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..
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.
🧐 He has some knowledge... I would take what they say with a grain of salt. It's not viewed from a 'realists' point of view... It's from an American warped perspective.
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!
How I agree with you. Should be seen worldwide including and particularly the West so called mainstream, traditional media including mine in the UK..as well as these new radio ranters like eg GB News.
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 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
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
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.
Agreed. The Russian leaders have stupidly believed the conquest fantasies of the Russian political mystic/occultist Alexander Dugin, whose fairy tales of innate Russian superiority are basically plagiarized from Hitler's failed "Thousand-year-Reich" delusions of Germany's world-wide empire. They have made the MASSIVE mistake of thinking that the western democratic nations are the biggest threat, squalling about 'the threat of America and 'Atlantism' for decades, while ignoring the wolf of China crouching at their eastern doorstep. This is what 400+ years of alcoholism and fetal-alcohol-syndrome did to the Russians.
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?
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.
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 🇺🇸💙💛🇺🇦
Salute 100% agree. Slava Ukraine from Hungary. Glory to the heroes of Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 They are fighting for our freedom too and for the freedom of the whole free world.
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.
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.
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.
The Republican Party has been undermining America's democracy for around 100 years, and the Democratic Party has worked hard to bring recovery from the 1930's Great Depression, to give Americans Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Child Labor laws, Infrastructure bill, and the Microchips Act to bring jobs back to America. When the banks are warning against a Republican president (even when they were so stupid as to help him get elected in the first place), one KNOWS that the Trump administration is going to be an epic disaster! But it's the Republican Party (whose scapegoating of the Democrats has plunged us into a probable dictatorship) that people are still mentally in thrall to. Trump lusts for a dictatorship that will outdo Russia AND North Korea. Remember that this slow motion Russian disaster is what the American Republican Party, the white Christian Nationalists, the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society aspire to for America....
It’s good to see Jason loosening up a bit & sounding more human rather than his original robotic non emotional rigid self. Keep it up, I feel your progress.
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.
The Republican Party has been undermining America's democracy for around 100 years, and the Democratic Party has worked hard to bring recovery from the 1930's Great Depression, to give Americans Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Child Labor laws, Infrastructure bill, and the Microchips Act to bring jobs back to America. When the banks are warning against a Republican president (even when they were so stupid as to help him get elected in the first place), one KNOWS that the Trump administration is going to be an epic disaster! But it's the Republican Party (whose scapegoating of the Democrats has plunged us into a probable dictatorship) that people are still mentally in thrall to. Trump lusts for a dictatorship that will outdo Russia AND North Korea. Remember that this slow motion Russian disaster is what the American Republican Party, the white Christian Nationalists, the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society aspire to for America....
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.
The Republican Party has been undermining America's democracy for around 100 years, and the Democratic Party has worked hard to bring recovery from the 1930's Great Depression, to give Americans Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Child Labor laws, Infrastructure bill, and the Microchips Act to bring jobs back to America. When the banks are warning against a Republican president (even when they were so stupid as to help him get elected in the first place), one KNOWS that the Trump administration is going to be an epic disaster! But it's the Republican Party (whose scapegoating of the Democrats has plunged us into a probable dictatorship) that people are still mentally in thrall to. Trump lusts for a dictatorship that will outdo Russia AND North Korea. Remember that this slow motion Russian disaster is what the American Republican Party, the white Christian Nationalists, the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society aspire to for America....
They don't need to understand... nor do they need to know how to run the country. The Elites and the Corporations sets the Policies for the Country... the Gov't just have to enact it.
NATO + allies must be united. More then ever. United we stand. Apart we fall. We have the moral reason, the resources and weaponry to keep pushing and win this. This is a battle for freedom, democracy and to honor and respect the thousands and thousands of allied freedom fighters that fought and died in the beaches, cities, deserts and jungles of the World, so we can all live a meanigful life with rights and liberties.
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.
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.
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.
The Republican Party has been undermining America's democracy for around 100 years, and the Democratic Party has worked hard to bring recovery from the 1930's Great Depression, to give Americans Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Child Labor laws, Infrastructure bill, and the Microchips Act to bring jobs back to America. When the banks are warning against a Republican president (even when they were so stupid as to help him get elected in the first place), one KNOWS that the Trump administration is going to be an epic disaster! But it's the Republican Party (whose scapegoating of the Democrats has plunged us into a probable dictatorship) that people are still mentally in thrall to. Trump lusts for a dictatorship that will outdo Russia AND North Korea. Remember that this slow motion Russian disaster is what the American Republican Party, the white Christian Nationalists, the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society aspire to for America....
And to the fundamental Muslims who believe there is an afterlife that is more important than this life, the matter of passing on from this life is just a matter of form. All those killed, in the pursuit of their cause, will be wafted to their paradise of unlimited joy. So immoral. So careless.
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.
And the Soviet System came out of the Moskovia Tsarist Reality; which was rather depraved itself. The Myth of the wounderous Tsarist State needs to be flushed.
after listening to this discussion would it be fair to say that TRUMP wants to impose the same sort of criminal government system on america that is discussed in this program
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...
And Trump. Trump lusts for a dictatorship that will outdo Russia AND North Korea. He's an idiot whose head has been filled with Russian propagana since 1987.
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..
Am I the only one that find this gentlemans perception that the root cause of russian moral corruption is caused by atheism borderline grotesque? It seems like a VERY generalized view on religion and atheism considering the fact that some of the most peaceful, humanistic and least corrupt nations in the world are also the least religious. And considering the fact that religious people seem more prone to accept an authoritarian rule, his analysis seems to demonstrate a bit of a black and white and not quite realistic world view. Hmmm...
Agreed. Absolutely right; the Abrahamic religions (especially Christianity) have always been foundational tools for conquerors, despots and tyrants. This slow motion Russian disaster is what the American Republican Party, the white Christian Nationalists, the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society aspire to for America....
All good but thoughts on religion (which, in this case is supposed to be Christianity, although majority of the world for the most part, including today, are not or have not been Christian) are just factually incorrect. Christianity did not establish the value of all people and was, until relatively recently, used as a basis for discrimination of women, people of other beliefs, other races, and even children. So please don't put it all on the lack of religion in USSR. And don't tell us people in USSR believed in the state or leader the way Christians believe in God. Not really. In USSR, people just ignored the state as much as they could and didn't believe anything/anybody. Churches were functioning all across the union, they were never fully banned. Situation in russian federation right now is pretty much the same, if not worse, even though religion is in full swing and everybody seems to be a Jesus loving citizen in there now. So the lack of religion in USSR wasn't its main issue at all.
@@andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416 I'm not a historian. Wrote that line from my own experience from living in Lithuania under Soviet occupation and from modern accounts of russians that lived in other republics, mainly in the Russian Federative Republic. There were plenty of functioning churches in the seventies, eighties. 1930ies? Would have to do research. Initial search indicates that yes, there were functioning churches in USSR (but a very small number). Lithuania wasn't occupied back then. On the other hand, just thinking logically, that was relatively shortly after the revolution, which wasn't anything highly expected and wasn't anything supported by the majority of people, as far as I know. I doubt in 15 or 20 years religious families could completely loose their faith, let alone replace it with believe in communism or something. I actually doubt communism ever replaced religion in USSR, although there were bouts of personality cult. This factor is simply overestimated, imho. People put up China and say look, it's communist because they do not profess any religions we would recognize. But truth is, as far as I understand, that China was always this way. Budhism, for example, is, in principle, an more or less an atheistic religion, as far as I understand. Or we can take states like Sweden, where there are so many people who do not belong to any religion. They are doing perfectly fine.
@@k.squared Thank you for your reply. Leaving apart the religion/Christianity in general ( in what suppose you have a point ), what I mean the bolsheviks in particular, later soviets (or earlier Jacobins in France) were anti-Church in their ideology and action and as long as their propaganda wasn't religion per se, It was meant to be a dominant worldview.(Similar to Third Reich). The churches were turned into museums at best or warehouses or stables if they weren't burnt or destroyed - not open for religious service. As long as many people kept their faith, the wave of revolt let some become someone opposite - Dzerzhinsky had Catholic noble background, Stalin himself was a seminarist ... the sovietman ('sovetskiy chelovek', homo sovieticus) did appear. Also, I think although in mostly nowadays laic countries in their past Christian believes did influence /form their culture. BTW I thought you mean Czech Republic as the most un-religious country.
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.
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.
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..
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.
🧐 He has some knowledge... I would take what they say with a grain of salt. It's not viewed from a 'realists' point of view... It's from an American warped perspective.
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!
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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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.
How I agree with you. Should be seen worldwide including and particularly the West so called mainstream, traditional media including mine in the UK..as well as these new radio ranters like eg GB News.
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.
The US Mafia certainly were not pussycats, just smarter and not crazy commies.
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
This is the only guy that makes sense discussing Russia
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
There are in all western countries because they have a Christian basis.
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.
Agreed. The Russian leaders have stupidly believed the conquest fantasies of the Russian political mystic/occultist Alexander Dugin, whose fairy tales of innate Russian superiority are basically plagiarized from Hitler's failed "Thousand-year-Reich" delusions of Germany's world-wide empire. They have made the MASSIVE mistake of thinking that the western democratic nations are the biggest threat, squalling about 'the threat of America and 'Atlantism' for decades, while ignoring the wolf of China crouching at their eastern doorstep.
This is what 400+ years of alcoholism and fetal-alcohol-syndrome did to the Russians.
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!
David Satter knows the facts about Putin quite well
Excellent, excellent program! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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.
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 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 🇺🇸💙💛🇺🇦
What a brilliant and enlighteninh interview.
Thank you
Salute 100% agree.
Slava Ukraine from Hungary. Glory to the heroes of Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
They are fighting for our freedom too and for the freedom of the whole free world.
👍Great information!
❤ the worst part of this delirium is that it is obviously contagious🎉
Thank you for enlightening the masses about the history of repressions of Ukrainians by the russian rulers
Excellent historical analysis Mr Satter, totally agree with your vision
Wow! What a fantastic guest! Lays out the essence of the situation very clearly. Needs to be heard by everyone
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!
Speech of this guest is a blessing.
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.
Thank you for the guest. Very good and deep analysis of understanding, what is russia. Though russians are not Slavic people like Ukrainians.
thank-you Mr. Satter and Mr. Smart.
Thanks, Kyiv Post.
Very true
David Satter’s assessment is just top notch! Hope the incoming US administration is carefully listening what he has to say!
They won't. Trump lusts for a dictatorship that will outdo Russia AND North Korea.
Get this in front of Joe Rogan. This needs to be heard and known across the West.
He is too stupid and ignorant.
I doubt that Rogan would listen...
Lol 😂
Slava Ukrani 💙💛
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."
SLAVA UKRAINE! From Italy ❤❤
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.
Powerful.
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.
David Satter should be a advisor to the Trump Administration, This interview nailed it so well! Wow!
The Republican Party has been undermining America's democracy for around 100 years, and the Democratic Party has worked hard to bring recovery from the 1930's Great Depression, to give Americans Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Child Labor laws, Infrastructure bill, and the Microchips Act to bring jobs back to America. When the banks are warning against a Republican president (even when they were so stupid as to help him get elected in the first place), one KNOWS that the Trump administration is going to be an epic disaster!
But it's the Republican Party (whose scapegoating of the Democrats has plunged us into a probable dictatorship) that people are still mentally in thrall to. Trump lusts for a dictatorship that will outdo Russia AND North Korea. Remember that this slow motion Russian disaster is what the American Republican Party, the white Christian Nationalists, the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society aspire to for America....
Exceptional analysis!
Awesome interview. Thank you from Toronto, Canada
It’s good to see Jason loosening up a bit & sounding more human rather than his original robotic non emotional rigid self. Keep it up, I feel your progress.
Thank you for this excellent interview! Very insightful.
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.
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.
Excellent conversation. So very true.
Pity Americans have lost so much of their morality lately 😢
They never had any 😢
The Republican Party has been undermining America's democracy for around 100 years, and the Democratic Party has worked hard to bring recovery from the 1930's Great Depression, to give Americans Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Child Labor laws, Infrastructure bill, and the Microchips Act to bring jobs back to America. When the banks are warning against a Republican president (even when they were so stupid as to help him get elected in the first place), one KNOWS that the Trump administration is going to be an epic disaster!
But it's the Republican Party (whose scapegoating of the Democrats has plunged us into a probable dictatorship) that people are still mentally in thrall to. Trump lusts for a dictatorship that will outdo Russia AND North Korea. Remember that this slow motion Russian disaster is what the American Republican Party, the white Christian Nationalists, the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society aspire to for America....
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.
Excellent discussion!
Supremely articulate
So interesting!
Great Interview.
Slava Ukraine!
Perfect. If only numerous weak western leaders understood this
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.
Great insight. Thank you 🙏
Marco Rubio, 2016 Republican Primary: "Vladimir Putin is a thug."
Good choice for Secretary of State.
God bless Ukraine.
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Pure evil.
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!
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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.
If only Biden and Trump would understand this criticality in the empty space between their ears.
The Republican Party has been undermining America's democracy for around 100 years, and the Democratic Party has worked hard to bring recovery from the 1930's Great Depression, to give Americans Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Child Labor laws, Infrastructure bill, and the Microchips Act to bring jobs back to America. When the banks are warning against a Republican president (even when they were so stupid as to help him get elected in the first place), one KNOWS that the Trump administration is going to be an epic disaster!
But it's the Republican Party (whose scapegoating of the Democrats has plunged us into a probable dictatorship) that people are still mentally in thrall to. Trump lusts for a dictatorship that will outdo Russia AND North Korea. Remember that this slow motion Russian disaster is what the American Republican Party, the white Christian Nationalists, the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society aspire to for America....
They don't need to understand... nor do they need to know how to run the country. The Elites and the Corporations sets the Policies for the Country... the Gov't just have to enact it.
Very good info, thank you.
Bravo! thank you very much!
NATO + allies must be united. More then ever. United we stand. Apart we fall. We have the moral reason, the resources and weaponry to keep pushing and win this. This is a battle for freedom, democracy and to honor and respect the thousands and thousands of allied freedom fighters that fought and died in the beaches, cities, deserts and jungles of the World, so we can all live a meanigful life with rights and liberties.
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
Totally agree
Putin is like Lord Voldemort
Very shrewd visionary
Power motivated
A horrible being
You got this right. Evil
Magnificent !!
Overlooking "Elon's" development as an international oligarch 😊
Thanks. I was so confused and you have turned on the lights on this matter
Berrry interesting.
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.
Can Mr Satter please have just 10 minutes to educate Donald Trump?
Trump is their pawn, he gets it, been bought out for decades
Trump wouldn't listen. The man was born vicious, stupid and cruel. Trump lusts for a dictatorship that will outdo Russia AND North Korea.
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.
beautiful. thank you. 😍
Ucraine ❤
Good video. Thanks 👍
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.
The Republican Party has been undermining America's democracy for around 100 years, and the Democratic Party has worked hard to bring recovery from the 1930's Great Depression, to give Americans Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Child Labor laws, Infrastructure bill, and the Microchips Act to bring jobs back to America. When the banks are warning against a Republican president (even when they were so stupid as to help him get elected in the first place), one KNOWS that the Trump administration is going to be an epic disaster!
But it's the Republican Party (whose scapegoating of the Democrats has plunged us into a probable dictatorship) that people are still mentally in thrall to. Trump lusts for a dictatorship that will outdo Russia AND North Korea. Remember that this slow motion Russian disaster is what the American Republican Party, the white Christian Nationalists, the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society aspire to for America....
And to the fundamental Muslims who believe there is an afterlife that is more important than this life, the matter of passing on from this life is just a matter of form. All those killed, in the pursuit of their cause, will be wafted to their paradise of unlimited joy. So immoral. So careless.
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 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
And the Soviet System came out of the Moskovia Tsarist Reality; which was rather depraved itself. The Myth of the wounderous Tsarist State needs to be flushed.
after listening to this discussion would it be fair to say that TRUMP wants to impose the same sort of criminal government system on america that is discussed in this program
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...
He killed so many of his people for his ego.
Get this man on the Joe Rogan podcast ASAP!
Who?
Rogan wouldn't listen.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦💪
There is a lot of similarities between pedoputin, rasputin, stalin and hitler.
And Trump. Trump lusts for a dictatorship that will outdo Russia AND North Korea. He's an idiot whose head has been filled with Russian propagana since 1987.
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. 😂
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..
Hungary (and Romania) had their own armies until 1944/45
The mayor of kalingrad has told the public to sort out their basements and ti expect attacks
Am I the only one that find this gentlemans perception that the root cause of russian moral corruption is caused by atheism borderline grotesque? It seems like a VERY generalized view on religion and atheism considering the fact that some of the most peaceful, humanistic and least corrupt nations in the world are also the least religious. And considering the fact that religious people seem more prone to accept an authoritarian rule, his analysis seems to demonstrate a bit of a black and white and not quite realistic world view. Hmmm...
Agreed. Absolutely right; the Abrahamic religions (especially Christianity) have always been foundational tools for conquerors, despots and tyrants. This slow motion Russian disaster is what the American Republican Party, the white Christian Nationalists, the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society aspire to for America....
It's a bloody shame.
this is very interesting; it's funny that pootin is 'so religious' yet thinks nothing to butcher people
All good but thoughts on religion (which, in this case is supposed to be Christianity, although majority of the world for the most part, including today, are not or have not been Christian) are just factually incorrect. Christianity did not establish the value of all people and was, until relatively recently, used as a basis for discrimination of women, people of other beliefs, other races, and even children. So please don't put it all on the lack of religion in USSR. And don't tell us people in USSR believed in the state or leader the way Christians believe in God. Not really. In USSR, people just ignored the state as much as they could and didn't believe anything/anybody. Churches were functioning all across the union, they were never fully banned. Situation in russian federation right now is pretty much the same, if not worse, even though religion is in full swing and everybody seems to be a Jesus loving citizen in there now. So the lack of religion in USSR wasn't its main issue at all.
Could you present some examples of "churches all across the Union"
eg in 1930s ?
(before Stalin changed the talk after Hitler's invasion advance 1941)
@@andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416 I'm not a historian. Wrote that line from my own experience from living in Lithuania under Soviet occupation and from modern accounts of russians that lived in other republics, mainly in the Russian Federative Republic. There were plenty of functioning churches in the seventies, eighties. 1930ies? Would have to do research. Initial search indicates that yes, there were functioning churches in USSR (but a very small number). Lithuania wasn't occupied back then. On the other hand, just thinking logically, that was relatively shortly after the revolution, which wasn't anything highly expected and wasn't anything supported by the majority of people, as far as I know. I doubt in 15 or 20 years religious families could completely loose their faith, let alone replace it with believe in communism or something. I actually doubt communism ever replaced religion in USSR, although there were bouts of personality cult. This factor is simply overestimated, imho. People put up China and say look, it's communist because they do not profess any religions we would recognize. But truth is, as far as I understand, that China was always this way. Budhism, for example, is, in principle, an more or less an atheistic religion, as far as I understand. Or we can take states like Sweden, where there are so many people who do not belong to any religion. They are doing perfectly fine.
@@k.squared Thank you for your reply.
Leaving apart the religion/Christianity in general ( in what suppose you have a point ),
what I mean the bolsheviks in particular, later soviets (or earlier Jacobins in France) were anti-Church in their ideology and action and as long as their propaganda wasn't religion per se, It was meant to be a dominant worldview.(Similar to Third Reich). The churches were turned into museums at best or warehouses or stables if they weren't burnt or destroyed - not open for religious service.
As long as many people kept their faith, the wave of revolt let some become someone opposite - Dzerzhinsky had Catholic noble background, Stalin himself was a seminarist ... the sovietman ('sovetskiy chelovek', homo sovieticus) did appear.
Also, I think although in mostly nowadays laic countries in their past Christian believes did influence /form their culture.
BTW I thought you mean Czech Republic as the most un-religious country.
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
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.