NATO's Unity Crumbles: Pursuing Delusional Goals Leads to Catastrophic Failure! | Gilbert Doctorow
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- Gilbert's recent piece: open.substack.com/pub/gilbert...
Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975).
After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility.
From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
Since 2008, Mr. Doctorow has been regularly publishing analytical articles about international affairs on the portal of the Belgian daily La Libre Belgique. From this material he produced four collections of essays, the most recent of which appeared in October 2017: "Does the United States Have a Future?"
Mr. Doctorow’s next project will be a memoir of his corporate service in Moscow in the wild 1990s.
Mr. Doctorow is an American citizen and a long-time resident of Brussels, Belgium.
I'm a 50 yo Croatian and I'm ashamed of NATO & EU. If I was a young man and wanted to start a family,I'd go to Russia or China.
NATO is not a defensive alliance anymore but a warmongering organization that will provoke World War 3
Spot on I'm with you👍
Dam ti pravo, naša Ursula von der patos ili patološki lažov sjebala EU do kraja i sada ova Kaja če uništiti diplomaciju do kraja. Nove familiarne vrednosti, ratovi,.... sve iz amerike u EU, previše vazala u EU parlamentu niko ne radi za EU nacionalne interese.
💯 never too late ‼️
73 year old American , so would I .
A very close friend of mine volunteered recently. He was worried the Russian military wouldn't accept him because of his age, but they did. My friend told me there's thousands of young men wanting to enlist every week, but not many are accepted. It was quite unexpected as my friend is getting on in years, he's super wealthy, has a lovely family and several lovely homes, but he felt the need to defend Russia. He told me that some things are just worth fighting for, and he wanted to give back to a country that has given him so much. He's not afraid of dying for his country.
How old is he?
I'm 65, I understand how he feels as a Russian fighting for "his" people, better an old un, than a young un, but being English, my country deserted me years ago.
Bit sad, but, Hey Ho!
Regards
Every month, 10,000 Russian men are accepted into the army as volunteers. I can't even imagine how many are volunteering when many are rejected for service.
The kind of truth legacy media will never tell us.
One my friend told me that his business partner from Russia ask him for help to settle his (only) son in Serbia. He is afraid that there will be mobilization, missle - terr0r1st attack... But latter call him that his son refuse to leave Russia. He promise that will not go as volunteer, but refuse to flee.
Rich, young man, with possibility to live safe luxury life far away from war.
Don't confuse the support for Russian foreign policies with the desire to have a war on Ukraine.
Russia had no option in the circumstances. Minsk 1 and 2 for instance.
I call it SAVING UKRAINE. It was not an invasion.
@@randajaza Yes. What's left of Ukraine and still in the west will be owned by Blackrock anyway. Anyone living there will be renting. As old crusty arse Klaus Schwab says You will own nothing and be happy. Thats the plan in the west no one will own anything we'll all just be renting, our wealth gone to the corporations. I guaranty that is not happening in Russia.
As an African, I did not expect that the US and EU political leadership would conduct themselves shamelessly like this. Today, Ukraine is paying a price for US's hegemonic interests supported by EU leaders.
US, EU and the UK always make someone else to pay (with their lives) and until BRICS, they’ve been able to use their printing presses of $ € and £ and control the media.
Stop Blinken and Stoltenberg!
Blinken and Stoltenberg are just figures and Biden has been that for a while now, it's those who are behind them that matter.
Yes Blinken is de facto running foreign policy with little buddy Sullivan. Biden's an albatross they can't decide what to do with.
This USA elite is bizarre. They take control of the country, subdued the american people, and destroy everything, make wars all over the world, an destroy Inclue the middle class and the poor in USA. Bizarre.
The member states of the EU appear to be suffering from a political double bind. Each member state retains supposedly sovereign elected government institutions, yet the unelected commissioners of the European Union wield a supra- national sovereign political power which blatantly suppresses the ability of individual governments to voice opposition to EU policies that threaten the interests of the citizens and countries they represent. It would appear to me that if the individual governments of the EU member have willingly ceded political sovereignty to the European Commission, then why do these governments still exist? Surely, they should be dismantled They serve no democratic political purpose. They are subservient state organs to the sovereign jurisdiction and political direction of the European Commission. Why have these parliaments not been abolished? We have the civil service and local governments and the all-powerful EU, so what exactly do these national politicians and party's actually do?
@@chrismorley8348 Because dog and pony show.
Actually this looks more and more like a military junta.
Russia is always underestimated. So are Russians.
Only by the West.
Ukraine’s top negotiator, Davyd Arakhamia: Russia was “prepared to end the war if we agreed to... neutrality, and committed that we would not join NATO.”
But the US and UK stood in the way..
Nima, Dr. Doctorow is an excellent choice for your interview. He speaks clearly for those who love Russia and wish for its decisive, comprehensive, and indisputable victory without losing sight of the enormous cost to the Russian people (as well as some Ukrainians). The propaganda narrative of the west has cast everything in black and white. We thank Dr Doctorow for the much needed background and nuances.
Doctor Doctorow (great name to go with the title, in Swedish the not too unusual family name And [=waterfowl] with the title "Dr. And" literally reads as "PhD Student", even after dissertation). But he speaks for his academic analysis of events. It is a conclusion that Russia comes out as the more rational and righteous actor.
Some Ukrainians? Ukraine has by far the highest losses,in addition millions has fled the country.
While I totally agree with you about the phrase "some Ukrainians" isn't the correct phrase at all. We can't forget the facts that Russia never wanted this conflict. While the Ukrainians were actively seeking a conflict with Russia, in the believe their real masters would make sure they'd get a victory. @@summer7676
Americans have been deliberately misled for many years and fed what has really been US propaganda against Russia ! US campaign seems to have been to denigrate and to weaken Russia to the extent Russia is isolated and can be dominated in UN and around the world !
"As well as some Ukrainians," you've got to be kidding.
Ukraine, it's young men, now old men, some women fighters and many civilians have been slaughtered non-stop for the last two years. Yet, in their own defence, they aren't "allowed" to do to Russia what Russia has been doing to them. That would be crossing some kind of red line.
You people are flat out savage.
Zelensky didn't try to prevent the conflict through diplomacy because he lacks honor and integrity.
In 2014 there was a coup. Soon after, there was a massacre in Odessa (dozens of people were burned alive). Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. A civil war broke out due to the rise in ethnic tensions. For 8 years the Ukrainian military was indiscriminately shelling civilians living in Donbas.
If Zelensky honored the Minsk agreement and pledged neutrality, none of this would have happened. The 8 year civil war would have ended and Donbas would have remained part of Ukraine. War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy.
Zelensky, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande admitted that Ukraine had no intention to honor the Minsk agreements.
Who didn't want peace? Who advised against the 2022 peace talks in April? Hint: someone visited Zelensky in Kiev at that time.
Russia's national security was compromised once NATO began to expand eastwards. Russia clearly stated that Ukraine joining NATO was a red line (November 2021) and unfortunately this concern was never taken seriously. The Russians openly stated: if nothing changes, we will be forced to act in order to defend our national security. Enhancing the national security of one country at the expense of another is unacceptable. The Russians have legitimate security concerns.
20th September, 2021: Ukraine launched military drills with US and NATO.
NATO is not a defensive alliance. NATO illegally bombed Yugoslavia (a direct violation of the U.N. Charter).
We should never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq etc.
Who blew up the pipeline causing an environmental disaster?
Zelensky banned all opposition and arrested a leading priest.
Zelensky tried to invoke article 5 under false pretenses. Remember the incident in Poland.
Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed.
Poroshenko said, “Our children will go to schools and kindergartens-theirs will hide in the basements”.
Russians will never forget the 2014 Odessa massacre. The whole world needs to know about it.
Why was Denis Kireev eliminated? He was a member of Ukraine's negotiating team during the peace negotiations. He wanted to help his country.
Ukraine has a hit list. They target artists, journalists and ordinary citizens. Hundreds of children are on this list. 13 year old Faina Savenkova was placed on this list.
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is on this list. Jimmy Dore (American stand-up comedian, podcaster) and Aaron Maté (Canadian writer and journalist) are on this list.
There is evidence that Ukrainian troops have been indiscriminately shelling civilians in Donbas (they used petal mines and targeted areas where there was no military presence).
The azov troops trapped in the azovstal steelworks in Mariupol used human shields. They refused to allow civilians to leave despite of humanitarian corridors being present.
Russia held a proposed cease fire in order for the civilians to leave, but azov would not allow the civilians to leave.
Ukraine has committed many acts of terrorism (car bombs and other forms of assassination). Darya Dugina (journalist) R.I.P.
The first terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed the truck driver and the individuals in the adjacent car (innocent civilian victims).
The second terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed two parents and severely injured their young daughter.
I have done a lot of research and it took me a long time to write this comment. I have stated a lot of facts and I have given my honest opinion.
I have provided a brief summary of events that took place. In order to explain this whole situation in great detail, a book would need to be written.
Hopefully someone will write an UNBIASED book, stating facts and allowing the readers to form their own judgments. Everything I said can be fact checked and verified..
One thing you forgot.
Biden since 2014 had his eyes on natural resources of Ukraine and Russia. Zelensky provided the opportunity Biden wanted. Ukraine Russia war. Weaken both and rule the world
Don't forget Gonzalez Lira who was killed in custody as well,I wonder if his body was ever given to his farther..
Zelensky is a useful idiot.
You are totally correct , I lived in Russia 10 years , and it is absolutely 100% true what you have said, in fact you are too conservative, there are a lot more horror stories than Odessa , I was in Kiev and witnessed ro coup ! It was all fabricated fir the western media! Actors and false flags! The west wanted russias wealth, and didn't get it , icarnt wait to return , Britain is broken 😢
Thank you for posting this !
The Russian military is without doubt #1 in the areas that are relevant to Russia: 1) Nuclear deterrence. 2) Air defense. 3) Land warfare. Adding to that Russia is now also the world diplomatic leader. And Russia has the most self-sufficient economy w.r.t. the armaments industry and supplying the own population with food and energy.
I prefer this format where speakers like Doctorow can speak at length rather than throwing out one question after another.
There are many hosts with lots of different formats - I enjoy them all !
Mr Gilbert Doctorow so calm and erudite with his comments . Thank you Nima.
Putin is an astute judge of character but he is also very pragmatic and patriotic. He is not a narcissist, in fact the opposite.
he is the man of this century
I also see his intelligence reflected in his dry humor.
Putin's "sin" is his loyalty to Russia over Western capital accumulation.
💯. He will go down in history as a great leader by the majority of countries and people around the globe.
If he is really an astute judge of character, he couldn't possibly be a narcissist. In fact, he would have to hate himself.
Awesome Dialouge
Awesome Guest
RESPECT
It's a privilege to be able to listen to analysts like Prof Doctorow presenting his views on the current state of political and social/economic affairs.
I like Gilbert Doctorow! He's saying everything I've been saying for years -- and he has degrees and experience to back up what he says. He speaks common sense to power.
Many Thanks to both of you...always a pleasure to hear intelligent discourse..
At the MSC in 2007, all the top US neocons sat at the front row, listening to Putin's speech. They tried their best to keep their stone faces on, but you could sense that underneath they were boiling of hatred to Putin. What the west before Putin's speech thought was that Russia would bow and accept western hegemony over Russia. Instead Putin gave a memorable speech that shock the west, started a hope and the long march to a multipolar system.
I could listen to this guy as a regular thing.He appears to know what is reality against rumor and propaganda
What a brilliant Geopolitical analyst Mr Gilbert Doctorow, an honour! Thank you Mr Nima R. Alkhorshid for your program "Dialogue Works" 🙏🏻
H Nima I think Mr Doctorow is a fantastic guest, possibly the best you have on Russia..🙏👍.
Regards from Australia 🇦🇺
The United States of hypocrisy has some painful experiences coming in my opinion.😢
It's heartbreaking to watch my country sink into the depths of EVIL !! So many will suffer !! Imo
Dr Doctorow is an absolute gentleman in his field a deep thinker , what a great way to see and understand these foreign affairs with Orban.
He's absolutely right i hate America and it's leadership so much and I'm American or at least i live there
Same here, UK just a puppet of US and its terrible to me to admit that . Hatred of ones own country is so sad.
I feel the same as to leaders as of late. Love the country though. Peace
You hate a land mass that never harmed you?
@@billfargo9616reading not your thing?
They said 'leadership' not land.
ever ceases to amaze me that seemingly intelligent well-educated people of high standing share a complete lack of historical understanding the British Empire both in its inception development or even its eventual decline and supposed fall. It is species nonmyopic prejudice that sees the most esteemed gentleman mouth off the most asinine historical illiteracy informed by childish and churlish anti-British bile. The British Empire did not collapse in any given sense. The Empire at its height survived the economic destruction of British gold reserves, sterling and sound industrial base. The laisse fair policy indifference of the Liberal Tory political class to depression mass unemployment and economic decline of the inter war years was shocking. The conditions that Edward VIII encountered on a visit to south Wales left him visibly shaken and to have remarked `For Gods can't something be done`. At this time it might be considered that the conditions of British subjects in far flung parts the Empire were perhaps better than the mass of the British working classes. It is ignored or perhaps forgotten that other than The Soviet Union it was British Empire forces that made up the majority of allied forces. Burmese, Indian Hindu, Sik Moslem, New Zealand, Canadian, Australian, Malaysian, Sri Lankan, ,Fijian South African all saw fit to fight not for The British Empire itself but for the rule of law institutional and economic development and relative prosperity and peace which it had decades provided. And in the years following WWII tall gained political independence too. Thel British Commonwealth in of itself was the final embodiment a family of different nations nationalities but all once British subjects with one head of state Elizabeth II. So NO, The British Empire id does not collapse despite the perfidy of Harry S Truman who was quoted as saying ``We are not fighting this war to save The British Empire`` In fact one might observe the US was fighting the war to destroy The British Empire. Immediately following Big Boy & Fat Boy the State Department ceased sharing intelligence with the British Government entirely. This did not resume until Britain built and tested its own H -bomb. By which time our provincial cousins had built the CIA....bombs away.
The EU and NATO need to be swept away. They are worse the Harry Truman & the CIA
Thank you soooooo much to bring up this gentleman. His analysis are EXCELLENT
G. Doctorow seems to know what he's talking about. One of the best comments about what's happening on the global stage I heard so far.
Thank you Nima, this a high level interview, the words full of wisdom of Mr. Doctorow are so full of senses.
Gilbert Doctorow telling it like it is. Good stuff.
I'm distressed greatly over the loss of Russian lives in the Ukraine SMO.
And all those Ukrainians forced to the front.
@@everready800 Americans don't care about them.
It's amazing, given their age long image, that politicians and the population in general in the West doesn't care at all about the several hundreds of thousands killed and surely two-three times that many badly wounded by now in this war. Such stuff is suddenly not an issue in the Orwellian part of the world.
All the result of US warmongering.
@@everready800true.. the common [poor] ppl are always the most abused
Nima, I love this guest. Thank you for everything you do to bring us the truth ❤
Always appreciate your guests honesty and integrity Nima. It’s the exception rather than the rule on platforms these days.
Learn a lot about Russia from prof Gilbert.... Interesting insightful commentary... Fair and balanced... Thanks nima
Thank you Dr Doctorow: "word games" 42:00. Thank you Nima.
The best interview! Hats off to Dima for his ustions and to M. Doctorow for his wonder, intelligent, insightful responses. Thank both of you
The sad reality that those in positions of Authority disregard the political reality their in, dead soilders, economic hardships and insecurities. The question must be posed, who do they really serve? Definitely not thier constituents. That's clear...
Well said!
Mega-corporations are the real bosses of the political class.
The MIC and the dark state, the CIA and the Victoria Nulands et al. The West is utterly corrupt and they care neither about their voters or all those poor soldiers killed in a totally unnecessary conflict. For some iNSANE reason, they HATE Russia - because Russia won WW2 for them? - and want a US overthrow of Putin's government. They are delusional bullies who nothing about diplomacy.
Who do they serve? Good question
to the guy with two horns
What a brilliant interview thankyou both
Orban for Nobel Peace Prize..........😎
cool
Totally agree. But the globalists will never let it happen.
The only leader in the EU that thinks clearly. The rest well…
Nah, just look at some of the people that got the prize. You don’t want to belong to that group
@@TheXvillainiesofNature YUP👍
I haven't seen Mr Doctorow previously, but he is very impressive with his very reasoned and well-explained and knowledgeable comments !!! He needs to be listened to !
Fully agree, Gilbert..excellent presentation.
Whenever an empire crumbles the first thing it does is double down on really dumb strategies
Hi Nima here's my take on your podcasts. In my opinion mind. I always listen to anything you put up. Here's why. Your guests are a breath of fresh air. My head explodes with the hatred meated out by western MSM. You are exposing truths told by guests who have no axe to grind. In fact everything they say is being played out in real time before our very eyes. Anyone who doesn't seek out the truth has only themselves to blame when reality finds them wanting some home truths. These Professors and experience gained people are our future. Not the US and other highly paid trash propogandist with their big sad Russia hating faces we get every hour on the hour. It's so informative and refreshing.
why do you listen to the lying Western MSM?
What a well-spoken gentleman and perspicacious thinker! One of the best off the grid. Hope to hear more from him (and please could he upgrade his microphone).
Excellent video - excellent guest.
If you will trade your freedom for your security, you will lose both & deserve neither.
@@Jay...777 please who said that?
@@lucfrombelgium5435 Ben Franklin used the word safety, not security.
No NATO = peace
Gilbert Doctorow-excellent analysis.👍
Looks like, even though no one wants to admit they lost the war, the losers are imploding!
People can ignore reality. But they can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
Bravo to Mr. Gilbert Doctorow
Gilbert Doctorow is a brilliant man.
The globalists wanted to make a fool out of Russia. But instead, the globalists ended up making fools of themselves. Let that be a lesson
This excellent video does much to bring the requisite factual perspective to the world. Thank you for your superb work.
What a brilliant man
I hope somebody is listening ✌️
“Russia survived the sanctions from hell”…
that’s a good one 😂
now you know who are Russians fighting with👹
@@2012isnear-my-my-my certainly satan is controlling much of what the West is doing!
@@2012isnear-my-my-my I knew from the start
A commentary on Russia without an American accent is a comfort.
In many Nato countries people get punished for voicing "the wrong opinion", so americans have an additional layer of protection to disagree with "the Masters".
Russia is fighting NATO/ukraine with a white gloves one hand behind the back and winning.
Excellent interview Nima....mamy thanks....
Best analysis and explanation of the global conflict being played out in Ukraine, for the sake of humanity as a whole the Russian federation must prevail.
Very informative love the way he is so full of information about Russia it’s a pity that people don’t see that! ❤
None so blind as those who WILL NOT see.
I love this site of Nimas...& Dr. Doctorow is a most intelligent, brilliant vast and accurate source of information. I pray DW site here goes viral...we NEED this site all over the world. Fantastic!
Bring Jaque Baud and Colonel's Macgregor, & Wilkerson back?
Thank you, gentlemen! 🙏🏻💪🙏🏻
Hello and greetings, watching from Finland🇫🇮
Terve!
What is going on with you friendly, peaceful Finnish people?
What happened to a very wise and poignant Finnish saying I had learnt from my Finnish friends many years ago:
"Look for friends near you and enemies far away."
After the totally one-sided DCA-treates, Finland and Sweden is the new Guam. There cannot be any good intention behind this. Last chance to move far away!
Same thoughts! So Finland was able to ride it out so smartly for decades to join for the last kick before going down 😳😳😳🤦♀️😳😳😳
What were the people of FINLAND PROMISED ??? WERE YOU Guaranteed UNTOLD AMOUNTS OF MONEY?? Safety from RUSSIA?? Do you. Know that the United States is flat broke and facing a depression we cannot reverse for decades!! Do you know our Armed forces cannot get men to join and you think we will save you ??? IMO FINLAND BOUGHT A SACK OF BEANS FROM JACK !! THE BROOKLAND BRIDGE, THEY TOOK YOU GUYS TO THE CLEANERS AND YOUR YOUNG MEN WILL DIE !!!IMO
@@kirrausanov I dont know.
I have thought about it a lot, thousands of hours. I feel that the common people here are still the same as before: Friendly and peace-loving, but many of our leaders suffer from some kind of insanity.
It seems as if no issue or decision is in our hands anymore, the people. I fear for our democracy itself. A good example is that we, the Finns, were already promised decades ago the right to vote when joining NATO. It never materialized. No referendum was held in Finland.
The leaders justify it by saying that there are MPs for that, but in my opinion they only represent a very small percentage of the people.
Everything happened so fast that ordinary, working people didn't even have time to understand what was happening. Yes, every country needs a strong defense, but it was strong in Finland even before joining NATO. I don't think anyone threatened Finland either, but how do I know anything.
My grandparents went through two tough wars, they and my other relatives were from Karelia. They always advised: Don't be bitter, don't hold grudges. Create friendship and commerce, preserve Peace and kindness.
Thank you for your question!
Thanks for an excellent analysis
This is so True! Great Speaker!!!
Great interview, Nima! Your expanding number of guests is impressive and continuesly adds new layers, details and perspectives. Thank you.
Nima is a super magnet for super talent! Although, or maybe because, he has such a hands-off style and lets the guests talk and talk like they rarely are given time to do other than in lectures. 150,000 subscribers is great given that it is a subject that most people don't care to look at in any depth at all.
History shows us the Hungary suffered greatly due to World War 1 and world War 2. They were never the aggressors in those event but paid a horrible price. Prime Minister Orban is acutely aware of this factor and is trying his best to to halt this NATO, EU move towards a third war involving all of Europe and it's Western backers.
EU and NATO leaders will criticize and berate him for taking these steps because it interferes with their own set of goals
You need to get some facts straight about Hungary's past, especially Hungary being on the wrong side of the history during WW2!
I like his analogy about collective stupdity, when all NATO states do the wrong thing out of a sense of unity, it´s still wrong. It´s like someone jumping off a cliff and the rest of the family have to jump too, where the solidarity of the action takes precedence over its rationality.
BRILLIANT thanks 🙏👍
Nationalism is a love to your country, nazism is hatered towards other nations.
Patriotism is love for your country.
Patriotisme is an emotion used by the ones in power to use the population for their own agenda. And it clearly works well.
@@OneDayWillFlyAway You are a globalist, I am not.
@@05cotranif it comes to humanity yes, not when it comes to the capitalist definition of globalism.
Fantastic, serene, and after an if, hopeful dissertation, thank you!!
Dr Doctorow is the best tell it like it is speaker out there him and Mr Sachs
Thank you.
Another excellent guest. Na is going from strength to strength 💪
Outstanding!
Very interesting ❤
Dr. Doctorow is the regular YT commentator with the most intelligent, balanced, objective and thorough view of world affairs.
Again a very good interview. I just love Mr Doctorow’s calm demeanor and his knowledge is mind blowing. If the US has got such a tremendous smart people, 1 has to wonder why on earth aren’t they listening to them… instead we have got this mad flock of brain dead psychopaths running the domestic as well international politics..
Multi-party elections keep the working class divided, demoralized, deceived and dependent while providing "brain dead psychopaths" with a well-greased conveyor belt to the top. Elections were sold to us as the epitome of democracy, but in reality they lead to oligarchy, a fact known since the time of Aristotle.
Although Putin faces elections, it is not an election that brought him to power: He rose through the ranks of the Party. The Soviet Union did not have the multi-party shell-game that the U.S. uses to keep sane civic-minded people divided and conquered.
I always look forward to listen to dr.Doctorow and l agree with him that president Putin is Russia’s Peter the Great, greetings , of a Galitzin from Hungary
Let’s not forget Zimbabwe survived these sanctions, I quote “we will make her scream”.
Yes, but Mugabe was over 30 years late in his promised land reform and redistribution…
❤ Great Episode And Great Guest 👀🤠🇨🇦🌍
Thank you Mr. Doctorow, The "Unity gives us strenght" part is very powerful.
Oh dude, I really like this guy. I've never seen him before. Judging from what he is saying, it's no wonder to me.
"There is no honor among thieves "
Reading Kotlin’s biography about Stalin. Super timely for today as it has much info about geopolitics up to and thru WW1 … much of what happens today was happening then.
There are serious critics of Kotkin (Kotlin is the dominating programming language for Android smartphones, named after a tiny island outside of St Petersburg where the language creator was born). It'll be fruitful to look up other recent historical works on Stalin.
It's been said about Stalin that he overworked the population, causing the death of millions during his first two decades as the ruler, because he was paranoid imagining that the West would invade. But then it happened! And the Germans would've killed practically the entire population in the USSR if Stalin hadn't all out rushed industrialization and armament in time.
It's been said that Stalin was paranoid who "cleansed" the officer corps from any suspected to be disloyal. After the military's coup attempt in Germany July 1944, their leader said that he envied Stalin who had taken care of that inner threat in good time. There was no inner opposition in the USSR to hamper the efforts to defeat the enemy and survive the intended genocide.
There are little issues like that to be understood when one hears about Russians today saying good things about Stalin. Because what would the alternative have been?
@@bjorntorlarsson I'm sure there are critics of Kotkin, most other books on Stalin are garbage. I haven't finished the book yet, only at end of WW1 ... I'll keep your comments in mind as I progress. Of note in the book, it does not focus on him as much but really picks up on key events around him that shaped the man. Incidentally, I'd seen some coverage of H1tler, youtube documentary format, that takes a similar approach. After years of propaganda on that dude, I can say I don't hate him and see him as villain, he was another person that was shaped by the circumstances. We've got plenty of current day villains that put these two men to shame in terms of evil.
finally an intellectual who understands what Russia is about for the whole world and freedom of nations
Dr. Doctorow's is a great expert of Russia and it's geopolitical strategy! He has a lot to offer to his audience and his expertise is full of subtle details ! I am fully agree with his opinion of V.Putin as the biggest leader of the World!
Thank you for mentioning the dead...we need to see reality.
Thanks for this very insightful discussion.
Wonderful commentary, great perspective on the recent history of relations between Russia and the collective West. Gilbert should have been chosen as a top, if not the top, American diplomat for US-Russian relations. We would both be prosperous (probably Ukraine as well).
Toujours excellent. Il est regrettable que le sous-titrage français soit parfois défaillant pour les Français qui ne comprennent pas l'anglais. Il est utile de faire comme Sane Vox une version français.
Down to earth guest 👍🏾
Excellent video. Finally, I understand the Russia phobia in the West, and how it started (and is now propagandized 24/7 to Americans and all countries within the USA reach). What's more, that this was due to the pride and arrogance of the USA after Russia, had the courage to mention that the emperor has no clothes. Finally, it's amazing the power of arrogance and pride, as well as greed, in determining the health, peace and prosperity of the world.
God rules NOT America!
Did Hungary kick Soros out of Hungary?
Years ago
No way. Feudalists stay privateers. And if there is an Empire that dreams of reemerging, it's the Austro-Hungarian one.
Aye
Yes.
@@user-jg8hl9hs5i Soros should be kicked of everywhere.
Brilliant interview, absolutely brilliant. I have long admired Putin and Orban. Putin will go down in history as a great leader, no doubt about it. You do not have to agree with everything he initiates to see that. I have stopped listening to the Russian cheerleader group because this is just fluff. If you watch Military Summary daily, you have some difficulty understanding why these cheerleaders consider that Russia could waltz through an attack on Odessa when Russia struggles to take small villages in the Donbass. There is a disconnect here, and a war is not won until it is over. So Doctorow has been helpful in presenting the larger picture. Thank you, Nima. Brilliant.
As many other esteemed commentators have observed this is a war of attrition ,then will come territorial gains. There is method in what you may discern as weakness.
Excellent!
Despicable is the word 4 these evil warlovers who greet all this death as 'too bad'
I wonder what the corporate press will say about the conclusions of Doctorow. I believe that he is very close to the reality of this world
I always wonder why Judge constantly cut his Guests, like he is afraid of stretching the Show few Minutes longer than his imagined "limit"..?!? Nima is so much better, he allows People to complete their Answer as they consider the best, not as Judge and his Limits in the Head would enforce....for no rational Reason.
Different styles and aims. Judge Nap has specific questions which he wants to contain within a limited 30 minutes program. I guess he has his reasons for this, just as Nima prefers his guests to speak at will. One can enjoy both.
The ironic thing about nationalism in Europe, in my opinion, is that the people who complain most are exactly the same people responsible for the immigration.
It's the Europeans who supported the colonialism that made Algerians, Indians and Pakistanis citizens of their empires, which gave them the ability to emmigrate to Europe. It was the Europeans who supported NATO and the strong military that was the perpetrator of the invasions in Libya, Syria, and Iraq that created the refugee crisis.
If Europeans had simply minded their own business and quit trying to exploit the second and third world there wouldn't have been the refugee crisis that are tearing Europe apart and giving fuel to the nationalists who want to build walls around everything.
Problem is no-one ever accepts responsibility and always scapegoats other people, especially the people with the least ability to defend themselves.
Great find in this gentleman. Nima. May God bless the next generation. Great shpw.