What’s Really Going On in Russia?

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Last weekend, in the course of about 36 hours, Vladimir Putin faced - and then survived - one of the most serious challenges to his rule in over 20 years. An armed rebellion led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of a Russian mercenary group, took control of a southern military town, and then advanced toward Moscow, coming within about 125 miles of the city. Then, as suddenly as the rebellion began, it was over: Prigozhin was quickly exiled to Belarus without facing criminal charges - an outcome that shocked many Russia watchers.
Why did Prigozhin stage this rebellion in the first palace? Why did Putin respond the way he did? What are the implications for the future of Putin’s rule - and the broader war in Ukraine?
There are few people who understand the Putin regime as deeply as Stephen Kotkin, a pre-eminent scholar of Russian history at Stanford. We discuss Prigozhin’s complex motivations, why Putin didn’t shut down Prigozhin’s critiques before they escalated to the point of armed rebellion, how to interpret reports that members of Putin’s inner circle were aware of the rebellion plot, how Prigozhin’s march created an “unwitting referendum” that could threaten the stability of Putin’s regime, the bizarre cease-fire arranged by Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko, why Putin didn’t kill or jail Prigozhin, how this series of events could impact the outcome of the war in Ukraine and more.
(Note: This episode was recorded on Wednesday, June 28. It does not reflect any news developments that have emerged since.)
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@parrish8386 9 ай бұрын

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@arktseytlin 9 ай бұрын

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@stephenohara3014 10 ай бұрын

You need to put Stephen Kotkin's name in the title of this video. He is in top demand these days. Nobody does it better.

@SueFerreira75 10 ай бұрын

Agree, but this KZfaq Channel has no SEO - no keywords, and as you way, no idea on how to keyword the title. They are missing out on building their subscribers.

@JonathanRossRogers 10 ай бұрын

His name certainly should be in the title. KZfaq recommended it me without that, presumably because I watch every Kotkin video I see.

@ridethecurve55 10 ай бұрын

Yes, I search for anything on KZfaq that is Kotkin regularly. He makes me feel smarter whenever I am finished listening to his sage words.

@aendoh 10 ай бұрын

Your mum did it better last week 😂😂😂

@themoonman-4 10 ай бұрын

It is the new york times……….

@steve-real 10 ай бұрын

I find Professor Kotkin endlessly enlightening and he makes me see the world differently. There’s only a handful of people, who just from interviews, that can pull that off. This was a really good piece.

@TheDavidlloydjones 10 ай бұрын

Kotkin is fine as long as he sticks to Russia. Then every now and then he feels the need to turn into an infantile Trumpoid and make some silly, disjointed and unconnected, attack on President Biden or Democrats in general. This is truly weird behavior on his part, some sort of throw-back, perhaps, to when he may have felt the -- quite superfluous -- need to establish his reputation by making friends on the right. He has every right to feel secure in his reputation. There's no need for him to play the partisan half-wit, as he so often, so sadly, does.

@arsalanziazie9812 10 ай бұрын

Read his books, they will forge the way you look at the world

@steve-real 10 ай бұрын

@@arsalanziazie9812 I just got through Professor Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands which was part of his Yale online course called The Making of Ukriaine. I am still recovering from the psychic horror of that journey. I have to cleanse my pallet with some campy sci-fi before i can deal with the cruelty of man again. I promise to give it a go. Any recommendations?

@jacklam9843 10 ай бұрын

I find Kolkin to be a person living in an Ivory Tower. I could like to ask him about his thought about the sabotage of Nоrd Stream 2. And Russia is weak; Well Take a good look at America infrastructure and inner cities and the poverty. And the health insurance crisis.... I'd like Koltkin to look at the mirror and look at America .... By the way, I am an American citizen - traveling in Russia at this moment. I see beautiful people and places...

@steve-real 10 ай бұрын

@@jacklam9843 What’s with the pity trip brother? Do you enjoy playing the victim? You probably don’t see it that way but it truly comes across that way. Definitely, not the attitude of an entrepreneur building a new world.

@jamesgibbs4151 10 ай бұрын

Amazing interview - totally agree, however, with a previous comment - it would have been far more respectful to mention professor Stephen Kotkin's name in the video title!

@sbaumgartner9848 10 ай бұрын

Excellent update from our friend Stephen Kotkin. I like it when Kotkin says he got something wrong and now with more information he sees something in a new light. I can never get enough of this very special man.

@RadicalRoots23 9 ай бұрын

Quite right, and something that should be normal on the left and the right. But, sadly, its pretty rare. Trump has taken not admitting mistakes to new heights of absurdity and its doing a lot of damage.

@JoeyCarb 10 ай бұрын

My favorite thing about Kotkin is his ability to be extremely rigorous and comprehensive, while also keeping a light and accessible atmosphere. He also never answers just your question, but ten others on the same topic that you never thought to ask. No short answers to be found here. And that's just fine with me.

@corneliussulla4858 9 ай бұрын

Or lying without a red face."Russia blew up her own dam"....LMAO!!!

@daviddoyle1001 10 ай бұрын

Professor Kotkin is an American treasure

@luciafidalgo296 10 ай бұрын

Found your channel today. Thank you Professor Kotkin for a riveting and thoughtful observation of Russia's situation.

@wegder 10 ай бұрын

Stephen Kotkin, super clarity, impressive. It is amazing how clearly he explains what we know, what we don't know, how we should think about what is going on.

@eddievangundy4510 10 ай бұрын

We should think about how to get a peace deal.

@jpthiran 10 ай бұрын

@@eddievangundy4510 😂

@kaylidington 10 ай бұрын

Kotkin has astonishing and openminded insight. Always worth not just hearing but worth considering.

@eddievangundy4510 10 ай бұрын

I wouldn't call him open-minded. He certainly has a point of view.

@briancase6180 10 ай бұрын

More Steven Kotkin, please! Thanks. ✅

@kbone8137 10 ай бұрын

Thank you VERY much for bringing Kotkin on. He is one of my absolute favorites to listen to with respect to anything specifically on Russian area studies, as well as any host of topics that he weaves into them. A brilliant mind with a knack for keeping it real and accessible to the listening public. Well done, Ezra.

@stephenbruner5820 10 ай бұрын

Stephen Kotkin is incredible. I'm surprised he's not listed in the title of this video. He offers a brilliant perspective on what's happening and though he keeps his cards close to his chest, he seems to lean right as he defends the cold war, the free economy, and the idea of Western Civilization describing it as rule of law, separation of powers, limited govt, private property, and defense of liberty. He states that Western Civilization is extremely powerful, it has the financial system, the institutions, and we just needs to remember that. Another brilliant historian is Timothy Snyder, who leans left and has said that the West needs to do more to address it's major problems to prevent a slide into authoritarianism. I'd love to hear Kotkin debate Timothy Snyder on the question of how much economic inequality plays a role in the rise of authoritarianism, how much our reliance on oil and gas puts us at risk of authoritarianism, whether should we recognize the greatness of the West so that we don't take it for granted, or should we put our attention on the wrongs of the past committed by the West? Do we prevent authoritarianism with a tradition of limited govt, or should the focus be on policy and actions govt should take to address problems?

@tomekjarzabek5036 10 ай бұрын

Great comment! For me Snyder and Kotkin are some of the most interesting intellectuals of the last decade.

@bunjijumper5345 10 ай бұрын

It's interesting how people say Jews don't run things yet they make up less than 2 percent of the US population and the host is Jewish and so is his expert. I suppose I am somehow racist because I think all types of people should be heard.

@elsacooper1769 10 ай бұрын

@stephenbruner: What a thoughtful comment. Thank you. Yes please let's have both of these edifying scholars discuss those great questions, but please please, can we leave the politicising and polarising aside?

@elsacooper1769 10 ай бұрын

@bunjijumper...yes it does seem that is a rather racist comment. Notice that you have just yourself made your own voice heard too - these days on the web, anyone who wants to, can say almost anything, so nobody is stopping you from being a serious history scholar or an earnest podcast host. Just check first if you have something good to say. These gentlemen are not talking about being Jewish, they on a journey to understand the state of the world and the human condition. There is so much to learn here. A proverb: A man's spirit is a deep well. A wise one draws it out. This podcast is edifying. Let's just enjoy the conversation between these two honourable people.

@bunjijumper5345 10 ай бұрын

@@elsacooper1769 I am just wondering how other people can be successful if one religion has a stranglehold on things, like why no Muslim experts? Are they just stupid ?

@emesejohn5367 10 ай бұрын

Stunning insights from Kotkin, absolute beauty!

@ChrisSmith74627 10 ай бұрын

Kotkin is the best public academic at the moment

@joybeatty1760 10 ай бұрын

Love Stephen Kotkin - put him in the title and your views will sky rocket.

@letXeqX 10 ай бұрын

So true. Just saw him on TV rain which averages 3k-4k a video and he had 90k.

@MonteRosa849 10 ай бұрын

Nobody has Stephen Kotkins ability to ‘connect the dots’. Thank you very much for a fabulous interview.

@user-kk4sj4ih3e 10 ай бұрын

Alexey Navalny never explicitly said that Crimea belongs to Russia. He did say that Crimea is a complicated question some years ago. What's more important is that after the 2022 invasion Navalny, who is in prison, was able to publish a manifesto in which he explicitly calls Crimea Ukrainian and calls for transfer of Crimea back to Ukraine

@JamesSmith-ix5jd 10 ай бұрын

Then he can forever forget about any political aspirations he might have had, not to mention that according to Russian constitution the President cannot be a formal convict. He is now just a convicted revolutionary, but since no one else in Russia does his job he will not have any ways out of this, and no one will support him for his position on Ukraine. If you support the West you are against Russia, if you are against Russia your place is in prison or under ground, 90% are sharing this view.

@aon10003 10 ай бұрын

Navalny is bought by the west. Do you really put your faith in a man who creates a 6200 name long get ridoflist. THAT is very Stalin.

@user-hv9vn4fi4w 10 ай бұрын

It's interesting to me if A.Navalny recognizes the state of Israel? My ancestors have been living in Crimea since 1892, in 1959 Nikita Khrushchev handed over Crimea to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia did not demand this territory back... I don't want to talk about Navalny, I know that Western sponsors supported him

@user-kk4sj4ih3e 10 ай бұрын

@@user-hv9vn4fi4w Of course he recognizes the state of Israel, why wouldn't he? Frankly, I have a hard time understanding the point of your comment. And no, most of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundantion funding came from donations from within Russia, although I'm sure there were ones from abroad as well.

@eddievangundy4510 10 ай бұрын

Everybody in Crimea speaks Russian is happy to be part of Russia. Geeze you people.

@antonygoedhals6272 10 ай бұрын

Great show, deeply thought-providing and insightful. Thank you Ezra and Prof. Kotkin.

@jenspedersen4509 10 ай бұрын

Oh great. Finally someone who knows what's really going on.

@Gmx92 8 ай бұрын

I am back in Moscow for the first time since March 2022. The city has an unbelievable amount of development, it is going super high tech, and people are generally in good spirits.

@stephenhill545 7 ай бұрын

Are you homosexual?

@gundelgaukelei5878 10 ай бұрын

Outstanding, incredible interesting potcast! Thank you very much!

@linda8555 10 ай бұрын

Superior knowledge, intellect and insights. Stephen Kotkin is also an incredibly gifted presenter and storyteller. An absolute pleasure to listen to and learn from. I dream of meeting him in person.

@victorrychkov2839 10 ай бұрын

Kotkin's insight of the situation in Russia is astounding, really. Most folks from so-called think tanks don't really comprehend what's going on here, yet Stephen does. Brilliant mind.

@thewolfpack5290 10 ай бұрын

Would have been nice to name Mr. Kotkin in the title, but thank you very much for the conversation and the upload!

@bootstrapperwilson7687 10 ай бұрын

You are somewhat behind the curve. He stopped being Mr Kotkin when he earned his PhD; he became Dr Kotkin. He stopped being Dr Kotkin when he became Professor Kotkin.

@carllindblad8593 10 ай бұрын

Very complex viewpoint that seems more insightful than I’ve heard anywhere else

@meriamg1 10 ай бұрын

Agree with other commenters. I seek out Kotkin interviews and only accidentally came across your show. You’re a great host, too!

@karenabel6218 10 ай бұрын

Wow Kotkin reads about 120 books a year. Geez no wonder his interviews are so fascinating.

@z-RU_America 10 ай бұрын

Before Wagner coupe Prigozin was almost as popular in Russia as Putin. After coupe Prigozin's rating crashed, Putin's rating skyrocketed

@annfarnell1642 10 ай бұрын

Really informative. Thank you!

@JM-qy9mj 10 ай бұрын

Learned a lot from this show. Thank you.

@Linda-jj1sj 10 ай бұрын

Excellent talk! Very informative. Brings light to the inside of the war .

@starfishw7138 10 ай бұрын

Satisfying intelligent and thoughtful format.

@aslamtu 10 ай бұрын

Thank you, Professor Kotkin

@mja4wp 9 ай бұрын

Lies are simple, good looking and easy. Truth is complex, homely and arduous. Thank you Prof. Kotkin for doing the heavy lifting and breaking it down for us.

@gghhiiyy456 10 ай бұрын

Wow very insightful. Thank you!

@alcoholfree6381 10 ай бұрын

Great presentation! Kotkin knows so much more than any of us citizens and he shares it adroitly. Thanks for interviewing him so well.

@Michael-tz7tj 10 ай бұрын

Kotkin Nation!

@joebullwinkle5099 10 ай бұрын

Great show on Russia and it’s current malaise with Ukraine. Now I know Professor Kotkins secret, he reads so many books, it certainly inspires me to read much more!

@seanmellows1348 10 ай бұрын

Wonderful stuff, thanks

@clancywiggam 10 ай бұрын

Saturday morning, coffee, toast, Kotkin. Success.

@amber40494 10 ай бұрын

This is so amazing! Thank you!

@janeohara8883 10 ай бұрын

Amazing interview. Let's hear more from him.

@happytraveller8953 10 ай бұрын

Ya know, not for anything, but why aren't erudite and savvy people like Mr. Kotkin not tapped for some high-up government position where their expertise can really be used to serve the rest of us?? What an amazing insight this man has on the current situation.

@marshalltito 10 ай бұрын

Because being a sycophant is more important than being savvy and erudite in those circles

@crabluva 10 ай бұрын

I'm sure he's widely read in the State Department and DoD and the government funds a lot of research.

@ELL289 10 ай бұрын

@@marshalltito Russian Troll? The sycophants are way more numerous in Putin’s regime. And, there were too many to count in Trump’s White House!

@janegardener1662 10 ай бұрын

@@marshalltito *sycophant

@robleahy5759 10 ай бұрын

He bloody well already IS, are you illiterate and without fingers.

@efanshel 10 ай бұрын

This reminds me of the Showa restoration in Japan. The emperor was challenged by people claiming to be helping him or obeying his orders.Opponents were murdered, the secret police had a lot of power. There was even a rebellion when the emperor ordered surrender...

@meng-hsuanlee8543 10 ай бұрын

Kotkin is one of the most insightful and Enlightening public intellectuals these days. He's a conservative this leftist looks up to as a role model. His intellect and stoicism are truly inspiring.

@richardm-n 10 ай бұрын

Kotkin's Number One, without equal, Thank You,

@alansalazar9543 9 ай бұрын

Always enlightening to hear from Stephen Kotkin. Brilliance, wrapped up in humility and a sense of humor.

@joanofarc6402 10 ай бұрын

Excellent interview!! Wow.

@user-br5qu9uj9b 9 ай бұрын

He explains the confusing current situation that makes sense to common people.

@davidanderson9664 10 ай бұрын

Klein is an intellectual midget, a woke warrior but Kotkin is a next level genius. He is the best analyst of Russia/USSR out there. D.A., J.D., NYC

@robleahy5759 10 ай бұрын

I hear you loud and clear.

@jjforcebreaker 10 ай бұрын

Hell yes Mr. Kotkin!

@henkschmitz6768 10 ай бұрын

10 thumbs up from Holland!

@sazali.7868 10 ай бұрын

Professor Kotkin makes a very compelling argument about the need for Ukraine to be integrated into the Western world. Especially with a methodical and gentle but assertive presentation. I can't help but see the American/Western chauvinism element in the points he makes. Everything Russian is seen as chaotic and wrong and needs to be "taken out".

@eddievangundy4510 10 ай бұрын

Yeah his ideas are no help at all. He would have Ukraine and NATO with troops on the Russian border. Oh yeah they're already was a large Ukrainian Army right on the Russian border that we helped establish.

@jackrice2770 10 ай бұрын

It's not paranoia if someone's really after you.

@rhmcvay 10 ай бұрын

How about live streaming the video as well?

@ELL289 10 ай бұрын

Stephen Kotkin is a treasure of knowledge. And he does a great Joe Pesci impression!

@johnbaugh2437 10 ай бұрын

His perspective is always great

@gee3883 10 ай бұрын

Superb piece.

@ditto1958 10 ай бұрын

Lol, like I’d trust the NYT to give me true analysis

@predragnikitz9106 10 ай бұрын

Great podcast!

@missyounorm33 10 ай бұрын

A brilliant mind. Logical and process driven analysis of history affecting the present * you will get a lot more views if you add Prof Kotkin to your title page.

@chaijy87 10 ай бұрын

why did the podcast stop syncing on apple podcast?

@geraldarcuri9307 10 ай бұрын

"It isn't until the tide goes out that we find out who has been swimming naked." I think this quote is attributed to an American financial entrepreneur ( Warren Buffet? ) but it certainly applies to the Kremlin in this Ukraine debacle.

@eddievangundy4510 10 ай бұрын

It does? Who do you think is winning this war?

@geraldarcuri9307 10 ай бұрын

@@eddievangundy4510 The quote applies to Kremlin leadership, not the war per se. Who is winning is beside the point.

@idicula1979 10 ай бұрын

One of the favorite phrases I’ve learned in the last couple years or so is of the hand holding the tail of the scorpion as a moments defense against it sting, that it will eventually have to let go to the coming sting. And I love that phrase so much because it shows just how much the master and the slave, the upper hand to the lower share the same fate. And in most cases true, in most cases what was determined at the start of such antagonistic relationship, and so it is of Russian aggression, paranoia toward Ukraine and NATO. They entered the war of their own bluster, they thought that they could be the victor with such few exhaustion but not so, not by a mile. And through attrition not just Russia but all governments that stand with it, will give way to an ironclad defense of nations standing for their sovereign and rights which are tricked down to its people.

@idicula1979 10 ай бұрын

But now I tire as it is four o clock in the mourning. My fleeting though shall stand unfinished as I must get some sleep to wake up for a doctors appointment. Am I a space cadet like Prigozhin starting an idea which I fail to complete, while I prefer thinking of myself as someone that is in desperate need of sleep, before tomorrow.

@robbie_ 10 ай бұрын

I think NYT is mostly total wank, but this is a very good interview and Kotkin is a kind of genius.

@feedtherich11 10 ай бұрын

Are you MAGA ?

@Piaseczno1 10 ай бұрын

Agreed. NYT did well here. Good one, Robbie.

@kathycaldwell7126 9 ай бұрын

Excellent!

@bobmathieson987 9 ай бұрын

Stephen is most admirably polite and cautious in his analysis. My take on what is Prigozhins' fate/future is one of timing. Putin will be quietly satisfied that while Prigozhins' time is limited, in the meantime he will be looking over his shoulder constantly. Putin takes pleasure in hurting others. It is a big part of his personality disorder. There would be unnecessary problems if Putin lashed out against Prigozhin and his supporters immediately so the timing is crucial. His moves are slow, cautious, and devastating.

@dannydetonator 6 ай бұрын

Your observation aged like a fine red wine. No surprise though for anyone knowing Kremlin tactics. He's 'the murderers murderer'. Well both were.

@jasonmoser8957 10 ай бұрын

speculation obviously, but brilliant nonetheless. superb talk and some very good questions asked.

@MrBothandNether 10 ай бұрын

Remembers when journalism was about asking questions Now it’s just a narrative platform for the highest bidder

@JAMAICADOCK 10 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the SA in Germany. Regular army turning against the rouge private army. Progozhin is Putin's Ernst Rohm. Putin will have to move to a Night of the Long Knives, otherwise he looks weak in the eyes of the army.

@pcechan 9 ай бұрын

And now, one month after your comments, two months after his daring march to Moscow, he was shot down from the sky with his entire aides. Is this a surprise for you?

@JAMAICADOCK 9 ай бұрын

@@pcechan About as surprising as the sun rising in the east.

@pcechan 9 ай бұрын

@@JAMAICADOCK You are so right about him equal to Ernst Röhm of the Sturm-Abteilung in dritten Reich. Nacht der langen Messer is now becoming the Flight of the vertical crash.

@lawrencefrost9063 9 ай бұрын

Instant Like for Kotkin.

@chichitex1252 10 ай бұрын

Excellent.❤

@metubeochannel 8 ай бұрын

I love listening to Stephen Kotkin and this is one of my favourites.

@ldhorricks 10 ай бұрын

after hours of listening to experts, pundits and all manner of speculators...some Kotin clarity. I came across it 8 days later because Kotkin's name wasn't in the title.

@phil3924 10 ай бұрын

Corruption and incompetence in Russia are real. However, incompetence and corruption aren't all consuming. Countries which have both of these can still be quite effective . In America we have a tendency to overestimate the abilities of democracies and underestimate those of undemocratic places. The USSR and Russia of today are very different places; however, our foreign policy and public attitudes here don't seem to reflect that.

@gaoxiaen1 10 ай бұрын

Because Pennywise( the evil clown) Putin wants to restore the Soviet Reunion. Sorry but it ain't gonna happen, Pennywise Putin.

@gatorgityergranny 10 ай бұрын

what is the music that closed this show? i heard Izak Jones. what more?

@PeteBlack-sn4qh 10 ай бұрын

Stephen is the best

@waldograde 10 ай бұрын

What’s going on with a title that doesn’t headline that Stephen Kotkin is the interviewee? 2:51

@agnesbajna7071 10 ай бұрын

Incredible 👍

@ricardo53100 10 ай бұрын

It is very impressive that Dr. Kotkin can actually read 120 books a year. He must be Amazon's favorite customer.

@KanakarisGeorge 10 ай бұрын

Excellent guest.

@AlloBruxelles 10 ай бұрын

Kotkin is the BEST !

@steveselasky1719 10 ай бұрын

Professor Kotkin's insight is excellent. In closing, the world needs to find away to have a place for Russia in the end.

@user-hv9vn4fi4w 10 ай бұрын

Find away place for you but not for Russia!

@eddievangundy4510 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. Minsk 2 would have been fine, a neutral Ukraine would have been fine. Austria has been neutral for 60 years.

@eddievangundy4510 10 ай бұрын

@@user-hv9vn4fi4wget out of here with that nonsense.

@m.a.b.4104 10 ай бұрын

Stephen Kotkin 👍

@eddievangundy4510 10 ай бұрын

Nah.

@nickhowland8380 10 ай бұрын

I have enjoyed several of Prof. Kotkin's KZfaq videos. And I was impressed with the seemingly simple statement that 'we won the cold war'. I have always been of the opinion that Communism as practiced by the USSR was always more Russian than Soviet, more nationalism than internationalism. A new cold war is underway. I wonder whether the invasion of Ukraine would have happened if Trump had lost in 2016. Was Putin counting on a weakened NATO to enable his conquest of Ukraine? And what about the impact of Brexit on NATO and the West in general? The UK decided that being European wasn't all that important. How did Putin read that?

@ericwood3709 10 ай бұрын

There can never be too many interviews with Stephen Kotkin.

@fibervector6734 10 ай бұрын

Stephen might know what's going on but everything has a Perspective

@colinbeck1285 9 ай бұрын

Steven Kotkin restores people's faith in the Easter bunny.

@royhorologic1732 10 ай бұрын

When is Stalin V3 being released Professor Kotkin?

@davidjooste5788 10 ай бұрын

Im here for Dr Kotkin

@anthonykenny1320 10 ай бұрын

Kotkin is some one in this crazy world I trust implicitly because he never grandstands on partisan US politics

@sherrillwhately7586 10 ай бұрын

Crimea has a majority Russian population because the Tatars were deported, the Ukrainians left, and the Russian military and their families moved in. They can just return to Russia. I heard there are apartments free in Vorkuta.

@ycnexu 10 ай бұрын

Wow, you're so knowledgeable on Russian history. Your input is well appreciated.

@eddievangundy4510 10 ай бұрын

And when was that, a hundred years ago?

@sherrillwhately7586 10 ай бұрын

@@eddievangundy4510 Tatars were deported by Stalin and again in 2014, Ukrainians like Denis Davydov left in 2014.

@rhmcvay 10 ай бұрын

Why not video live stream this conversation?

@evelynramos445 9 ай бұрын

Great thinker! Young at their best!

@colinbeck1285 9 ай бұрын

Premier Nikita Krushchev of the U.S.S.R. knew that the brains are in New York city; not Washington D.C. He also knew that the editorial section of the New York Times is the U.S. State Department. In order to do a hostile takeover of the U.S. State Department Premier Krushchev knew that he had to be taken seriously. That meant getting off the NYT'S funny section and on to the front page. If he was successful it would be considered quite an accomplishment in the Kremlin, but it would take some real funny business! ___ 2 years after Krushchev met Fidel Castro on the streets of New York and were photographed clowning around there was The Cuban Missile Crises.

@scottbuchanan9426 10 ай бұрын

Sorry...Steve Kotkin reads 120 books a year?? How is that even possible? It's more than two a week!

@fabreurio1 10 ай бұрын

Kotkin is always a treat to listen to. Ezra could do with diction and voice lessons, imho.

@mtm00 10 ай бұрын

Why? Are you a voice coach looking for business? Otherwise, your comment here is ridiculous! (Imho.)

@s_oh 9 ай бұрын

I agree, Ezra is rather hard to listen to

@ericwillis777 10 ай бұрын

The reason for the reluctance to supply a high level weapons and lreluctance for a rapid supply is to ensure that Russia continues to pour manpower and materiel into Ukraine to thoroughly exhaust Russian ability to repeat their agression any time soon, and NATO realises they may have to intervene militarily and want this to be when Russia is completely worn out.

@eddievangundy4510 10 ай бұрын

Ukraine is the one taking the massive losses. Shame on you for your strategy here.

@ericwillis777 10 ай бұрын

@@eddievangundy4510 ok, but war is not a semential persuit - it is often necessary to set aside sentiments that we would not ever entertain under normal conditions in order to save future lives - it's the old trolly conundrum. Just like triage - who gets onto the ambulance, who stays behind ? Forget your juvenile instinct to consider these sorts of things shamefull - just thank God you don't have to make the decisions because someone has to !

@petermallm149 9 ай бұрын

One we week after this interview, was recorded, we heard Lawrow talk for the first time about the coup. He talked about this all being a ,,Schlamassel'' using the German original word.. Now look where this word originates from : Schlamassel: When something doesn't go as planned and the situation turns out to be quite muddled, we like to say the word mess. The expression has its origins in the Yiddish "schlimmasl", which means "misfortune". This in turn goes back to "masel", which means "luck".