Vladimir Pozner: The Present State of Russian-American Relations
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- To conclude our 2020 Symposium, we hosted Vladimir Pozner on July 24th for his lecture, “The Present State of Russian-American Relations: How and Why We Got There and Is There a Way Out?”
Mr. Pozner cites the “Wolfowitz Doctrine” which was an unofficial but nonetheless de facto statement of US policy toward Russia that became ascendant in the second Clinton Administration and the US Foreign Policy Establishment and has remained so ever since.
Much more ominous and foreboding are the writings of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Senior US Diplomat and National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter). His Foreign Affairs article “A Geostrategy for Eurasia” (September/ October 1997, pp 50-64) and his book “The Grand Chessboard” are an operational articulation of the Wolfowitz Doctrine. In particular, Mr. Brzezinski clearly and articulately describes the dismemberment of Russia into three separate states: a “European Russia,” a “Siberian Russia,” and a “Far Eastern Russia” (See the map on page 60 of the Foreign Affairs article). He justifies this with circumlocutions and benign sounding euphemisms that obfuscate his malignant intent: the permanent gelding and enfeeblement of the Russian state for the purpose of perpetuating American “primacy” in Eurasia. NATO expansion for the purpose of creating “instability” on Russia’s borders was an integral part of that strategy. Mr. Brzezinski had many influential disciples, including Madeline Albright, Clinton’s second Secretary of State, who instigated and supervised the first NATO expansion into Poland Czechia, and Hungary. NATO subsequently almost doubled in size from 16 to 30 countries. The disciples of Mr.Brzezinski’s ideology encompass BOTH political parties and thoroughly infest the US Federal bureaucracy.
The importance of all this is that this malignant Russophobic antipathy is firmly entrenched in the US Federal Bureaucracy, Military, Academia, Corporations, Think Tanks and Media. These groups are unelected and thus unaccountable to the American people. For that reason, this malignancy cannot be extirpated via the electoral process. A good example of this is President Donald Trump’s efforts to improve relations with Russia and North Korea which were thwarted by the “Deep State.”
Because the zealots who are fomenting this dangerous hostility towards Russia are unelected and unaccountable, there is no extant mechanism to remove them from power. If those people cannot be removed from power and replaced by people disposed to seek a diplomatic solution, then there is no way to resolve this conflict by means other than war. And that would almost certainly eventually escalate to nuclear war.
no, putin bad, slava ukraine 🤡
Excellent Discussion. He has brought up many many interesting points. I think both countries and the world for that matter needs to think more about Peace and stop all this killing. Our World Needs Peace ☮️!!!
This was in 2020. ........
Putin doesn' t care. He inserted himself in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by funding Hamas & arming Iran.
A conflict that has nothing to do with Russia.
2020 or 2023 ?
Excellent speech by Pozner. But the sound of his voice should be louder.
yah, excellent - Kremlin useful idiots are so happy to listen to him. Pozner always manages to find ultra liberal DONKEY audience and then to spread Kremlin narratives smoothly. Talented ashole! He should be sanctioned, he has collected a big fortune from putin.
An intriguing lecture by Vladimir Pozner, as usual. However we should be careful not to interchange the words "Russia' and "The Soviet Union"
It is The Soviet Union, not Russia that coopted the countries of the Eastern bloc
The US and the rest of the West interchange Russia and Soviet Union. Russia is predecessor and successor of the Soviet Union and additionally its master. I guess, the Russians do the same except if they try to brainwash their neighbors (or victims).
Is nuclear winter our solution to global warming?
The MSM in All countries really needs to stop all the lies and start trying to tell people the Truth!!!🇺🇸
MSM is telling the truth for the most part, is it biased? Certainly, but the bias and level of dishonesty in western MSM is simply incomparable to that of russian MSM. It is simply on another level. Only Fox News is close enough and it's basically a russian asset at this point.
How do I find out where and when will Mr. Pozner be speaking publicly in California ? I cannot find any contact information.
Or does he even offer public speaking?
Churchill didn't mentioned Baltic states and i don't think that it was done without a reason....
Unfortunately he in his wisdom is speaking to those without the power to change the situation. Those with the power are listening to the political hawks, the arms manufacturers, and the military, each in their own way, acting out of self-interest and self-justification.
yes there were protests against Nukes in the 80's mostly in Europe, as they would be in the firing line
He must have had a feeling that this war was going to happen. From the very beginning, I knew NATO moving into Ukraine 🇺🇦 right at Russia’s front door was the reason that all of this happened.💔
Absolutely not true.
Pozner was the spokesperson for the Soviet Union. He is a KGB shill.
@@LisaNH934 Absolutely true.
NATO NEVER MOVED TO Ukraine
@@eugheniat.2121 Well they were about to
Mr. Pozner has some points. There 25 Million Russians abroad, but there are even more from other Soviet states lost in Russia. The Americans may have "supported" the Orange Revolution but Russia did either. And before all and long before, Russia made Ukrainians and all the other close neighbors angry and drove them into the hands of Russia's "enemies". Finally, Mr. Pozner, I do not call for democrazy in Russia. But give me some hope a call for peace and freedom in the West or Russia will be noticed by Mr Putin and lead to some action.
When nato Will stop expanding and stop interfering bullying other countries and it’s politics in the name of climate change & democracy? Internet is full of CIA coup operations all around the world.
@@sarikajain4566 Russia, China and even numerous small countries do exactly the same as the USA and CIA but the latter are more in public, that's it.
Russia blames the US for initializing color revolutions, but i deeply doubt Unkrainians are willing to fight and die for a handful of dollars.
I saw with my own eyes how desperately every single human in Poland, Lithuania was striving to flee Russia's influence. Between WW1 and WW2 there had been a dozen wars in Eastern Europe, since 1991 with NATO there was none. Eastern Europeans prefere NATO over war and supression and so do I.
Pozner should have asked why no one is willing to ally with Russia.
@Wolfgang Engel what about the Yugoslav wars lol.
Nobody wants to be with Russia, because Russia is weak after the crisis of the 90s and 70 years of fucking communism and everyone hated the USSR, Russia out of inertia as the main heir. We have not developed a new progressive ideology. There was one in the US and people like it. + cultural influence (in Russia, too, many people are in awe of the West). + Standard of living and money. + American and British NGOs. That's why everyone chooses the western bloc. Russia has been developing steadily for only 14 years from 00 to the Crimean sanctions, and even then, in fact, some sanctions hung on us until 2014. Hence the feeling that we are being strangled, while they do not invite us to their club (or invite us, but under what conditions?), but invite only our neighbors there, further isolating us both from a military and economic point of view. Our country, precisely as a capitalist and democratic country, is only 30 years old, we have not established institutions, there are quite a lot of lovers of the Soviet Union, and we do not want to turn into a banana republic with constant color upheavals like our neighbors. Due to the lack of a sensible ideology and the planting of something among the Russians, there are quite a lot of liberals, only they often think that you have gone far to the left (there is a more conservative bias) Muscovites are already used to living well and, on the one hand, they don’t want to lose it all, on the other hand, they are afraid of losing stability, which is shaky for Russia. There are quite a few people with liberal views among the higher ranks. In the first terms Putin and Medvedev themselves spoke out for liberalism. Perhaps the Munich speech of 2009 is the beginning of doubts. I understand that Americans can afford freedom of speech, and a couple of political arrests in Russia shock them, but try to look at the big picture. I hope you now understand Russians better and why people in Russia do not like the empty lectures of Westerners
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I am sorry admit but that women making noise and walking atyour speerch is whether low educated or disrespectful to your job
I remember Mr Pozner being mouthpiece of Soviet propaganda aimed at the West....frankly let the fossils left undisturbed where they lay.
Very concerned how disrespected your wife is to you and the subject you discussed
Wise man, but totally lost in the subsequence of historic events between 1995 and 2022
Ah no he did not. Spot on.
Going in circles rehashing the same complaints.
@@marvelrog3436 oh you're tired of the facts. The facts are sorry to bother you
Dude , it was recorded in 2020.
Not really wise, just throughly schooled in the art of propaganda, hence very convincing
Why does America and EU hate Russia?
Because the west lost its traditions and culture and there is an agenda to break down conservative values and create chaos. Just look at the insane woke movements and culture wars suffocating the west. Russia represents the extreme traditionalism and patriarchy of the old world.
People who make weapons also own the Media and make more money if there are wars. Simple. Americans voted out the peacemaker Trump. First Prez to meet with North Korea and condemned for it.
They don't hate Russia, they just want to own its resources...
@@unpatitoRU Yes, we all know what Marxists belive already.
Ukrainian genocide is hateful. American and Europeans do not hate Russia. They hate the genocide Putin is perpetuating in Ukraine. Do you condone the genocide?
"If I were speaking to Russians".....yeah, you can't. There is no dissent or journalism.
Same all grievances. Not owning up to any misdeeds. Russia is justified acting recklessly because the fragile ego of Russian imperialism has been wounded. Russia has to compare itself to Haiti in order to feel better about their own shortcomings? Haiti is a proud nation too.
Before you judging Russia, remember about all American invasions. Your country destructed Vietnam, Iraq, Libia, Yugoslavia, Afganistan. Wherever you go, you bring death and collaps and now you suddenly pretend that your goverment is saint and only "bad Russians" need to be ashamed. Look at yourself!
Haiti may be proud but it is utterly destitute and has been for practically the last 200 years sadly
Russia might be a regional power militarily but not internally. It was always a third world country with hubris of a superpower that never was. Mr.Pozner has not uttered a word about the Ucranian genocide. Putin is dangerous.
Yes he is like a wild animal trapped in a corner. Personally I don’t trust him. I don’t trust the administration in America either. This is very serious. It’s almost a World War now. One stupid accident would be all it would take. It’s sad. I wish that there could be peace ☮️ in our world.
Man, u don’t know anything about Russia. Come on and we will see who is agressor.
I remember Pozner when he was the announcer on the North American service of Radio Moscow via shortwave radio during the Cold War 40 years ago. He was a liar then and he hasn’t changed one bit. I used to listen to him every night which was the best time to get shortwave radio reception. He tried to sell Communism then and it failed miserably NOW he’s back at it trying to sell Putinism and that too has failed miserably. Vladimir Pozner’s life has been one of abject and pathetic failure. By now he should know it
Yeah, and that talking toad, pretending to be an intellectual, kept saying that you should live your life honestly, so that you wouldn't want to spit in your own reflection in the mirror. that bald, propagandist bastard deserves severe punishment.
Vladimir Pozner is a great journalist. He is very talented man and professional not only in political discussions, but in other fields as well. I've watched many og his shows on travel, interviews with famous people and I always enjoyed them. Pozner is very smart and wise man. By the way, there are many people that support socialism and for the countries of the former Soviet Union the communism was one of the best periods in their history. I think Mr.Pozner is quite sincere in his views.
I completely agree. Mr. Pozner is the propagandist to his core. This is his trade and it made him wealthy. Not much else to add
poor putin's marionette
Nice to meet you. I am Timur
Willing marionette.
It is immediately clear that you do not know a Damn about Russia. Posner and Putin are not friends at all, rather they are unpleasant to each other.
Why don't you try to disprove his arguments instead of attacking his persona
One thing is certain - Mr Pozner is russian troll.
but you cannot disprove any of what he's saying , and maybe Pozner ethnicity annoys you ...
Absolute troll. His 2018 Yale interview...same sh!te - never different.
@@quinquiry He says America created Putin. When it's the KGB that created Putin.
Yes we can disprove what he's saying.
@@tnndll4294 you just don't unerstand that even if you are not responsible for a guy being alcoholic, you may choose to help him quit or offer him even more drink ..Putin IS definitely a gopnik raised street thug, brainwashed by Kgb, but the USA choosed to spit at his face when he almost proposed to cooperate with nato and the US (1990"). He got old, sore and resentful, finally paranoïd ....The US (dems) needed this to sell shale- oil and billions or arms with the US taxpayer's money . I can see thugs both sides of the "pond" but one of them , the cleverest one, bears the responsibility ..ua-cam.com/video/og0X3-lDQts/v-deo.html unpack this one and let it sink in , have a great day
@@tnndll4294America created the atmosphere that allowed for Putin to come to power, they should’ve helped Russia in a Marshall Plan type rebuild and should never have trusted Yeltsin in the way they did, should’ve let the Baltic Republics go their own ways and tried harder to actually make the CIS a reality. But America didn’t want that and laughed at the abysmal situation that existed in the post Soviet states, Russia included
Putin’s advocate pozner deserves nothing but contempt. He is clever though.