Wolff Responds: The Russia/Ukraine War - One Year Later
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can't be bothered to address the obvious lies in your video? cat got yer tongue? you claim you will be factual yet then you lie by saying the russian army has steadily advanced and is now occupying more territory than ever before. this is propaganda BS, i will shame you with you an actual factual statement: after initial gains, the russian army was kicked out of major areas around Kharkiv and Kherson last fall and is now occupying MUCH LESS land. why are you lying? or are you just ignorant? then shut up!
Want to put it briefly, we love you sir
Russia has the power to end this war whenever they want to but they choose otherwise.
US has the power to end this war to negotiate it can never get Donbass or Crimea it mistreated and killed its citizens, but it was military planning since the end of the USSR to encroach on Russia and bring it down. Ukraine is being used for that.
No they don't. It is obvious, that they are struggling with pushing into the Ukraine. They are losing weapons and personell en mass. Willingly contuining this makes no sense whatsoever in any aspect.
Putin sez "Right back atcha"! 😊
@@MrChiangching Unless it implies an actual overwhelming strenght of the Ukraine, you'd want for a country in a defensive war to simply surrender... which is silly, considering the inane reasoning of the russian government.
@@dalfokane Better than Zelensky's insane reasoning, he's getting his people killed in an unwinnable war for nothing. 😱
Thank you very much Richard,it's really appreciated and well explained 👍
Dear Richard - we really enjoy you presentations and have learn a lot from you lectures - many greetings from me and 10 other coworkers. Keep up the good work.
Totally agree!!!
How could an acceptable agreement look like? Can or should the ukraine ever accept to lose some of its terretory? Will or can Russia ever accept to give back all the occupied land?
Could you not say the same about the Hungarian and Polish territory in Ukraine? And there was a civil war going on for 8 years in the East, for which no one complained. Except the 'bad' guy.
@@earthman6700 Civil wars don't tend to have fighters trained, funded, armed by, and ideologically espousing the virtue of, another state. Also Putin has publicly stated that he sent Russian military into the "east" in 2014 in public interviews since as early as October 2015. Really, this is the dumbest potential spin here.
@@OGShively I was generalising. Its a Country that had many problems before February 24th. And its geopolitics. And it stinks. It is devisive at a time when Countries should be pulling together. I suspect this saga will hit the West harder than it will hit Russia, China, Asia, Africa and some southern American States. A fools game.
@Shively you talking about USA, yes? Sponsoring clown nazis since 2014, like AL caida and ISIS before
The only acceptable agreement where land was forfeited to Russia, would be ukraines admission into NATO, as otherwise the agreement would only be a temporary halt, which putin would build up to launch his third invasion attempt on Ukraine
Love your content! Love your message! Ty for helping to educate to the unwashed masses like me❤
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Muito obrigada por trazer a verdade. Espero que o povo estadunidense acorde a tempo.
Thank you sir
I am not sure that the GDP for Russia and the GDP for the US measure the economy correctly. For instance, if a Russian family pays the equivalent in dollars of $500/month for housing while the American family pays $2,500, the measured GDP would show the US GDP as five times higher. A bowl of noodles in China costing ¥5 (yuan) is the same as a bowl of noodles in US China town costing $5, but one dollar US buys 3 bowls of noodles in China.
Russia gets a whole lot more output from its money in dollar equivalence, or measurement by GDP, as does China. I suspect that most of American GDP is hollow; thus we have the phrase, 'Paper Tiger'.
You are referring to purchasing power parity. Using PPP, the GDP of China has surpassed that of the US in 2011. But more than this, the economies of Russia and China are based on actual manufacturing and commodities. Those in the US and the collective west are inflated by FIRE - finance, insurance, real estate.
@@PhiloSurfer PPP only goes so far as living expenses for food and shelter, for luxury goods like a Mercedes or a Rolex watch, you’re going to pay full price in dollars or euros. Besides PPP has no effect on Russia’s biggest problem … endemic corruption! As Russian troops invading Ukraine discovered as tires wore out, boots and armored vests were no available. While poor maintenance and logistics doomed what should’ve been a well planned SMO!??
@@JimCOsd55 You are so right.
ruclips.net/video/C4D7Er76KGM/видео.html
@@JimCOsd55 I'm just glad we don't have endemic corruption here at home in the West.
@@JimCOsd55 corrupt as compared to who? Ukraine? The most corrupt country in Europe? It is to laugh. As compared to the US? Can you say F-35? Can you say 2008? You can't kid a kidder.
Let me briefly say it, I love you sir
I support your words.
Great video Richard,finally the truth we don’t hear in the main stream media
Imagine believing this is the truth, when apart from the initial invasion thrust Russia has been pushed progressively backwards. Russian tech/equipment has also been continuously degraded, whilst ukraine continues to get approval for more and more advanced weapons. Literally the only “hope” for Russia is if Russian asset traitors in the US manage to cut off support, but even that won’t stop European support, which amounts to more than half the military aide. Ukraine has also ranked up domestic military equipment production and is not burdened by the sanctions that Russia faces
So lets say the west just lets Putin take what he wants, again. Maybe next year he wants Poland. Just let him take that too? Sometimes you have to stand up.
Rick seems to have a profound grasp of the obvious.
The bald fact is that too few are willing or able to speak that 'obvious' truth. The good professor is rather like a bulldog.
@@tedder130 or stopped lock.
Yes, I agree with you!
GDP is an absurd measure of economic activity.
Ahh Mr.Wolf Clearing the Confusion... thanks once again
Uncommon amount of wisdom and common sense on the part of the Wolff man!!
Thank you, I agree 100% with you.
You mean he's not usually this wise, or people in general aren't usually as wise as the Wolff man?
@@connorocean I mean the former. He mostly peddles far-left political ideology disguised as Economics.
Mr. Wolff I have a question. Do you find any correlations between the failed soviet state and America? One I was thinking about was how both nations invested heavily into the military. I know that was party to blame for the fall of USSR, could America be next?
Seriously Dick Wolff, you think 6 million Ukrainian women and kids fleeing the country suggests that the majority of the 40+ million Ukrainians don't actually support fighting for their country? Would you be more convinced of Ukrainian support for fighting back if Ukrainian put suicide vests on the kids? You're critique of helping Ukraine seems centered in part on the profit motive of the MIC. What if we nationalized the MIC? Would you still be opposed to the US assisting Ukraine?
With inflation, higher gdp?
Great suggestion
Ukraine has officially banned negotiations with Putin, as suggested by their American "allies". This was to make sure that nobody in Ukraine makes decisions, all must be decided in Washington. The same goes for Germany and the North stream.
So you see everything that's happening and conclude that it's American politicians and not Russian artillery that are motivating Ukrainians to arm themselves? I kinda figured that the location of the fighting was a dead giveaway.
oh, thats why Russians said they wont be fixing the neither nord streams?
from the sentence i assume you think Russians are the victims here, right?
@@nescius2 Why would they rebuild the pipeline, the US would just blow it up again..? Am I missing something or are you just dumb?
Thanks
Well said, Prof. Wolff..👌🏿👌🏿
So glad l found you .Thank you so much .x
2,1 -2,2 trillion for Russia. Doesn't change much, but to be precise.
Not that it changes his overall point but he left left out Syria, Yugoslavia, and one could argue Libya from the invasion list.
Don't look at Russia's GDP. Look at the bigger picture and what the money can buy. The same basket of goods that costs 30 USD is 6 USD in Russia right now and there is more variety and better quality of food. No GMO. 😊
An amazing man, heroooooo
Prof. Wolff, your wisdom, and knowledge in this brilliant analysis are clear. I thank you for sharing them.
All he said was war is bad and we need to make a peace deal with a man that can't be trusted to keep any deal.
Not sure what you find so impressive about that.
So, is it safe to say, GDP, how it is measured now, is NOT a relevant metric for economic strength?
I've read analyses that say that the content of GDP is what is important, as to the true economic strength of a country. For instance, inflated attorneys' fees and inflated health care costs are counted as "growth," while the overall de-industrialization is not evaluated. Industrial capacity - making real things (cars, refrigerators, machine tools, steel, et al) and the possession of, and ability to use, natural resources - is the REAL strength of a country's economy, not the empty profiteering of financial sharks.
Russia has a REAL economy. We don't. Russia can go on making artillery shells for decades. We can't. We don't have the industrial capacity any more. And they are meanwhile providing health care, housing and a decent living for everybody in the Russian Federation. THAT is economic strength.
If I pay my neighbor $100 to dig a hole, and he turns around and pays me $100 to fill it in, the GDP has increased $200. What counts is how much of the GDP is accomplishing something useful.
@@ianboard544 Yeah, I always give similar example to people when they start harping about GDP. Even better one is all kind of financial penalties like overdraft fees and fines are going into GDP too. Literally no added value. We really should subtract FIRE elements and most of other services to get a real picture
Of course not, especially when the economies are inflated, based on fake fiat money and have debts higher than their nominal GDPs.
What's the alternative to use?
I will definitely share your video sir! Thank you so much for opening up the curtain to let us see the light 💡!
If you come to lecture in Melbourne pleaseeeeease advertise... I would love to attend...
Sir, I greatly admire you and always listen to your wise words. But I'm requesting that you listen to mine for one minute. I was living in France in 1983 when the nazi Claus Barbie was returned for trial. France spent an intense few months of reviewing how it had done in WWII. I remember the speech of one wise elderly politician who summed up what many had come to realize. France gave up early in that war. They hadn't wanted to loose their beautiful buildings or millions of soldiers or finances. But this man said that was the wrong choice. He suggested that France NEVER NEVER again choose to be owned by another country especially one with vastly different moral standards. There is much more I'd like to say on this topic but I'll leave it there for now.
Can someone post a link to the alternative news on Russia moving westward in Ukraine "more than before"? The news i went through in the past 1.5 years was that Russia went in all the way to Kiev and then was slowly fought back to the Donbask where they are now.
Do not forget the Korean War. It always gets over looked. The forgotten war. About 50 thousand dead Americans are not forgotten.
Wars. There were two Korean wars.
Freezing Russian assets to pay for rebuilding Ukraine doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Wow the way he explains GDP is like his target audience is babies.
We've done that before. Treaty of Versailles. It ended really bad.
@@johnnopeyy4129 oh man Hitler is like 90% of the internet's one and only go to historical reference for every possible situation.
@@mitchellbaker4806 Except it's pretty much identical.
@@johnnopeyy4129 sure, why not.
The hegemonic left's blind cheerleading of this war has been shameful. This is what speaking truth to power sounds like.
Whose ox is gored? Whose hegemony is being threatened? The left is not cheering NATO. It is objecting to Putin's attempt to reconstruct a dead hegemony. The world is as it is NOW. He invaded a smaller neighbir because they threw out his puppet government and replaced it with a different more Western one. Putin might not like it but he shouldn't invade Ukraine just like we should not invaded or embargo Cuba.
What about Yugoslavia and Syria?
Just remember. Money is not a real resource, is not something scarce. It's an accountant unit to keep tabs on debt. The real resources are raw materials, manpower, infrastructures, etc.
Not something that gets created every day with a few keystrokes
Great
Solidarität from Germany!
excellent, as usual.
Why aren't the Wolff Responds videos on the Democracy At Work channel?
because they are full of eminent falsehoods? because mr. wolff does not have a clue what he is talking about, since his field is ECONOMICS, not politics and study of war?
@@arvothomson9339You cannot separate economics from either politics or war.
Enough with self loathing. Try?
it’s not a war with Russia and NATO. that’s just misleading. And freezing and seizing russian assets are NOT the same thing. again, misleading.
Right on Mr. Wolff. A negotiated peace plan needs to be worked out, urgently. It would certainly help if the people kicked the warmongers out of their house in DC. Try focusing on Americans for a change instead a few super rich "business" people. Take East Palestine, Ohio, for example. No one from the government showed up to even utter a single word of support to the people there. Boot them out, now.
And if they had shown up immediately (rather than workers from 6 Federal agencies) you would've accused them of politicizing tragedy. Did Chump EVER show up in such a disaster area? NO. Not once.
Infrastructure takes no prisoners. There is a high chance that disasters like in Ohio will continue. And the regime will respond with a stricter control over information.
@@alexsilent5603 Then talk to your local businessman and ask him to stop buying off the only government that might work to protect us. Chump will know all about that, as his record proves, but hey what do facts matter when it's so much fun to hate?
@@alexsilent5603 Regime? Are you North Korean?
@@fredgassit5418
Regime: noun
1. A government, especially an oppressive or undemocratic one.
2.A usually heavy-handed administration or group in charge of an organization.
I would suggest the word regime perfectly describes the american government
Lets not forget how Russia Invaded Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine 2x.
The economic cost are just an actual picture. It doesn’t include the future economic costs. Please ask yourself what we here in the west have. We have transferred our production capability to far east, we are running out of resources. Our societies are becoming dumber, we are not only losing our production base but the capability and know how to produce stuff, because we were transformed into consumer societies based on services. While we still try to maintain our grip on the world militarily, the rest is joining together and will eventually outproduce and outsmart us in any way. We have become victims of our own greed, our own system. If we don’t sit and talk all together on fair and equal terms, where we can all benefit in peace, it is just a matter of time until the west will suffer a major economical and cultural decline.
GDP is a piss poor measure of a nations economic strength, it's very misleading and easily manipulated, that's why they use it.
GDP is a poor measure of military capacity. Producing many raw materials, vast quantities of energy and a strong manufacturing sector enables Russia to resist external pressures.
Never forget Panama invasion
What made you think Ukraine "got into" this war? When another country invades you, you fight back. That's not a foolish act of warmongering, that's what any country would do if they were INVADED BY A FOREIGN MILITARY POWER.
@Traiano Wellcome Firstly, that doesn't justify a full scale invasion of Ukraine, terrible as it was. Secondly, don't act like the rebels weren't committing even worse atrocities in the regions they had "liberated". Don't act like they didn't break every treaty and ceasefire they signed, including and especially Minsk II. Like they didn't themselves use the same cluster bombs that the Ukrainian government did. Third, keep in mind that Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, Russia financed these rebels back when they were just a protest movement, Russia was the country that propped up Yanukovich. And again, they were the ones who invaded Ukraine.
The military industrial complex doesn't want to win it's about what RFK Jr. talks about what Mitch McConnell told him
A weighty and timely message, my good Professor Wolff. Given that NATO and the US have been caught repeatedly lying about their intentions around the Minsk Accords, with their real intention being to destroy Russia (including running the neo-nazi Azov militias), it is therefore incumbent on the Citizenry to get serious about jamming up the works (non-violently, of course!) on this side. Most of Eurasia seems to be coalescing now around Russia, so GDP figures aside, that's more than half of the World's population. Most people I've met 'on the Right' are also against this war. We need to grow up, put our differences aside, and realize that the 'western' elites are psychopaths (not unlike the elites that ran the Roman Empire)...We need a new economic order, and to get in on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BRICS, and put this goddamn WTO-IMF-BIS globalized system to sleep. Merci beaucoup!
I knew I was gonna find at least one wackjob in this comments section 🤣🤣
@Traiano Wellcome There is no logic because everything he said is a vague, non-specific lie. It's not worth my time to both figure out his specific claims AND debunk every single one of them, plus he wrote it like a goddamn manifesto, and you can't out-logic a manifesto.
No wonder Richard didn't need to give the propagandist view, people like you were going to post that Kremlin horseshit anyway
@@alexanderboulton2123 Silly boy, all one needs to do is evaluate the history of US military aggression since WWII to know that America always starts wars of choice. You do read history?
@Ted Tripp I read history enough to know that we have had 5 different heads of state since Putin first took power. I read history enough to know that America would never risk war with a nuclear country, not even their mortal enemies in the Soviet Union. I read history enough to know that Russia/USSR is just as bad as us in terms of international fuckery. I don't care how scared Putin is. You don't get to invade another country just because they might possibly have the chance of entering an alliance with a rival power.
This war should never have happened. The US-backed Maidan coup in 2014 should never have happened. The US should never have tried to pull Ukraine into Nato in 2008. The West should have respected the promises it made to Gorbachev 30 years ago.
Militarily and economically the collective West is 20 to 30 times more powerful than Russia. If you are up against Godzilla 20 or 30 times your size in a dark alley way without any escape route, you only have one move to lay your adversary flat on his back. If you miss, you are dead, literally, because they'll hunt you down to kill you like Qaddafi in some hole in the ground and destroy your country. This is not a game.
Putin only had one move to check mate the West and prevent encirclement by Nato. He chose the one place and time Russia cannot be defeated.
yes, because Ukranians don't exist - they are just CIA agents... you dummy :D
@@nescius2 Do you always resort to insults when you don't have arguments?
@@humwawa3468 your arguments are racist lies.. as i read it you believe that there are no other people in Ukraine than Russians and CIA agents, you deserve nothing else than ridicule.
Russia armed and funded separatists to start a civil war in the Donbas and took crimea and only want those 2 areas you know why you know what’s so important about the Donbas and crimea
I very much admire and respect Dr. Wolff, but the good professor's logic contradicts itself. However, the truth that remains is the one referred to by Otto von Bismarck when he noted 'I hate war. One never knows how it will turn out." I would note too that in the three wars the good Dr mentioned in which the US lost, there was a winner, and in all cases the winner was the side that reflected the hearts and minds of the people. Also, in all three, the foreign invader was driven out of the country in question. If I was to support any way, it would be a war in which I supported the side in which the hearts and minds of the people opposed an aggressive invader, and in this case, that side would be Ukraine. And knowing the hearts and minds of the people being brutally victimized, I would not abandon them just to make my life and little bit more comfortable and to perhaps save the cost of a cup of coffee a day.
well said, the problem in my eyes is precisely that people are looking to the past to form opinions on this conflict. Americans on the left have been conditioned by the last 50 years of conflicts to see the US as imperialists and meddlers, which they were in almost every conflict and still are in many cases, so now when they form opinions about Ukraine and Taiwan, where the US actually happens to be on the ethical side of the conflict, regardless of their true motivations, they appear to be extremely biased and still view the situation as being one of US imperialism.
Perhaps it's a relic of the era of US hegemony where they were the only country to have the influence to enact true imperialism, but in the modern day, the US is only one of the Superpowers of the world and all of them are enacting their own imperialism, because the same selfish motivations drive all countries, including China and Russia, which leads to conflicts where the US isn't the side abusing it's influence and meddling.
@@darrenfleming7901 FINALLY SOMEBODY SAYS THIS
What about the "hearts and minds" of the Ukrainian ethnic Russians (40% of Ukraine) who were being slaughtered by the U.S.-armed Kiev government and its N_i battallions?
@@maryhuckaby2239 So you don't pay attention to reliable news sources. First of all, just because some Ukrainian speaks Russian doesn't make them an ethnic Russian. And what about the two million or so ethnic Russians from Russia who left the country to avoid conscription? What about all the ethnic Russians in the Donbas who have been conscripted into the Russian forces and sent forward to fight the Ukrainian forces without proper, training or weapons? Just because some relatively ignorant spends their time listening to the Russian propaganda you listen to doesn't mean they don't know the truth.
@@maryhuckaby2239 🤣🤣🤣
Prof. Wolff, I have been following your writings and this channel for well over a decade. In this video, you have thrown out core aspects of your own methodology that I have become accustomed to seeing reflected in your analyses, and instead seem to have outsourced your intellect to Twitter.
The level of factual inaccuracy regarding the situation on the ground is one thing (at present rate of advance, Russia will have conquered Ukraine in 3000 years), but in this video and in many others, you make erroneous claims about the funding of weapons entering Ukraine, as if the Biden administration is simply handing over bags of cash. Simply nonsense, what's instead being sent is weaponry, purchased directly from manufacturers. Is this something I'm hugely supportive of, not at all, but reality should factor into your analysis at some point especially if you then are going to make arguments regarding inflation based off such "facts."
Russia has not said it will be a quick war and I really don't believe they wanted the war. And it is on their border so it is quite different from the US wars you brought up. Logistically etc. Obviously loss of life in war is always terrible.
it said its not a war and it will be a special military operation taking about 3 days, that is the longest 3 days in history..
Russia started the brah
No one rusdian officials said about "3 days", it was just western "experts".
But this war could end in 1-2 months in Stambul negotiations. Unfortunately US and UK make Ukraine break it and continue the war.
@@ВалентинПивоваров-о9с Russian officials didn't said that _publicly_ (which was a good strategy compared to first the beggining of this war in 2014 when it was clearly and officially announced as a pretext of rescuing his puppet and comrade kleptocrat Yanukovych)
but judging from reports of Russian army's supplies and apparel (with just two sets of uniforms) Putin had to think that Ukraine is just like Russia - in a terminal case of corruption, and would just fold instantly. otherwise it would have to be even dumber than this senseless massacre currently only about Putin's being afraid of slipping on banana peel next to open window and another long broadcast of Swan lake.
the idea that Ukraine can just give up a part of its land and expect Russian thugs to never attack again, is so naive.. did you hear about Budapest Memorandum? where Russians claimed to guarantee Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders (of 1994)
what would you do if someone lied to you twice just to hurt you, and then bombs your grandmother in her home? would you trust -someone like that?- Kremlin?
@@ВалентинПивоваров-о9с also you got that part about Istanbul negotiations wrong, Boris Johnson came to Kiev (14 days after Istanbul took place) and said to Zelenskyy that "Putin is a war criminal, he should be pressured, not negotiated with," and that "even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [Putin's regime] are not."
the war even haven't had to start if Russian government kept its part of deal they signed in Budapest during 1994.
What about CPI? GDP isn't the whole enchilada.
What do you mean Russians are making all the progress? The only significant progress they made was at the start as a result of suprise - always the best way of making progress. Since then they have been beaten back from the gates of Kiev and Kharkiv and abandoned Kherson.
Daahir jimcaale dhegataag
1.0. Dr wolff I would like to say that the senator in the United States said that there exists 12 trillion minerals and 12 trillion food commodities in eukraine.
2.0. So, the USA & EU countries should not accept these valuable mineral & valuable food commidities to be taken by the Russians and the Chinese gov'ts. 3.0. But they shouldn't acknowledge that the eukraine had been part of great Russia.
4.0. And now eukraine shall be part of the great Russia.
5.0. The EU countries should have to suffer the extreme winter colds due the blockage of gases from Russia.
6.0. The USA gov't had completely destroyed eukraine as they have planned to join to NATO.
7.0. Like the great Russia shall have to return the great soviet socialist Relublic with the support of their chinese allies.
8.0. USA planned to take 22 trillion valuable minerals and 12 trillion food commodities.
9.0. Unfortunately they have killed large number of the eukrainians. 10.0. The great soviet socialist Republic shall have to reunificate all their allies prior in 1990.
11.0. Currently the USA hegemony has declined and the de-dollarization of the USA currency have taken place.
12.0. So, the USA and EU economic decline shall have to occur very soon.
13.0. The USA locates in a separate continent far from the EU countries.
14.0. So why they all the time create problems between the Russian Gov't and their allies and EU countries who are of the same location in Europe.
15.0. Secondly thevEU countries look like typical donkeys all the time following after the imperialism and colonialism mentality of the USA.
16.0. The USA imperialism and colonialism killed thousands of eukrainians mostly Jews.
17.0. 70 % of the eukrainians are Russians and they spoke the Russian language.
18.0. But the USA gov't had utilised some Jews that they have created.
Professor Wolff, I really enjoy your commentary on domestic issues and economic issues, but your takes on international politics are weak and disingenuous. Completely dodging the issue of Russia's aggression in this conflict, which is the actual central element, and ignoring the disastrous implication of a peace deal at all cost that would isolate Ukraine and leave it vulnerable to further Russian oppression, is unacceptable. I can only imagine that you either have some form of bias on this topic or that you simply want to be contrarian, either way I think your commentary falls very short on this topic.
"weak and disingenuous", perhaps you need to analyze your own assumptions about what really originated the "aggression" of Russia, perhaps that way you will begin to understand who the initial aggressors are or is. Good luck with your endeavor
@@huveja9799 russia is the aggressor in Ukraine, you are deluding yourself
@@darrenfleming7901 Of course, this is called self-deception, and it is the ability we have to deceive ourselves, when we fall prey to our cognitive biases, by using the same machinery that provides us with cognition and understanding.
This self-deception consists of consuming information without a critical analysis and distorting the observed facts to adjust them to our internal narrative, so as not to have to deal with the conflict and effort that would mean adjusting our internal narrative ("beliefs").
@@huveja9799 you just prove your ignorance with your statement. mr. wolff is pushing several lies and falsehood, he knows nothing about international politics
Darren, you are very polite. truth is, mr. wolff's "factual" video contains multiple lies, falsehoods and distortions straight from the russian propaganda book.. see my other posts...
How disappointing you have become. I used to watch you a lot because of your Left economic - but even with this you say things that are not accurate. And, really, you should stick to economic, because you clearly don't understand what is happening on the battlefield right now.
Plus, Putin has already said he will not compromise on the territories he stole - so what is there to 'negotiate'? Would you tell Palestinians to give away their land and people to their nuclear armed aggressor state neighbour? I assume you wouldn't - but with Putin you do.
Wolfe 2024
Enjoy watching Wolff, but the latest data on the Russian ruble doesn't support the premise of this video. Could change again, of course.
Can Prof. Wolff and all in left media please start educating everyone about both the: (1) difference between right-authoritarian vs. right-libertarian; & (2) difference between left-authoritarian vs left-libertarian? It’s long overdue. People aren’t cattle or sheep: They will understand if we educate them.
Though we need to educate (& learn) about all the nuance.
For example:
Two different left YTers, Step Back & Anark, who both recently released videos on this topic, made horribly inaccurate videos on the subject. Just atrocious: They both expressed basically no interest in logic or empirical truth. We are in a deplorable state for left YT…
People aren't suffering because they don't know the difference between the 4-axis political compass quadrants. People are suffering because they don't own the means of production.
@@Matthew.E.Kelly. People are suffering because they are poor and realize they will always be poor.
Made up compass shit
@@lukasmadrid1945 Absolutely false. You _now_ have a requirement to become intellectually responsible.
You have to be more analytic than that if you want the best political model that reflects true reality:
The recently discovered 2-axis political model is the most logical, empirically sound & practical political model humanity has atm. You can’t refute that, this is what reason shows.
Verify these truths with your own research. Good luck!
Russia has not made the kind of progress Wolff is describing here. They hold the eastern regions, yes, but that's all they're able to hold at the moment. Russia should be occupying way more land given the country has a large military relative to Ukraine. Plus, Ukraine successfully took back land in the September counteroffensives. Things could change at the moment, especially when we're entering spring and either side are planning offensives. But Russia isn't "winning" as much as Wolff describes.
Also, Ukrainians fighting back is not "delusional". They have every right to defend their land from Russian imperialism and, given the progress we're seeing, they're right to believe they can successfully push out Russian invaders. Or at very least keep fighting out the war so that Ukraine is in a favorable position when it comes to negotiations.
Nonsense, Ukraine has lost 300,000 troops while Russia has lost between 20 to 30,000. The reinforcements being sent to Bakhmut are old men and children aged 16/17. The war is over but Zelenski will sacrifice his country to pursue his Natzi dream and to keep the money rolling into his offshore bank account and his ever growing overseas property portfolio.
@@brianpollard7909 Where did you get the 300k number? That is wildly inaccurate. Most I could find was over 100k, but that include Ukrainian casualties and civilians.
@@Dsworddance22 The BBC was reporting over 200,000 before Christmas and they usually report wildly in favour of the Natzi regime in Kiev. Colonel Douglas McGregor and Scott Ritter also both come up with about 300,000 dead. Ursula Von der Leyen let slip in January that Ukraine was losing a thousand men per day, that is why they are sending men up to 60yrs old and children of 16 and 17 to the front, they are running out of men. They have also asked the Polish government to round up refugees of fighting age and send them back to Ukraine. There have also been complaints from Hungary and Rumania about ethnic Hungarians and Rumanians living in Ukraine who are being forced at gunpoint to enlist in the Ukraine army. America did say at the beginning that they would fight Russia to the last Ukranian. How true that was.
see the other sources man
The war will end when Russia fully secured its annexed territory. That's the only reason why the war is going on. If Russia wanted to invade the ukraine they can easily do that because kiev is not so distant to Belarus but why Russia doesn't put its military troops to be used to capture Ukraine. You can easily invade one nation through capturing its capital which is kiev.
Seriously bad takes. I agree with you on a lot of economic issues, but you don't know anything about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I appreciated you until a year ago, but you start spreading cheap Russian propaganda now.
No he doesn't, you're a willing dupe.
Prof Wolff simply talks about facts...
Agree. He's just turned it into an "The US is the real evil in the world, everyone else is the good guys" kind of leftie. Russia is not communist, they are imperialist and the ones invading another country. In this instance, the US and NATO funding Ukraine is good, as Ukraine is defending themselves.
Same here, man... he's been a huge source of Marxist theory and ideas for me for years now but his takes on Putin's imperialist war against Ukraine makes me want to vomit! WTF Professor???
@@TheAmericanAmerican hmm, i have seen a great take from a guy here named Kraut who explains similar takes of Chomsky regarding Jugoslavia..
tl;dr version: everything eastern is good because it -is- (at some time wanted to be) communist, so criticizing anything from there is criticizing the left...
that's what happens when empire hijacks ideology which is against empires.
OH talk about wrong... of course ukraine is going to win.. just because you are impatient and you want to see ukraine start their offencive this weekend doesnt' mean Russia is winning. Listen to ben hodges not richard wolff
This war is a major triumph of american foreign policy, I would say biggest win since ww2. They created a war that somebody else is fighting on their behalf, and bullied all their colonies in western europe and elsewhere to ramp up defense spending and buy enormous amounts of totally unnecessary weapons from the us weapons industry, and also buy american lng gas that's 5 times more expensive than the Russian higher quality gas. Americans won this by a large margine. The second biggest looser after Ukraine is Europe, economically they have shot themselves in the foot. The reasons are two-fold: arrogance (they were themselves colonial powers, so they still think they can impose their shit onto other nations) and dependence - they are nobody without the US so they blindly follow any order that comes from the boss in Washington.
Ding ding ding, this post is a winner.
First of all Richard NATO isn't suffering as you suggest. Nuclear weapons aside Russia doesn't stand a chance against NATO! The hundreds of billions in frozen Russian assets could and should be used to arm Ukraine to the max to make any future Russian attacks foolhardy and useless. Perhaps you should listen to Professor Sonnenfeld's interview about the economic impact on Russia! ruclips.net/video/QU0resswOds/видео.html
Thank Richard very good presentation. I learn a lot with all your videos!
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Bravo, Prof. Wolff! The clarity itself is forceful. I'll share as soon as I'm finished typing this.
Very sad to see how ignorant Richard's take on this is which basically boils down to parroting Kremlin talking points. Like many American leftists he has taken a very chauvinistic US-centric view of this conflict (a brutal invasion of a soverign country), which removes any agency from the Ukrainians fighting for their survival. How does he expect the Ukrainians to "negotiate" with a genocidal regime that has a history of breaking any treaty?
While a lot of US "Leftist" share his views on Putin's imperialist war, not all of us are so delusional...
A leftist approach is that the war needs to end. The man is a socialist and doesn't think that either NATO or Russia are the ethical choice and the best way to go forward since neither side wants the war in Ukraine to end. I think you are seriously mistaken if you think he doesn't want Ukraine to be free of Russian forces.
This Dude loves Russia what it stands for and its ideologies, i could tell you his findings and outlook on the war even before he started .
pretty much.
Oy!
exactly. this "economist" just said russia is doing well after the war. that couldn't be further from the truth: the ruble, after bouncing back, is now at a decades low valuation, with russia's reputation on the world stage being rewinded back to the cold war.
imagine you are a ukrainian getting shelled, and you have this geriatric prick criticizing cross-border investment to rebuild your war torn country. what else are they going to do? make a co-op?
Then goes on to act like there haven't been numerous attempts to sit down both sides and settle it amicably. Please provide a solution then, since you're so bright, Mr. wolfe
When you stand back and objectively look at situations you'll realize things are always far more complex than you once thought. Only a simple minded fool refuses to question their beliefs and views of issues. This war truly is far more complicated than "Evil big bad meanie Putin suddenly wanted to grow his empire and invaded Ukraine". Only a child could believe this overly-simplified garbage. This war is decades in the making and is far more nuanced, encompassing much more than JUST Ukraine and Russia, and the worst part of it is that this war could have been easily avoided had Ukraine chose to not join the EU or NATO and, knowing its location and the nature of its strategic importance to both sides decided to remain neutral and maintain ties to BOTH Europe and Russia.
I hope the yanks will eventually realize that there are other imperialisms in the world besides the USA. Guys, seriously, NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU. Amazing how american people can be american-centric even in their anti-americanism xDD
seriously, the audacity of these takes is so insulting to anyone outside of America but as you say the american-centric mindset is just too deeply ingrained to be stopped. I'm secretly convinced it's a relic of US hegemony where everything actually was about the US and these people just can't see how times have moved on and how the global playing field has changed.
As an Iraqi I'd like to thank the US for the invasion we got Internet so we can shit on them LOL
Yes. Please stop westplaining us. I am antiamerican but as Polish i know that Russia is bigger threat for Europe and IT should be stopped at any cost
If you are choosing which imperialist nation to support based on who deserves to win then you are wasting your life. Russia can be the aggressor here, and the US can still be part of the system that led to conflict. Both are true.
@@zhukov2116 I support not invading other countries. I was against USA troops in Irak and Im against Russian army in Ukraine
Agreed
I disagree with Wolf here. Russia is not further into Ukraine than ever before, they were forced to abandon the entire northern front and give up their attempt to take Kiev. It has by no means been an easy fight either way but it's not currently in Russia’s favor
They only wanted the Russian speaking Eastern Sector maybe up to Odessa and Ukraine is f**ked being land lock
When Ukraine military is completely destroyed when Odessa is takened, Poland and Hungary may grab their old land back. Ukraine may be left like before, a small frontier place 😂🤣🤣🤣
275,000 NahZees dead !
600,000 injuired ! Zero economy left. They were used to sell children and Harvest very lucrative Human Organs. They are #1 place to search for fresh human organs said Google !!!
yea but i don't think he meant during the war, they were only at the border of kiev because of the war. ukrainians pushed them out, but they got what they wanted the russian populated donbass area donestk area with an encirclement of bakhmut. if the west abandons them zelensky might come to the table but who knows what a western puppet thinks
I know right? You would expect the professor to be able to read a map. The suburbs of Kyiv are, in fact, significantly further west than the current front line.
Incidentally he's also wrong about Russia controlling all of the Donbass.
Russia is winning the war. Ukraine can't get enough ammo and weapons to keep up with Russia. And yes the current state of the war is massively in Russia's favor. Militarily Ukraine has lost huge swathes of their country with no hope of getting any of it back. They've suffer up to 10 to 1 casualties as compared to the Russians. Their economy is destroyed, Russia's is actually getting stronger. Politically Ukraine is a disaster with open N azis in positions of power. Meanwhile the Russian public is overwhelmingly united behind the war in Ukraine... In a way they weren't at the beginning.
Russia will win, and there is nothing the West, NATO, or the USA can do about it, short of using nukes... which would be madness and accomplish nothing but destruction.
The lesson to be learned here is to honor other country's security interests. The regime change globalist bunch we've had in Washington for the last thirty years have completely screwed up the world.
It's way past time they were moved on.
@@blogintonblakley2708 This is simply untrue. You know as well as I do that the West fully backs Ukraine, that is to say, Ukraine is propped up by the wealthiest nations on earth. The USA alone has no issue writing Ukraine a blank check and famously overspending on its military.
Russia is a large country but it lacks the industry and capital to keep up with the west, especially given its horrid economic performance since 1991.
By large swaths, you mean the Donbas and Crimea. Don't forget that Russia attempted to take Keyv and failed. Ukraine has taken a lot of land back from Russia. 10 to one is frankly cartoonish, the lines have been stagnant for the past few months. If Russia was having so much success why are they only holding onto their southern front?
Everything you say is cartoonish propaganda. I am no fan of the western block but you seem to have swallowed everything RT has said without a critical thought. How could Russia’s economy improve after sanctions from the capitalist world? It just doesn't make sense
Ukraine didn't willingly join the war man, they were forced to fight back or lose their democracy/country. Wut would u have done? Im getting pretty sick of ppl conveniently leaving out the fact that russia is the sole aggressor here. If Russia would pull out of Ukraine, THE WAR WOULD END! my god, I think professor wolff is very smart when it comes to economics since that is his field of study but this video just feels like russia apologia to me.
I'm getting pretty sick of people like you, conveniently leaving out the fact that the US/NATO/Azov Nazis invaded Ukraine in 2014, overthrew a democratically elected government, then proceeded over the next eight years to slaughter over 14,000 Russian speaking civilians, until Russia came to their rescue on Feb 24, 2022.
The blood of hundreds of thousands is on your Nazi war criminal supporting hands.
Western media NEVER tells us the whole truth.Try reading some history about it and I
Believe you would agree with Russia actions.
@@kevinschmidt2210 dude this is just straight tankie propaganda. Idk where else u would get these insane talking points.
NATO had nothing to do with the Nazi presence in Ukraine (which btw the azov battalion was literally under 1000 ppl so we're talking about a FRACTION of a a fraction of the population.) NATO never invaded ukraine.
Wut ACTUALLY happened is this: in 2014 yanukovych who was ungodly corrupt and also was under the control of Putin was ousted by a massive protest called euromaidan. This happened because yanukovych had been pressured by russia to backtrack on his plans to join the EU and that made pro western Ukrainians very upset (this is a majority of Ukrainians btw)
Yes there were Nazis present at this protest and yes the protest got violent resulting in about 100 something protester deaths and like 10 or so police deaths. HOWEVER like i previously mentioned, the azov group (the nazis) only had less than 1000 ppl and the number of protesters were in the 500,000-700,000s so they didn't really play that big of a role all things considered.
The parliament than legally ousted yanukovych in a MASSIVELY unanimous vote.
Russia then massively overstated Nazi involvement and condemned the ousting of yanukovych and OCCUPIED THEN ANNEXED Crimea based on false allegations and propaganda.
Fast forward to 2022 and its pretty clear why he started invading eastern Ukraine.
LET ME BE CLEAR that NONE of Putin's actions in this whole process have been justified. It was Putin in the wrong when he put his puppet into office, it was him again in the wrong when he invaded crimea, and again again in the wrong when he invaded eastern Ukraine.
In no point did ukraine EVER willingly engage in hostile acts against Russia. They are simply DEFENDING themselves against a power mad whacko hellbent on restoring the soviet union. This has never been about anything other than that except maybe oil. So i will repeat myself. This war will be OVER as soon as PUTIN decides to PULL OUT OF UKRAINE.
These are all objective facts and i would be happy to link u to any sources corroborating my claims if u are interested in learning actual history and not repeating tankie propaganda
..Mama: study history of Last 30 years, think twice, then...
"Wut would u have done?" He would have rolled over and whimpered for his tummy to be petted.
Thank you very much, Professor Wolff, for your honest and objective assessment of the situation. The fact of the war itself is terrible, but also shocking is the silence and lies spread by the media on both sides. It is also very hypocritical on the part of European and American propaganda to ignore the obvious external threat to Russia's borders, which Zelensky himself has repeatedly spoken about. I remember that in 1962, when the Cuban Missile Crisis happened and the USSR wanted to install missiles in friendly Cuba, which threatened the security of the United States, the United States was ready to unleash a war to defend itself. But when it happens to other countries, "It's different, you don't understand." From a Marxist-Leninist from Russia, with best regards! ❤
Dude, I make money off wars from selling weapons, rebuilding, getting exclusive deals...I know no country wins, but I do !
I assume this is sarcasm presenting the awful truth behind US warfare.
@@tedder130 Not just US. These are multi national corporations.
Prof Wolff is a man full of knoweledge and common sense, very uncommon these days
Anything about others suffering in Yemen or Congo? Syria?
You are stating opinions of why it is dangerous but I seem to be missing your perspective on war by any means, your thoughts on the aggression of Russia, who should be involved and not involved and what an agreement might look like. I'm open to more discussion outside of the standard narrative we are hearing but I haven't heard many whys or hows .
Ethnic conflict.
Russia is not the aggressor.
@@kevinschmidt2210 as someone whose family lived on both sides of Russian borders (without moving) for hundreds of years, I must say that my forehead still hurts: that is just dumb..
The Russians are not the aggressors here, NATO is.
@@nescius2 Yes, your comment is just dumb. Thanks for proving that you can have family there and still not know what the hell is going on.
It is also dumb not to admit the aggression was started in 2014 by the US/NATO/Azov Nazis against Russian speaking civilians, after they illegally overthrew a democratically elected Ukraine government.
How is Russias winning? Russia hasn’t secured the entire Donbas, the Russian military can’t even secure the small town of Backmut after 8 months of trying. The Russian military is so pathetic that after a year of fighting in Ukraine they haven’t achieved a single one of its military objectives in Ukraine.
you should admit that the GDP calculations MUST be wrong.
Would you please contribute to freeing Julian Assange please... with your unbelievable realistic approach to the world issues would be very beneficial to finally free this brave and unique hero of the century... Australia as an American puppet or vassal is not going to move a finger, you know but we need you to send appeal to the whole progressive world to rise its voice and release Julian... all the media should stop barking and start acting, enough is enough is not enough, thankyou
The best and simple answer to this situation is to ask Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Georgia, Slovakia, Check Republic, Romania why is it that they want nothing to do with Russia. You can also ask Chechnya. If you want to stop this war, get some balls Mr Wolf and support a free Ukraine with all it's territory including Crimea. The soviet Russia needs to be put in it's place and Russians deserve freedom from all these soviet ideologists.
Ukraine has to be destroyed completely if there is to be peace. In WW11 when Ukraine joined NATZI Germany against Russia and took part in the holocaust they were defeated. Since then, they went underground whilst plotting their revenge. The Americans seized on this and just as they have given money and arms to the terrorists in the middle east to fight their proxy wars, they have harnessed the Natzi regime in Kiev to go to war against Russia. This time, Russia will not allow these people to disappear, simply to re emerge in the future to do exactly the same thing again. They will be destroyed or captured and put on trial.
Ukraine was free and sovereign until the US hijacked its politics for its own interests!
@@memiekwok9272 is that a joke?
@@brianpollard7909 is that the truth? Didn't Ukraine belong to the soviet union then? To enter the western world they were forced to get rid of nuclear weapons. Guess who did those weapons belong to as well? Yes the soviets not USA. Your narrow thinking does not allow you to understand that no one has to be destroyed! The only thing is that Russia needs freedom.
@@josedecarvalho5502 Have you been to Ukraine? I have.
What you are talking here richard? Russia is not the left allies. They are really a strong right wing country.
Really I think you'll make a good propaganda minister for Russ's
Amen
Finally a reasonable suggestion, unfortunate that the leaders don’t reason.
How much of Russian past GDP was invested into what’s being used today? With Russia's bookkeeping, there is no chance of accuracy.
Those thousands of dead Ukranian soldiers and thousands of rocket artillery per day are accurate enough I would say.
War is the same as it always has been. People die and property gets stolen or destroyed. Trying to be rational about war is the true definition of insanity.
Bravo Prof. Wolff! You bring excellent points why this war should end ASAP