Casey Michel - Is Putin Retooling His Regime to Support 'Eternal Warfare' & Confrontation with West?
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- “A toxic flood of dark money has given billionaires and special interests a powerful way to rig the system secretly in their favour…” These are the words of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, ahead of a debate in the US Congress around the Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act. But this phrase could equally be applied to the UK, where Russian Oligarchs and dark money interests have been able to cleanse their ill-gotten gains for decades through the London financial laundromat. Londongrad is the phrase coined to describe the high presence of Russians in the United Kingdom, especially in reference to Russian money in London, permeating its service sector and securing political influence.
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Casey Michel is head of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, focusing on how dictators and autocrats use illicit finance and dirty money to remain in power. He’s the author of AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY, on America's transformation into an offshore haven. His new book, FOREIGN AGENTS, will examine the explosion of the foreign lobbying industry in Washington, and how that industry has helped entrench dictatorships and upend American foreign policy. FOREIGN AGENTS will be published in 2024.
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FOREIGN POLICY
How Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Became Putin’s Spiritual Guru
April 7, 2024
Russia’s Opposition Needs More Than One Savior
March 1, 2024
Russia’s Crimean Red Line Has Been Erased
October 4, 2023
How to Stop Former Western Leaders From Becoming Paid Shills for Autocrats
February 15, 2022
Kazakhstan’s Border With Russia Is Suddenly an Open Question Again
January 6, 2022
How Delaware Became the World’s Biggest Offshore Haven
November 19, 2021
The Fatal Flaw in the West’s Fight Against Autocracy
October 6, 2021
America’s Money Lost the Afghan War
September 13, 2021
Biden Might Stop a Sanctions Revolution
August 24, 2021
Oligarchs’ Favorite U.S. Visa Might Not Last
July 16, 2021
THE ATLANTIC
We’ve Never Seen Anything Like the Menendez Indictment - The case against the New Jersey senator has the potential to reshape how America deals with foreign agents.
Casey Michel - October 26, 2023
Make Russia Pay - The West has already frozen some $300 billion in Russian assets. Here’s the case for seizing them.
Casey Michel - May 28, 2023
Decolonize Russia - To avoid more senseless bloodshed, the Kremlin must lose what empire it still retains.
Casey Michel - May 27, 2022
How the West Undermines Its Own Sanctions - The Western sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been far broader than many experts anticipated. But there’s a catch.
Casey Michel - March 9, 2022
The United States of Dirty Money - How landlocked South Dakota became one of the world’s hottest destinations for offshore funds.
Casey Michel - October 5, 2021
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That was a perfect speaker: perfectly informed, perfectly informative, perfectly articulated and perfectly fast. He also perfectly understands how disgusting Solzhenitsyn actually was, which is a rarest insight among the Americans and other unperfect people.
We could have talked for hours, on a range of topics. Casey will definitely be coming back on the channel!
@@SiliconCurtain YAAAAAAAY! :D
Disgusting? Seems unduly dehumanizing.
Solzhenitsyn dehumanized himself on his own by becoming a MBG/KGB snitch.
4:50 - Remember, Manafort is advising the Republican candidate for President again.
“War is Peace” - the rise of the Orwellian dictators.
People who've personally delt with the Terror Elf Putin, say he doesn't change or ever back down! "He lies and doubles down!" Browder, Fiona Hill, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and a dozen others!
Slava-UA 💙🇺🇦🙏✈️💥
"Ignorance is strength."
Its totaly ko-ko,insane,wrong and criminal what Kreml doing,what they want..would be the same as if Sweden said "you know what,Norway,Finland,Denmark and parts of Balticum were Sweden for 100s of years and we have lot of swedish speaking today in most of those countries so we think it would be fair if we get these countries back,we dont care what people there think,we want that back and we will take it by force if needed"
Ireland belonged to the English/British crown for 800 years. We would not dream of invading her. So backward.
The Swedes have grown up since then but dictatorships will never grow up.
Casey’s speech speed gives us more info in 50 minutes than Konstantin or others do in 4 hours.
Thanks Casey for bombarding us with your fascinating perspective.
Another excellent interview Jonathan. Interesting. I live in Ohio USA. Most people in the US don't give a single thought for this whatsoever. The authoritarians have discovered how to defeat us. Also...congratulations on sneaking up on 100k subscribers!
Thank you for introducing me to this brilliant guest. I’m looking forward to reading his book.
Spectacular guest!!!
Please you must bring back CASEY MICHEL again. AWESOME INTERVIEW!
Great video! Awesome guest.
I'm from RI. Sen. Whitehouse: his bill, Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity (REPO) for Ukrainians Act , which has now passed into law. Bill Browder just mentioned the REPO Act as a possible type of law to allow the UK to seize the frozen assets and give all of it to Ukraine. Sen. Whitehouse has been fantastic at uncovering the deep money and financial shell schemes and dark money...he has a YT channel that helps us understand and deconstruct. I ordered Casey's book- to learn more on the ways of kleptocrats . Great interview!
You have brought a great discovery to me, Jonathon.
Thank you sir 🇺🇦
Casey, Jonathan, absolutely nailed this one!
People who've personally delt with the Terror Elf Putin, say he doesn't change or ever back down! "He lies and doubles down!" Browder, Fiona Hill, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and a dozen others!
Slava-UA 💙🇺🇦🙏✈️💥
"Eternal Warfare" as a way of 'regime survival'.
Day by day russia is more and more similar to the Orwellian Oceania (or Eurasia).
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
The other way round actually.
It is how they maintain control.
'A' notebook ? You'd need a complete library to note all the Russian delusions of " greatness".
People who've personally delt with the Terror Elf Putin, say he doesn't change or ever back down! "He lies and doubles down!" Browder, Fiona Hill, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and a dozen others!
Slava-UA 💙🇺🇦🙏✈️💥
Another excellent guest hosted by Jonathan. I always learn new things..
Russia has been currently autocratic, ethnic russian nationalistic & imperialistic for years. Same goals as other such countries whether local differences in ideology, same solutions used. I like applying the 14 criteria defined by Umberto Eco to detect a fascist society. Russia has successfully passed the procedure. Dont forget that kommunism in Russia was ideologically close to Nazism. Both some kind of twisted version of sociallism . Now I think the current Russia is a different animal where ideology is a tool for power not a goal.
I did that same test - in fact combined three lists of fascism. Russia only failed to meet a few out of the 30 odd ‘signs’ of fascism. If it quacks like a duck… 🦆
@@SiliconCurtain Or as Beau once said .. if the jackboot fits, better slip it on and start goose-stepping.
Thank you, Jonathan and Casey Michel, for your conversation.
🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦
Great interviews
Thanks J
Thanks, Jonathan.
It's interesting that imperialism is supported by most Russians when they have no appetite in politics.
Part of this stems from the disparity in the way the fall of the USSR affected Russia vs how it affected the formerly independent nations who got taken over by Russian empire operating under the guise of the CCCP. Russia treated those places like its colonial fiefdom, sucking out money, resources, people, the smart ones, the pretty ones, and whole businesses alike whenever it wanted. Russia lived high on what it took from those places. After the USSR fell, those people got out from under the Soviet yoke and largely went on to return to being independent places. Russia however still misses the glory days of easy access to the resources of other nations. It wants all that back. Those places, however, seem to have little/no interest in living under the Russian bootheel again.
@@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531
Thanks. Got it.
So, Russia is a fascist and parasitair state. According many reactions on this platform. I join them in this vision.
Thank you Jonathan for a great episode, keep up the good work! 😊
Thanks, your interviews, taken in sequence, tell a story.
Who needs Manafort when you have Trump
I have read many accounts of people close to Trump who suggest he likely has rapidly advancing dementia.
Excellent interview, thank you.
What an informative interview. Thank you so much for posting this. Really hope to see Casey Michel back here soon.
At the 43:35 mark, Casey states that when putin is done with Ukraine (if ever) his next (easier) target would be Kazakhstan. Totally makes sense, as everyone is familiar that Sevastopol was being leased in Crimea and that as unacceptable in the end, well, everyone forgets, the Baikonur Cosmodrome is being leased to russia and they would totally want to take enough of Kazakhstan to rejoin it with russia.
Simultaneously with Chechnya
The Kazakhs definately don't want to be ruled by Russians, they were not treated well by Russia who put ethnic Russians into all the good jobs, lots of them left after the breakup, and the Kazakhs will fight as hard as Ukraine to keep them out as overlords.
Great work guys 😊. Yeah 👍. This is getting out of hand. They've been seeking in through the dark all around the world. Nup😊. Must be stopped
Thank you Jonathon another very interesting interview. Slava Ukraine
Come on everyone, lets show Johnathan the love and shower him in well deserved likes. greetings from the west of Ireland x
Thank you, Jonathan. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
People who've personally delt with the Terror Elf Putin, say he doesn't change or ever back down! "He lies and doubles down!" Browder, Fiona Hill, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and a dozen others!
Good topic. The range of boundaries regarding foreign influence, in both dirctions, needs to be explored.
The UK government has ruled that Qatar is not allowed to buy the Telegraph newspaper and media. They’ve said that our media will remain as free news. So I think this shows that western governments must be aware now of these ‘cultural incursions’
Is there a difference between an individual or group of people and a sovereign power buying media outlets?
@@jakebarnes28 yes. If the person or group is trying to achieve certain aims not conducive to the host party in current control
Good on the UK gov't for blocking the sale to Qatar.. we here in Canada are suffering dearly as print media across the land vanishes due to internet platforms disseminating "news" 24/7. What's left has started sucking air as there's too much outsourced news and not enough local journalists reporting on or from ____. Each newspaper or terrestrial transmission outlet that's shut down means less investigative journalists digging for the truth... which gives more bandwidth to the sensational outlets thus making it easier for Joe Average to find Tucker Carlson and Mad Mike and now Joe believes RU is good and the Earth is flat. OMG... everybody's seemingly been blinded by the internet... the very thing that should and could dispel the BS is instead amping it up giving kleptocrats and dictators time to inflict severe damage upon our social liberal democracies. We need to get tough and say no thank's Orc, we don't want your big bag of cash... getthefuckouttahere.
I learned so much from this interview! I’ll definitely research Casey Michael and see what he has authored and what projects he’s involved with.
As I am sure many readers have noticed, "eternal war" is precisely the foreign policy we see in Orwell's _1984._ There is a difference though. Orwell's war opponents change constantly. Geography-Russia's location in *Eastern* Europe is driving him to be *anti-West.* That said, a Chinese threat from the *east* could change that. And of course eternal war has reasons. It offers an excuse for regimentation and distracts from domestic economic issues.
"eternal war" is eternal. When was the globe at peace?
Thanks
This chanel is so informative and intelligent. It should have much more subs !
The thing about Russias Foreign Agent law is that Putin has expanded its scope so that it can be applied to anyone (inc Russian citizens) even those that dont receive foreign income
Basically it can be used against anyone who publishes political views etc
That "eternal warfare" plan may have been workable for Russia as of 12 months ago, but the game has again changed: not only can Ukraine make its own long-range drone swarms for reaching deep into Russia to burn refineries and other things, but Ukraine now has access to longer-range precise western weapons that it's using to great effect in the near border regions. Under these circumstances, Russia will slowly become unworkable over time. Besides refineries, there are pipelines, dams, bridges, tunnels, power generation, manufacturing capacity of all kinds, river locks, military hospitals, and much more. This is the much slower, non-nuclear, non-carpet-bombing way to take a nation back to the stone age.
I just spotted shoigyu in a Civil Suit with the Russian delegation in China
The Black Knight always triumphs!
Only when the people, who outnumber the Knights ignore the manipulation.
There are ordinary people who ARE "White Knights".
machine gun speech speed ....similar to ben shapiro... great topic....thanks !!!!
He speaks normally.
George Schultz and Co. were told by a Russian general "we're going to need a Marshall Plan" and they flatly refused. If this is true, that moment is the Genesis to where we are now.
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I love this weirdness. Better than Rupert's Radio!
You Young Blokes make depressing thinking for an Oldie. Good analysis!
Thank you for the ‘young’ bit - even though I’m really not!
Our "Supreme Court" is a good example of the judiciary being coopted by the russian game
Alito "allegedly" had a "stop the steal" flag at his house on jan6. This is very much a rumor by now but it's from a consistent source. Robert Reich.
There's a real problem with the SCOTUS becoming far too political and leaning toward a right-wing direction.
The underlying organizations like those funded by Yass, Koch, and quite a few others has corrupted the process of judicial nominations up and down the judicial system.
"Divide and Conquer" is classic Russian ideology.
@@mat3714 it's been known for sure, at least now!
Ah yes, that Russia blackmails Trump lie will not die in defiance of extremely solid facts. Russia felt free to occupy part of Ukraine under Obama in 2014 _and got away with that._ It then made no aggressive moves under Trump, the supposed lackey. Then Biden takes office and Russia feels free to conquer all of Ukraine. And take note how little the Biden administration did to block that invasion. The general impression is that the invasion would succeed to be followed only by a little Western posturing. It is only the bravery and intelligence of Ukraine and stopping Russia in those first few week that has lead to assistance. And take note a continuing pattern in the Biden administration. Aid and policies that seem intended to drag out this war, making it hard for Ukraine to win definitively. In that the Biden administration is assisting Putin in establishing this eternal war.
@@mat3714 Given that everyone and his brother now carries a phone with a camera, that has a zero probability of being true. Someone, perhaps one of his neighbors, would have taken a picture. And Robert Reich is a lousy source. He's what Germans call a "poison dwarf," a short guy with a grudge against the world.
lobbying (legalized corruption) also leads to the approval of laws that bring obscene advantages to big companies at the expense of everybody else … endless cases in the western world
"Lobbying" doesn't do that. The NRA, AAA, NEA, are all lobbying. "Petition for the redress of grievance" Check out the Bill of Rights.
@@jakebarnes28 … the right to use weapons 200 years ago made sense… the rule of law was difficult to apply and people had the rigth to defended themselves!… today in a suposedly civilized America, with a state well established and a police force that covers all the country, the right to have weapons makes very litlle sense to me!… at best could be accepted in remote areas!… anything else seams absurd
🔱✌slava 😊ukraine!💙💛
I applaud Casey Michel’s work but his voice needs some vocal coaching. Ouch! My eardrums!
President Trump will surprise everyone. 🇺🇦🇺🇸
He sure will... 1st American president to go to jail
Maybe Trump and Biden will be cell mates.
Dense with information, this guy. I see why he appears to rant.
I feel like its a lost cause here in the US. You can't expect tge people receiving the $ to police themselves. Pandora's box is open and no putting everything back in.
Great work but too long.
So, don’t get me wrong… big Ukraine supporter, oppose the foreign agent legislation in Georgia but how can we possibly argue that foreign agent laws in the US were a great success while opposing them in other places. Don’t we expect a universal applicability for our laws? How can we call us liberal democracies but then argue that the latex applying to us can’t possibly apply to other peoples.
I don’t know this person and I’ve only watched 15 mins of this video. But this guy dangerous.
I didn't think it's possible to expect our laws to apply beyond our borders, so we can't expect uniformity. We'd have to look at the details of the laws involved and proposed.
Americans yell at you even if your sitting together at the same table or sofa. Sorry Jon, I can’t listen to this well meaning gentleman… yell yell yell.
Americans are positively decorous compared to Italians.
Lies from my tongue, now lies from my ears!
Casey does not have a heavy American accent.
It's been chopped up by those other languages he's been living with, probably.
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Unfortunately I d beg to differ. It is grossly incorrect to compare Russian imperialism to European colonialism and expect it will become democratic once failed. Russia is a Rome type of an empire that expands and ethnicly cleanses or assimilates. Needs to brake down to where it started in 17th century ie Moscow oblast. Then there might be a chance for democracy
Hmmm.
Colonislism preceded liberalism. They don't sit well together, and this tension was evident from the time of the American War of Independence. It was a civil war fought between Whigs and Tories in reality, on both sides of the Atlantic. Hence; Europe was able to transcend its colonial past with relative ease.
38:25 "So sad!" that, when faced with covid, the world missed the precious opportunity to "knock[ -s- ] it out in one minute" by adopting the suggestion of the "very stable genius" (whose uncle was a professor) to employ "disinfectant" "by an injection inside".
I do hope we're not about to repeat the same mistake, this time missing the opportunity to quickly, in 24hrs, solve the problem of Putinist territorial ambitions. We must respect the genius' advice this time around
18 mins in and he's mentioned Donald Trump twice. Whatever else he's talking about, I see dishonesty.
@@Billy-rx8mn You are even more dishonest.
@@Billy-rx8mn The Ukraine aid should not have been held up, and we will have to wait for the inside story on that, but there is almost a craving to connect Trump to Putin or some villainy on some peoples part that is not based in reality. LIkewise others believe Putin to be standing up for Christianity and moral virtues. Neither are true and the slide into derangement must be constantly resisted.
@@FiveLiver at THIS point, after 8 long years of domestic and global trends toward increasing illiberal antidemocratic manipulations of society in countries far and wide, from Hungary, to here in the U.S., to the repeated thumbing of nose at the most important laws, rules and even defying U.S. foreign policy at the time during the DJT WH years, and STILL think DJT should NOT BE MENTIONED here in this vid??!?!? DJT has clearly indicated he will not abide by rules or laws that get in the way of his way!!!! You sir, cannot think well!!! It's pathetic how sectarianized u have become-- it's literally lunacy to have that level of 'bothsidesism' and plainly shows you are someone who got a mediocre upbringing and/or education , and therefore cannot do any critical-thinking. Sad for u, and guess, what ppl like u are not very employable in professsions.
@@FiveLiver There is no craving to connect Trump to Putin. Most people who care about the Independence of Ukraine would prefer that there was no connection at all. However, it is quite clear that with of without the direction of Trump the aid was held up by the MAGA wing of the Repiblican Party. There are also many reasons to be suspicious of What a Trump Presidency might mean for Ukraine all of which are based in reality. The idea that anyone critical of Trump is in some way deranged is in itself deranged.
@@terryhand "Most people who care about the Independence of Ukraine would prefer that there was no connection at all". What connection? You just proved my point. You need to believe in something that doesn't exist.
What about these 'colonised' countries? Weren't THEY terrible colonisers in their own right? Yes they were! Let's not be hypocritic or woke.
Could you define "woke" for me?