Ep 335: A Deep Dive Into Ukraine vs Russia
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- The war in Ukraine may seem distant -- but it affects us all in a million unseen ways. Ajay Shah joins Amit Varma in episode 335 of The Seen and the Unseen to deliver an in-depth masterclass on exactly what is going on. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Ajay Shah on Twitter and Substack. 2. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 3. In Service of the Republic - Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah. 4. Rising to the China Challenge -- Gautam Bambawale, Vijay Kelkar, Raghunath Mashelkar, Ganesh Natarajan, Ajit Ranade and Ajay Shah. 5. Russia, Ukraine, Foreign Policy - Episode 268 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane and Nitin Pai). 6. Conflict in Ukraine: A timeline (2014 - present) -- Nigel Walker for House of Commons Library. 7. RUSI's commentary on Ukraine. 8. Rand Corporation's archive on the war. 9. Understanding the Russo-Ukranian War: A Guide From War on the Rocks. 10. Foreign Affairs articles on Ukraine, Russia and China. 11. Maps that update every day from Deep State and War Mapper. 12. RUclipsrs to follow on this subject: Perun, Timothy Snyder, Anders Puck Nielsen, The Telegraph, Silicon Curtain and William Spaniel. 13. Wind and solar power generated more electricity in the EU last year than gas did. Here’s how -- Stefan Ellerbeck. 14. Economic stress in Russia -- Ajay Shah. 15. More ammo: Improving resilience against extreme surges in demand -- Ajay Shah. 16. Downstream from the Ukraine war -- Gautam Bambawale and Ajay Shah. 17. Bloodlands -- Timothy Snyder. 18. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine -- Anne Applebaum. 19. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 -- Anne Applebaum. 20. On Tyranny -- Timothy Snyder. 21. What is Populism? -- Jan-Werner Müller. 22. Tyranny in the Post-Truth Universe (2017) -- Amit Varma. 23. Why Both Modi and Trump are Textbook Populists (2017) -- Amit Varma. 24. The End of History? - Francis Fukuyama’s essay. 25. The End of History and the Last Man - Francis Fukuyama’s book. 26. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 27. Arthur Koestler and Boris Pasternak on Amazon. 28. Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2005) -- Vladimir Putin. 29. Requiem -- Anna Akhmatova. 30. Russian court orders closure of country’s oldest human rights group -- Andrew Roth on the ban of Memorial. 31. The Resource Curse. 32. Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Vasily Grossman. 33. Dersu Uzala -- Akira Kurosawa. 34. Servant of the People -- The show in which Volodymyr Zelenskyy starts as the president of Ukraine. 35. Volodymyr Zelenskyy plays the piano with his penis. 36. How Corruption Destroys Armies - Theft, Graft, and Russian failure in Ukraine -- Perun. 37. An excerpt from Wittgenstein's diary -- Parul Sehgal on Twitter. 38. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus -- Ludwig Wittgenstein. 39. The Innovator's Dilemma -- Clayton M Christensen. 40. National Security Strategy of Japan. 41. Suspicious deaths of Russian businesspeople (2022-2023). 42. ‘Stop the war.’ 44 Top Russian Players Publish Open Letter To Putin - Sam Copeland. 43. Alexander Grischuk’s emotional press conference after Russia invaded Ukraine. (Watch from 4:20.) 44. India must detach from Russia -- Renuka Sane. 45. Helping India Replace Russia in the Value Arms Market -- Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach. 46. After Ukraine, Where Will India Buy its Weapons? -- Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach. 47. For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Ernest Hemingway. 48. For Whom the Bell Tolls -- John Donne. 49. Night of the Long Knives. 50. Anton Geraschenko's tweet after the Wagner backdown. 51. Mad Max: Fury Road - George Miller. 52. Max Seddon's tweet about Yevgeny Prigozhin. Check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It’s free! Episode art: ‘War’ by Simahina.
Wow man...I feel like a Russian expert after this 5 hr marathon
As a sidenote, your esteemed Guest pronounced "Bewegungskrieg" very well. Far better than most not versed in German. I can also recommend the Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy for more interesting facts about the deep history of the conflict.
Amazing Ajay is so knowledgeable
Wow !! Amazing intellect
Amazing episode without the propaganda noise that’s impossible to filter through completely. It would be of great value if we can have a similar deep dive into the current Israel- Palestine conflict
Threatening NATO Summits
During the 90s and 00s, the Russian Elites were all hyperventilating to see NATO creep towards the Russian border in 4 tranches. And it was not as if Russia had been defeated and overrun at the end of the Cold War. They had taken an internal decision to step back and opt out of being a military state. And it was in good faith and good faith was expected in return. And good faith was promised as well to allay Russian strategic fears. And then the West started backtracking and cornering Russia.
The facts are all there. The Russian strategists were screaming about it throughout the 90s and 00s. Forget the Russians, all US ambassadors to Russia, like William Burns, all the top US military strategists like George Keenan were warning how dangerous a step that betrayal.. that NATO imperialist advance was going to be. And how Ukraine was the ultimate red line after Gorbachev had been promised that NATO would not advance even an inch. Does that sound like Russia apologists to you? It was a bullying advance which kept advancing relentlessly. On and on. Even at last late step was Russia expected to sit paralyzed and mute??
One must be clear that this war has been Europe's choice! But what choice really.. under American Deep State's unbearable pressures. With the 2014 coup in Ukraine conducted and managed by Victoria Nuland ( her viral video) which was a hugely major tectonic shift.. taking Ukraine out of a Russia-friendly orbit to a West-friendly and hysterically anti-Russia identity. It was a silent revolution.. where suddenly Ukraine turned from Russia's bulwark against aggressive NATO advances into a battering ram for the West to be used against the Russians. Just as the Mujahideen were so helpful for the US in bringing down the Russians in Afghanistan in the 80s. Fighting through a proxy without suffering a scratch.. the best way to fight. Just as the Pakis employ it against India..
High value here!
Helps to build a framework for whats happening.
That was a tour de force by Ajay Shah. Absolutely awesome. Best Seen Unseen episode ever for sure.
It also helps that Amit Verma spoke minimally in this episode :P
Thank you so much for seeing what we see. It’s not just about Ukraine! It’s about large imperial countries taking over small countries who can’t defend themselves.
These imperial empires crash their enemies, bomb agriculture and any energy. To cripple the civilians so they give up. It’s sad. 😢
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Please tell me who illustrated this!
Please invite Anant Patwardhan someday