan. If he were honest about these things it would reveal quite starkly his callous disregard for the interests of 40 million Ukrainians. In fact in the past he showed an appreciation of the fact that Russia was a threat to Ukraine due to it's own adventurist nature. In a nutshell, Mearscheimer's theories follow his politics, not the facts.

@nerdyali4154 Absolutely agree. The worrying part is how many folks buy into it. Also...it's annoying that this line of reasoning got the label "realism" giving an air of undeserved legitimacy.

Snyder usually says this in his lectures, I'm not sure why he didn't this time.

His speech is focused on the events & responses of the last two years, so his use of that time reference made sense to me. Timothy Snyder is well aware of the duration of Russia’s illegal occupation, and normally frames his related points in terms of Ukraine militarily defending itself since 2014, but this time he is talking about international and American response since the major attempt launched by Putin to take the whole country.

​@@sfstucco How about the 8 years we WASTED instead of enforcing the Minsk agreement???

​@@stevencoardvenice -- ask Tim Snyder. I simply explained that he was restricting this particular discussion to time since the large-scale invasion of 2022. He often discusses the events and political dynamics of the region during the prior 8 years (and all of its history), so you're free to look up a plethora of videos of him in interviews, discussion panels, lectures, etc. Or read his many books. Enjoy.

@@sfstucco thank you. It's just crazy how our American narrative completely ignores the cause of all this

As a Vietnam i'm telling you this has been used before,the "if we don't fight them here"....total BS

@@samsungtap4183 As a european I'm telling you that the only reason for the decades of peace we had was the understanding that territorial expansion through war would not be allowed. If we fail to uphold that promise, europe will once again be engulfed in territorial wars as it has been for most of it's history.

​@@PyriphlegetonExcept that NATO ruined that supposed deal in 1999

@@mitchyoung93 what are you on about?

@@Pyriphlegeton Facts. Tough for you aren't they.

Russia’s economic production is not only tiny, but it has no room for growth. As for its population there is notably a remarkable lack of fighting age men.

@@grahamstrouse1165 Russia's economic production is small compared to the combined economic production of the NATO countries and their allies, but important is how much of economic production is used to support the war effort. Russia is currently on a full-scale war economy, but the NATO countries and allies are not (though gradually making moves into that direction) . Personally I did not expect Russia to do this well in the war at this point. They seem to be learning, and we should not underestimate their ability. Regarding man power, it seems Russia still has large reserves of men who are willing (or forced) to die in their meat grinder. We should not underestimate that either.

@@grahamstrouse1165 1) They hire soldiers from countries like Columbia and Nepal. 2) If you lived in a country not far from Russia, you wouldn't care an old sock how many fighting age males Russia has. It has long-range missiles. And I don't necessarily mean nuclear missiles, just basic missiles, which they can use to kill tens of thousands of Ukrainian and other European civilians.

Email this speech to your politicians. Email it to your friends.

Watch it repeatedly, and reply to comments here. That will increase visibility.

Didn't you guys steal Venezuela's money.? Disgusting

"Didn't you guys steal Venezuela's money.?" These days most of Venezuela's money is being stolen by the ruling political party. Are they going to stop rigging elections there?

They had courage for over three hundred years. Didn't work.They need more than that.