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Thank you, Vlad.Apparently Putin has as much understanding of the U.S. as we do of Russia. Time does not seem to be on his side and after the election cycles are over, maybe the west will decide on a public definition of Ukrainian victory.Do you think the threat of a Russian breakup ( or chaotic transformation) more potent than the nuclear threat.( as experienced in Iraq)? Looking forward to your next videos.Take care♥🌻
Vlad, i dont understand one point. You are talking basically about how inconsistent putin and his regime is with their victorious narrative and at the same time crying, and how this inconsistency can have wider political impact especially among hardliners. BUT. Are there any hardliners really? Girkin, Prigozhin, Surovikin, Popov... where are they now? Are there any hardliners with some power left and if so, couldnt they be removed from the picture as the ones mentioned? Because people like solovyov etc... have no real agency, they just talk what they are instructed to tell, to test the public, they are never going to really criticise russian government no matter what happens. So it appears to me, that there is this hardline rhetoric prominent in russian public, but it is essentially just just very unnatural, shallow and formal if you will. And this can be changed anytime with propaganda if needed. So those "hardliners" are just somehow people in kind of "prepare" stage all manufactured by regime (at least at this point), and can be turned back off if necessary by propaganda. It is like formally changing flag in a country, or wearing different uniforms, but people are still the same, it is more superficial posturing than actual belief system. And it seems like (at least from here afar) that the regime is well aware of not crossing the line and watching the true hardliners (those with some power and who truly believe in this rhetoric) to keep them in line, and the ones crossing the line are being dealt with rather swiftly.
Withdraw back to your internationally recognised borders and the fighting stops immediately. No delay of 2-3 months. We call for non-interference too. Non-interference from Moscow. Interference from Moscow is totally unwelcome in any European country.
Putin, as ever, tries to play the aggrieved victim ... as if it wasn't Russia who has twice invaded Ukraine and therefore shouldn't be now be facing consequential attacks on weapon systems and economic targets inside Russia itself. Moreover, Putin could (I suppose) give weapon systems to the likes of Hezbollah (for them to attack Western targets), but which *actual national governments* does he imagine would be willing to use Russian weapons to attack Western targets? I strongly doubt there'd be any takers, because not many regimes have a death wish. It's all just more Putin bluster.
Yeah, if he gives them to Cuba, for example, and Cuba fires at Miami (looking at the missile crisis). The U.S. would just topple the regime there. You think Cuba, Venezuela, or Iran would seriously take the fall for Putin? Even if it did turn into a prolonged conflict, those countries would inevitably lose on the battlefield and politically
Yeah, he's very good at propaganda. He even managed to poison both the USA and Europe. However, his bullshit lost its weight once he attacked Ukraine. Sales of Russian military equipment basically stopped overnight. Nobody wants to buy that shit anymore.
@@dannylojkovic5205 I don't think anybody wants to topple Cuba. Russia is not the USSR, Russia is not even a socialist country with a Communist belief system anymore. Russia is just scrambling for propaganda wins, because propaganda is what Putin knows best.
Nothing would threaten autocratic Russia (no matter who is in charge) more than a free, democratic and prosperous Ukraine, sitting right on Russia's borders as an example of what is possible.
That was the motive Anne Applebaum (Russia historian) gave for the 'SMO', that and Putin's imperial ambitions and possibly legacy creation. She said that the bluster about NATO expansion was simply that, just bluster, to discombobulate and wrong-foot the West. AFAIR. The interview is still up there on RUclips, AFAIK.
I struggle with 10 minute YT videos. Imagine me sitting in front of Mr Putin in the front row, and having to stay awake, an not look arrestable for three hours. And trying not to roll my eyes, even for a bit.
@@VladVexlerChat Aww, don't be so hard on yourself. I know chronic health issues are frustrating, but remember that you deserve kindness, especially from yourself.
I agree. I've watched your last couple of videos with concern, Vlad, as I can see in you symptoms I had when my ME was much more of an issue than it is now. Please don't push yourself to get content out. Your long term health is far more important.
From my personal experience of dealing with mobsters in the 1990-s. Any mobster, however powerful always remembers that there is the power above him. I think, it is subconsciousness feature. Mobster may not even acknowledge it, but they always operate in the context where there is the power they must avoid and trick, but nevertheless respect. Putin as a typical thug has the same feature. He REPORTS to superior powers and pleads to them despite his position. That is his ultimate weakness. He needs to make "a good picture" for his imaginary superiors, he needs to trick them, he needs to escape from their grasp, he needs to have plausible legend, and "his people" in power who can help him to escape prosecution. He is not self-sufficient and not self-reliant leader. He is con artist who always has to afraid of a proper detective and policeman who chase him.
This sounds plausible. One contrast I noticed with Putin and Navalny was that Navalny was always relaxed and very comfortable in his own skin, whereas Putin, even in his $10,000 suits and handmade shoes, always looks self-conscious and awkward despite his power.
1 human year is 7 dog years although the maths is really more complicated, they reach 24 human years in the first 2 years and then age more slowly at 5 dog years /human year but faster for larger dogs. But we haven't bothered to research how they perceive time.
Putin lost his mind years ago contemplating the unfair way Russia couldn't dominate the world without doing anything to make it better. True there are issues with many things. If he was a better leader not scared of a free economy Russia would be powerful economically he could be retired and partying around on a super yacht and average Russians would have better lifestyles.
The Russian people failed him in making an economy and he hates them. Hitler said something similar about the German people as his war failed, as in, they deserve what they get for failing me.
This makes me genuinely angry on a regular basis. And it's the same way I get angry about the Koreas. Just think of all of the prosperity and happiness -- worldwide prosperity and happiness -- wrought by democratic values and open society in a place like South Korea. LG. Samsung. Hyundai. Kia. And yes, K-pop, Starcraft tournaments, and KBBQ. Of course I can't do it justice. These things, and many other things from South Korea, have made the world a better place. I hate Kim. I hate Kim so much not just for depriving his own people (of course this is the most important thing), but for depriving the entire world of another country like South Korea or, alternatively, a twice-as-large South Korea (I prefer the latter, and may it come to be some day). But the difference made, worldwide, by turning North Korea into South Korea pales in comparison to what would happen if Russia became a prosperous and democratic country like its European neighbors. What a gigantic, pointless, fatuous, ignorant, contemptible waste. Putin is not the only one to blame, but he's the one whose face pops into my head when I grit my teeth.
@@jaarneal Liked simply for including starcraft tournaments in their cultural exports haha. Spent so many late nights when I should have studied watching them play.
Engaging in a political debate with Putin is like having a conversation with an Alzheimer’s sufferer. When he says “end the war” he means “let me win”, because he has no frame of reference for Russia loosing. He knows Russia has a weak hand, but he’s a strong man, so it’s just a matter of to what degree he (Russia) has won. The best advice here is don’t play. To engage in this nonsense is to lose, then you’re only haggling about the degree to which you’ve lost. Taking a tangental lesson from history, when a coalition of nations took Crimea off the Russian Empire not to save Ukraine or Crimea, but to save Romania and Bulgaria (not for their own sakes, but to stop Russia ruling them). That is the kind of negotiation we need to stop this war. The West has taken Russia’s trade away. What they are left with isn’t going to sustain them without an eventual coup. That Putin is wasting 3 hours of everyone’s time talking to international journalists is because he needs this war to end so Russia can have their trade back. We need to be clear that the price for this is a return to the borders of Russian, Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia as re-established after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. That should be the price. If Putin is such a student of history he should know the last Tsar to turn down such a deal, drank some bad Russian water and died in his own lands, with his successor making peace for the offered terms immediately.
According to one Russian economist, he is committing economic suicide (and, in fact, is past the point of no return), so surely he is going to make a move he did not plan for?
@@NexPutax yes, sorry this list was improvised, but it occurred to me if we make it more than just about Ukraine is to make it clear you can’t concede on Ukraine, get your money back and move onto the next victim.
Thanks Vlad - please prioritise your health. Excellent analysis. Yes, sounds like Putin admitted that Ukraine could hold off Moscow's forces for months even without Western supplies. Putin implicitly conceded that Moscow is fighting Ukraine (not the West) but is not winning. In the absence of a clear common Western strategy, the next best approach is strong support for Ukraine. Putin's prejudices and motivations blind him to the real, complex political position in Ukraine and the West, and to the actual potential for Putin to exploit that if he were to follow a different more subtle strategy. (although Putin pressed an effective comment button about Trump). But Putin will know that, once he starts the politicisation in Moscow's territories, he will not be able to stop it or reverse it. Also, Putin's threats to take assymetric escalation steps pose a risk to him, of potentially turning more countries against Russia (for example, see bluster on Solovyov's show about possible action to drag in countries in Africa such as Namibia).
Should. However, we live in a time when political ethics are not on the upswing. Especially with “geopoliticians” of the Dugin or Putin type, who see the world only in terms of domination.
Ukraine should beg the US to allow them to end the conflict with diplomacy and not war, and demand reparations from them for overthrowing their democratically elected government and the decade long civil war their meddling caused.
@@mojojojo1529I'm surprised a clown like you agrees Ukraine exists. Of course the likes of you talk about democracy when convenient. Russian empire ended due to revolution. "Legitimate" government was removed back then too. Are you gonna b***h about how unfair it was? Believe or not, North Korea also has a "democratically" elected leader. It all depends how delusional you are and how many fantasies you're eager to believe. Ukraine revolution happened because people got tired being a mere buffer zone of Russia. Putin wouldn't put Ukraine's existence under question if it remained Russia's loyal dog like Belarus. Conveniently, not being buddies with Russia always transforms you into a "genocide loving Nazi" who's controlled by west. Free will is alien for Russians.
Putin either doesn't understand the West at all, but he believes his irrational explanation or this is a Byzantine word salad which makes sense to his consistencies. Doesn't make sense at any level to me even when I try to accept his sketchy assumptions. Bizarro.
It only makes sense if you consider him a psychopath surrounded by demons and imagined enemies. After all, Russian history is a harsh and brutal culture in a dark and brooding endless expanse. In a train in Moscow, nobody smiles. It's considered weird.
narcissists and their subset psychopaths just say stuff, sometime true its mostly said for effect, but they have to know their audience for truth or lies to work, he is in a shadow bubble of spooky agency seeking chaos, he thinks he can surf it like he was kgb trained to do, all this will destroy the empire
That old saying "he's blowing smoke" applies to Putin. His "nuke'm" angle hasn't changed anything, so "arming a nebulous someone" is trying a slightly different tactic with roughly the same results. Thinking of just how Russia could supply any country is a futile idea. They don't have the materiel for their own.
The simple fact that Russia is pushing any "western countries" toward a freeze is barbaric. That requires the Ukranian people to allow torture and worse on their own people in the occupied areas. Shortest answer, no.
But he, China and Iran pay criminals (gangsters) to commit terrorist crimes in their respective Western countries. If that accelerates havoc can be wreaked.
Putin can/will commit a thousand other crimes to drive the west crazy before going nuclear. Cooking him a degree at a time is perhaps the best approach to avoid Putin committing greater crimes.
The Wests timid response and endless delays are allowing Putin to even raise these arguments. The weakness of the West can win.made Putin calculate that
@@sadjaxx He is saying that if we haven't been tying Ukraine's arms behind their backs and or even got some balls and litterally helped ukraine push Russia back out, this war would have been over in a matter of a few months or possible as little as a few weeks. Entire cities would have been saved and all the war crimes Russia has since committed would never have happened. The West is weak, like a parent who can't stand up to a spoiled brat of an abusive child and say NO! . The world leaders in the West need to grow a pair and tell Russia where they can shove it. France seems to be the only western country that is beginning to grow a pair. Then you have the baltic country that plays neutrality games for which would be among the first that would beg us to come save them while they sat there and let Russia take Ukraine .. They need to grow a pair because neutrality isn't going to help them if Russia come knocking on their door after having not gotten directly involved., All of those baltic states should be in Ukraine fighting Russia. It is too bad Ukraine doesn't have vast oil fields and reserves like Kuwait did.. If they did, everyone would have been in this to whoop Russia's ass right out of Ukraine... Those stalled collumns in at the start of the war would have all been just decimated as were the Iraqi columns leading out of Kuwait.. We would have ended this war right quick..
But he has beaten the Big Lie into the ground. Nobody believes him, he whips around daily day 1-black is white day 2-black is black, day 3-white is black, day 4 russia is beating NATO, day 5-russia would never fight NATO.
Both are antimodern and against ideals of 18th century enlightenment, especially democracy, which both think doesn’t work. It is a shame that in the 21st century we’ve come to see this line of politics. Vlad is right that the old international order is death, similarly as it died in the 1930s, at that time institutions of international cooperation and alliances proved to be weak, as the great powers resigned to maintaining them and so the France and Britain handed over Czechoslovakian borderlands to Hitler, naively hoping that it would appease him and further war would be averted, but it couldn't be, given the nature of Hitler’s regime. Unfortunately this situation seems somewhat similar, it is still better than in 1938, there is some support for Ukraine unlike for Czechoslovakia in the past, but the reasoning of a peace treaty with an expansionist lunatic, that won’t abide any such international treaties and only responds to a show of military power is unfortunately all too similar and much too prevalent in european politics of today. Well at least don’t vote for candidates that have similar appeasement rhetoric today and tomorrow in the elections to EU parliament.
German also proclaimed they where the ones being attacked. And that they are just acting in self defence etc. Putlers great frustration is that NATO is preventing him from picking Europe apart one by one. And he is scared that jumping to the total war phase straight away might be suicide.
Interesting the remark about Zelensky too... Hitler was doing that too all the time. He would constantly reduce a whole country to its leader. He believed he could flip a whole country by visiting its leader, or sending a gift, etc. Poutin can't for the life of him imagine that Zelensky is only a representative of the Ukrainiens...he really can't, I think he does not do it purposefully...he really cant
This is one of your best analyses, in my view. Thanks. Ukraine needs to be seen as a nation at war not a country fighting for democracy. This is something I think Ukrainians understand, but, because the war is not touching us (the west), it is still seen as all about democracy. Democracy is a rather imperfect hook to hang everything on in times of war. Maybe this is what is meant when people describe Ukraine as fighting with one hand tied behind its back. I do not want Russia to prevail, but their political system is geared up for conquest. Ukraine is a sovereign nation. #istandwithukraine
@AstroGremlinAmerican Perfectly rational for a wannabe thinking in the mix of 19th century pop politics and 20 century KGB conspiracy hunting. He's behaving like a 4x videogame strategy player, and is unable to behave in any other way.
The problem is that Putin doesn't understand the Mythos of Ukraine. He doesn't understand that Ukraine has always fought for its independence. That never really stopped. The people fighting for Ukraine may not have been powerful enough to overcome the outside forces, but the spirit was always there, no matter how much the Polish, Soviet, Russian, etc forces tried to break it. Primarily Putin doesn't understand that if he ever occupied Ukraine with the current world order, it would be much more costly than even the war that he's uselessly prosecuted. Yes, Ukraine became a part of USSR, but those were not conditions that exist today. He would have to go full Stalin and he's still have opposition, same as Stalin did. Ukrainian people are used to fighting for their land, this is far from the first time
He believes that most people can be bought. For the rest there is instilling total fear through merciless violence, murder and torture. So far it has worked perfectly in the Russian world. But I agree that he in some ways is totally out of touch with reality. He’s like a stuffy old fossil from from the ancient past. What Kabaeva sees in him is a mystery.
It has not worked perfectly, but he's basically scared everyone who would object. He basically wants to be Stalin, but this is the wrong time in history and he doesn't have the giant balls or the mustache. He basically decided to run Russia into the ground. The country was doing OK, but the insecure little man in charge wanted to be "great". I feel sorry for all the Russians, but it's too late. Almost everyone is complicit in this crime. The people who aren't are either just keeping their heads down or are already in a gulag. There will be no revolution, Putin's security forces are too good. The balding Caligula basically signed a death warrant for his own country P.S. Sorry for saying "basically" 100 times...
@@petra1201 You're thinking with western sensibilities there. The way Russian thinking goes is very much different from what you've said here. This is a fight between old and new per se, but not in the way you can understand
@@AlekseyVitebskiy Who gives a shit? Russia is the same as it ever was. It will end in another predictable self-immolation, because Putin wishes he was 6'2.
How many innocents will have to be lost in Ukraine or even threaten all over the world as the case very much have evolve to, before the demise of a thuggish regime?
@@VladVexlerChat As you say, arm Ukraine properly, not halfheartedly. Don't be like Belgium and commit to deliver F-16s, but point out that a new government after the election might have different ideas - and oh by the way, they can only be used within Ukraine.
Politely disagree about the west wanting to freeze the conflict. Seems more the west wants to bleed Russia slowly dry of being able to perform such a war again for the next generation or maybe two…by not letting Ukraine lose (which is NOT Ukraine being able to win necessarily)
I sense more and more doubt and low morale on both sides. And yet here we are. Almost 2 years and a half later and Ukraine didn't fall. Ukraine will not fall! The real attrition war starts now therefore it is now that the support should have a more vigorous second wave.
Putin probably could have at least held off Western permission to attack inside Russia if he hadn't launched Kharkiv invasion 2. Some hawkish countries like UK probably would have still given permisssion but US would be less likley and they provide a lot more than the Hawkish countires in absolute terms.
I made a similar point in my comment today here to this segment! He's shot himself in the foot, IMO. Edit: Error, i made my comment to a segment by Scott Lucas on the (London) Times channel of today, 9th June '24.
Putin is the cinema screen on which he projects his version of reality, he loves being the centre of attention and in his world he is the mighty fulcrum of power. When people stop paying attention or lose interest in the film the cinema closes down and Putin is reduced to criminality. Thank you for your insights and I wish you better health.
Putin argues 'historic inevitability', hardly surprising, given his education and training he probably was a gullible Marxist-Leninist when he started his career in KGB School in Leningrad early eighties. He's forgotten Stalin's lesson from 1949, when USSR boycotted UN Security Council over non-recognition of PRC, and so missed the vote to repel invasion of South Korea by North Korea, and failed to sabotage the UN (US) response. He made sure that even as West 'degraded' USSR always enforced it's UNSC veto power, when desired. Example of democratic 'flexibility' of response versus trust in 'historic inevitability'.
I wish I could find a version of the interview without voiceover or dubbing but with English subtitles. I can understand a lot of the words that Putin speaks, but I don't understand what he's saying without subtitles. No luck so far in finding such a recording.
Is it possible that Putin's biggest problem of fascistizing his society is himself - his inability to give them a clear 'vision' (as putting russian flags into piles of dust might be attractive for him, but it is not for anyone else). I was very worried about the rise of a new totalitarian state on the borders of Europe, but my feeling is this does not happen fast enough, as his ability to turn his people into 'ants' (I use this in a way insulting phrase here for a reason) does not work, and my hypothesis so far is that he simply lacks the oratory, rousing speech skills other totalitarian leaders 90 years ago so clearly had. The more I look at Putin, the more I think holding speeches is actually painful for him, or awkward, as he comes up with his strange 'pick-your-piece' historical examples that are usually wrong, out of context or so obscure that hardly anyone understand what Putin wants to say here, and why he brought that up. He is completely 'un-entertaining' unlike H/tler, Mussol/n/ or Mao, even Stalin was a better orator. So why do you think Putin is so according to my observation unsuccessful (in spite of full media control) ? Are the russians so jaded that they simply don't care about his message anymore ?
It seems at least somewhat noteworthy to me that Putin does not have the same sort of bitter complaints regarding Western weapons striking Crimea and the "annexed" regions of Ukraine. It's as if he's acknowledging that those territories aren't Russia.
Don't apologise for the issues relating to your health. I am extremely grateful for your contribution to my education on the subject. Good luck with your health Vlad.
People like Putin often seem to fall into the trap of forgetting that they are but one mind trying to outsmart and prevail over the collected brainpower of much of the world. Not a good betting hand.
Quod licet Jovi et non licet bovi. What is allowed to Jupiter is not allowed to the oxen. Here is the answer Russia, because the West has the power to do so, and the power to retaliate if anyone else would try the same on us.
9:20 "Could Putin have avoided giving this permission to Ukraine given how reluctant the West was to give it..." I doubt it, since I think that reluctance on the part of the West is largely performative. By restraining Ukraine's strikes in Russian territory, the West mitigates against Putin's narrative attempting to depict Ukraine as a proxy in a purported NATO campaign of aggression. The policy also serves an escalation management function. I think the recent relaxing of the policy was at least partly done out of necessity, given the dire situation of the thinly-stretched defenders on the long line of contact, and perhaps partly done according to a theoretical schedule with respect to the US elections.
I propose Ukraine is allowed to go as far into Russias border, as Russia goes into Ukraine border. The west can’t afford to fight this war to sharp Putin will permit. And every time he even threatens nuclear war his inner circle are made to feel our “ detergents”.
What worries me is, given the pattern of latest events in France, the threat of "assymetry" may mean terrorist-type attacks. I hope you recover soon and that you will be able to enjoy the summer!
I follow the people counting Russian equipment stocks. Its clear Russia has 1- 1+1/2 year left of soviet equipment. Then it gone allmost all of it. So I take it a slow panik is starting to set in, in Russia by those who are in the know.
Putin's interview translation: Putin:"As dumb as this table" = Wow, you're smarter then me Putin:"We are not gona attack NATO" = We are planning a major strike Putin:"The west are Imperialists" = Long live the Ruzzian Empire!
Cmon Vlad dont be sry 4 'slow service'. You are doing as much as you can and already you are giving us way more content than i would ever expect. I somehow think that you are putting more content on this channel these days than usual. Im sad 2 hear about your heatlh, but the fact that im writing this comment on your NEW video that's been less than 2 hours online, makes me happy :). Thank you so much 4 what you are doing! And BTW if u get more rest, you will be FASTER AND MORE COHERENT as u like 2 say about yourself ;P. So no hurry, you know yourself and you will give us your thoughts when and if you feel fine and rdy 4 that. Much love
Was this a news conference or a lecture? My question to you is: Do you recognize any of reporters seated at the table? Putin sits there lecturing. "There is no need to create an image of Russia as an enemy." "Such a threat does not exist and it cannot exist." This is so Staged. A un-intimidated Journalist, after being accused of being dumb, would at least 'play dumb', interrupt, and ask a 'dumb' question. Like: I get cha. Just to clarify. "You don't want to attack NATO. You want to attack Poland and/or the Baltic States." Ah my bad. Thank you for this report.
Interesting...hitler would always blame his failures on the poorness of "nazification" of either his generals, his soldiers, the civilians, the justice system, etc etc etc. It was an obsessive leitmotive for him.
The young cadets were in the gym practicing for Canada Day. And they ll put on quite a show. Just maybe some will be soldiers. Last year my heart jumped when i heard their band play the old national anthem. Which actually dont think is usable. But what a joy to hear and see these young men and women honoring that old symbol. It starts " in days of yore from Britains shore wolf the conquering hero came" a reference to the annus mirabilous that closed the glorious reign of King George the Second: the conquest of Bengal and Canada the humiliation of France. And hes our last king to ride into battle although Lincoln and Roosevelt visited battle fields. And he the last king to rule over the whole English speaking people before the secession of the United States. The next verses celebrate our war with tbe USA to maintain independence at great cost. It was heroic. And the war of 1812 was the last stand of eastern natives efforts at sovereignty resistence. They were allies with purposes of their own. Tecumseh was like Pontiac the great war chief of a confederacy that fought AGAINST us in tbe seven years war. On bad British advice Tecumseh the war chief in the 1812 war fought a pitched battle with the Americans on the Thames River and lost. Thats the end of a native army that could sustain soveriegnty. Abuse followed from even us the British North Americans. But I loved this old national anthem with its reference to triumph and victory and war and it so well represented the ferocity and courage of Canada. We will fight alone if we have to. No one should have any doubts about our pride and courage. Putin and Xi are fools.
The Thames river is on Sw Ontario S of London , ie London ontario. Tecumseh confederation had a village at Prophets town in Indiana. Like pontiacs confederation of indepemdent varied native peoole included a phophet theres sort of a dual leadership. And one needs the thoughtful quasi spiritual leader along side a pragmatic war chief. Thats universal. Sitting Bull is a similar figure in the west. But he was ALSO a medicine man although there was a prophetic leader in the Rockies. I spoke of the St Lucian Poet ( which is a vocation like a phrophet or a medicine man ) He deals with our history especially our old Empire in a very moving epic poem mysterious. "Omeroos". And the spirit of the poet drifts back to Homer and troy. He actually recounts somewhat acurately the story of a white advisor ( a wonsnz) to sitting bull and warned of the debacle after the gost dancing and the suezure of the black hills. Many of the figures in his poems are ww 2 veterans who morph into ancient historical figure and resl figures in current time too. One of the Greek Heros is also just a black fishermsn on the wine dark Carribean. This tv drama on Jamestown will mislead. The native societies esp algonkian ones were drmocracies status was earned. Sitting on a throne and issuing orders to slaves is a European or Hungarian concrpt. Thats not what America was like even the aristocratic societoes on the pacific coast weren t like that. And the natives ideas of democracies esp changed the french the couurier de biois who traded and lived among them. New England is different. Its a big history. Canadians by the way always stole and implemented good ideas esp from the USA . We fought a war to be free independent of the USA in 1812. But immediately after about 1815 we began to discard English style local government for New England style locsl government. ( which was more democratic). George Washigton the revolutionary was a villain but we csme to use his superb land survey system. We copied Lincolns homestead act. And for better or worse we copued Prussian public education.
Derek Walcott is the poet om refering to. He s dead now , he got an award for poetry at Queen Elizabeths Golden Jubilee. Hes good. Ameticans know him too.
poots has a great deal to say about the west, and i think thats because he is a tory. speaks like a tory. acts like a tory. his behavious is similar to many ppl here in the west, in uk and usa in particular, hes basically a westerner stuck in russia, because hed fit right in with any tory group here. and more ppl need to see it. hes just a tory.
I only watched a few highlights of the Putin presser and his abuse of historical facts made me cringe so much that it was painful. I do not know how Vlad managed to get through the whole thing.
*450,000 RUSSIAN CASUALTIES* seems to be the general estimate of d34d and wounded. 23 million 18 to 44 year olds This is becoming an economically significant % of the productive population of Russia, its > 2% and the wounded will likely require life long support. So economically this has likely cost Russia 5% of GDP for the next 40 years.
I appreciate your valuable insights and I know I'm not alone in this. Like yourself, I too have tricky health. I'm praying everyday for your well-being as well as all the people who suffer in War (and in Peace too, for what it's worth). Let's together hope for less of the former and a greater time collectively of the latter. 🙏✌️☮️ 🇺🇲💕🇺🇦💕🇬🇧
I'm Czech, I don't really know what Russians think about Putin, but all Ukrainians, I've met, absolutely hate him.. I live in Ireland, I work in McDonald's, when I play Putin Huilo song on public speakers, Ukrainian girls working there absolutely love it, Irish people kind of ignore it..but Ukrainian refugees are everywhere, due to Putin's war....and they shape our opinions...due to refugees, Putin's Russia has more enemies... his policy is based on war an conquest of territory... He didn't allow Chechnya to be independent, mess up with Georgia, Ukraine, what's the future of Russia, Nemtsov, Navalny, are dead because of Putin...
Vlad, could you bring something about Patrushev? I'm curious what happened to him ... Konstantin Samoilov (Inside Russia) mentioned that Patruchev has been given a position of 'shipbuilding advisor' that had been given to one of Stalin's early butchers before/while that guy was beaten to death when Stalin decided to get rid of him. I'm curious if there are parallels here.
You’re wasting too much energy analyzing a deconstructing lil’ Putsie! It’s all BSery and pointless babble as though he has control of anything. Putsie blathers on with same crappery as always. He’s done.
I suppose its obvious to all of us watching Putin and Xi. But there is a relationship between history and nationsl mythology. Political mythogy has to yeild to proven reality but that is not to deny the importance of framing a national narrative. It just cant be all lies all arbitrary as Putin thinks. We ve talked about the break down of the global order. But vast international systems are always brittle lets not panic. The American order part a before the fall of the USSR and part B after lasted long time. The second British Empire 1776 to 1947 lasted a long time. The first British Empire id say is created by James the Sixth of Scotland James the First of England. It does have precursors in Queen Elizabeths reign. This is a difficult thing to say to Brits who despise him as a an English king , he was in fact a good Scotch king and rather visionary in winning good will for a union of the crowns in Scotland and a settlement model of empire in Ulster and then Virginia and Massachsetts that become the USA. This is a McGill university historians work and opinion if Vlad respects McGill U ( i do). Ulster and much Ulster history is bedeviled by a lack of records , so many things were burned in interminable civil wars. The bed rock for research are good privy council records in London and Edinburgh. But the basis of King james approach is that there has to be a unified ethnically coherent multi class society. A colonial plantation cant be sucessful if a fragile isolated elite tries to rule ethnically different and subject natives the model for English plantations in Tudor Ireland. There are much earlier english plantations in Plantagenet wales etc. But one can start by studying Ulster and Virgina and king James. He subdued and unified Scotland , not an easy task and the model for Ulster and ultimately all the settler societies that include the USA ,Australia ,New Zealand and Canada was a plantation of English speaking Scotch on i think it is the Isle of Skye and as i suppose most know the western isles had often been a norse kingdom , their unity with us was fragile. But the idea was like many zionists ideas that a successful society required the humble and great , not isolated elites and they needed linguistic and cultural cohesion. English is certainly a founding language and culture the old kingdom of Northumbruia extended far into Scotland and Scotland to be recieved migrations from Germany and Norway and Denmark the same as England to be. Anyway the settler societies produced great nations. Colonialism in other sorts of areas depended on force when it was by isolated elites . That is the case in S Rhodesia or Kenya or actually in Australia although Australia ultimately resembles us in America. A reunification of our people would require a change to American historical mythology. Normally when we talk to USA Americans we placate them. But in a serious conversation wed have to explain their undrtstanding of the revolution is false almost as false as Putins historical porridge. For example USA American call king George 3 a tyrant , he was no such thing. Call him a muddy minded blunderer and id agree. The USA Americans make a hero out of Bolingbroke in the reign of Queen Ann factually hes as fatuous absurd and destructive as say Prome Minister Truss. On it goes. Even in WW Two when Britain submitted to the USA , the USA understanding of our constitutions and traditions was cartoonish. Thats true even of Roosevelt FDR. So we need some discussion. Common citizen ship would be much easier to create between Britain Australia and Canada. Australia is a grown up country and should stop being so touchy about the colonial past which embarrasses Canadians not at all. But its a matter of our greater age as a country.
I find your chat immeasurably helpful. Unfortunately, I cannot afford your main channel, I put my limited resources to buying my RUclips channel where I follow you. I hope you are not suffering too much at the moment from your ME.
For being able to financially compensate the damage, crimes, atrocities Russia would need a higher income by being able to export again to Europe. Should we buy again the old commodiries ? No !
Vlad, a couple of things. Firstly, do you think that Putin himself is well briefed on Russia's very real military vulnerability - the fact that its Soviet era stockpile of hardware is near exhausted and its production is limited? The battles that have occurred over the last months have been poorly planned and reckless. They've resulted in the rate of physical attrition escalating. Is this Putin's last stand, militarily, in preparation what Putin hopes will be a pause? Secondly, what do you think that Ukraine seeks out of this peace summit? is it seeking more consensus that Russia must be kicked out militarily? Or is it a platform where Ukraine can shine a light on Russia's barbarism?
Take it from an experienced geologist. Why geologist? Because we know the Donbas, originally a Tartar land, was tranformed by its special geology. Soviets, read Stalin but even before him, discovered iron and coal nearby, the two of the three essential compounds to make steel. Donbas also has lots the third ingredient, limestone in plenty supply. For a geo this correlation is rare in the world and it took almost 2 billion years to make. We know this to a fact so the odds are really bad, but there it is, The Donbas. The Soviets expriopriated the Tartars land and shipped them (the Tartars) to Siberia. Then they brought in mostly ethnic Russians (maybe not that much) to service the mines and smelters. It literally was the core of industrialisation in USSR. But they mined it out! Not much left of the iron but still some business models. Not sure about coal, maybe someone does, as you read this. Limestone is not an issue I think. So Putin is fighting for something else. For sure. Any idea?
More territory, power over more people, the end of freedom in Ukraine, the end of its chances to prosper or befriend his mortal enemy, the West. Can’t have his suppressed Russians seeing the benefits of democracy so close to home. Further: a glorious forever place in future RU history books for a greedy little man who had everything, but wanted more, plus the coveted situation where the weak and crumbling West treats him with the proper fear and respect (a changed world order).
@24:15 or so: "without a nuclear war... to tip the West over". Do you really think he thinks its possible to destroy the West without destroying the world? I hadn't really thought about this before. During this conflict, even when it might be momentarily satisfying to think of it ending with something like a partially successful Prigozhin coup, the danger of Russian factions nuking each other, or the old Soviet arsenal being bought or raided by who knows who in the confusion was pretty scary. So the idea that Russian could win by an internal collapse of the West - that all of the NATO powers could fall into and beyond the sort of chaos that Russia is dancing on now - without anything unfortunate happening to our nuclear arsenals is just crazy. Even if we did turn into a bunch of little Orbans squabbling with each other, that would only create the a nuclear situation even more dangerous than the Cold War. Even if, as Putin believes, the West lacks resolve, why does he think that would make us fade out peacefully? The opposite of resolve is not calmness. The opposite of resolve is panic, and panic is the state in which nuclear buttons are pushed.
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Thank you, Vlad.Apparently Putin has as much understanding of the U.S. as we do of Russia. Time does not seem to be on his side and after the election cycles are over, maybe the west will decide on a public definition of Ukrainian victory.Do you think the threat of a Russian breakup ( or chaotic transformation) more potent than the nuclear threat.( as experienced in Iraq)?
Looking forward to your next videos.Take care♥🌻
Hey, Perun gave you a shoutout on his channel, talking about Shiogu. You guys are great with your analyses! 👍Take care and get well soon.
@@williamyoung9401 thank you we are very fond of each other’s work on here!
Slava Ukraini
Vlad, i dont understand one point. You are talking basically about how inconsistent putin and his regime is with their victorious narrative and at the same time crying, and how this inconsistency can have wider political impact especially among hardliners.
BUT. Are there any hardliners really? Girkin, Prigozhin, Surovikin, Popov... where are they now? Are there any hardliners with some power left and if so, couldnt they be removed from the picture as the ones mentioned? Because people like solovyov etc... have no real agency, they just talk what they are instructed to tell, to test the public, they are never going to really criticise russian government no matter what happens.
So it appears to me, that there is this hardline rhetoric prominent in russian public, but it is essentially just just very unnatural, shallow and formal if you will. And this can be changed anytime with propaganda if needed. So those "hardliners" are just somehow people in kind of "prepare" stage all manufactured by regime (at least at this point), and can be turned back off if necessary by propaganda. It is like formally changing flag in a country, or wearing different uniforms, but people are still the same, it is more superficial posturing than actual belief system. And it seems like (at least from here afar) that the regime is well aware of not crossing the line and watching the true hardliners (those with some power and who truly believe in this rhetoric) to keep them in line, and the ones crossing the line are being dealt with rather swiftly.
Withdraw back to your internationally recognised borders and the fighting stops immediately. No delay of 2-3 months.
We call for non-interference too. Non-interference from Moscow. Interference from Moscow is totally unwelcome in any European country.
Vlad is a realist and the one in the Kremlin as well.
So you should stop dreaming
Amen
Forget that. Russians will pay through their nose for generations for this.
European countries are already conquered by the US.
The fighting would stop but that would not stop the war.
100% Every time russia does poorly on the battlefield.... they start the nuclear blackmail. 47 times now or something. Fool me once...
That's how I read the nuclear threats. If they are talking about nukes, it means they are hurting badly.
Bush II: "... you can't get fooled again!"
Losing? What are you talking about?
@@kyletittertoncriminally under appreciated
Putin has been threatening the world with nuclear armageddon since 2008.
Putin, as ever, tries to play the aggrieved victim ... as if it wasn't Russia who has twice invaded Ukraine and therefore shouldn't be now be facing consequential attacks on weapon systems and economic targets inside Russia itself. Moreover, Putin could (I suppose) give weapon systems to the likes of Hezbollah (for them to attack Western targets), but which *actual national governments* does he imagine would be willing to use Russian weapons to attack Western targets? I strongly doubt there'd be any takers, because not many regimes have a death wish. It's all just more Putin bluster.
Mind you I am not sure he has the weapons to spare.
Yeah, if he gives them to Cuba, for example, and Cuba fires at Miami (looking at the missile crisis). The U.S. would just topple the regime there. You think Cuba, Venezuela, or Iran would seriously take the fall for Putin? Even if it did turn into a prolonged conflict, those countries would inevitably lose on the battlefield and politically
Yeah, he's very good at propaganda. He even managed to poison both the USA and Europe. However, his bullshit lost its weight once he attacked Ukraine. Sales of Russian military equipment basically stopped overnight. Nobody wants to buy that shit anymore.
@@dannylojkovic5205 I don't think anybody wants to topple Cuba. Russia is not the USSR, Russia is not even a socialist country with a Communist belief system anymore. Russia is just scrambling for propaganda wins, because propaganda is what Putin knows best.
I could see Iran happily take nukes or new delivery systems and NK taking hypersonic tech. That is possibly what he means.
Nothing would threaten autocratic Russia (no matter who is in charge) more than a free, democratic and prosperous Ukraine, sitting right on Russia's borders as an example of what is possible.
Yes! Agreed!
That was the motive Anne Applebaum (Russia historian) gave for the 'SMO', that and Putin's imperial ambitions and possibly legacy creation. She said that the bluster about NATO expansion was simply that, just bluster, to discombobulate and wrong-foot the West. AFAIR. The interview is still up there on RUclips, AFAIK.
I guess it would feel like a 16 hour speech for all of us.
Could you convert that into Trump hours?
Andreas, 30-90 seconds then it's time to rant again for that ex-president. He's proven his focus ability is weak, to say the least.
I struggle with 10 minute YT videos. Imagine me sitting in front of Mr Putin in the front row, and having to stay awake, an not look arrestable for three hours. And trying not to roll my eyes, even for a bit.
I can't imagine listening to Putin for more than 10 minutes. So big thanks to Vlad.
@@AndreasDelleske Trump is not to be dicked with. He's smart and decisive and his plan for Putin remains a mystery.
Putin looks worried, probably from constantly watching his own back.
He might go berserk and end us all with him
We love you Vlad , your health is more important than any of us
Thank you! Sorry that 20% of this video was a bit incoherent and too slow. Just dealing with some physical symptoms. So kind of you to say this.
@@VladVexlerChat Aww, don't be so hard on yourself. I know chronic health issues are frustrating, but remember that you deserve kindness, especially from yourself.
I agree. I've watched your last couple of videos with concern, Vlad, as I can see in you symptoms I had when my ME was much more of an issue than it is now. Please don't push yourself to get content out. Your long term health is far more important.
From my personal experience of dealing with mobsters in the 1990-s. Any mobster, however powerful always remembers that there is the power above him. I think, it is subconsciousness feature. Mobster may not even acknowledge it, but they always operate in the context where there is the power they must avoid and trick, but nevertheless respect. Putin as a typical thug has the same feature. He REPORTS to superior powers and pleads to them despite his position. That is his ultimate weakness. He needs to make "a good picture" for his imaginary superiors, he needs to trick them, he needs to escape from their grasp, he needs to have plausible legend, and "his people" in power who can help him to escape prosecution. He is not self-sufficient and not self-reliant leader. He is con artist who always has to afraid of a proper detective and policeman who chase him.
This sounds plausible. One contrast I noticed with Putin and Navalny was that Navalny was always relaxed and very comfortable in his own skin, whereas Putin, even in his $10,000 suits and handmade shoes, always looks self-conscious and awkward despite his power.
Brilliant!
1 dog year is approximately 5 years for a person. 3 hours of putin rambling is 25 years to a normal person. Thank you for your service. 🫡
Hee hee!
Sorry I'm just realizing, when you leave your dog at home to go to work. That's like leaving them for a week! Oh the good bois!
I may be wrong, but isn't it 7?
1 human year is 7 dog years although the maths is really more complicated, they reach 24 human years in the first 2 years and then age more slowly at 5 dog years /human year but faster for larger dogs. But we haven't bothered to research how they perceive time.
Your health is paramount dude. Best wishes to you.
Thank you dear Neil!
Putin to the West: "Comrades, I have an idea you westies would like. Let's toss a coin to solve this!; HEADS I win, TAILS you lose."
You are invading to Ukraine not against us that is the first thing you need to understand.
Putin lost his mind years ago contemplating the unfair way Russia couldn't dominate the world without doing anything to make it better. True there are issues with many things. If he was a better leader not scared of a free economy Russia would be powerful economically he could be retired and partying around on a super yacht and average Russians would have better lifestyles.
The Russian people failed him in making an economy and he hates them. Hitler said something similar about the German people as his war failed, as in, they deserve what they get for failing me.
This makes me genuinely angry on a regular basis.
And it's the same way I get angry about the Koreas. Just think of all of the prosperity and happiness -- worldwide prosperity and happiness -- wrought by democratic values and open society in a place like South Korea. LG. Samsung. Hyundai. Kia. And yes, K-pop, Starcraft tournaments, and KBBQ. Of course I can't do it justice. These things, and many other things from South Korea, have made the world a better place. I hate Kim. I hate Kim so much not just for depriving his own people (of course this is the most important thing), but for depriving the entire world of another country like South Korea or, alternatively, a twice-as-large South Korea (I prefer the latter, and may it come to be some day).
But the difference made, worldwide, by turning North Korea into South Korea pales in comparison to what would happen if Russia became a prosperous and democratic country like its European neighbors.
What a gigantic, pointless, fatuous, ignorant, contemptible waste. Putin is not the only one to blame, but he's the one whose face pops into my head when I grit my teeth.
Absolutely 100% this.
@@jaarneal Liked simply for including starcraft tournaments in their cultural exports haha.
Spent so many late nights when I should have studied watching them play.
YEAH "dominating the world without doing anything to make it better" is Am3ric4s job.
Glad to see you post, however infrequent.
Engaging in a political debate with Putin is like having a conversation with an Alzheimer’s sufferer. When he says “end the war” he means “let me win”, because he has no frame of reference for Russia loosing. He knows Russia has a weak hand, but he’s a strong man, so it’s just a matter of to what degree he (Russia) has won.
The best advice here is don’t play. To engage in this nonsense is to lose, then you’re only haggling about the degree to which you’ve lost. Taking a tangental lesson from history, when a coalition of nations took Crimea off the Russian Empire not to save Ukraine or Crimea, but to save Romania and Bulgaria (not for their own sakes, but to stop Russia ruling them). That is the kind of negotiation we need to stop this war.
The West has taken Russia’s trade away. What they are left with isn’t going to sustain them without an eventual coup. That Putin is wasting 3 hours of everyone’s time talking to international journalists is because he needs this war to end so Russia can have their trade back. We need to be clear that the price for this is a return to the borders of Russian, Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia as re-established after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. That should be the price. If Putin is such a student of history he should know the last Tsar to turn down such a deal, drank some bad Russian water and died in his own lands, with his successor making peace for the offered terms immediately.
Moldavia too! Evacuate the occupation force from Transdinistra!
According to one Russian economist, he is committing economic suicide (and, in fact, is past the point of no return), so surely he is going to make a move he did not plan for?
@@NexPutax yes, sorry this list was improvised, but it occurred to me if we make it more than just about Ukraine is to make it clear you can’t concede on Ukraine, get your money back and move onto the next victim.
Enters, feeds the algorithm, leaves.
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Thanks Vlad - please prioritise your health. Excellent analysis. Yes, sounds like Putin admitted that Ukraine could hold off Moscow's forces for months even without Western supplies. Putin implicitly conceded that Moscow is fighting Ukraine (not the West) but is not winning. In the absence of a clear common Western strategy, the next best approach is strong support for Ukraine. Putin's prejudices and motivations blind him to the real, complex political position in Ukraine and the West, and to the actual potential for Putin to exploit that if he were to follow a different more subtle strategy. (although Putin pressed an effective comment button about Trump). But Putin will know that, once he starts the politicisation in Moscow's territories, he will not be able to stop it or reverse it. Also, Putin's threats to take assymetric escalation steps pose a risk to him, of potentially turning more countries against Russia (for example, see bluster on Solovyov's show about possible action to drag in countries in Africa such as Namibia).
Well said.
Sounds like pootie had a major toddler tantrum, a real hissy fit.
Russians should beg Ukraine to let them leave and they should pay for all of the damage caused.
Should. However, we live in a time when political ethics are not on the upswing. Especially with “geopoliticians” of the Dugin or Putin type, who see the world only in terms of domination.
Ukraine should beg the US to allow them to end the conflict with diplomacy and not war, and demand reparations from them for overthrowing their democratically elected government and the decade long civil war their meddling caused.
@@mojojojo1529I'm surprised a clown like you agrees Ukraine exists.
Of course the likes of you talk about democracy when convenient. Russian empire ended due to revolution. "Legitimate" government was removed back then too. Are you gonna b***h about how unfair it was?
Believe or not, North Korea also has a "democratically" elected leader. It all depends how delusional you are and how many fantasies you're eager to believe.
Ukraine revolution happened because people got tired being a mere buffer zone of Russia.
Putin wouldn't put Ukraine's existence under question if it remained Russia's loyal dog like Belarus.
Conveniently, not being buddies with Russia always transforms you into a "genocide loving Nazi" who's controlled by west. Free will is alien for Russians.
@@mojojojo1529Deal with it vlad, Ukrainians are done with Russia.
@@flack3 Mom! Come quick! I found someone on the internet who speaks in the name of all Ukrainians!
Putin either doesn't understand the West at all, but he believes his irrational explanation or this is a Byzantine word salad which makes sense to his consistencies.
Doesn't make sense at any level to me even when I try to accept his sketchy assumptions.
Bizarro.
It only makes sense if you consider him a psychopath surrounded by demons and imagined enemies. After all, Russian history is a harsh and brutal culture in a dark and brooding endless expanse. In a train in Moscow, nobody smiles. It's considered weird.
narcissists and their subset psychopaths just say stuff, sometime true its mostly said for effect, but they have to know their audience for truth or lies to work, he is in a shadow bubble of spooky agency seeking chaos, he thinks he can surf it like he was kgb trained to do, all this will destroy the empire
That old saying "he's blowing smoke" applies to Putin. His "nuke'm" angle hasn't changed anything, so "arming a nebulous someone" is trying a slightly different tactic with roughly the same results.
Thinking of just how Russia could supply any country is a futile idea. They don't have the materiel for their own.
The simple fact that Russia is pushing any "western countries" toward a freeze is barbaric.
That requires the Ukranian people to allow torture and worse on their own people in the occupied areas.
Shortest answer, no.
But he, China and Iran pay criminals (gangsters) to commit terrorist crimes in their respective Western countries. If that accelerates havoc can be wreaked.
Putin can/will commit a thousand other crimes to drive the west crazy before going nuclear. Cooking him a degree at a time is perhaps the best approach to avoid Putin committing greater crimes.
Sending you big hugs Vlad. I appreciate hearing your voice of sanity in this ocean of Russian chaos.
Thanks so much
Russian chauvinism can fill the void of fascism. Or at least make them act in a certain predictable way..
I think the line between national chauvinism and jingoism on the one hand, and fascism on the other is pretty thin.
Hope you feel better sooon.
The Wests timid response and endless delays are allowing Putin to even raise these arguments. The weakness of the West can win.made Putin calculate that
Just mentioned this but my comment was deleted? If western weapons were allowed on day 1, there would be no argument now. Weakness always loses.
Considering how puny and pathetic that pigmy putler is, its doubtful that even EU could lose to the kremlin manlet.
Huh?
@@sadjaxx He is saying that if we haven't been tying Ukraine's arms behind their backs and or even got some balls and litterally helped ukraine push Russia back out, this war would have been over in a matter of a few months or possible as little as a few weeks. Entire cities would have been saved and all the war crimes Russia has since committed would never have happened. The West is weak, like a parent who can't stand up to a spoiled brat of an abusive child and say NO! . The world leaders in the West need to grow a pair and tell Russia where they can shove it. France seems to be the only western country that is beginning to grow a pair.
Then you have the baltic country that plays neutrality games for which would be among the first that would beg us to come save them while they sat there and let Russia take Ukraine .. They need to grow a pair because neutrality isn't going to help them if Russia come knocking on their door after having not gotten directly involved., All of those baltic states should be in Ukraine fighting Russia.
It is too bad Ukraine doesn't have vast oil fields and reserves like Kuwait did.. If they did, everyone would have been in this to whoop Russia's ass right out of Ukraine... Those stalled collumns in at the start of the war would have all been just decimated as were the Iraqi columns leading out of Kuwait.. We would have ended this war right quick..
@@scotthammond3230But in the long term what would a quick defeat achieve?
Putin's negative view of the west sounds like speech by Goebbels.
But he has beaten the Big Lie into the ground. Nobody believes him, he whips around daily day 1-black is white day 2-black is black, day 3-white is black, day 4 russia is beating NATO, day 5-russia would never fight NATO.
Both are antimodern and against ideals of 18th century enlightenment, especially democracy, which both think doesn’t work. It is a shame that in the 21st century we’ve come to see this line of politics. Vlad is right that the old international order is death, similarly as it died in the 1930s, at that time institutions of international cooperation and alliances proved to be weak, as the great powers resigned to maintaining them and so the France and Britain handed over Czechoslovakian borderlands to Hitler, naively hoping that it would appease him and further war would be averted, but it couldn't be, given the nature of Hitler’s regime. Unfortunately this situation seems somewhat similar, it is still better than in 1938, there is some support for Ukraine unlike for Czechoslovakia in the past, but the reasoning of a peace treaty with an expansionist lunatic, that won’t abide any such international treaties and only responds to a show of military power is unfortunately all too similar and much too prevalent in european politics of today. Well at least don’t vote for candidates that have similar appeasement rhetoric today and tomorrow in the elections to EU parliament.
It's unhinged for sure. A representation of what he sees inside his head. A fantasy world of universal threat.
Why, do you have a positive view of the west?
German also proclaimed they where the ones being attacked. And that they are just acting in self defence etc. Putlers great frustration is that NATO is preventing him from picking Europe apart one by one. And he is scared that jumping to the total war phase straight away might be suicide.
Interesting the remark about Zelensky too... Hitler was doing that too all the time. He would constantly reduce a whole country to its leader. He believed he could flip a whole country by visiting its leader, or sending a gift, etc. Poutin can't for the life of him imagine that Zelensky is only a representative of the Ukrainiens...he really can't, I think he does not do it purposefully...he really cant
This is one of your best analyses, in my view. Thanks.
Ukraine needs to be seen as a nation at war not a country fighting for democracy. This is something I think Ukrainians understand, but, because the war is not touching us (the west), it is still seen as all about democracy. Democracy is a rather imperfect hook to hang everything on in times of war. Maybe this is what is meant when people describe Ukraine as fighting with one hand tied behind its back. I do not want Russia to prevail, but their political system is geared up for conquest. Ukraine is a sovereign nation. #istandwithukraine
I think we can all agree,
Putin needs brain surgery.
With an ice pick.
Along with his whole staff
The kind you don't recover from.
Today I am too distracted by listening to you to think of a comment. On with the video!
That Putin thinks that the west will "get rid of Zelensky" reveals a mindset so distorted that he needs to be watched by his food taster.
@AstroGremlinAmerican
Perfectly rational for a wannabe thinking in the mix of 19th century pop politics and 20 century KGB conspiracy hunting.
He's behaving like a 4x videogame strategy player, and is unable to behave in any other way.
The problem is that Putin doesn't understand the Mythos of Ukraine. He doesn't understand that Ukraine has always fought for its independence. That never really stopped. The people fighting for Ukraine may not have been powerful enough to overcome the outside forces, but the spirit was always there, no matter how much the Polish, Soviet, Russian, etc forces tried to break it.
Primarily Putin doesn't understand that if he ever occupied Ukraine with the current world order, it would be much more costly than even the war that he's uselessly prosecuted. Yes, Ukraine became a part of USSR, but those were not conditions that exist today. He would have to go full Stalin and he's still have opposition, same as Stalin did. Ukrainian people are used to fighting for their land, this is far from the first time
He believes that most people can be bought. For the rest there is instilling total fear through merciless violence, murder and torture. So far it has worked perfectly in the Russian world. But I agree that he in some ways is totally out of touch with reality. He’s like a stuffy old fossil from from the ancient past. What Kabaeva sees in him is a mystery.
It has not worked perfectly, but he's basically scared everyone who would object. He basically wants to be Stalin, but this is the wrong time in history and he doesn't have the giant balls or the mustache. He basically decided to run Russia into the ground. The country was doing OK, but the insecure little man in charge wanted to be "great". I feel sorry for all the Russians, but it's too late. Almost everyone is complicit in this crime. The people who aren't are either just keeping their heads down or are already in a gulag. There will be no revolution, Putin's security forces are too good. The balding Caligula basically signed a death warrant for his own country
P.S. Sorry for saying "basically" 100 times...
@@petra1201 You're thinking with western sensibilities there. The way Russian thinking goes is very much different from what you've said here. This is a fight between old and new per se, but not in the way you can understand
@@AlekseyVitebskiy Who gives a shit? Russia is the same as it ever was. It will end in another predictable self-immolation, because Putin wishes he was 6'2.
Russia can't afford to have enough troops to occupy the whole of Ukraine. Never mind the constant resistance they would encounter
How many innocents will have to be lost in Ukraine or even threaten all over the world as the case very much have evolve to, before the demise of a thuggish regime?
Partly that depends on how much we do to push Putin back.
@@VladVexlerChat As you say, arm Ukraine properly, not halfheartedly. Don't be like Belgium and commit to deliver F-16s, but point out that a new government after the election might have different ideas - and oh by the way, they can only be used within Ukraine.
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Politely disagree about the west wanting to freeze the conflict. Seems more the west wants to bleed Russia slowly dry of being able to perform such a war again for the next generation or maybe two…by not letting Ukraine lose (which is NOT Ukraine being able to win necessarily)
Maybe the West is on the path to a modern VE Day.
Brilliant dissemination of the situation Vlad.
Thank you!
_Rather funny watching his play of "vranyo" while the others were taking notes._
Sometimes you look like you could be Marshall Mather's well adjusted brother.
hahahahahah what the fuck is this comment i did not expect this.
Ha ha
I wish that a journalist said to Putin that he promised not to do invade Ukraine, days before he did. His words are meaningless
I sense more and more doubt and low morale on both sides. And yet here we are. Almost 2 years and a half later and Ukraine didn't fall. Ukraine will not fall! The real attrition war starts now therefore it is now that the support should have a more vigorous second wave.
thank you for your service!
Putin probably could have at least held off Western permission to attack inside Russia if he hadn't launched Kharkiv invasion 2. Some hawkish countries like UK probably would have still given permisssion but US would be less likley and they provide a lot more than the Hawkish countires in absolute terms.
I made a similar point in my comment today here to this segment! He's shot himself in the foot, IMO. Edit: Error, i made my comment to a segment by Scott Lucas on the (London) Times channel of today, 9th June '24.
Putin is the cinema screen on which he projects his version of reality, he loves being the centre of attention and in his world he is the mighty fulcrum of power. When people stop paying attention or lose interest in the film the cinema closes down and Putin is reduced to criminality. Thank you for your insights and I wish you better health.
Putin argues 'historic inevitability', hardly surprising, given his education and training he probably was a gullible Marxist-Leninist when he started his career in KGB School in Leningrad early eighties. He's forgotten Stalin's lesson from 1949, when USSR boycotted UN Security Council over non-recognition of PRC, and so missed the vote to repel invasion of South Korea by North Korea, and failed to sabotage the UN (US) response. He made sure that even as West 'degraded' USSR always enforced it's UNSC veto power, when desired. Example of democratic 'flexibility' of response versus trust in 'historic inevitability'.
I wish I could find a version of the interview without voiceover or dubbing but with English subtitles. I can understand a lot of the words that Putin speaks, but I don't understand what he's saying without subtitles. No luck so far in finding such a recording.
Is it possible that Putin's biggest problem of fascistizing his society is himself - his inability to give them a clear 'vision' (as putting russian flags into piles of dust might be attractive for him, but it is not for anyone else). I was very worried about the rise of a new totalitarian state on the borders of Europe, but my feeling is this does not happen fast enough, as his ability to turn his people into 'ants' (I use this in a way insulting phrase here for a reason) does not work, and my hypothesis so far is that he simply lacks the oratory, rousing speech skills other totalitarian leaders 90 years ago so clearly had. The more I look at Putin, the more I think holding speeches is actually painful for him, or awkward, as he comes up with his strange 'pick-your-piece' historical examples that are usually wrong, out of context or so obscure that hardly anyone understand what Putin wants to say here, and why he brought that up. He is completely 'un-entertaining' unlike H/tler, Mussol/n/ or Mao, even Stalin was a better orator.
So why do you think Putin is so according to my observation unsuccessful (in spite of full media control) ? Are the russians so jaded that they simply don't care about his message anymore ?
Thank you for your wonderful sharp humor. It helps greatly with this unpleasant subject.
Hahaha putin thinks we love Russian exports
Yes, all those iconic and innovative Russian non-energy businesses that are popular around the globe
It seems at least somewhat noteworthy to me that Putin does not have the same sort of bitter complaints regarding Western weapons striking Crimea and the "annexed" regions of Ukraine. It's as if he's acknowledging that those territories aren't Russia.
why is the press even doing a conference with a bloody mass-murderer?? every word from this warcriminal and gangster is worthless
Oh, how cute. Putin is talking about arming the Trump MAGA stormtroopers. What a delightful escalation. So very Russian of him.
Where did you get that? Confused statement. Little leftist biased are ?
Don't apologise for the issues relating to your health. I am extremely grateful for your contribution to my education on the subject. Good luck with your health Vlad.
It's bizarre to see the dear leader proclaiming so loudly that karma is not real
Thank you Vlad for decoding Putin´s long hours bla bla. Get well soon!!!
People like Putin often seem to fall into the trap of forgetting that they are but one mind trying to outsmart and prevail over the collected brainpower of much of the world. Not a good betting hand.
Quod licet Jovi et non licet bovi. What is allowed to Jupiter is not allowed to the oxen. Here is the answer Russia, because the West has the power to do so, and the power to retaliate if anyone else would try the same on us.
Ah I see this is the pro Ukraine side of the internet.... have fun. Going back to non partisan ship.
3.5 hour speech is a lot of spoons. Thank you for doing this show.
You dont owe us anything bud, appreciate your thoughts whenever you can share them but look after yourself first and foremost :)
9:20 "Could Putin have avoided giving this permission to Ukraine given how reluctant the West was to give it..."
I doubt it, since I think that reluctance on the part of the West is largely performative. By restraining Ukraine's strikes in Russian territory, the West mitigates against Putin's narrative attempting to depict Ukraine as a proxy in a purported NATO campaign of aggression. The policy also serves an escalation management function. I think the recent relaxing of the policy was at least partly done out of necessity, given the dire situation of the thinly-stretched defenders on the long line of contact, and perhaps partly done according to a theoretical schedule with respect to the US elections.
Once again thank you Vlad. Pure gold insights are your speciality.
Thinking of you, I hope you are feeling better soon . Onwards and upwards.
I propose Ukraine is allowed to go as far into Russias border, as Russia goes into Ukraine border. The west can’t afford to fight this war to sharp Putin will permit. And every time he even threatens nuclear war his inner circle are made to feel our “ detergents”.
What worries me is, given the pattern of latest events in France, the threat of "assymetry" may mean terrorist-type attacks.
I hope you recover soon and that you will be able to enjoy the summer!
I follow the people counting Russian equipment stocks.
Its clear Russia has 1- 1+1/2 year left of soviet equipment. Then it gone allmost all of it.
So I take it a slow panik is starting to set in, in Russia by those who are in the know.
I LOVE the eye twitch at ruclips.net/video/L3Iowz8czds/видео.html "Where's your response, Mr Weak President???" pure genius. Love you Vlad!!
Putin's interview translation:
Putin:"As dumb as this table" = Wow, you're smarter then me
Putin:"We are not gona attack NATO" = We are planning a major strike
Putin:"The west are Imperialists" = Long live the Ruzzian Empire!
❤❤❤❤Thanks for another great talk Vlad!
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Cmon Vlad dont be sry 4 'slow service'. You are doing as much as you can and already you are giving us way more content than i would ever expect. I somehow think that you are putting more content on this channel these days than usual. Im sad 2 hear about your heatlh, but the fact that im writing this comment on your NEW video that's been less than 2 hours online, makes me happy :). Thank you so much 4 what you are doing! And BTW if u get more rest, you will be FASTER AND MORE COHERENT as u like 2 say about yourself ;P. So no hurry, you know yourself and you will give us your thoughts when and if you feel fine and rdy 4 that. Much love
Asymmetrical = sabotage
Was this a news conference or a lecture? My question to you is: Do you recognize any of reporters seated at the table? Putin sits there lecturing. "There is no need to create an image of Russia as an enemy." "Such a threat does not exist and it cannot exist." This is so Staged. A un-intimidated Journalist, after being accused of being dumb, would at least 'play dumb', interrupt, and ask a 'dumb' question. Like: I get cha. Just to clarify. "You don't want to attack NATO. You want to attack Poland and/or the Baltic States." Ah my bad. Thank you for this report.
Interesting...hitler would always blame his failures on the poorness of "nazification" of either his generals, his soldiers, the civilians, the justice system, etc etc etc. It was an obsessive leitmotive for him.
The young cadets were in the gym practicing for Canada Day. And they ll put on quite a show. Just maybe some will be soldiers.
Last year my heart jumped when i heard their band play the old national anthem. Which actually dont think is usable. But what a joy to hear and see these young men and women honoring that old symbol.
It starts " in days of yore from Britains shore wolf the conquering hero came" a reference to the annus mirabilous that closed the glorious reign of King George the Second: the conquest of Bengal and Canada the humiliation of France. And hes our last king to ride into battle although Lincoln and Roosevelt visited battle fields. And he the last king to rule over the whole English speaking people before the secession of the United States.
The next verses celebrate our war with tbe USA to maintain independence at great cost. It was heroic. And the war of 1812 was the last stand of eastern natives efforts at sovereignty resistence. They were allies with purposes of their own. Tecumseh was like Pontiac the great war chief of a confederacy that fought AGAINST us in tbe seven years war. On bad British advice Tecumseh the war chief in the 1812 war fought a pitched battle with the Americans on the Thames River and lost. Thats the end of a native army that could sustain soveriegnty. Abuse followed from even us the British North Americans.
But I loved this old national anthem with its reference to triumph and victory and war and it so well represented the ferocity and courage of Canada. We will fight alone if we have to. No one should have any doubts about our pride and courage. Putin and Xi are fools.
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Sw Ontario S of London , ie London ontario. Tecumseh confederation had a village at Prophets town in Indiana. Like pontiacs confederation of indepemdent varied native peoole included a phophet theres sort of a dual leadership. And one needs the thoughtful quasi spiritual leader along side a pragmatic war chief. Thats universal. Sitting Bull is a similar figure in the west. But he was ALSO a medicine man although there was a prophetic leader in the Rockies.
I spoke of the St Lucian Poet ( which is a vocation like a phrophet or a medicine man ) He deals with our history especially our old Empire in a very moving epic poem mysterious. "Omeroos". And the spirit of the poet drifts back to Homer and troy. He actually recounts somewhat acurately the story of a white advisor ( a wonsnz) to sitting bull and warned of the debacle after the gost dancing and the suezure of the black hills. Many of the figures in his poems are ww 2 veterans who morph into ancient historical figure and resl figures in current time too. One of the Greek Heros is also just a black fishermsn on the wine dark Carribean.
This tv drama on Jamestown will mislead. The native societies esp algonkian ones were drmocracies status was earned. Sitting on a throne and issuing orders to slaves is a European or Hungarian concrpt. Thats not what America was like even the aristocratic societoes on the pacific coast weren t like that. And the natives ideas of democracies esp changed the french the couurier de biois who traded and lived among them. New England is different. Its a big history. Canadians by the way always stole and implemented good ideas esp from the USA . We fought a war to be free independent of the USA in 1812. But immediately after about 1815 we began to discard English style local government for New England style locsl government. ( which was more democratic). George Washigton the revolutionary was a villain but we csme to use his superb land survey system. We copied Lincolns homestead act. And for better or worse we copued Prussian public education.
Derek Walcott is the poet om refering to. He s dead now , he got an award for poetry at Queen Elizabeths Golden Jubilee. Hes good. Ameticans know him too.
Nice analysis Vlad. Thanks for the sacrifice of listening to P's ramblings!
poots has a great deal to say about the west, and i think thats because he is a tory. speaks like a tory. acts like a tory. his behavious is similar to many ppl here in the west, in uk and usa in particular, hes basically a westerner stuck in russia, because hed fit right in with any tory group here. and more ppl need to see it. hes just a tory.
He really is very Western
Excellent and considered assessment of the Putin position and intentions! Well thought out, thank you.
"Hello, Biden? Its Zelenski, I need 5 millions rockets............."
I only watched a few highlights of the Putin presser and his abuse of historical facts made me cringe so much that it was painful. I do not know how Vlad managed to get through the whole thing.
Your view of Putin's ideology? Bring it!! You give some, maybe a lot, here and in other segments, but I'm looking forward to the fleshed out version.
7:07 he's talking about nuclear weaponization of russian puppets, and he already done it with belarus.
*450,000 RUSSIAN CASUALTIES* seems to be the general estimate of d34d and wounded. 23 million 18 to 44 year olds
This is becoming an economically significant % of the productive population of Russia, its > 2% and the wounded will likely require life long support. So economically this has likely cost Russia 5% of GDP for the next 40 years.
Russia will not pay for life support very long.
Good talk today. I suppose I agree with the little twit that the West is declining, but he's declining faster.
Write the security guarantees for ruZZia on the back of the Budapest agreement pages they signed for Ukraine.
I appreciate your valuable insights and I know I'm not alone in this. Like yourself, I too have tricky health. I'm praying everyday for your well-being as well as all the people who suffer in War (and in Peace too, for what it's worth). Let's together hope for less of the former and a greater time collectively of the latter. 🙏✌️☮️
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Good to see you Sage, thanks for the wisdom and insight
I'm Czech, I don't really know what Russians think about Putin, but all Ukrainians, I've met, absolutely hate him.. I live in Ireland, I work in McDonald's, when I play Putin Huilo song on public speakers, Ukrainian girls working there absolutely love it, Irish people kind of ignore it..but Ukrainian refugees are everywhere, due to Putin's war....and they shape our opinions...due to refugees, Putin's Russia has more enemies... his policy is based on war an conquest of territory... He didn't allow Chechnya to be independent, mess up with Georgia, Ukraine, what's the future of Russia, Nemtsov, Navalny, are dead because of Putin...
Thanks
Thank you!
Vlad, could you bring something about Patrushev? I'm curious what happened to him ...
Konstantin Samoilov (Inside Russia) mentioned that Patruchev has been given a position of 'shipbuilding advisor' that had been given to one of Stalin's early butchers before/while that guy was beaten to death when Stalin decided to get rid of him. I'm curious if there are parallels here.
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You’re wasting too much energy analyzing a deconstructing lil’ Putsie! It’s all BSery and pointless babble as though he has control of anything. Putsie blathers on with same crappery as always. He’s done.
I suppose its obvious to all of us watching Putin and Xi. But there is a relationship between history and nationsl mythology. Political mythogy has to yeild to proven reality but that is not to deny the importance of framing a national narrative. It just cant be all lies all arbitrary as Putin thinks.
We ve talked about the break down of the global order. But vast international systems are always brittle lets not panic. The American order part a before the fall of the USSR and part B after lasted long time. The second British Empire 1776 to 1947 lasted a long time. The first British Empire id say is created by James the Sixth of Scotland James the First of England. It does have precursors in Queen Elizabeths reign. This is a difficult thing to say to Brits who despise him as a an English king , he was in fact a good Scotch king and rather visionary in winning good will for a union of the crowns in Scotland and a settlement model of empire in Ulster and then Virginia and Massachsetts that become the USA. This is a McGill university historians work and opinion if Vlad respects McGill U ( i do). Ulster and much Ulster history is bedeviled by a lack of records , so many things were burned in interminable civil wars. The bed rock for research are good privy council records in London and Edinburgh.
But the basis of King james approach is that there has to be a unified ethnically coherent multi class society. A colonial plantation cant be sucessful if a fragile isolated elite tries to rule ethnically different and subject natives the model for English plantations in Tudor Ireland. There are much earlier english plantations in Plantagenet wales etc. But one can start by studying Ulster and Virgina and king James. He subdued and unified Scotland , not an easy task and the model for Ulster and ultimately all the settler societies that include the USA ,Australia ,New Zealand and Canada was a plantation of English speaking Scotch on i think it is the Isle of Skye and as i suppose most know the western isles had often been a norse kingdom , their unity with us was fragile. But the idea was like many zionists ideas that a successful society required the humble and great , not isolated elites and they needed linguistic and cultural cohesion. English is certainly a founding language and culture the old kingdom of Northumbruia extended far into Scotland and Scotland to be recieved migrations from Germany and Norway and Denmark the same as England to be.
Anyway the settler societies produced great nations. Colonialism in other sorts of areas depended on force when it was by isolated elites . That is the case in S Rhodesia or Kenya or actually in Australia although Australia ultimately resembles us in America.
A reunification of our people would require a change to American historical mythology. Normally when we talk to USA Americans we placate them. But in a serious conversation wed have to explain their undrtstanding of the revolution is false almost as false as Putins historical porridge. For example USA American call king George 3 a tyrant , he was no such thing. Call him a muddy minded blunderer and id agree. The USA Americans make a hero out of Bolingbroke in the reign of Queen Ann factually hes as fatuous absurd and destructive as say Prome Minister Truss. On it goes. Even in WW Two when Britain submitted to the USA , the USA understanding of our constitutions and traditions was cartoonish. Thats true even of Roosevelt FDR. So we need some discussion. Common citizen ship would be much easier to create between Britain Australia and Canada. Australia is a grown up country and should stop being so touchy about the colonial past which embarrasses Canadians not at all. But its a matter of our greater age as a country.
I think by asymmetrical, I think he means a digital attack. Possibly banking, possibly energy grid infrastructure
Thank you for your wonderful work. Be well!
Thank you, Vlad, for listening to the mumbo-jumbo and translating it for us. Take good care. Lots of love 🤗
I find your chat immeasurably helpful. Unfortunately, I cannot afford your main channel, I put my limited resources to buying my RUclips channel where I follow you. I hope you are not suffering too much at the moment from your ME.
For being able to financially compensate the damage, crimes, atrocities Russia would need a higher income by being able to export again to Europe. Should we buy again the old commodiries ? No !
Putin: “If you (the west) abandon Ukraine, we will win.” Uh…duh. Thanks, Putty, for that insight.
You mean how Putler predecessors supplied the north Vietnam against the west...
Vlad, a couple of things. Firstly, do you think that Putin himself is well briefed on Russia's very real military vulnerability - the fact that its Soviet era stockpile of hardware is near exhausted and its production is limited? The battles that have occurred over the last months have been poorly planned and reckless. They've resulted in the rate of physical attrition escalating. Is this Putin's last stand, militarily, in preparation what Putin hopes will be a pause? Secondly, what do you think that Ukraine seeks out of this peace summit? is it seeking more consensus that Russia must be kicked out militarily? Or is it a platform where Ukraine can shine a light on Russia's barbarism?
Take it from an experienced geologist. Why geologist? Because we know the Donbas, originally a Tartar land, was tranformed by its special geology. Soviets, read Stalin but even before him, discovered iron and coal nearby, the two of the three essential compounds to make steel. Donbas also has lots the third ingredient, limestone in plenty supply. For a geo this correlation is rare in the world and it took almost 2 billion years to make. We know this to a fact so the odds are really bad, but there it is, The Donbas. The Soviets expriopriated the Tartars land and shipped them (the Tartars) to Siberia. Then they brought in mostly ethnic Russians (maybe not that much) to service the mines and smelters. It literally was the core of industrialisation in USSR. But they mined it out! Not much left of the iron but still some business models. Not sure about coal, maybe someone does, as you read this. Limestone is not an issue I think. So Putin is fighting for something else. For sure. Any idea?
Your knowledge of history leaves much to be desired.
More territory, power over more people, the end of freedom in Ukraine, the end of its chances to prosper or befriend his mortal enemy, the West. Can’t have his suppressed Russians seeing the benefits of democracy so close to home. Further: a glorious forever place in future RU history books for a greedy little man who had everything, but wanted more, plus the coveted situation where the weak and crumbling West treats him with the proper fear and respect (a changed world order).
probably the neon supplies in mariupol....
@24:15 or so: "without a nuclear war... to tip the West over". Do you really think he thinks its possible to destroy the West without destroying the world? I hadn't really thought about this before. During this conflict, even when it might be momentarily satisfying to think of it ending with something like a partially successful Prigozhin coup, the danger of Russian factions nuking each other, or the old Soviet arsenal being bought or raided by who knows who in the confusion was pretty scary.
So the idea that Russian could win by an internal collapse of the West - that all of the NATO powers could fall into and beyond the sort of chaos that Russia is dancing on now - without anything unfortunate happening to our nuclear arsenals is just crazy. Even if we did turn into a bunch of little Orbans squabbling with each other, that would only create the a nuclear situation even more dangerous than the Cold War. Even if, as Putin believes, the West lacks resolve, why does he think that would make us fade out peacefully? The opposite of resolve is not calmness. The opposite of resolve is panic, and panic is the state in which nuclear buttons are pushed.
There is a video of the main channel called Is Putin plotting a war with NATO where I lay out how I see this.
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