Defending "Democracy?": Western Media Acknowledges Ukraine's History of Stifling Dissent
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
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calling Ukraine a democracy is the same as calling NATO a defensive alliance
Well, yeah. lol. That's an own goal if I've ever seen one.
Zelensky is an illegitimate leader.
There's no shortage of illegitimate leaders this day and age.
R.I.P. Gonzalo Lira🙏😢, American citizen and independent reporter, who was arrested, tortured, and ultimately killed by Ukrainian government for reporting from Ukraine.
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Who represents the rights of Ukrainians that don't want to fight in the war ? Silly me.....they have no rights in Kiev's Democracy.
Free Assange!
R.I.P. Gonzalo Lira😢🙏.
Free Ukraine!
Censorship is a cult behavior
Imagine being so sure you're wrong, that your best strategy is to silence the opposition.
@@harrymills2770north Korea
@@lindakep3968 North America.
@@antoniovillanueva308 Not just North America but north America
even in this channel my comment got censor. let back to X
You should interview Diana Panchenko, a ukranian independent journalist. She asked too many questions, went to Donbas to talk to people there to find out the truth, she criticized Zelenskiy and yet she's the most popular journalist in Ukraine. And that's why Zelenskiy wants her in prison.
If U-Crane is a democracy, then why the need for a hit list? 🤔🤡
Diana is great❤️🔥🌹!
Hopefully, she does not meet the fate of fellow journalists Oles Buzina, Sergei Dolgov, or more recently Gonzalo Lira (a bit of Alexey Navalny, Charles Horman, Sergei Magnitsky, Frank Teruggi, Paul Klebnikov, and Serena Shim rolled into one), alongside other fellow citizens such as Denis Kireyev, Illia Kyva, Volodomyr Strok, etc. For that matter, I hope she does not meet a fate comparable to those of Fred Hampton, Karen Silkwood, Danny Casolaro, Kenneth Trentadue, Michael Hastings, etc. on this side of the Atlantic. With the likes of anti-war activists such as Yurii Sheliazhenko (who even-handedly condemns both the Russian invasion and Ukrainian responses thereto) and even pro-war but adversarial journalists such as Yuri Nikolov being harassed and prosecuted as Myrotvorets attempts to ape Operation Condor, being a more serious dissenter is especially risky.
@@VanSisean
💐 for these names.
Zelensky is bought,
to sell Ukraine to Blackrock.
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The current year is 1984
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Has been, since 1950.
Ukraine is a democracy, like Winston in 1984 being tortured being told that even though he is holding up 4 fingers Winston's response must be 5 or they will continue to torture him.
@@tombarry1824 Yup. And not only say 5. He has to actually believe fully and truly the number is 5, despite seeing there are only 4 fingers held up.
Many people already truly believe the Party.
The 40th anniversary of 1984!
That Zelenskyy is quite simply,diabolical
Who will come to restore democracy in the U.S.?
Restore the Constitutional Republic, not the democracy
Only Trump can do it..
Ukraine isn't a democracy. Far from it. In democracies there is more than one TV Channel, main political parties and main Christian denominations aren't banned, no mass extrajudicial killings, disappearances and torture, men from 18 to 60 aren't banned from leaving the country, people aren't rounded up in the streets and dragged to their death. Democracies hold elections after all. Well, it's a quote from The Time article. Zelenskyy top advisers say about him: “He deludes himself, ” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that. It is immovable, verging on the messianic.” According to the Economist Zelenskyy is literally screaming at his generals at this point. One Austrian artist was in a similar state in 1945 . Zelenskyy "achievements" to date: 500,000 Ukrainians are dead, 3x that mangled and crippled for life, half of Ukraine's population is living as refugees scattered all over Europe and Russia right now, they're drafting women because they've run out of men to kidnap off the streets, gyms and public transport. NYT wrote about these mass kidnappings that were happening only in Zelenskyy Ukraine and Hitler's Germany in 1945 in an article ‘People Snatchers’.
NYT is finally, belatedly starting to report SOME negative news on Ukraine-after spoon feeding Americans pro Ukraine claptrap for years. Too little, too late NYT.
When countries are dying civilian freedoms always disappear. Ukraine is dying.
"They're drafting women because they've run out of men to kidnap off the streets, gyms and public transport." Yay girlpower!! 🤡🤡
Who could've imagined that a comedian would've turned out to be such a terrible leader, i am truly shocked
@@hanklesacks But he was a poor comedian, if you dwell into his sketches he wasn't funny at all. He just tried too hard to be funny but if you ain't got talent for that you will never become an artist in that field but rather a hard worker. So, when out of the blue he became a president he became overzealous in presiding as well but again having just zero political experience or skill for either inner or outer policies. But what he quickly learned though that he should better serve well to his major mentors which are US and UK and so again overzealous as he usually is he became subservient to the combined West and Washington specifically. That overzealousness is the driving force behind his present state of delusion of being a messiah or savior if you wish whereas in reality he is a dead weight that has been dragging the Ukraine to the bottom ever since he's been elected. This is what you get when you deliberately elect poor comedian to preside over your country, folks.
Seeing him without his military uniform costume for the first time is like looking at a smug little bully who doesn’t have any friends.
He looks that way anyway.
"to the last ukrainian" we slavs will never forget what the west did to our people
Actually, your own peple did this to you . ALL the options were on the Table . The Russian Federation offered objectively better conditions for cooperation than EU if only Ukraine would decide to stay neutral . AND those treaties would have actually happened . The EU membership...as things are no, will never happen for Ukraine .
It is not the fault of the Russian Federation that the Zelensky Regime and its enablers sold out Ukraine to the tune of 800 billion Dollars, that includes roughly 50% of the fertile Land and ALL the in-the-ground-resources in the area at the time und control of the RF forces . Which is the reason why Ukraine has been told to fight to the last man .
Your people are literally dying for people who sold you out .
Ukros aren't Slavs. Nor are Poles or Croats for that matter. Stop believing everything the west tells you.
@@yaelz6043 what🤣 im slav and i hate the perpetually lying west
Wonderful talk on Tucker. Nobody doing it better than you Glenn.💪💪✊️✌️
Don't forget Denys Kiryeyev. He was a member of the Ukrainian negotiating team that was negotiating with Russia just four days after February 22, 2022 at a location near the Belarus border. He was assassinated for all the world to see. This was a strong signal to the rest in Ukraine about negotiating with Russia and was probably one of the reasons they had to move negotiations to Turkey.
“We don’t shoot deserters because we’re a democracy.”
- zelensky a few months ago after we all have seen footage of them not only shooting deserters but kidnapping their own recruits
Many men flew the country to Hungary by swimming over the Tisa river. There are videos here on UA-cam where people tell stories how they escaped Ukraine.
Some time ago the banks of the river was mined by landmines to prevent it. And already some people blew up on those.
@@veryveryveryvery161the stories of the guys who managed to escape by crosing Tisa or the mountains is even a niche genre of videos on UA-cam now. Quite a thrilling experience I gotta say
Including the mentally challenged, who were sent to the front lines WITHOUT a weapon. Just to run the body count up. Zelenskyy is as bad, if not worse, than Putin.
And what about the eternal cowards that returned to Israel? Zelensky is an actor J joke...
there is actually interviews of ukrainian POWs being targeted by usa sent missiles
Peace in 2022, what a lost opportunity.
I heart goes out to all the families that have lost loved ones in this horrible useless war!
There is so much more going on here!!!
Zelensky is evil
He's just an actor puppet reading a script
Money worshipers just can't figure out why the world is being destroyed....
They don't care. Caring about others would hamper their profits.
Glenn, very well said. Clear and concise. That's why you are one of the greatest journalists of our time. Thank you so much.
Закрытая для выезда страна с нелегитимным президентом, в которой законодательно отменены права человека. Мужики прячутся по домам от ТЦК и десятками тысяч бегут через границу через горы и реки.
Хотя что нового, защита демократии ведь так хорошо сработала в Ираке, Ливии и Афганистане.
Very correct… that is for your comment. Are you Russian or Ukrainian? I don’t know either languages but I know what the letters look like. I would really like to learn Russian some time…. I hope to visit Russia one day, maybe even go live there. I will NOT fight for my country (USA) but I would GLADLY fight for Russia as they have true purpose and are of righteous intent. There is corruption and evil in ALL governments…. But I know for a fact that the Russian government is far less evil America and many European countries. Although I think Israel might top America in being evil…. Evil is the default of mortal life on earth here. We are all ruled by evil and there is no escaping or changing it. It’s SUPPOSED to be evil anyways, god grants Earth as Satans Kingdom. It really is. And that’s not such a bad thing either. Rejecting the evil and overcoming the suffering and hardship is our human purpose. It’s supposed to be evil here. Governments can only be evil, but America and Israel and the UK are THE MOST evil for sure….
On Thursday April 25, Bogdan Syrotiuk - a socialist opponent of the fascistic Zelensky regime and the NATO-instigated Ukraine-Russia war - was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU, in his hometown of Pervomaisk in southern Ukraine. Under Zelensky, the Ukrainian people are prohibited from supporting a peace plan, of any kind.
Bogdan, who is 25 years old and in poor health, is being held in a prison in Nikolaev under atrocious conditions on fraudulent charges of serving the interests of Russia. In fact, Bogdan is an intransigent opponent of the capitalist Putin regime and its invasion of Ukraine. He fights for the unity of the working class in Ukraine, Russia and throughout the former Soviet Union.
Without actual democracy and critical media in Ukraine, peace is obstructed by force and violence - by Zelensky, the EU, and the US- led NATO.
well, the first party and people who were persecuted when fascistic regime in Ukraine came to power in 2014 - were REAL socialists.
Imagine pointing all this out to people since 2014 only to be told to put the foil hat on.
Eventually these people have to acknowledge if there is anyone with an obfuscation hat on, it's not those who read and paid attention and have eyes wide open all along.
The real issue is of course the lives lost while waiting for these people to forcibly extricate their head from the sand.
Do try to keep up next time, which sadly we can only assume there will be at this point.
They are aware but won’t care till it affects them, but by then it will be too late to fix what’s been briken
hmm, you seem to be forgetting that Putin ALSO invaded Ukraine in 2014 and promised never to do it again in a signed document
You should cause all of this is incredibly misrepresented
@@MrMM-vg9qoare you talking about yourself
Your statement sounds confused
NAFO trolls are beyond pathetic.
I wonder how many of them are actually Chatgpt?
@@killerbee2562no man, they're literally all like that. Go look at a WillyOAM, Spaniel or Kings & Generals video. It's all the same talking points from Gen Milley about the 3 day war, illegal invasion, Ukraine is a democracy and then they refuse to acknowledge any referendums, NatSoc units in the UAF, call you a bot and insist Ukraine is winning. Then when that fails theyll said the Orcs genocided everyone and the TCC and SBU are myths 😂
“Spying through peepholes in the wall” - Ukraine is surely hi-tech. 🙃
Ukraine was not a democracy before 2014 let alone after
Care to elaborate? Why wasn’t Ukraine a democracy before the 2014 coup d’état?
@@mirkovic Corruption,voter fraud,color revolution once before the Maidan in 2014,etc
@@mirkovic Corruption,voter fraud,one color revolution even before the one in 2014,etc...
@@mirkovic Ne moze komentar da mi prodje odustajem
@@mirkovic he's partisan and wrong
Thank you Glen.
These are the developments when too many people are treating parasites as pets.
18:05 BTW, Schröder also admitted in a TV interview that he violated international law when he waged war in Yugoslavia.
Ukraine seems to be defending the outrageous and excessive profits of the corporations of the military industrial complex more than anything, AND, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of innocent Ukraine lives!!!!!
WAIT! Are we...? ARE WE THE BADDIES?
And also very poor treatment of all minorities not allowing them the right to use their own languages or be taught in them. 100% correct
Democracy with a lot of corruptions
Ukraine is a “democracy”; you can’t get a statement that is more opposite from the truth than this
Yes, I can.
The Covid "vaccine"
"The Vaccine" was never a vaccine.
Yet we all still go along with the lie.....
Oh.... And Russia is. Right?
So.... That is your solution! Smart move.
Why don't we, ever, hear those simple, clear points in any of the oligarch-owned media?
Missing from Glenn's presentation is that on all these metrics Russia is far worse than Ukraine.
Neutrality Studies: Ignorance of European leaders is getting worse with Ezequiel Luis Bistoletti
On purpose 🤣😮
You mean the guys explicitly pro Russia not very neutral
@rebelmango2141 I hope you're paid well for all the time you spent trolling here. Otherwise I feel pity for you.
Excellent video.
@@rebelmango2141 yet, they aren't.
.... but the question is why are these criticisms are now allowed to be openly reported and make available to the general audience? 😮😮😮
Great report as always. However, Glenn seems to underestimate the actual pressure and the orchestration of the conflict by the US elites.
Yeah great constant misrepresentation. Also conspiracy theory much
@@rebelmango2141nothing Glenn has said is remotely close to being a conspiracy theory! Please give me one example of a statement that Glenn has said is a conspiracy theory? Buddy I think you’re being confused with Fox News, CNN, BBC, MSNBC 🤣
@@maxsportsman2416 no everything he said is very much that from what happened in 2014 to Istanbul. And I think you're confused with RT and Greyzone
@@maxsportsman2416 not to mention lying about the constitution which allows suspension of elections similar actions taken by Britain against Germany
@@maxsportsman2416 BJG show was filled with msn propaganda. That horrendous thing has been criticizing Israel for years.
She was fired because her base couldn’t stand her hypocrisy anymore!
She then went on a sympathy tour crying about Israel. 🤣🤣
Glenn is good. But he
This man is correct.
My government says it seeks peace and would never sacrifice blood and treasure for empire. As a good citizen, I always believe what my government says, about everything.
Great truth teller, thanks great video
Little Zelenskyy. He’s only 5ft 5 and no longer President. As his term ended in April 2024.
I think everyone who loves peace and has common sense needs to share his video as widely as he/she possibly can. I certainly did.
Does this put Glenn on Ukraine's kill list (on Myrotvorets) or was he already there? Either way, thank you for having the courage to speak out.
Will ignoring and protesting the draft be treated like BLM or college campus protests?
most likely, the US is an empire after all.
Ukrainian regime promotes the fancy history of Ukraine absolutely disconnected from history of neighbouring countries such as Hungary, Romania, Poland. According this "history" Ukraine is 3000 year old civilization. Those Ukrainians who denounce this nonsense are persecuted, some were killed by nationalism extremists.
Thanks fot saying what the news hides. Very important truths!
I don’t understand how there’s such silence from people in Ukraine in the age of internet. Gazan’s pushed their war images to the world for example which helped mobilize the anti war movement but Ukrainians are just taking this?
Maybe they are scared. Oh, silly me, Ukraine is a democracy.
@@blackcat2628zd 🤭
It's not democracy we're defending, that's for sure. Damn, I wish our government would stay out of things that aren't the business of the United States.
Our government has transformed into an authoritarian, socialist ideocracy..
Power of
It's a crime rhat you don't have a bigger platform Glen. You're my fucking hero.
Gonzalo Lira
I posted R.I.P Gonzalo and someone took it down.
@@a.jlondon9039 I'm sure youtube
@@a.jlondon9039truth is not allowed🚨
Thank you for showing the other side of the coin.
I am astonished nobody holds the media responsible. They really should be investigated
Now we know where the billions are going.
I never would have guessed that GG is two years oled than TC. Blown away.
Glenn Greenwald cites the UN as a moral standard. That says as much about Glenn Greenwald's morals as it does the UN's.
Great points!
If I were becoming filthy rich by being Ukraine's "Churchill" I'd stifle dissent too
Excellent segment.
The lack of democracy un Ukraine is never rebutted by the west. At the same time the west want ro preserve democracy there?
Hi Glenn, please check out the story about Viacheslav Morozov, a professor of political theory who has just been sentenced to six years in prison for activities against the Republic of Estonia. It is crazy story.
I love every time when Glenn calls the New York Times, the paper of record. I mean, it's true but also shows you how F'd history is.
Yea but while in the Ukraine the government is narrowing press freedoms that isn't any different in the USA.
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If we were fighting to defend democracy in Ukraine, it would for the first time ever. Why do people who say this act like that’s something the US has previously done ever??
In 1864 we held a presidential election right in the middle of the civil war. Elections are always a good idea. Maybe the people don't want more war.
Ukrainians hated Zelenskyii before the war. Then they liked him when the war started. Now they hate him again during the slaughter and the tyranny. Which way will the smoke from the ammo dump explosion blow next?
Glenn's thoughts are always welcome here, they are.
They're just doing what the American gov't does at home.
the espionage act from 1915, is that not the law assange will be prosecuted under?
This is exceptional thank you. Russia will never give in there will never be an end to this war if they do not negociate and if the west does not stop to give mlitary assistance. It is a terrible tragedy
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How about the western medias history of stifling dissent??
I hate that peace and cooperation...1991.
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You only have to look at crimea , it’s always populated vastly more by Russians. In the 50’s is was given Ukraine when full of Russians , after 60 years they had enough of kyiv and wanted back to Russia. Democracy is understanding it’s always been a Russian population that’s 80% and zelensky is saying it’s Ukraine land with only 60 years of ownership..
We’ve known about these talks for months (from independent news.) As well as Johnson tanking them (for US too.) NYT late to the game? Late to tell the truth
The Russian propagandist doesn't like being called a Russian propagandist. Imagine that.
Exact same line is said about Taiwan.
Lincoln held an election. So what is the problem?
Didn't Russia already have an agreement that they would have that buffer zone?
0-3million parents
Considering the level of public hatred there was towards the Japanese during WW2, internment turned out to be ultimately for their own safety.
The US is now a Corporatocracy with the MIC sitting at the head of the table
Conflict in Ukraine is not about defending democracy, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, it's about 10-12 trillion dollars of Ukraine's natural resources, plain and simple. 🤔🤔🤔
Are we talking about the Ukraine that reacted to democratically held Referenda with sending troops and starting to shell and bomb people for having voted "wrong" ?
THAT Ukraine ? Democratic ? Tbh, I did not laugh .
Closing TV station not telling lies for the previous separatist democratically-elected government also happened in Taiwan. America is at least consistent when it comes to supporting oppressive government.
Played the piano with his what ?
NAFO in full force in your comments
think about how much money is wasted on a futile attempt to keep people ignorant, yet an other genius move from the smartest government in the world
i still can't believe how easily people are programmed to believe total bs, ignore reality and defend some twisted narrative like their life depends on it
If Putin is a criminal What is the EU and Zielinski...
Democracy in Ukraine. 😂😂😂😂😂.
Not that the NYT is a great proponent of press freedom.
Has somebody an example of a person inprisoned in USA for beeing Oppositional to WW1?
He had a stupid tv show about a school teacher that becomes president
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Really is van nuke
since feb 2014 they never offer referendum to the east region. instead force the population with banderites militan to control east side that they actually held referendum have legal standing as new state LPR DPR
exactly, but how to enrich..... if peace in the world?
The US is expert in dividing countries into east vs west or north vs south
That's why you had West Germany vs east Germany, now north Vietnam vs South Vietnam, north Korea vs South Korea, not to mention the numerous poor countries where they're able to steek their "noses" with terrible consequences even when no division ever works
Ridiculous but painfully tragic
Divide & conquer. They learned this from the British
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