Rotten to the core indeed, to this day. As an escapee from the holodomor, my mother never trusted the soviets. There appeared to be a sliver of hope during Gorbachev but it has been snuffed out. Slava Ukraini! Thank you for the clarification, from Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada.
the other side of the tragedy is, that russian people entrust their political power to tyrants, feudalist-imperialists and bolshevik-'bourgeoisi' and then back to tyrannical-feudal imperialism. You and me as part of the Soviet and Post-Soviet-Era know best how the inner sadness of the people was exploited to fuel a narrative of global mental segregation and being told the soviet system is the most just and fair the people has ever gotten the pleasure of experiencing... :DDD so dumb, but back then 100s of millions believed it and would have died for such a dumb and unfair system. a tragedy they still have not learned.. 107 years since russia rose up, to try better things internally..
One of the clearest explanations of what is going on in Ukraine that I’ve heard so far. This should be broadcasted on every available screen in Trump land as quickly as possible.
@@pwp8737 They will have to get accustomed to remembering weird names like Minsk, Kiev, Astana, Tashkent and Bishkek but I fear that it will be too late for them. Will anyone care? I doubt it. Anyway, who do you think will win Djurgården or HJK?
Apparently your about as intelligent as putin. I vote Trump and am an avid Ukraine supporter. All Biden and Kamala have done for 3 years is drag their feet while tying Ukraine hands behind their backs. If they had had some.balls and opened up the toy chest within the 1st month we wouldn't be in this situation By their inactions they have given 3.years to ramp up his war machine and now they are transferring critical military technology to N Korea and Iran
OMG! What a knowledgeable man. I could listen this person for hours. That was a really insightfully presented historical and political analysis of the current geopolitical security situation.
Thank you very much, Jason Smart, for inviting David Satter for this very important conversation. Thank you, David Satter, for providing thoughtful analyses and a very important voice in support of Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦
@@DarkestAlice he is saying that atheism caused the soviet atrocities, Putin and everything else! The guy is a disgusting joke, no matter how important he is.
@@flyingfox707b Hello Flyingfox, I think you might have misunderstood. David Satter said that the Soviet regime could introduce a new set of negative values to fill the gap that the imposed atheism opened. They made the state the new deity, so nobody could go against it and the state or its representatives were always right and what they did was okay. They removed morality (as the western world understands it) by declaring it unnecessary. In short: the state doubly robbed their population - it took away their belief and moral system and filled it with "anti-values". It was not atheism that caused the Soviet atrocities, but "the state" or rather its representatives who acted according to their needs. This later enabled the "criminal capitalism" in the 1990s, which is capitalism without the rule of law. That is why many compare the current state as a mafia-like run business. All the best to you!
An excellent interview, good in depth thinking about the political, cultural, and philosophical problems we are all facing at this juncture in history. Russia never had a clean break from the past, so living under the harsh rule of the Czars and then the harsh rule of Bolshevists and dictators like Lenin and Stalin, set up a pattern of authoritarian rule with only a glimmer of a break during the handoff of power from Gorbachev to Yeltsin, with no real anti-corruption effort. I'm not so sure about the necessity of Christian values in a society, but of common sense principled moral values and empathy being required both within a nation and embodied by those in power, with individuals counting as equals in power vs. the masses and king, or the masses and church leaders, or the masses and party ruler i.e. the supreme Soviet ruler, which all looks about the same, but with a different colored varnish coated on top. People corralled into thinking they are but grains of sand in the fist, or all part of a sports team, the kind of subservient worship of the all powerful leader that cult members are obedient to and brainwashed into believing, there is the problem. Yes, Russia has unparalleled chauvinistic propaganda and war hysteria, the hypnotic narcotic that television is today, but there are changes afoot in attitudes in Russia, and I too believe that we must help Ukraine win this war, or the tottering wall will come toppling down on us in the freedom loving civilized world. The fate of the future of humanity rests in our hands. 🕊️🗽🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🌎
Yes, a very good interview. I do share his view on real Christian values, like loving your neighbor like yourself and helping those in need, that they are tremendously beneficial for any society and person with them. There's a shield of protection to hear often enough to not steal and not murder, but instead share with those in need and respect their person and rights. Just yesterday I saw a video about how the police under the CCP behaves like total crooks and openly steal and destroy. Heartbreaking.
Excellent comment. I like a lot of what is discussed in the interview, but to say that Christianity is required for a moral society is contradicted by most of the available evidence. Russia never got a clean break from the past because the early Bolsheviks ended up keeping much of the power structure of the Czarist state, most importantly the Checka/NKVD/KGB/FSB, which carried into the Putin regime. The most important thing, IMO, in the post-Soviet era was in the conversion to a market society without first implementing an appropriate legal system and popular education.
@@RedRosaThank you. I’m honestly so tired of the “Stalinists were terrible because they were atheists” argument. It simply doesn’t hold water if you look across the breadth of history. Plenty of atrocities have been committed by Christian nations. Western concepts of human rights are a result of secular humanism, which grew in a large part in opposition to established power structures that were supported and enabled by the Christian churches. Does anybody remember the divine right of kings?
My father, who came from Ukraine, emigrated to the US after WW2 because he couldn't stand living there any longer and he wanted a better life. He fought for the Soviets so he knew what Russia was all about. He didn't like the ruling class of Russians. I remember him telling me that compared to the Russians, our Mafia here were amateurs and pussycats. Jason Smart is basically repeating what my father has already told me. We must keep supporting Ukraine with whatever they need until Russia loses this war and they're able to stand strong.
You learn so much history and understanding of the mentality of russians if you are fortunate enough to have at least one parent from Ukraine or the Baltics and you're interested enough to listen.
One of the best informative, illuminating and elucidating interviews I’ve come across, explaining of why Russia does what it does. Thank you Mr Satter for your knowledge and humanity.
Great interview, a friend of mine from Russia told me that in Russia a civil servant has two hats that he wears all the time. He wears a civil servant hat and underneath that is a mafia hat 🎩. Everyone in power is also in the mafia, it’s unbelievable for us westerners and it’s hard to wrap our heads around it. I spent a year in Russia and it really opened my eyes 🤦♂️
This "culture" is already implemented in the west. it has been for decades. They just hide it better. Look at Perun's video about Canadian military, from a few months ago... billions in budget going... nowhere. Heck, the soldiers don't even have a place to live and are homeless, and I don't mean former ones, I mean the barracks are destroyed, gov ate the money and never build new ones AND the salary makes impossible to rent anything let alone buy anything. And that's not in the video... the video is... insane. Mil personnel in the comments all concur, it's fubar! Corruption is total, the system is being destroyed from the inside. Russia is laughing. All according to plan. Governments make promises, get elected, allocate contracts, cancel them... Canada is 60 years behind!
Meanwhile the totally opaque gov says: trust us, it's all right! Yeah, right. Meanwhile the media is a bag of foreign propaganda, the NGOs are all compromised and used to fan the fires BRICKS is lighting up everywhere here at home and globally, and manipulate public opinion and start untold amounts of unrest. Some criminal groups are stock piling weapons better than the police, police is "losing" weapons and do nothing while drugs that kill are ravaging society like never. Every body blames everybody, no one does anything... It works great.
Thousands manifest to "save Palestine"... the house is on fire, save the carpet! Idiots paid by Russia. Destroy Russia, then take care of Iran, then Hezbolaha and Hammass just... vanish! Palestine is saved... Ukraine is saved. When the finger points, only morons look at the finger and debate for months if it should be manicured! While what it points at is about to destroy everything. Ostrich politics! Media staring at the hand the holds the finger! Damn!
absolutely true. My wife is ruZZian and I have lived there so can testify from first hand experience. ALL politicians are corrupt bar none. ALL police are corrupt bar none ALL judges are corrupt bar none. The ordinary citizen is a prisoner in their own country. An example - My wife`s brother witnessed someone being beaten up. He stepped in to help, along came the police and arrested HIM. he got 10 years in prison . There was no evidence at all because he didn`t do anything but the police had "solved" the crime. Evil desperate inhuman country that cannot be permitted to defeat Ukraine..
Great interview and right on point with your amazing guest David Satter, people need to know what Russia is all about, Thank goodness when I was in school during the time of the cold war with the Soviet Union and it's break up , we had studies in school that gave us a view into the History of Russia it's criminal history and the Communist and Soviet ideology of world domination, it is a history lesson that is still happening to this day , SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇸💙💛🇺🇦
Thank Heavens that in the United States of America there are intelligent & thoughtful people like David Satter. If only that Republic had more citizens with his backbone & breadth of understanding issues that go beyond its mundane domestic concerns. from 🇨🇦
Canada can’t even take care of Canada…. America has to take care of the whole world. Also half of Europe paid for Putin’s war buying their oil …. building pipelines for him… then complaining when a certain president said it was a bad idea…. and then made them start paying their share of supporting NATO…. and then crying about that…
What a load of Crap Poroshenko and Zelenskee has Genocided the Ukrainian White Christian ✝️ Nation on behalf of the U.S - EU - nato WEF - Soros Zionist Neo Cons Slava Russia 🇷🇺 from Scotland
I believe a more clear exsplanation of Ukraine's historic background ,their history that is older than russia as Kiev existed thousand years before moscow was even funded will help to dispell all remaining doubts about russia 's unfounded claims of being the legimate owner of Ukraine.Ukrainian's language ,the coniage of their currency pre dated russia .Also Ukraine had good trade with Europe long before lenin asked them to help against the ottomans only to betray them as russia drooled for their great agricolture and wanted their crops .So they back tracked their promises and filled Ukraine with russians that are the separatists of today .This truth is not being explained efficently and people in the West has some doubts sometimes about putin rights to invade .It's all about a criminal decision to steal from Ukraine and envie for their people that are skilled,laborious and caring for each other unlike russians that are morally twisted by their sovietic union era's ways!
Can't believe there is anyone sane in the West, that would ever come even close to thinking anyone would have the 'right' to invade another sovereign country. It's too absurd for words!
Excellent comment... I've been screaming at my gov't here in Canada to give dual citizens an option... either stay here and denounce RU or give up your western passport and go back to RU.... it's anything but a great country and superpower should be recounted to super brutal power.
A very good analysis and warning of the critical situation that Ukraine and the West are facing. It is true so much more is at stake than just our material welfare but our very values and ideals. We in the West have become so complacent about our freedom and this is the danger. Ukraine's heroic struggle for its freedom and independence, its sacrifice, is an inspiration and object lesson to us all and must not be allowed to fail at any price.
While I knew quite a lot of this already this gentleman puts it in such incredible historical overview and context. Just sublime. Thank you both for enlightening me.
Having spent a great deal of time in Russia over the past 40 years...my belief is that Russia/Russians are simply not (for lack of a better term)..."reformable". This goes beyond some kind of geopolitical conundrum or even power vertical with the nation in it's grip. This is about the Russian people...and is the common belief held by most of my friends and family here in Czech Republic and pretty much everyone I know in former Warsaw "Pact" nations I have lived and worked in...over the decades...and certainly shared among the Baltic peoples. We will be forever asking the question, what to do about Russia...And I can tell you that proximity and real life experience and living memory plays a massive role in the visceral nature of that question. We here in this part of the Europe woke up on February 24th 2022 without any measurable surprise over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It feels like more and more we need to question how much we can trust Hungary ,Slovakia and now potentially Romania (with their latest political leanings). They feel more like Trojan horses on our Eastern Flank...not allies. Russian's "seeing an alternative path" in the example Ukraine has been on (albeit rocky and long riddled with corruption) is exactly the existential threat Putin and his mob elite and acolytes fear to core of their existence...THIS is what Putin's invasion is about...mixed in with his colossal butt hurt ego and mythical revisionist understanding of history and revanchist DNA. Ukraine has been fighting to not become another Belarus since the Soviet Union collapsed and each and every republic declared their independence. Russia and Putin simply believes they don't have to recognise Ukraine's independence and agency as sovereign nation. Russia only lends Belarus it's "sovereignty" as long as it and whomever comes after Lukashenko fall in line with the Kremlin's "sphere of influence"...exactly what Ukraine fighting against now...for their very existence as a nation and culture.
It was clear to me a long time ago, the axis of terror mentioned in this broadcast. Very well explained by David Satter. Jason thank you for inviting David Satter.
Everybody who understands German language should watch interviews of Otto von Habsburg (son of last Habsburg monarch) from 2003 and 2005 about Putin (it is on RUclips). This very intelligent man knew 20 years ago EXACTLY what Putin is and what he will do. It is absolutely shocking how much this man was right with everything he said in 2003 about Russia and Putin.
Fascist Italy, Portugal, Greece or Spain were much less repressive than Stalin s Russia and the level of freedom was much higher. Of course Stalin was a convinced communist and he applied collectivisation because he deeply believed in communist idea, no doubt about. The fascist Latvian dictator Karlis Ulmanis gave a level of rent similar to Norway and higher than Finland. When the fascist Latvia was replaced by communist Stalinism, the country changed completely, losing freedom and prosperity, and being transformed in one of the poorest countries of Europe.
I don't believe communism in the true sense of the philosophy has ever existed anywhere except perhaps in the Israeli kibutzes. So called communist states have never been anything more than dictatorships. In China today, still calling itself communist, unfettered capitalism prevails supported by corruption.
Thank you for this very detailed analysis. The only thing I would like to add is that Ukraine and russia became close only as a result of centuries of violent policy of assimilation, russification and integration of Ukraine by russia. In the 17th century, both countries needed translators in order to conclude agreements. Ukrainians did not understand Muscovites, and Muscovites did not understand the language of Ukrainians. However, the violent russification, which consisted of arson of libraries, 170 official bans on the Ukrainian language, mass executions of Ukrainian poets and artists, ban of Ukrainian Christian traditions, the forced deportation of Ukrainians to the territory of russia, the settlement of Ukrainian cities and villages devastated by artificial famine by russians… The artificial assimilation of Ukrainian language to russian language in the 20th century by removing from it a huge number of words that differed from russian and replacing them with words that were as similar as possible to russian… All this led to the so-called friendship and similarity of the two countries.
@@TrevorCrook-c1s which was due to the fact that the Kremlin has artificially maintained the ruble exchange rate by pumping money from putler's personal war chest, well, that chest is starting to run out and that has been a temporary solution all along, this time the problem will not be solved in the same way, this time the tools are running out, this is exactly what certain economists of Russian origin themselves, such as Konstantin from the Inside Russia channel, have been talking about for a long time.For anyone who understands anything about economics and the fact that the Kremlin lies about everything, it has been obvious for a long time that sooner or later nothing will help, and we are now entering that moment. Without China's financial support, this would have happened a year ago, and the only thing that can save the Russian economy is if someone makes such an idiotic decision to lift sanctions on Russia. and it is precisely because of these things that it is not worth even commenting on things that you obviously do not understand, the fact that it did not happen in 2022 does not mean that it will happen the same way now, now the sanctions that some have said are not working are finally starting to work properly. Sanctions are a slow but very powerful weapon.
Fantastic interview, thank you! David Satter is extremely knowledgeable. Just one small thing of note, Jason, you truly need to get a bit more sleep before interviewing as you were on the verge of nodding off during this interview. Having said that, I acknowledge that my suggestion is easier said than done, and think that you and other Ukrainians are truly pushed to the limit with the continuous bombing and sirens. I also acknowledge that I and many others would not have been able to cope under Ukraine's current situation. In my humble opinion, Ukrainians are the most courageous, smart, thoughtful, helpful, and innovative people in the World today. Slava Ukraini! :)
A commentator here suggests that "ruzzians are not slavic people like Ukrainians". To which one should add "or Poles, or Czechs, or Slovenes, or Croats, or, even, Slovaks. Balkan Slavs have favorable sentiments from their emancipation from " the 500 year enslavement" under the Ottoman Empire. Exposure to EU values, arguably, have had 3 decades in which to put this historic sense of gratitude, into its modern context, and treat it with mature perspective.
Judging from Putin inability to solve any real problems in the Ukraine war or even today Russia, I have been wondering how did he manage to solve any economic/social problems back in 90s. This video explains some of these reasons.
Exactly... he didn't solve a single problem... but he sure did make everyone believe he solved them... the Emperor has no clothes, only an abundance of natural resources.
Like Constantine making Sol & Christianity being the two sides of his coin. There are only two sides and in those days it took a long time to promulgate because coins travelled through trade. How else would you have an idea of who was in charge? Fast forward and ask the same question today. I think from my private point of view that it should not be judged through the lens of "false ideas' as David points out to us.
This guy is out in left field. The Russian Ortgodox church has given it blessing to the Ukraine invasion.many many many wars have been fought over somebody's idea of what got is.
Satter's argument was reasonable until he oversimplified. Predominantly atheistic countries include Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Japan, and Sweden. There is NO way that these populations and governments can be considered collectively immoral or amoral. However, when morality is enforced ONLY by a religious edifice, then the sudden, mandated replacement of religious organizations by a dysfunctional state apparatus has proven disastrous.
This was wery interesting and made me understand something new. I have long wondered if Russia had some part in the opioid flowing into my country after the full scale invasion. Especially young people fall victim to this and even young people have died. Gangs in Denmark used to have some code of honour like not recruiting 13 year old kids, but that happens now. Kids take "assignments" they find on Telegram and recieve "the means" (a handgrenade or a gun, a ticket, an adress...) Details are provided as late as possible. The providers may not even be present at the scene of the crime. Often these kids have no prior connection to crime. This happens at least both in Denmark and Sweden and have also started after feb. 2022 where both our countries upped our support against the Russian invasion.
The assertion that christianity is synonym or proxy for actual morality is so demonstrably FALSE that it MUST be contested. Observing the depravity or priests by age 12, - i will not give details here, but too common violations of children occurred, causing me to question the existence of some "santa claus" who would reward behaviors after one was dead, while NOT preventing the destruction of innocent children when they were alive, initially caused me to become a Moral Antitheist. Later, the discovery of just HOW the missionaries in early Hawaii (a French Catholic priest gave Kamehameha guns for conversion, and he sailed with his warriors quickly to brutally conquer other island populations, who were separate, peaceful, and actually practiced the Aloha spirit of mutual regard for ALL life. That was gone following the mix of invasive forces) AND all the rest of the South Pacific SHOULD DISABUSE you ALL of ANY notion that christianity, which also did that in Mainland USA in the1700s, is in any way moral. It is christianity's VILIFICATION OF ALL who disagree, and ALL life that so importantly evolved to balance nature that is openly destructive and violent. Whether the famous "kill them all and let 'god' sort them out" was uttered by a christian in charge of those who attacked a southern French region, where the "christians" had instead attempted to protect their democratically differing families, neighbors, friends, and so suffered death, torture, etc. for BEING moral. The total extent of christian harm cannot remotely be encompassed in a minor youtube comment. But LOOK at the US christians who desire to overturn democracy and establish just another cruel theocracy as did and do Islamists of the past 30-odd years - and this regards only that much of history, which is filled with christian atrocities. Morality evolved in our species , as well as several others, including Nonprimate species whose familial bonds, protective care, and emotional investment is GREATER than that of cruel drunken and exclusionary humans. WE lie, other species do NOT. We brutally abuse children - and i am a survivor of both extreme alcohol abuse as well as extreme religious abuse and abandonment when I took issue with FAMILY over their preference for their priests and ridiculous cruel dogma over their children. People largely do NOT change, and so such farce as claiming that children must "overcome 'trials' " is MERELY SUPPORTING christian cruelty. When YOU [or I] perpetrate harm, ONLY YOU [or I] am responsible - not bogus 'gods' o r other schizophrenic or schizotypal dementia EXCUSE YOU [or me]. Misattribution is conflating REAL St Peterburg or ANY other criminals - like sex criminal, tax cheat, racist, defrauder, election criminal, de facto Putin agent and US traitor insurrectionist, with some "evil spirit" that can or will be withdrawn should he find "religion" Trump. In FACT, neither he, nor ANY other lifelong criminal will EVER change. This is not due to some "god" to whom christians have and do sacrifice their children.
I echo the comment below. One of the most knowledgeable and thoughtful. I am glad he took us back to Putin as deputy mayor of St Petersburg..the chap in charge of contracts I believe? (food, army, heavy goods and lots more!)....I see a line (not sure if correct?)...from Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, and through to today's leaders of North Korea, China, Iran and even Afghanistan (different but as dangerous as the others)...Iraq..and now Putin...Think how many millions of his own Stalin murdered or was responsible for...
In a Preface from the book by Prof. Catherine Wilson "How to be a Epicurean" this writer came across two terms which goes on to describe certain types of rulers as being "belligerent and kleptocratic" the personification of Mr. Rasputin ! Rasputin has been "belligerent" all through out "rattling his nuclear arsenal" so as to scare the rest of world with or without realizing that he himself would not last the "hour" if he chooses the nuclear option. Rasputin is also being "kleptocratic" as he together with other oligarchs "robbing" Russia's enormous wealth to their own benefit leading luxurious lives when other Russians have to queue up for a kilo of butter ! The Preface contains the following words as well "dire consequences" which is what will follow if Mr. Rasputin follows up with his threats to the rest of the world which will also have "consequences" for himself. The sooner Mr. Rasputin realizes this truth will make this world a better place for himself and the rest of humanity for God's sake !
there are and will be books about the times and crimes of Putin. After 'perestroyka' and 'glasnost' my czecho-slowakian grandfather was able to buy a book and read empiric and documented facts about the scales of Stalins crimes, uncensored by the still Communist regime in the 80s. My grandpa's WW2 depiction as a 'slave-soldier' ( he was forcefully drafted as a horse-breeding&stable-student in Hungary) that fled the german army in late '43 and hid 2 years on a rooftop before the front started expanding torwards Stalingrad. He heard that russian soldiers did terrible things to romanian, hungarian and czecho-slovakian german-forced draftees..
I agree with this man 100% and I am a conservative Trump supporter on most issues EXCEPT Ukraine, I pray President Trump helps Ukraine Win not just end the war where it is, it sends the wrong Global message. Ukraine needs to Win, and Russia needs to lose PERIOD. 🇺🇸
Oh stop, religion doesn't guarantee any type of morality. Atheism is simply not believing in theists. Humans can come up with moral doctrine and standards without religion. We have the ability to think with reason. Religion does more harm than good.
Totally depends on Which religion. And on how well people adhere to it. There is a religion of rest in pieces, brutally oppression and murdering people in the world. That doesn't help much. Then there is a religion, that teaches to love, respect and help others. If it goes one ear in and the other ear out and is drowned out by a heart otherwise inclined, indeed it won't help much. But if it's listened to and taken as a guideline, it sure does a lot of good. Problem is when people corrupt and twist it. But you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I’ll put it this way just like the the American South never fundamentally changed from reliance built on the order of the same order and hierarchy that came from slavery the USSR never changed after its defeat in the Cold War. In both defeats the defeated party was just able to sit and nurse their incomplete structures in to weird mutations. By the victors in both cases moved on and let the initial sin just fester and spread into a weird new thing in Russia that means Vladamir Putin but also in the West we see the legacy and neglect of certain black communities just overrun with neglect, and in modern times add an austerity to that, and it’s no wonder here in the west we suffer a crippling inequality, fractured off to two different realities in Russia you also have the Oligarchy a inequality by design.
Rotten to the core indeed, to this day.
As an escapee from the holodomor, my mother never trusted the soviets. There appeared to be a sliver of hope during Gorbachev but it has been snuffed out.
Slava Ukraini!
Thank you for the clarification, from Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada.
the other side of the tragedy is, that russian people entrust their political power to tyrants, feudalist-imperialists and bolshevik-'bourgeoisi' and then back to tyrannical-feudal imperialism. You and me as part of the Soviet and Post-Soviet-Era know best how the inner sadness of the people was exploited to fuel a narrative of global mental segregation and being told the soviet system is the most just and fair the people has ever gotten the pleasure of experiencing... :DDD so dumb, but back then 100s of millions believed it and would have died for such a dumb and unfair system. a tragedy they still have not learned.. 107 years since russia rose up, to try better things internally..
One of the clearest explanations of what is going on in Ukraine that I’ve heard so far. This should be broadcasted on every available screen in Trump land as quickly as possible.
The only sad thing is that the followers of the Trump cult lack the intelligence to comprehend any of this interview.
trump land isn't going to be swayed by facts, let alone any spark of intelligence.
@ So… Everything will be okay, right ? Trump voters must really hate the rest of the world.
@@pwp8737 They will have to get accustomed to remembering weird names like Minsk, Kiev, Astana, Tashkent and Bishkek but I fear that it will be too late for them. Will anyone care? I doubt it. Anyway, who do you think will win Djurgården or HJK?
Apparently your about as intelligent as putin. I vote Trump and am an avid Ukraine supporter.
All Biden and Kamala have done for 3 years is drag their feet while tying Ukraine hands behind their backs.
If they had had some.balls and opened up the toy chest within the 1st month we wouldn't be in this situation
By their inactions they have given 3.years to ramp up his war machine and now they are transferring critical military technology to N Korea and Iran
OMG! What a knowledgeable man. I could listen this person for hours. That was a really insightfully presented historical and political analysis of the current geopolitical security situation.
Thank you Jason Smart for inviting David Satter!" Yes, this should be shown on public screens every day, to remind about the madness and its source.
Thank you very much, Jason Smart, for inviting David Satter for this very important conversation. Thank you, David Satter, for providing thoughtful analyses and a very important voice in support of Ukraine.
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@@DarkestAlice he is saying that atheism caused the soviet atrocities, Putin and everything else! The guy is a disgusting joke, no matter how important he is.
@@flyingfox707b Hello Flyingfox, I think you might have misunderstood. David Satter said that the Soviet regime could introduce a new set of negative values to fill the gap that the imposed atheism opened. They made the state the new deity, so nobody could go against it and the state or its representatives were always right and what they did was okay. They removed morality (as the western world understands it) by declaring it unnecessary. In short: the state doubly robbed their population - it took away their belief and moral system and filled it with "anti-values". It was not atheism that caused the Soviet atrocities, but "the state" or rather its representatives who acted according to their needs. This later enabled the "criminal capitalism" in the 1990s, which is capitalism without the rule of law. That is why many compare the current state as a mafia-like run business. All the best to you!
Two absolute punks , no wonder why ppl get thrown out of buildings in russia😎
🤣I haven’t a second of the video but the title definitely made me laugh 😂.. and you’re here sucking that propaganda 🤦♂️
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David Satter knows the facts about Putin quite well
An excellent interview, good in depth thinking about the political, cultural, and philosophical problems we are all facing at this juncture in history. Russia never had a clean break from the past, so living under the harsh rule of the Czars and then the harsh rule of Bolshevists and dictators like Lenin and Stalin, set up a pattern of authoritarian rule with only a glimmer of a break during the handoff of power from Gorbachev to Yeltsin, with no real anti-corruption effort. I'm not so sure about the necessity of Christian values in a society, but of common sense principled moral values and empathy being required both within a nation and embodied by those in power, with individuals counting as equals in power vs. the masses and king, or the masses and church leaders, or the masses and party ruler i.e. the supreme Soviet ruler, which all looks about the same, but with a different colored varnish coated on top. People corralled into thinking they are but grains of sand in the fist, or all part of a sports team, the kind of subservient worship of the all powerful leader that cult members are obedient to and brainwashed into believing, there is the problem. Yes, Russia has unparalleled chauvinistic propaganda and war hysteria, the hypnotic narcotic that television is today, but there are changes afoot in attitudes in Russia, and I too believe that we must help Ukraine win this war, or the tottering wall will come toppling down on us in the freedom loving civilized world. The fate of the future of humanity rests in our hands. 🕊️🗽🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🌎
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Yes, a very good interview. I do share his view on real Christian values, like loving your neighbor like yourself and helping those in need, that they are tremendously beneficial for any society and person with them. There's a shield of protection to hear often enough to not steal and not murder, but instead share with those in need and respect their person and rights.
Just yesterday I saw a video about how the police under the CCP behaves like total crooks and openly steal and destroy. Heartbreaking.
Excellent comment. I like a lot of what is discussed in the interview, but to say that Christianity is required for a moral society is contradicted by most of the available evidence. Russia never got a clean break from the past because the early Bolsheviks ended up keeping much of the power structure of the Czarist state, most importantly the Checka/NKVD/KGB/FSB, which carried into the Putin regime. The most important thing, IMO, in the post-Soviet era was in the conversion to a market society without first implementing an appropriate legal system and popular education.
@@RedRosaThank you. I’m honestly so tired of the “Stalinists were terrible because they were atheists” argument. It simply doesn’t hold water if you look across the breadth of history. Plenty of atrocities have been committed by Christian nations. Western concepts of human rights are a result of secular humanism, which grew in a large part in opposition to established power structures that were supported and enabled by the Christian churches. Does anybody remember the divine right of kings?
@@jeremywillis7139you are confusing the message of Christ, Christianity, and the institution church... Two different things!
My father, who came from Ukraine, emigrated to the US after WW2 because he couldn't stand living there any longer and he wanted a better life. He fought for the Soviets so he knew what Russia was all about. He didn't like the ruling class of Russians. I remember him telling me that compared to the Russians, our Mafia here were amateurs and pussycats. Jason Smart is basically repeating what my father has already told me. We must keep supporting Ukraine with whatever they need until Russia loses this war and they're able to stand strong.
You learn so much history and understanding of the mentality of russians if you are fortunate enough to have at least one parent from Ukraine or the Baltics and you're interested enough to listen.
One of the best informative, illuminating and elucidating interviews I’ve come across, explaining of why Russia does what it does. Thank you Mr Satter for your knowledge and humanity.
Wow! What a fantastic guest! Lays out the essence of the situation very clearly. Needs to be heard by everyone
Speech of this guest is a blessing.
Excellent, excellent program! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Great interview, a friend of mine from Russia told me that in Russia a civil servant has two hats that he wears all the time. He wears a civil servant hat and underneath that is a mafia hat 🎩. Everyone in power is also in the mafia, it’s unbelievable for us westerners and it’s hard to wrap our heads around it. I spent a year in Russia and it really opened my eyes 🤦♂️
This "culture" is already implemented in the west. it has been for decades. They just hide it better. Look at Perun's video about Canadian military, from a few months ago... billions in budget going... nowhere. Heck, the soldiers don't even have a place to live and are homeless, and I don't mean former ones, I mean the barracks are destroyed, gov ate the money and never build new ones AND the salary makes impossible to rent anything let alone buy anything. And that's not in the video... the video is... insane. Mil personnel in the comments all concur, it's fubar! Corruption is total, the system is being destroyed from the inside. Russia is laughing. All according to plan. Governments make promises, get elected, allocate contracts, cancel them... Canada is 60 years behind!
This is what MAGA Nationalists are working on in the USA
Meanwhile the totally opaque gov says: trust us, it's all right! Yeah, right. Meanwhile the media is a bag of foreign propaganda, the NGOs are all compromised and used to fan the fires BRICKS is lighting up everywhere here at home and globally, and manipulate public opinion and start untold amounts of unrest. Some criminal groups are stock piling weapons better than the police, police is "losing" weapons and do nothing while drugs that kill are ravaging society like never. Every body blames everybody, no one does anything... It works great.
Thousands manifest to "save Palestine"... the house is on fire, save the carpet! Idiots paid by Russia. Destroy Russia, then take care of Iran, then Hezbolaha and Hammass just... vanish! Palestine is saved... Ukraine is saved. When the finger points, only morons look at the finger and debate for months if it should be manicured! While what it points at is about to destroy everything. Ostrich politics! Media staring at the hand the holds the finger! Damn!
absolutely true. My wife is ruZZian and I have lived there so can testify from first hand experience.
ALL politicians are corrupt bar none.
ALL police are corrupt bar none
ALL judges are corrupt bar none.
The ordinary citizen is a prisoner in their own country.
An example -
My wife`s brother witnessed someone being beaten up. He stepped in to help, along came the police and arrested HIM. he got 10 years in prison . There was no evidence at all because he didn`t do anything but the police had "solved" the crime.
Evil desperate inhuman country that cannot be permitted to defeat Ukraine..
👍Great information!
thank-you Mr. Satter and Mr. Smart.
Great interview and right on point with your amazing guest David Satter, people need to know what Russia is all about, Thank goodness when I was in school during the time of the cold war with the Soviet Union and it's break up , we had studies in school that gave us a view into the History of Russia it's criminal history and the Communist and Soviet ideology of world domination, it is a history lesson that is still happening to this day , SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇸💙💛🇺🇦
Thank Heavens that in the United States of America there are intelligent & thoughtful people like David Satter. If only that Republic had more citizens with his backbone & breadth of understanding issues that go beyond its mundane domestic concerns. from 🇨🇦
Unfortunatey he is a rarity in the US.
Canada can’t even take care of Canada…. America has to take care of the whole world.
Also half of Europe paid for Putin’s war buying their oil …. building pipelines for him… then complaining when a certain president said it was a bad idea…. and then made them start paying their share of supporting NATO…. and then crying about that…
What a load of Crap
Poroshenko and Zelenskee has Genocided the Ukrainian White Christian ✝️ Nation on behalf of the U.S - EU - nato
WEF - Soros Zionist Neo Cons
Slava Russia 🇷🇺 from Scotland
I believe a more clear exsplanation of Ukraine's historic background ,their history that is older than russia as Kiev existed thousand years before moscow was even funded will help to dispell all remaining doubts about russia 's unfounded claims of being the legimate owner of Ukraine.Ukrainian's language ,the coniage of their currency pre dated russia .Also Ukraine had good trade with Europe long before lenin asked them to help against the ottomans only to betray them as russia drooled for their great agricolture and wanted their crops .So they back tracked their promises and filled Ukraine with russians that are the separatists of today .This truth is not being explained efficently and people in the West has some doubts sometimes about putin rights to invade .It's all about a criminal decision to steal from Ukraine and envie for their people that are skilled,laborious and caring for each other unlike russians that are morally twisted by their sovietic union era's ways!
Can't believe there is anyone sane in the West, that would ever come even close to thinking anyone would have the 'right' to invade another sovereign country. It's too absurd for words!
Excellent comment... I've been screaming at my gov't here in Canada to give dual citizens an option... either stay here and denounce RU or give up your western passport and go back to RU.... it's anything but a great country and superpower should be recounted to super brutal power.
What a brilliant and enlighteninh interview.
Thank you
Thanks, Kyiv Post.
Get this in front of Joe Rogan. This needs to be heard and known across the West.
A very good analysis and warning of the critical situation that Ukraine and the West are facing. It is true so much more is at stake than just our material welfare but our very values and ideals. We in the West have become so complacent about our freedom and this is the danger. Ukraine's heroic struggle for its freedom and independence, its sacrifice, is an inspiration and object lesson to us all and must not be allowed to fail at any price.
Excellent historical analysis Mr Satter, totally agree with your vision
Slava Ukrani 💙💛
David Satter’s assessment is just top notch! Hope the incoming US administration is carefully listening what he has to say!
Thank you for the guest. Very good and deep analysis of understanding, what is russia. Though russians are not Slavic people like Ukrainians.
Very true
SLAVA UKRAINE! From Italy ❤❤
Thank you for enlightening the masses about the history of repressions of Ukrainians by the russian rulers
Very interesting interview. I learned a lot from Mr. Slatter. Thank you
Very intelligent, knowledgeable and informing guest 👍
Thank you for your analysis of the Russian Mafia vs the Italian American Mafia. That helps me understand the situation better. Слава Україні!
While I knew quite a lot of this already this gentleman puts it in such incredible historical overview and context. Just sublime. Thank you both for enlightening me.
Exceptional analysis!
Having spent a great deal of time in Russia over the past 40 years...my belief is that Russia/Russians are simply not (for lack of a better term)..."reformable". This goes beyond some kind of geopolitical conundrum or even power vertical with the nation in it's grip. This is about the Russian people...and is the common belief held by most of my friends and family here in Czech Republic and pretty much everyone I know in former Warsaw "Pact" nations I have lived and worked in...over the decades...and certainly shared among the Baltic peoples. We will be forever asking the question, what to do about Russia...And I can tell you that proximity and real life experience and living memory plays a massive role in the visceral nature of that question. We here in this part of the Europe woke up on February 24th 2022 without any measurable surprise over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It feels like more and more we need to question how much we can trust Hungary ,Slovakia and now potentially Romania (with their latest political leanings). They feel more like Trojan horses on our Eastern Flank...not allies. Russian's "seeing an alternative path" in the example Ukraine has been on (albeit rocky and long riddled with corruption) is exactly the existential threat Putin and his mob elite and acolytes fear to core of their existence...THIS is what Putin's invasion is about...mixed in with his colossal butt hurt ego and mythical revisionist understanding of history and revanchist DNA. Ukraine has been fighting to not become another Belarus since the Soviet Union collapsed and each and every republic declared their independence. Russia and Putin simply believes they don't have to recognise Ukraine's independence and agency as sovereign nation. Russia only lends Belarus it's "sovereignty" as long as it and whomever comes after Lukashenko fall in line with the Kremlin's "sphere of influence"...exactly what Ukraine fighting against now...for their very existence as a nation and culture.
Satter: "If we show that what we really care about is only our material well being.... we will undercut the very basis of our own moral existence."
PUTINS DELIRIUM, WHAT IS MINE IS MINE, WHAT IS YOURS IS MINE. WE WILL TRY TO TAKE IT ALL. WE RUSHANS DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH LAND.
Thank you for this excellent interview! Very insightful.
Powerful.
If only Biden and Trump would understand this criticality in the empty space between their ears.
Awesome interview. Thank you from Toronto, Canada
Pure evil.
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So interesting!
It was clear to me a long time ago, the axis of terror mentioned in this broadcast. Very well explained by David Satter. Jason thank you for inviting David Satter.
Everybody who understands German language should watch interviews of Otto von Habsburg (son of last Habsburg monarch) from 2003 and 2005 about Putin (it is on RUclips).
This very intelligent man knew 20 years ago EXACTLY what Putin is and what he will do. It is absolutely shocking how much this man was right with everything he said in 2003 about Russia and Putin.
Finally another interview with David Satter! Hope there are many more to come, he's a well of knowledge. Thank you, and may God bless you both!
David Satter should be a advisor to the Trump Administration, This interview nailed it so well! Wow!
Very good info, thank you.
Stalin’s Russia was not truly communist but fascist, using the communist label only because it gave a theoretical moral gloss to fascism.
Murderous regime
Fascist Italy, Portugal, Greece or Spain were much less repressive than Stalin s Russia and the level of freedom was much higher. Of course Stalin was a convinced communist and he applied collectivisation because he deeply believed in communist idea, no doubt about. The fascist Latvian dictator Karlis Ulmanis gave a level of rent similar to Norway and higher than Finland. When the fascist Latvia was replaced by communist Stalinism, the country changed completely, losing freedom and prosperity, and being transformed in one of the poorest countries of Europe.
There was never any pure communist countries in history. Even Marx never claimed to have any solution.
@@rafaelsanz3441 lol I didn’t know wester Europe killed millions s of its citizens through torture and starvation 🤡
I don't believe communism in the true sense of the philosophy has ever existed anywhere except perhaps in the Israeli kibutzes. So called communist states have never been anything more than dictatorships. In China today, still calling itself communist, unfettered capitalism prevails supported by corruption.
Great Interview.
Slava Ukraine!
Pity Americans have lost so much of their morality lately 😢
They never had any 😢
Thank you for this very detailed analysis. The only thing I would like to add is that Ukraine and russia became close only as a result of centuries of violent policy of assimilation, russification and integration of Ukraine by russia.
In the 17th century, both countries needed translators in order to conclude agreements. Ukrainians did not understand Muscovites, and Muscovites did not understand the language of Ukrainians. However, the violent russification, which consisted of arson of libraries, 170 official bans on the Ukrainian language, mass executions of Ukrainian poets and artists, ban of Ukrainian Christian traditions, the forced deportation of Ukrainians to the territory of russia, the settlement of Ukrainian cities and villages devastated by artificial famine by russians… The artificial assimilation of Ukrainian language to russian language in the 20th century by removing from it a huge number of words that differed from russian and replacing them with words that were as similar as possible to russian…
All this led to the so-called friendship and similarity of the two countries.
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Thank you both. Slava Ukraini!
RUB lost 6% to USD just for today and 12% the latest week - bear that in mind when poo-tin says everything is running according to plan
It has lost even more now
In 2022 the Ruble was 133 to the dollar . Nothing happened
@@TrevorCrook-c1s which was due to the fact that the Kremlin has artificially maintained the ruble exchange rate by pumping money from putler's personal war chest, well, that chest is starting to run out and that has been a temporary solution all along, this time the problem will not be solved in the same way, this time the tools are running out, this is exactly what certain economists of Russian origin themselves, such as Konstantin from the Inside Russia channel, have been talking about for a long time.For anyone who understands anything about economics and the fact that the Kremlin lies about everything, it has been obvious for a long time that sooner or later nothing will help, and we are now entering that moment. Without China's financial support, this would have happened a year ago, and the only thing that can save the Russian economy is if someone makes such an idiotic decision to lift sanctions on Russia. and it is precisely because of these things that it is not worth even commenting on things that you obviously do not understand, the fact that it did not happen in 2022 does not mean that it will happen the same way now, now the sanctions that some have said are not working are finally starting to work properly. Sanctions are a slow but very powerful weapon.
Berrry interesting.
Supremely articulate
Great insight. Thank you 🙏
Totally agree
Excellent discussion!
Ucraine ❤
Bravo! thank you very much!
Fantastic interview, thank you! David Satter is extremely knowledgeable. Just one small thing of note, Jason, you truly need to get a bit more sleep before interviewing as you were on the verge of nodding off during this interview. Having said that, I acknowledge that my suggestion is easier said than done, and think that you and other Ukrainians are truly pushed to the limit with the continuous bombing and sirens. I also acknowledge that I and many others would not have been able to cope under Ukraine's current situation. In my humble opinion, Ukrainians are the most courageous, smart, thoughtful, helpful, and innovative people in the World today. Slava Ukraini! :)
You got this right. Evil
Overlooking "Elon's" development as an international oligarch 😊
Magnificent !!
Get this man on the Joe Rogan podcast ASAP!
Who?
I wish someone like that could talk to the upcoming US president
The worry is the population of the US, Trump would never have gotten this far if the population had the intelligence to understand David Satter.
A commentator here suggests that "ruzzians are not slavic people like Ukrainians". To which one should add "or Poles, or Czechs, or Slovenes, or Croats, or, even, Slovaks. Balkan Slavs have favorable sentiments from their emancipation from " the 500 year enslavement" under the Ottoman Empire. Exposure to EU values, arguably, have had 3 decades in which to put this historic sense of gratitude, into its modern context, and treat it with mature perspective.
Judging from Putin inability to solve any real problems in the Ukraine war or even today Russia, I have been wondering how did he manage to solve any economic/social problems back in 90s. This video explains some of these reasons.
Exactly... he didn't solve a single problem... but he sure did make everyone believe he solved them... the Emperor has no clothes, only an abundance of natural resources.
free oil money
Like Constantine making Sol & Christianity being the two sides of his coin. There are only two sides and in those days it took a long time to promulgate because coins travelled through trade. How else would you have an idea of who was in charge? Fast forward and ask the same question today. I think from my private point of view that it should not be judged through the lens of "false ideas' as David points out to us.
This guy is out in left field. The Russian Ortgodox church has given it blessing to the Ukraine invasion.many many many wars have been fought over somebody's idea of what got is.
Do you mean the fake front church that is just KGB
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦💪
Satter's argument was reasonable until he oversimplified. Predominantly atheistic countries include Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Japan, and Sweden. There is NO way that these populations and governments can be considered collectively immoral or amoral. However, when morality is enforced ONLY by a religious edifice, then the sudden, mandated replacement of religious organizations by a dysfunctional state apparatus has proven disastrous.
Not the argument he is making. Listen carefully.
Forward this video to joe rogan
Who?
Joe Rogan doesn't listen to cowards like these slandering.
@@sufilover5530 Sufi, You have lost your marbles. Integrity you never had.
@@gardenjoy5223 you have described yourself perfectly. 😂
It's a bloody shame.
This was wery interesting and made me understand something new. I have long wondered if Russia had some part in the opioid flowing into my country after the full scale invasion. Especially young people fall victim to this and even young people have died.
Gangs in Denmark used to have some code of honour like not recruiting 13 year old kids, but that happens now.
Kids take "assignments" they find on Telegram and recieve "the means" (a handgrenade or a gun, a ticket, an adress...) Details are provided as late as possible. The providers may not even be present at the scene of the crime.
Often these kids have no prior connection to crime.
This happens at least both in Denmark and Sweden and have also started after feb. 2022 where both our countries upped our support against the Russian invasion.
It's also important to note that those gangs are not ethnically Danish nor Swedish. They're not Danish nor Swedish.
The mayor of kalingrad has told the public to sort out their basements and ti expect attacks
Well articulated argument for why the US must support Ukraine, but it also applies to Europe - much of which has so far been shamefully weak.
Slava Ukraine.
Perfect. If only numerous weak western leaders understood this
I’ve been saying, the US can pay in equipment and assistance money now, or we can pay in lives later. Sadly the majority seems intent on the lives.
this interview with the stalker 2 soundtrack in a new kind of experience ..
The assertion that christianity is synonym or proxy for actual morality is so demonstrably FALSE that it MUST be contested.
Observing the depravity or priests by age 12, - i will not give details here, but too common violations of children occurred, causing me to question the existence of some "santa claus" who would reward behaviors after one was dead, while NOT preventing the destruction of innocent children when they were alive, initially caused me to become a Moral Antitheist.
Later, the discovery of just HOW the missionaries in early Hawaii (a French Catholic priest gave Kamehameha guns for conversion, and he sailed with his warriors quickly to brutally conquer other island populations, who were separate, peaceful, and actually practiced the Aloha spirit of mutual regard for ALL life. That was gone following the mix of invasive forces)
AND all the rest of the South Pacific SHOULD DISABUSE you ALL of ANY notion that christianity, which also did that in Mainland USA in the1700s, is in any way moral.
It is christianity's VILIFICATION OF ALL who disagree, and ALL life that so importantly evolved to balance nature that is openly destructive and violent.
Whether the famous "kill them all and let 'god' sort them out" was uttered by a christian in charge of those who attacked a southern French region, where the "christians" had instead attempted to protect their democratically differing families, neighbors, friends, and so suffered death, torture, etc. for BEING moral.
The total extent of christian harm cannot remotely be encompassed in a minor youtube comment.
But LOOK at the US christians who desire to overturn democracy and establish just another cruel theocracy as did and do Islamists of the past 30-odd years - and this regards only that much of history, which is filled with christian atrocities.
Morality evolved in our species , as well as several others, including Nonprimate species whose familial bonds, protective care, and emotional investment is GREATER than that of cruel drunken and exclusionary humans.
WE lie, other species do NOT.
We brutally abuse children - and i am a survivor of both extreme alcohol abuse as well as extreme religious abuse and abandonment when I took issue with FAMILY over their preference for their priests and ridiculous cruel dogma over their children.
People largely do NOT change, and so such farce as claiming that children must "overcome 'trials' " is MERELY SUPPORTING christian cruelty.
When YOU [or I] perpetrate harm, ONLY YOU [or I] am responsible - not bogus 'gods' o r other schizophrenic or schizotypal dementia EXCUSE YOU [or me].
Misattribution is conflating REAL St Peterburg or ANY other criminals - like sex criminal, tax cheat, racist, defrauder, election criminal, de facto Putin agent and US traitor insurrectionist, with some "evil spirit" that can or will be withdrawn should he find "religion" Trump.
In FACT, neither he, nor ANY other lifelong criminal will EVER change. This is not due to some "god" to whom christians have and do sacrifice their children.
I echo the comment below. One of the most knowledgeable and thoughtful. I am glad he took us back to Putin as deputy mayor of St Petersburg..the chap in charge of contracts I believe? (food, army, heavy goods and lots more!)....I see a line (not sure if correct?)...from Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, and through to today's leaders of North Korea, China, Iran and even Afghanistan (different but as dangerous as the others)...Iraq..and now Putin...Think how many millions of his own Stalin murdered or was responsible for...
Time to change the "subscribe 120k" plaque to 140k (;
The same could be said about tRump.
In a Preface from the book by Prof. Catherine Wilson "How to be a Epicurean" this writer came across two terms which goes on to describe certain types of rulers as being "belligerent and kleptocratic" the personification of Mr. Rasputin ! Rasputin has been "belligerent" all through out "rattling his nuclear arsenal" so as to scare the rest of world with or without realizing that he himself would not last the "hour" if he chooses the nuclear option. Rasputin is also being "kleptocratic" as he together with other oligarchs "robbing" Russia's enormous wealth to their own benefit leading luxurious lives when other Russians have to queue up for a kilo of butter ! The Preface contains the following words as well "dire consequences" which is what will follow if Mr. Rasputin follows up with his threats to the rest of the world which will also have "consequences" for himself. The sooner Mr. Rasputin realizes this truth will make this world a better place for himself and the rest of humanity for God's sake !
There is a lot of similarities between pedoputin, rasputin, stalin and hitler.
there are and will be books about the times and crimes of Putin. After 'perestroyka' and 'glasnost' my czecho-slowakian grandfather was able to buy a book and read empiric and documented facts about the scales of Stalins crimes, uncensored by the still Communist regime in the 80s.
My grandpa's WW2 depiction as a 'slave-soldier' ( he was forcefully drafted as a horse-breeding&stable-student in Hungary) that fled the german army in late '43 and hid 2 years on a rooftop before the front started expanding torwards Stalingrad. He heard that russian soldiers did terrible things to romanian, hungarian and czecho-slovakian german-forced draftees..
I agree with this man 100% and I am a conservative Trump supporter on most issues EXCEPT Ukraine, I pray President Trump helps Ukraine Win not just end the war where it is, it sends the wrong Global message.
Ukraine needs to Win, and Russia needs to lose PERIOD.
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Oh stop, religion doesn't guarantee any type of morality. Atheism is simply not believing in theists. Humans can come up with moral doctrine and standards without religion. We have the ability to think with reason. Religion does more harm than good.
It isn't the point he is making. He is saying that the state became the religion and thus its dictates were the moral code.
Totally depends on Which religion. And on how well people adhere to it. There is a religion of rest in pieces, brutally oppression and murdering people in the world. That doesn't help much. Then there is a religion, that teaches to love, respect and help others. If it goes one ear in and the other ear out and is drowned out by a heart otherwise inclined, indeed it won't help much. But if it's listened to and taken as a guideline, it sure does a lot of good. Problem is when people corrupt and twist it. But you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
He doesn’t argue that. See 7:26 from whence he begins
Can Mr Satter please have just 10 minutes to educate Donald Trump?
Trump is their pawn, he gets it, been bought out for decades
Imagine having an integer man like that as president (though a bit younger would be best). The course of a nation would greatly benefit.
And the Moskovia State DEIFIED the Tsar.
I’ll put it this way just like the the American South never fundamentally changed from reliance built on the order of the same order and hierarchy that came from slavery the USSR never changed after its defeat in the Cold War. In both defeats the defeated party was just able to sit and nurse their incomplete structures in to weird mutations. By the victors in both cases moved on and let the initial sin just fester and spread into a weird new thing in Russia that means Vladamir Putin but also in the West we see the legacy and neglect of certain black communities just overrun with neglect, and in modern times add an austerity to that, and it’s no wonder here in the west we suffer a crippling inequality, fractured off to two different realities in Russia you also have the Oligarchy a inequality by design.
Interesting
Devils sun..that all..
Otay do something about it.
What all the wars throughout history have in common is: organized religiousness.