Yeah but he's just spouting propoganda

its so good, im from usa too, you can tell they try to hide the real details from us until they themselves are ready to go to war..its crazy you can sound like a conspiracy person just by putting all the interviews together and talking about these things to other people...most people don't pay attention, and I think that is the goal of our government, this info is really only available to those whom dig deep.

Quite right. (Still, it nags at me that she was in a relationship with that grossly awful man on Channel 4. [shudder] I don't even want to write his name or initials. [shudder])

@@claudinefiona9698 Nonsense

@@claudinefiona9698no but you are, you Petersburg bot.

Yes, a very measured and sane reports yet seem/heard.

I believe many commentators here are overlooking the fact that Mr. Galeotti is primarily a historian, and thus by extrapolating from current events is able to imagine a number of scenarios which belong to the future. Far from effectually saying "look how clever I am, I can read the future" he is suggesting the ways things could go, and doesn't pretend to know which one will actually become reality. At all events, he takes a long-term view.

I absolutely agree. Very sensible and well articulated thoughts and insides.

@@2Dylandog An overarching long term view would suggest that Putin will be toppled by dissenting factions. It's the Russian way. Perhaps Prigozhin's got enough clout to set the dominoes crashing or perhaps not. What would be better for for everyone would be enlightened leadership from the post Soviet era.

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Yes and now is the time to prove it. Unfortunately takes long time but good must win

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Exactly why those dictatorships know they cannot compete and must resort to stealing IP, land, people, etc...

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😂😂😂 pie in the sky bs. Nice try though

Lies, speculations, Western propaganda..

I second this

@@tannerdenny5430 A support of an unknown person to another unknown person's support to another unknown person's nonsensical analysis. That's a demonstration of the post truth era we live in.

Ha ha so true.

Yes he is not a politican but still he is completly wrong There is zero chance that Putin is gone anytime soon

Fact is, Galeotti has nit got it right and has the knowledge. It is a lie that “everyone is telling Putin what he wants to hear” . Prigozhin is not in that category!

Yes indeed. That was the clearest and calmest explanation of the situation in Ukraine and Russia as it appears right now. I for one can't wait for this all to be over so the world can turn the page on horrific brutality inflicted on humans for the benefit of power hungry psychopaths.

​@@goenzoy And you know the future how? 😂

This is just another western ruling class apologist fantasizing about opponents' thought processes.

Very good, your acceptance made this reality, thanks

Except last point: happy and prosperous Russia will not guarante peace with Ukraine. At this point Russian society is full of fascism, history revisionists, imperialism dreamer and hatred toward west. I mean 80% of them thinks that Stalin was a great person with positive impact on well-being of state... As long as it persist, one harismatic maniac can set Europe on fire again.

Pooh-tin's $75,000 gold toilet is clogged on his private jet. Tantrum indeed.

Reminds me of Donald J. Trump

Remember when he put his nuclear arsenal on alert b/c a US senator insulted him? Fragile indeed.

Petulant? Putin is stone cold.

Petulance? Is that how we're going to do this? The man just has a short fuse? He destroyed the entire economy of Russia, and is now threatening to start a nuclear war. No, sorry, he's not petulant. Putin is unhinged. In the same way that Stalin was unhinged. It doesn't matter what the Russian people think, the Soviet system clearly broke their minds.

Half the Ukraine going to be part of Russia soon and rest of ukraine will sucumb into poland,hungary and romania..they wont have military only police as we did we german nazis..problem solved. Nato is paper tiger and exlosed to whole world as bully withouth muscles...you have not even enough munition to fight Russia🤣👌👌👌👌

Putin made that desire permanent

False! The need to join will be top priority going forward to a secure Ukraine 🇺🇦

@@jmasa32 Did you read my comment? Exactly that. If Putin wants Ukraine to stop wanting to join Nato, then he hasn't got a hope of getting that, after attacking Ukraine

@@jjsmallpiece9234 nostradamus 2q22 end of nato prophecy... Aimless army will depart Europe, Collecting itself near the flooded island(black sea), Nato fleet will fold up, Naval center of the world substituted by greater voice. Nostradamus gave us timeline when Nato will end...nato wage proxy war near the flooded island(black sea) and it will be catalyst for its end.

Here is a recap of everything he said : "Putin is bad. The West is good"

Totally endorse your comment. Have a few of his books which I occasionally reread.

Sorry, hard pass on him and his analysis.

Glad to see someone else reads the history of Ukraine to get the perspective needed to understand this conflict.

And Anne Applebaum.

@@jasongray4517 Good reference, thanks!

Try Vlad Vexler for an insight into the position of Russian public and the unwritten 'contract' Putin has with them.

Try his podcast "in Moscow's shadows" if you want more analysis like this

You must only watch MSM propoganda then, he's marginally better

US and EU seriously need to be examining the flaws in their own systems. Also hqte this war as I do, I cant help seeing the USA and NATO as hypocrites. Not something that people who only listen to mainstream propaganda would necessarily understand

What is pointless about this war?

The PBS Frontline interviews (available on KZfaq) are also excellent - especially the ones with Prof. Timothy Snyder and Julia Ioffe.

Find all this death and destruction amusing do you. ?

@@niburu1508 He didn't say that.

Lol, so we should trust the West and Ukraine! Ever hear of WMDs or Safe and Effective?

​@@claudinefiona9698go squat you gopnik stench!

@@claudinefiona9698the west aren’t murdering children, stay on topic.

@@claudinefiona9698Grow up. Iraq might has been a mistake but don’t draw a moral equivalence with the Russian genocide.

@@claudinefiona9698Russian playbook step 1. Deploy whataboutism

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Academia. Balanced and informative, especially in the humanities? Stop joking.

He is rational from a Russian point of view.

Agreed. I think we in the free west are at our absolute worst in trying to decipher dictators from other cultures.

@@cjb8010 There's not much to decipher, they all follow the same dumb playbook.

Yeah. That was all evidence-free wishful thinking. Putin is clearly not well in his mind.

yes a rational leader that blew up dams & targets civilians! baloney!

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Indeed. Putin can't compete with Zelensky. He is totally outclassed...

hows the offensive going?😂

lol... yes, but the pawns have all been grinded up, the kings hiding in a bunker, and the queen is shopping in Paris.. The Bishop, the Rook and the Knight are all busy selling arms on the black market. 🤣

While hiding in his bunker 👍🏼

Gangsters are gangsters to get money.

It's not that simple. They aren't free. There is no such thing as private property in russia. Oligarchs control some wealth but it can be taken away from them if they do one false step. It's very different world from what we know.

@@adaslesniak You are a joker. Overnight, we Westerners took away the right to property from the Russian oligarchs who had property, financial assets in Europe and the US. The right to property is an inalienable right, it is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Universal law takes precedence on all national laws. We have flouted what we ourselves have written. With this forfeiture, a very bad signal has been sent to non-Western countries and we will pay the costs in the not very distant future because trust has been completely broken. Know that from now on, we have isolated ourselves. Apart from Europe and the USA, the rest of the world does not think like us at all.

@@adaslesniak 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Wars always end with a negotiated peace. Even if one side is comprehensively beaten, a peace plan is then drawn up and the defeated side is a signatory to it. The Korean war most certainly did end with negotiations. The US, China and North Korea signed an armistice in 1953, ending the Korean war. A cold war isn't an actual war so not sure it fits the bill, however, Reagan and Gorbachev signed the INF treaty in 1987 which effectively ended the cold war. All wars have to end with a negotiated peace,, otherwise they haven't ended.

The war in korea has not ended.... it is a ceasefore/truce

Cue to Corona...

Putin also...

Well Tony Blair never thought even one death is a tragedy, let alone death of a million

​@@AndreasDelleskeis it about Britain? Hang the king!

@@neutralevil1917 Foolish statement.

Terribly important stuff 😂😂😂😂😂

This is all propaganda!! Since 2014, Ukraine is no longer a sovereign and independent country. This country has fallen into the hands of anglosaxon forces who do not want the world to change. But for that, you still need to know the story instead of foolishly wishing for the end of Putin's regime. Russia will never fall and know that if something bad happens to Putin, behind him are even tougher people to make even more drastic decisions. Regarding the West, the contract is coming to an end.

Explain that?

​@@tabithan2978 The ethnic Ruzzians are rubber duckedski

@@tabithan2978 The Russian birthrate is suicidally low.

@@tabithan2978 what is to explain? Just look at the birth rates in Russia. Less kids today means less wonen can have kids when they are adult...

To balance this off, Putin has been sending ethnic men to die in the war, and almost exempting ethnic Russians. Men from poor ethnic oblasts like Dagistan, Buryatia and Tuva are being cleansed along with Ukrainians.

That’s because that is the only accurate thing he said.

The risks, for Russia, are monstrous. You can't control the weather that will move the radiation cloud. Most days, with the help of the jet stream, air moves west to east in the Northeen Hemisphere. That brings it to Russia. And also to Turkey, the second largest military within NATO. How anyone (the rest of the world) responds is a great unknown. How similar will they view it to using nuclear weapons? Will it galvanize western support for Ukraine to even stronger levels? It could. As much as some feel negotiating a peace deal now to take the nuclear risks of the table is prudent (it's not), if a tactical nuke gets used, or a plant is blown, it may wake people up to the fact Russia is a cancer that must, by all means necessary, be destroyed. It will certainly make Russia a forever pariah on the global political and economic stage. Forever sanctions. Nobody ever trades with Russia again. Even after Putin is gone. Let them collapse to zero and become another isolated North Korea. The potential threat that they may blow the nuclear plant is worth far more than actually doing it. However, despite the risks outweighing the benefits, by far, we can't fully dismiss a panicking Russia seeing a complete loss to this war, and the existential threat that represents to the regime in power. Blowing the plant could become a Hail Mary act, to just see where those chips land.

Putin is well aware NATO would step in then.

@@christinemcclymont269 1. That assumes a good degree of rationality. 2. He has pushed the envelop for 9 years now, and until recently, the West's response has been relative meek (from his perspective). Actually, even the destruction of the Dam, a catastrophic event in anyone's language, elicited zero response from the West. Zero!

Would be publicly embarrassing if he showed up dead along with his bodyguards I think when that kind of thing isn't supposed to happen in nice safe secure well policed Russia. Maybe on the front line perhaps if they could pin it on a Ukrainian hit squad.

Like the Mafia would you mean? Not freedom of speech?

Lol, Guess what's happened ever since!

I don't think much of anyone in China wants him dead, so you're numbers are a little off. Also, I think almost all of India is neutral or pro-Putin. He's deeply unpopular in South America and Africa.

How appalling to be so ignorant

Psychopaths don’t care!

Today's news about Prigozhin and his Wagner troops certainly tends to make things seem brighter. At least while they are fighting each other Russian v Russian, they are not killing Ukrainian women and children

Putin needs that maniac alive as an option to scapegoat. There are angles he can take there to try to survive

I think Prigozhyn is a terrible person, but he is the only one telling the truth, as far as I can tell. Any nation will be destroyed if enough lies are told and accepted.

Rather mindless analysis. Go back to your books.

@@ljm9359 Go back to your Russian Troll-Factory!🤣

Do you not mean ludicrous,?

@@niburu1508 No, and not lugubrious either 🤣

It's virtually impossible for the oversight of the plant to be adhered to by Russia. They have been abusing and killing workers at the plant that are Ukrainian.

might be difficult to find an official willing to place himself near a nuclear powerplant under threat of attack in the middle of an active warzone

might be difficult to find an official willing to place himself near a nuclear powerplant under threat of attack in the middle of an active warzone

A senior official can't stop a tank with a determined crew, or an artillery barrage

Appalling ignorance.

Brexit had nothing to do with Putin

It is the America expanding its power to the east for the past 30 years

@@gavasiarobinssson5108 The troll farm and cash to Brexit types put it over the top. Exact same people were in on it as trump election

@@dirkbonesteel 52% of the british voted for brexit. you dont like democracy?

We all saw them the other day. The old ones were being moved to make room fore the new ones.,,the Ukrainians are being slaughtered ar a ratio of 10 - 1 now. Is that not the bodies you meant. Awe that’s not the entertaining part is it?