Ukraine Just Doomed Itself | Prof. Michael Rossi

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  • Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
  • Ukraine's incursion into Russia might not be a game changer the way the Collective West is hoping for, but it might well be the beginning of a new phase in the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine. Russia's last peace offer is now (probably) off the table and the Afghanisation of Ukraine is one step closer, but maybe not the way the neocons were hoping for. Listen to Dr. Michael Rossi explain the grand-strategic situation after the Kursk incursion.
    Michael's YT Channel: / michaelrossipolisci
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    Dr. Michael Rossi is a lecturer at Rutgers University in New Jersey where he teaches political science and international relations, focusing especially on the connection between culture and politics. He is also the host of a UA-cam channel “Michael Rossi Pol Sci”, on which he keeps publishing very valuable primary sources in the form of uncommented speeches and press releases from the Russian state, making those video documents available to many more people in the english language.

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  • @noblemann4898
    @noblemann4898 22 дні тому +523

    Let me put this as simple as possible... I'm a 54 year old British born guy and never would I have imagined that the United States would treat Europe like they have treated the Middle East.
    The result is the same... chaos, refugee crisis, death and destruction.

    • @rockmedia6883
      @rockmedia6883 22 дні тому +1

      USA has been bulid on violance, what friends with USA will end up on Violance form, europe has to realise this, their ecomony, politics and social is based on Violance, slavery and expoitation of theirs.

    • @ActiveDodger
      @ActiveDodger 22 дні тому +23

      I am a 50 year old British-American, and I disagree. Europe forges it's own destiny. The US just renders support where needed.

    • @News_Watcher
      @News_Watcher 22 дні тому

      Correct, because Middle East with oil reserves land, unlike Europe that willing to die for the States no matter what!

    • @briangbur8743
      @briangbur8743 22 дні тому +1

      ​@@ActiveDodger wrong the puppets of the United States!

    • @damiang888
      @damiang888 22 дні тому +114

      @@ActiveDodger if "Europe forges their own destiny" then Ukraine would had made peace in 2022, more or less. US interests do not give direct orders, but they make things go their way.

  • @NoelleChanHin
    @NoelleChanHin 22 дні тому +289

    We forget that 84 % are not any longer for the Western hegemony. It is shifting to a multipolar world.

    • @bernieeod57
      @bernieeod57 22 дні тому

      We, the Sodom 2.0 baby killing drug addicts of the world never had hegemony!

    • @johngod1680
      @johngod1680 22 дні тому +6

      Wrong. The American empire still holds over 60% of the world's GDP and even more so of the high tech. This is not changing.
      Only China is a plausible rival and its growth is halting, while politically and militarily it has hardly ever contested American domination.
      Even now, with Russia clearly struggling, fighting the entire American empire by itself, China stands idly by.
      You can't deal with an aggressive, militaristic, Manichean empire, other than contesting them with force, which China refuses to do.
      Russia meanwhile allows the empire to wage a war against it, while pretending it's not so. It's hardly a proxy war, when the proxy is fully armed, organized, financed, led, trained, provided for with C4ISTAR...the empire thus openly attacks Russia, bombing, targeting its assets and Russia doesn't retaliate. In doing so, they're only emboldening potential future American intervention. Why not? Empire escalates, Russia backs down like a third rate power. This is a demonstrable pattern. If Russia so far has done nothing to respond to the empire's aggression, what would it do if the US went all in with its air force for example?

    • @anthonybalinga4472
      @anthonybalinga4472 22 дні тому +19

      ​@@johngod1680You seriously misunderstand both the Chinese and the Russians.The Chinese are FAR from inactive and only appear to be so.As for the Russians,they for the moment have only two options.Fight the way they are now,hoping the Anglo American empire does not escalate which would push Russia to actually use nuclear weapons,thereby bringing about the end of the empire but also seriously harming Russia.

    • @bernieeod57
      @bernieeod57 22 дні тому +1

      @@johngod1680 We control nothing. The world is not going to bow to us nor should it! This evil empire was sent packing by lightly armed goat herders with rusty old rifles. We produce nothing and rely on people you threaten war against to produce everyday items. You laugh at Russia? 29 years and 13 trillion dollars later we lose to goat herders!

    • @bernieeod57
      @bernieeod57 22 дні тому +1

      @@johngod1680 Contesting them with force? Says who? You liberal emasculated anti gun make feminist manginas?

  • @ginabataille1796
    @ginabataille1796 22 дні тому +194

    Did you notice there was a protest in Germany against the placement of American missiles in Germany? Some were waving the Russian flag!

    • @vivianaguermandi9715
      @vivianaguermandi9715 22 дні тому +60

      We also protest in Italy. We don't want to become a target for anyone. We want to be sovereign in our land. The real threat to world peace is the United States, they should stay at home and solve their problems instead of dragging every country they touch into misery.

    • @barrygyles2211
      @barrygyles2211 22 дні тому +14

      @@vivianaguermandi9715 well stated,UK Germany to be blamed

    • @BartBart22
      @BartBart22 22 дні тому +14

      @@vivianaguermandi9715 Because AIPAC.

    • @catadoxas
      @catadoxas 22 дні тому +10

      imagine that. despite two worldwars we have a culture and history that goes back about 1000 years. heck our rulers used to be cousins. more people in germany speak russian than spanish

    • @nicholasvaughn2386
      @nicholasvaughn2386 22 дні тому

      Protest sponsored by Russia. Half the people probably didn't know what was going on, they just don't want war.

  • @ginabataille1796
    @ginabataille1796 22 дні тому +57

    The comparison with the Afghanistan invasion is not valid. Russia is not only a capitalist economy now but also it has the second biggest economy China as its ally.

    • @antediluvianatheist5262
      @antediluvianatheist5262 22 дні тому

      It's not really capitalist, and China is not the second largest.
      It is THE largest.

    • @VadimBolshakov
      @VadimBolshakov 22 дні тому

      China is number 1 real economy, not vapor ware Elon-mask-economy

    • @AprMonkeyKing
      @AprMonkeyKing 22 дні тому +1

      serf

    • @Madmoody21
      @Madmoody21 22 дні тому

      China as ally. Okay you may with China help get the land your after. After that you are China's slave.

    • @russellk.bonney8534
      @russellk.bonney8534 22 дні тому +4

      Russia is also on track to become the 4th largest economy on its own. Russia owns the world's largest known reserves of $90T of natural resources

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 22 дні тому +181

    Rule number 1: If your "allies" don't dare to fight, but they ask you to fight. Something is wrong. They are not your allies. You should not fight their proxy war.
    It's not worth dying for US/NATO/globalist interests.
    Rule number 2: Never forget rule number 1.....

    • @erhardpostinger1326
      @erhardpostinger1326 22 дні тому +1

      "Wenn Ihre „Verbündeten“ sich nicht trauen zu kämpfen, Sie aber darum bitten, dann stimmt etwas nicht."
      Wahrscheinlich stimmt schon nicht, dass jemand die Ukraine gebeten hat zu kämpfen?
      Was man den gestorbenen Ukrainern danken kann ist die Erkenntnis, dass man nicht die Millionen Tote wie im WWII braucht, um eine seit Jahren quasi an Ort und Stelle verharrende Front ziemlich unverändert zu lassen.
      Alles was ich weiß ist jetzt eine fast 80 Jahre alte Erinnerung. Meine Mutter war eine von der Sorte die glaubte, dass kein deutscher Soldat einen Meter deutschen Bodens freiwillig aufgibt und deshalb wartete sie bis der Donner der Kanonen nicht mehr zu überhören war.
      Die Soldaten, mit denen wir auf einem Einspänner mitfahren durften, waren auch noch recht gut zu Fuß und sogar unglaublich schnell im Gras verschwunden, als jemand "Tiefflieger" rief.
      Den Wettlauf Richtung Berlin hatten wir gegen die Rote Armee übrigens ziemlich knapp gewonnen.

    • @taniaramaki5142
      @taniaramaki5142 22 дні тому +11

      Fri m beginning this was a proxy war and Zelensky was well paid on order to go with it not coming nsi considering the welfare of zukranians

    • @IJ72
      @IJ72 22 дні тому +1

      USA is noones friend! That is why USA talk about New World Order! USA play game as Roman Empire did! But everything comes to end! And whole Western democraty support prosecution of Christian ppl with Woke and Pride, Paris and Western democraty god(BAAL) are prove! Islam with woke agenda go hand in hand! How you ask? They hunt children!

    • @deansawich6250
      @deansawich6250 22 дні тому +2

      Yes, Israel doesn't have any defence treaties with America. They aren't an ally, America has no obligations to defend Israel. American Politicians are bought and paid for by Israel and Bibi the Pimp, is making use of his prostitute now.

    • @roberth4395
      @roberth4395 22 дні тому +1

      Those european countries that "aided" Ukraine, gave their outdated military trash to them in exchange of debt.
      Western Europe got rid of their useless military tech and they brought new ones to replace them while they pretend to be good.

  • @dwightmcqueen5771
    @dwightmcqueen5771 22 дні тому +180

    I tell everyone every day i encourage people to learn the truth about Russia 🇺🇸 🇷🇺

    • @mikejagd7417
      @mikejagd7417 22 дні тому

      Got it...wanna be Nazi regime determined to annex other people's land.

    • @Spark-Hole
      @Spark-Hole 22 дні тому

      Only truth about Russia is Russian are thugs

    • @willieduffie4967
      @willieduffie4967 22 дні тому

      Yeah.....we have been told nothing but "lies" by this government!

    • @bodasactra
      @bodasactra 22 дні тому

      Go to Russia, hold a sign that says Putin should step down, and if you survive prison, come tell me about the truth in Russia.

    • @AprMonkeyKing
      @AprMonkeyKing 22 дні тому +6

      Bucha?

  • @hilarysimpson3725
    @hilarysimpson3725 22 дні тому +209

    This completely misses the issue of the genociding of the Russian speaking (Russian) Donbass people murdered by the Kiev regime since 2014.

    • @wallingnaga6563
      @wallingnaga6563 22 дні тому +1

      Many westerners doesn’t know that ..
      Most of the west thinks that Russia out of nowhere suddenly invaded Ukraine in 2022 while they are in dark about the horrors the Ukrainians committed against the eastern ethnic Minorities in Donbas since 2008.

    • @everdinestenger1548
      @everdinestenger1548 22 дні тому +35

      Remmer that fire in Odessa where 40 people burnt to death and nobody tried to stop the fire and save them?

    • @Duchodso1
      @Duchodso1 22 дні тому +32

      My mother shared a room in a hospital with Ukrianian woman from Donbas. That is exactly what she said about genocide and reasons of Putin attacking.

    • @everdinestenger1548
      @everdinestenger1548 22 дні тому +18

      @@Duchodso1 I have a Russian speaking friend from Donbass and her story is the same. Her granny lived near Mariopul but she refused to leave. She is fine now

    • @mikejagd7417
      @mikejagd7417 22 дні тому +8

      Ummmm...you do remember that Russia created this war and there was NO murder and there is still NO murder. Go do the dishes.

  • @nathikheswa9962
    @nathikheswa9962 22 дні тому +244

    Kursk is a reflection of NATO's involvement rather than Ukraine's strength

    • @joe_ninety_one5076
      @joe_ninety_one5076 22 дні тому +12

      Nonsense.

    • @paulchamberlain7942
      @paulchamberlain7942 22 дні тому

      Indeed, NATO cant cope with a professional army, they can only get the easy results they seek against civilians, so that's where they focus their forces.

    • @AprMonkeyKing
      @AprMonkeyKing 22 дні тому

      weakness

    • @patriayvida6850
      @patriayvida6850 22 дні тому +3

      ​@@joe_ninety_one5076- Explain.

    • @TheBatlash
      @TheBatlash 22 дні тому +2

      @@patriayvida6850 Why don’t you start by explaining your own comment? It sounds like complete nonsense to me as well.

  • @rodpanhard
    @rodpanhard 22 дні тому +64

    There is a war of attrition only it's Europe not Russia that's feeling the squeeze.

    • @matthiaspizzini8010
      @matthiaspizzini8010 22 дні тому +1

      I am italian, trust me, we are fine. Only winter 2022 was hard with high inflation and double heat gas prices. Now we ok.

    • @AndersHeywireDK
      @AndersHeywireDK 22 дні тому

      What the h€ll are you rambling about?!

    • @AndersHeywireDK
      @AndersHeywireDK 22 дні тому

      @@matthiaspizzini8010 Denmark is in very good shape too👍

    • @rodpanhard
      @rodpanhard 22 дні тому

      @@AndersHeywireDK Who did sanctions destroy?, who is now deindustrialised with their car industry in trouble and paying 5x what they were for their energy?. Who is or was the economic backbone of the EU? It's not difficult to work out.

    • @robertdlucas7418
      @robertdlucas7418 22 дні тому +1

      You are obviously a member of one percent rich Italians or maybe you have connections.

  • @ronharris3839
    @ronharris3839 22 дні тому +166

    According to many experts, this is exactly what Russia has been saying all along. That the expansion of NATO makes an attack on Russia more likely, if not the strategy all along.

    • @grahamhireme9283
      @grahamhireme9283 22 дні тому +20

      It’s no secret that the US wants to break up Russia as it would make it much easier to pressurise the independent provinces to do the US bidding. It also makes it more difficult for China to form relations however the Empire is dying and it’s a dangerous time.

    • @opheliaelesse
      @opheliaelesse 22 дні тому +9

      ​@@grahamhireme9283
      Dying elephants can crush a lot of grass. Let us be careful and help each other 🙏🏼

    • @robertrowan8738
      @robertrowan8738 22 дні тому

      Nobody is seriously going to invade or attack Russia, They have 5500 necluar weapons. Nato is not a threat to Russia and Putin knows that. It is all a nonsense. This is just an embarrassment to Putin.

    • @Larkinchance
      @Larkinchance 22 дні тому +1

      Considering the legacy of the 1941-1945 German invasion a Russian response was a foregone conclusion. If Putin had no invaded he would have been replaced. This leads me to believe that US/NATO expansion was designed to egg Russia on to a conflict.

    • @barrygyles2211
      @barrygyles2211 22 дні тому +5

      @@opheliaelesse but the grass does not die

  • @compukey2013
    @compukey2013 22 дні тому +145

    I will help you with more news.
    The attention is always focused on Kursk, but that is completely unimportant
    The second phase of the Ukrainian/Nato offensive is now underway towards Kursk.
    And the Ukrainians continue to waste men and material in their advance to the east and concentrate. Best troops on this task.
    I understand that they have been receiving extra attention since yesterday afternoon because they have to leave Kursk....
    Because they have no business there...
    There have been and are still ongoing several Ukrainian attacks. So far without great success.
    Now the most important thing comes namely the Donbass, In the direction of Kupiansk, the Russians are advancing west of Pishchane and are only a few kilometers from the river, which would effectively split the front into two parts.
    Towards Toretsk, Russian images show they have secured the southern "Artyema" mine.
    After the Russian advances south of Zalizne, the threat of encirclement became too great for the Ukrainians, forcing them to withdraw.
    Heavy fighting is currently taking place in the village of Nelipivka, located between Novgorodskoye (formerly New York, which was already liberated the day before yesterday) and Zalizne.
    The Russians continue to advance in the direction of Pokrovsk and are now directly in front of Novohradivka.
    According to some pro-Russian sources, the first Russian soldiers are already in the village.
    The Russians are also continuing their attacks south and fighting for villages west of the Karlivka reservoir is expected to begin soon.
    If the Russian forces manage to reach and liberate the front and the city of Pokrovsk, it will be over for the Kiev Regime.
    Kursk is merely a distraction for the Western mainstream media.
    No, I am not a Russian troll, I am a Dutchman who uses his brain and has been following events since 2014.
    Have a good afternoon,👍🏻

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents 22 дні тому +1

      If you think the east is more important you read too many bot comments and too much propaganda, because the whole idea of Kursk is to make the east not matter. It was actually the best and only option they had available. It will take many, many months to clear this. Until the potential for new fronts opening (which is guaranteed now) the north is far more important. Bots and propaganda has now accepted how weak Russia is in the north. It isn't stabilised, advances are still happening and when new fronts are opened there is only one weak line to defend.
      Supply being an issue is just totally brainless from the bots and propaganda channels, especially referencing Germany - people are actually believing that the Germans failed as the supply lines were 15km long? There are supply lines hundreds of km long in the east, and it has not led to collapse.
      Writing what the bots are saying in a much longer way then claiming to use your brain is funny. 😂

    • @user-uq3ie2io6e
      @user-uq3ie2io6e 22 дні тому +12

      👍☮️

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents 22 дні тому +3

      The claim they are about to collapse and be kicked out is propaganda. The news they are shipping men from Kaliningrad was the important news this week and revealed the 50k soldiers in the north don't exist and the situation is critical and has the potential to lose further territory. Russia would not take away troops from their warm water European port and leave that undefended unless they *really* had to.

    • @joelturley4847
      @joelturley4847 22 дні тому

      How's the weather in Moscow vatnik ? 😅

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents 22 дні тому +6

      I am pro Russia but people have not accepted that once all the invasions are finished, probably 3 crossings to go - all the world will begin pressure on Russia to negotiate immediately, turning international opinion against them as they won't make peace. The plan will probably fail but it literally was Ukraine's ONLY possible strategy that has ANY potential of getting back land in the east.

  • @ervie60
    @ervie60 22 дні тому +27

    WTF?? an incursion of Kaliningrad from Ukraine? Well Prof Rossi, may I suggest attending kindergarten geography 101?

    • @off6848
      @off6848 22 дні тому +2

      He's saying Poland will allow UAF to move through like Russias incursion from Belarus. I don't put anything passed NATO

    • @spazmonkey3815
      @spazmonkey3815 11 днів тому

      Also Prof. Michael Rossi thinks there could be a reason for Russia to now accept a deal. I believe that after Kursk, Ukraine sealed its fate and there will no longer be a Ukraine.
      Russia is dominating so completely that it is unreasonable to think that Russia will be subordinate to NATO/USA.
      Russia will dictate the terms after it over runs Kiev.
      Zelensky will swing like Mussolini.

  • @frenkihunter7523
    @frenkihunter7523 22 дні тому +27

    Material aid from the US and Europe has its limitations. One day the West will have nothing to offer and Ukraine will be without resources. And it is logical that the West cannot afford it. Both financially and logically.
    The armies of the Western countries must have their own supplies, for a possible war. I see this situation clearly for Russia.
    Ukraine has no chance.
    And the pressures from inside Ukraine, against the Zelensky regime, will increase. Ukrainians are not interested in dying for American arms companies paying puppets in the state leadership. Ignorance of the Slavic nature will take revenge on you Anglo-Saxons.

    • @AprMonkeyKing
      @AprMonkeyKing 22 дні тому

      teach a man to fish?

    • @frenkihunter7523
      @frenkihunter7523 22 дні тому +1

      @@AprMonkeyKing Try to say something to the point. Specifically.

    • @spaghettiking653
      @spaghettiking653 22 дні тому

      What "Slavic nature", exactly? Is it the Slav's nature to deliberately let his country get swallowed by a leviathan?
      Poles, all Slavs to the last bone in their bodies, vehemently oppose the Putinist madness, as does virtually any non-Russian Slav, because all Slavs in the world have been hard done by the Russian daydream that they could subjugate the East. The fact that Ukrainians don't want their country to get genocided is what you need to focus on, not worry about supporting the winner. BTW, even if Putin wins, there will come a time when that sad dwarf will eventually be changed, and hopefully the next guy along has more than a cavity of lukewarm air atop his shoulders.
      You also conveniently neglect the fact that Russians don't really want to die for a vainglorious war intended to satisfy the internal-Russian war machine and oligarchs, either. Really, no one wants or needs this war. So why, why? Why do Ukrainian cities need to be levelled to the ground? Just how unreasonable is all this, needless suffering...? Have you seen it...?

  • @1952bane
    @1952bane 22 дні тому +112

    He doesn't take into account that the West ie. the US will not be main world arbiter for a long time...He overlooks that the US is in an irreversible decline!

    • @jesseterrell2109
      @jesseterrell2109 22 дні тому

      China is not your friend.

    • @matthewobrien7326
      @matthewobrien7326 22 дні тому +2

      Explain how you see the US as in irreversible decline. I'd like to contrast this with, as an example, the complete collapse of the Chinese demographic structure.

    • @1952bane
      @1952bane 22 дні тому +8

      @@matthewobrien7326 Well so called woke ideology is an obvious sign of decadence in the society as a whole. I remember a professor of political science with a PhD in US politics also told us that the US is in decline. It was 7 years ago. Then he compared it to British decline, and how they didn't see it when signs were already there. Then this move towards dedolarization. Signs are there....

    • @matthewobrien7326
      @matthewobrien7326 22 дні тому

      @@1952bane Okay, the "woke" ideology is a meaningless phrase. The US has 5 of the 10 strongest air forces on earth, the strongest navy by a factor of 12, and we can project power in a way no other nation on earth can. Some guy saying 7 years ago the US is in decline is irrelevant. Who's challenging them?

    • @Mary_QQQ
      @Mary_QQQ 22 дні тому

      ​@matthewobrien7326 USA 🇺🇸 is bankrupt, lost control of its borders, and crime and drug abuse are out of control. RIP USA
      IMO

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 22 дні тому +77

    NATO is not a defensive alliance. They illegally bombed Yugoslavia (direct violation of the UN Charter). We must never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria...

    • @michaelsrensen3398
      @michaelsrensen3398 22 дні тому +4

      How many times have you copy pasted that text by now Ivan?

    • @PerceivedREALITY999
      @PerceivedREALITY999 22 дні тому

      @@michaelsrensen3398 More than the amount of brain cells you have.

    • @Minisquid100
      @Minisquid100 22 дні тому +10

      ​@michaelsrensen3398 who cares? It's the truth.

    • @annmowatt7547
      @annmowatt7547 22 дні тому +8

      @@michaelsrensen3398 It NEEDS to be repeated. Keep on reminding us, Perceived Reality 999

    • @dinf8940
      @dinf8940 22 дні тому

      @@michaelsrensen3398 its not ivan, just a cia bot using desensitization by repetition tactic

  • @dusancville
    @dusancville 22 дні тому +22

    Mr Rossi, Serbia had Kosovo and Metohija in XII century.
    Ukraine comes to existence in 1991.
    Very poor comparison. Very poor understanding, or just too quick to find one ?
    "My country occupied countries within a week, Russia is in a war for 2 years.."
    Your country killed millions around the Globe and continue to do it, not considering anything on its way of destruction.
    Russia ain't close to the moral of your country.

    • @mayamichelle6741
      @mayamichelle6741 22 дні тому +3

      Exactly. That was a very disingenuous or totally thoughtless statement.

    • @bennybenny43
      @bennybenny43 22 дні тому

      🫡

    • @pobybuf
      @pobybuf 22 дні тому

      ?

    • @thetombaxter
      @thetombaxter 16 днів тому

      Ukraine, which only had a UN seat since WWII like Estonia, Finland, and Lat ia founded after WWI has no right to independent existence except under Russian control.

  • @Mandobird1
    @Mandobird1 22 дні тому +80

    "Strengthened Ukraine's position for negotiations."
    The next conditions will be seriously worse for Ukraine.

    • @JoseManley
      @JoseManley 22 дні тому

      You invaded Russian.

    • @vivianaguermandi9715
      @vivianaguermandi9715 22 дні тому +6

      Putin is not a man you can negotiate with😅

    • @antoniototeras
      @antoniototeras 22 дні тому

      @@vivianaguermandi9715 so don't...who will lost the most? Eh?

    • @vivianaguermandi9715
      @vivianaguermandi9715 22 дні тому +1

      @@antoniototeras not him of course. Those 1200 square km of country side are nothing. Meanwile russians keep advancing in South east morsel by morsel.

    • @matthewobrien7326
      @matthewobrien7326 22 дні тому +1

      Yeah, Putin might start committing war crimes in Bucha. Wait...

  • @user-id8cu4pc5z
    @user-id8cu4pc5z 22 дні тому +33

    Point of correction, AMerica cannot take this kind of war in Ukraine for one week, and Russia is not carpet-bombing Kiev as the US did in Iraq.

    • @stanislavchenkovstanev611
      @stanislavchenkovstanev611 22 дні тому +5

      Exactly! And also USA has never in the recent history destroyed another country alone. USA was in coalitions and the attacked country was isolated completely from the other world. Ukraine would collapse in weeks if all the weapons, money, intelligence, advices, support from the West just stops. And that is the Ukrainian and the western opinion.

    • @Trumpulator
      @Trumpulator 21 день тому +1

      ​@@stanislavchenkovstanev611 Nobody cares about your "IF'S." We only care about reality. Not your feelings.

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 22 дні тому +61

    stoltenberg: Are we winning the proxy war against Russia?
    Military expert: No sir, we are not.
    stoltenberg: But we have more money.
    Military expert: I understand sir, but the Russians have more brains.

    • @homichael1218
      @homichael1218 22 дні тому +5

      Yes. You are right! Just look at the way our politicians talked, people from Singapore, China and many other countries do not understand why we have so many 3rd class politicians.

    • @barrygyles2211
      @barrygyles2211 22 дні тому +5

      Exactly and Mr Putin is one the few leaders with an intelligent brain.

    • @TheBatlash
      @TheBatlash 22 дні тому

      @@barrygyles2211 How can you consider Putin intelligent when his actions suggest an indifference to peace and economic stability? The following outcomes have resulted from the war:
      Economic Strain: The Russian economy has been severely impacted by the war and resulting sanctions, leading to inflation, a shrinking GDP, and a more difficult economic environment for Russian citizens.
      International Sanctions: Russia is facing severe international sanctions, which have caused significant economic challenges and diplomatic isolation from much of the West. These sanctions have hit critical sectors like finance, energy, and technology.
      Diplomatic Isolation: The war has caused a significant deterioration in Russia’s relations with Western countries, forcing Russia to seek closer ties with countries like China and Iran for economic and military support.
      Strengthening of NATO: An unintended consequence of the invasion has been the strengthening of NATO. Finland and Sweden have moved to join the alliance, increasing NATO’s presence near Russia’s borders.
      Ukrainian Unity: The invasion has united Ukraine more than ever before, bolstering its national identity and resolve to resist Russian aggression.
      Military Setbacks: Russia has encountered significant military setbacks, including the failure to capture Kyiv, the loss of Kherson city, and a stronger-than-expected Ukrainian resistance bolstered by Western military aid.

    • @TheBatlash
      @TheBatlash 22 дні тому +2

      You and many others seem to be misinformed. NATO as an organization does NOT send troops or weapons directly to Ukraine. However, some NATO member countries do provide military, financial, and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. These actions are taken by individual nations, not by NATO as a collective entity. There’s an important distinction between the two.

    • @barrygyles2211
      @barrygyles2211 22 дні тому

      @@TheBatlash not officially but they do

  • @JohnSmith-lf5xm
    @JohnSmith-lf5xm 22 дні тому +16

    I try to listen hold it until min 18 when "if putin has negociated early.... bla bla bla.." we know that they try to negotiate before during and after the war started, and we know that the brat/actor in Kiev place a law forbiding negociations.

    • @monostorizsolt2472
      @monostorizsolt2472 20 днів тому

      Yeah he had a few "stange" expressions, however, compared to most americans he sees most things, it was ok

    • @thetombaxter
      @thetombaxter 16 днів тому

      If only Ukraine surrendered Crimea, the Donbas, its education and foreign policy to Putin as he demanded in 2022, there would be no war.

  • @aneurindavies5943
    @aneurindavies5943 22 дні тому +92

    Ukrainian, and NATO Proxy Forces Losses are likely to be far higher than 1,500, probably triple that number!

    • @AprMonkeyKing
      @AprMonkeyKing 22 дні тому +1

      rus cant even count, how did you get to space, oh wait that was the Ukrainians.

    • @antediluvianatheist5262
      @antediluvianatheist5262 22 дні тому +7

      ​@@AprMonkeyKingnope. Russians.

    • @deadpoolguy283
      @deadpoolguy283 22 дні тому

      @@AprMonkeyKing Nope, those were Russians. You cant rewrite History Naziboy.
      Speaking of which: who collaboraedwith Hitler? Right! Bandera!
      On your Knees, Monkey!

    • @tonyp2865
      @tonyp2865 22 дні тому +1

      @@AprMonkeyKing Ukraine lost in Afghanistan.

    • @samjepsen8165
      @samjepsen8165 22 дні тому +4

      @@tonyp2865so did nato lol😂😂😂

  • @willengel2458
    @willengel2458 22 дні тому +108

    Zelensky wouldn't have acted without directions from DC. the empire of lies just doomed its Ukrainian project in Ukraine.

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents 22 дні тому +1

      It's undeniable the US knew aid wasn't being sent to the front line, but possible Ukraine was lying it was to defend Kiev or to stop a breakthrough or something.
      If the west knew it's likely it would have been leaked to the media like everything else though.

    • @JoseManley
      @JoseManley 22 дні тому

      The second largest military - A super-power - can't stabilize a war zone that they themselves created. No air-force, no navy - they have shown the world that Russia is a pathetic paper tiger.

    • @joe_ninety_one5076
      @joe_ninety_one5076 22 дні тому

      The empire of lies is firmly rooted in the Kremlin.

    • @litchips
      @litchips 22 дні тому

      Keep making this pathetic excuse for Russian weakness.

    • @matthiaspizzini8010
      @matthiaspizzini8010 22 дні тому

      Good we have the empire of truth, lead by your freinds Putin, Xi Jinping and our all favourite, the chubby Jong un. Lucky we have them to balance the lies of the west 😅

  • @wilycoyote2869
    @wilycoyote2869 22 дні тому +29

    This conflict now could be wrapped up before winter will set in...possibly earlier, but not later...

  • @dwightmcqueen5771
    @dwightmcqueen5771 22 дні тому +42

    Americans are sick about hearing about Ukraine

    • @JoseManley
      @JoseManley 22 дні тому +5

      Move to Russia. I beg you.

    • @moreza4689
      @moreza4689 22 дні тому +4

      So are Canadians.

    • @meggallucci5300
      @meggallucci5300 22 дні тому +4

      No kidding. Ukraine is the 51st state.

    • @VadimBolshakov
      @VadimBolshakov 22 дні тому +8

      Russians too.

    • @africaunite99
      @africaunite99 22 дні тому

      when you try to make a mess in a country that can vitrify you in a few minutes, Russia is not Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria or Yugoslavia, the Yankees never accept their political and military destabilization.

  • @alexhayden2303
    @alexhayden2303 22 дні тому +9

    So many sites delighting in the idea of a humiliated Russia, quite ignoring the frightful agonies of an extended conflict.

  • @davidb9013
    @davidb9013 22 дні тому +11

    Perhaps why Russia is not making as big territorial gains as would be expected could be that they only wish to hold onto areas that are Russian leaning. Their best scenario would be Ukraine to agree to not join NATO and for elections in Ukraine. It would be too difficult to administer the remainder if it remains against Russia with a huge diaspora that could return and fight years later.

    • @severianmonk7394
      @severianmonk7394 22 дні тому +2

      I can absolutely guarantee that virtually nobody in the diaspora would ever think of returning to the point of origin in a hopeless bid to defend it. Not in a million years or for ten seconds.

    • @davidb9013
      @davidb9013 22 дні тому

      @@severianmonk7394 Perhaps you misread it? If there is a negotiated settlement with parts administered by Russia and a relative peace in terms of between Russia and Ukraine. A sizeable amount of diaspora would return to rebuild their lives and their country however they would unlikely settle with losing parts of their country. There's likely to be some civil strife and also further tension ahead on any new borders. Your comment seems focused in the now in the current context. How about when it's temporarily settled, people return, including men and teenagers who come of age?

    • @catadoxas
      @catadoxas 22 дні тому +1

      you do understand that wars with Russia were never about territorial gains right? this war ends when one society is so depleated it can no longer muster a fight. not before. and Ukraine is running out of men. Russia is not. and at the current pace of fighting pretty much wont even if this war goes on for ever

    • @davidb9013
      @davidb9013 22 дні тому

      @@catadoxas Agree with your assessment

  • @martinvandenbroek9960
    @martinvandenbroek9960 22 дні тому +41

    The notion that the West brought USSR on its economic knees is sheer nonsens..
    In direct comparison a Capitalistic organised economy versus a Centralised organised one the first appeared (temporarily) better.
    Its flaws, of which extreme inequality of income and social participation are most striking, are now coming to the surface.
    Massive social unrest will undoubtedly lead to highly needed and probably brutal corrections..
    Implosion of Western Capitalism will certain not pass as peaceful as the USSR early 90'ties..

    • @turboponies
      @turboponies 22 дні тому

      Sounds like you are all set to celebrate that

    • @spaghettiking653
      @spaghettiking653 22 дні тому

      Bro, you didn't live in the USSR, you haven't even got the faintest notion what you're talking about. If you had lived in the sty, you'd know it ain't what it's made out to be. Inequality exists, but the USSR didn't stand a chance. BTW, if people aren't allowed to vote, aren't allowed a passport, aren't allowed to leave your country at all unless they're high-ranking staff, and will get thrown to the pigs if they try any form of free expression, that's a sign that something it deeply, deeply screwed about your country. It was only a matter of time before some rotten hell like that fell apart by itself anyway. A person with a brain between his ears would have shown up at some point to fix all that.

    • @robertdlucas7418
      @robertdlucas7418 22 дні тому

      There will civil wars .

    • @jackm.1628
      @jackm.1628 21 день тому

      U.S. has been around with capitalist economy since 1776. How many bloody revolutions and changes of government has Russia had since then?

    • @KP-uc1ez
      @KP-uc1ez 20 днів тому +1

      ​@spaghettiking653 you're talking out of your ass.
      It's very easy to repeat things and ad hom people with pithy commentary.
      It's more difficult to read dozens of books and engage in cross comparisons of accounts of events, undertaken over the course of years in all your free time, while working 50+ hours a week..
      Prolific commenter, though, good on you, I guess.
      Maybe it'll make an impact someday, hero.

  • @MrLucidity
    @MrLucidity 22 дні тому +40

    "My country can take a country in a week"
    *Afghanistan and Vietnam have joined the chat*

    • @blackrainb0w
      @blackrainb0w 22 дні тому +1

      🤣🤣🤣 True!

    • @MichaelRossiPoliSci
      @MichaelRossiPoliSci 22 дні тому +5

      To be fair, "taking" a country is one thing; "holding" it is an entirely different story....

  • @fallonmassey4714
    @fallonmassey4714 22 дні тому +7

    *At some point Russia has to deal with the source of the problem & not the symptom!*

  • @MrColdNight
    @MrColdNight 22 дні тому +7

    It’s all about resources they could care less about who dies in this war and as long as NATO exists this will never change

    • @spaghettiking653
      @spaghettiking653 22 дні тому

      This war had no business starting at all. Remind me who invaded whom again?

    • @michelsascha
      @michelsascha 21 день тому

      ​@@spaghettiking653 America invaded Ukraine. That's what 85% of humanity are understanding very well. They nearly all had these kind of regimechanges and they are fed up.

  • @lijerbtfg
    @lijerbtfg 22 дні тому +15

    I don't think defending the border itself is of much concern to Russia, and has probably never been.
    For foreign armed forces, getting in is no problem at all. Getting back out alive is the hard part.
    Russisn people probably know that.

    • @AndersHeywireDK
      @AndersHeywireDK 22 дні тому

      How are all the ruzzians who fled the region doing?

    • @elenaustyuzhanina297
      @elenaustyuzhanina297 22 дні тому

      So true

    • @giovanni-ed7zq
      @giovanni-ed7zq 21 день тому

      lol do you watch the videos of the russians in the occupied towns in kursk, they are hugging the ukrainians lol. they even speak ukrainian to the ukrainian soldiers lulz.
      do you see the slow response of moving troops to kursk. only east of sudzha is like 5k russian troops. rest is small pockets that get surrounded in north and west. they take the kursk nuke power plant they can shut off power to 5 regions in russia for the winter. think of the economic damage from that by itself. and the beauty is there is rivers to the north where if the bridges blown, russia cant cross them so they only have to worry about the eastern flank.

  • @aromero385
    @aromero385 22 дні тому +7

    Another solution, it may be "ala germany", dividing in East, West Ukraine, being the west closely supervised to be neutral and not be threat anymore to Russia national security.

    • @rakadus
      @rakadus 22 дні тому +1

      What's your thoughts on the Austrian model?

    • @deputyVH
      @deputyVH 22 дні тому +1

      I think they would join NATO in that case. No chance risking another invasion.

    • @aromero385
      @aromero385 22 дні тому

      @@rakadus That's the ideal model.

  • @theodoreloring9166
    @theodoreloring9166 22 дні тому +7

    Ukraine never had a chance and to be ho est ...nazis regimes should never have a chance

  • @user-od1pe2ip2n
    @user-od1pe2ip2n 22 дні тому +67

    🇺🇦Ukraine has lost the war and comedian zelensky is desperate 😂😂😂

    • @sabitrisugrim9050
      @sabitrisugrim9050 22 дні тому +1

      Who is beaten up now???

    • @JoseManley
      @JoseManley 22 дні тому +9

      how much were you paid to say that?

    • @amandapeluso4217
      @amandapeluso4217 22 дні тому +1

      ​@@JoseManley let us know how much you were paid NAFO Bot.

    • @amandapeluso4217
      @amandapeluso4217 22 дні тому

      ​@@JoseManley18 years 7 comments. Bot account. Still supporting Zelensky and Neo Nazis in Ukraine. The CIA pays well and the brainwashing worked on you

    • @ftwyeah
      @ftwyeah 22 дні тому +3

      Agree. Ukraine should send those Kursk troops taking fields to defend their country in the East.

  • @Fawazedits8944yt
    @Fawazedits8944yt 22 дні тому +19

    Под прикрытием войны в Украине НАТО попыталось захватить Курскую АЭС для чего?
    Если они не могут выиграть прямую войну, то НАТО дошло до уровня Аль-Каиды, даже Аль-Каида не осмелилась предпринять такой ужасный террористический заговор, это конец НАТО и начало нового мирового порядка, Россия никогда не будет вести переговоры с террористами.

    • @IJ72
      @IJ72 22 дні тому

      Amen

    • @AprMonkeyKing
      @AprMonkeyKing 22 дні тому +1

      lol tire fire

    • @TheBatlash
      @TheBatlash 22 дні тому

      You and many others seem to be misinformed. NATO as an organization does NOT send troops or weapons directly to Ukraine. However, some NATO member countries do provide military, financial, and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. These actions are taken by individual nations, not by NATO as a collective entity. There’s an important distinction between the two.
      So, NATO is not involved and you are seriously misinformed.

    • @cretumarius9616
      @cretumarius9616 22 дні тому

      @@TheBatlashmental gymnastics

    • @TheBatlash
      @TheBatlash 22 дні тому

      @@cretumarius9616 facts

  • @Chris-yg6lo
    @Chris-yg6lo 22 дні тому +27

    LMAO never in history has it benefited a nation to just give up for peace

    • @rakadus
      @rakadus 22 дні тому +5

      India gave up 1/3rd of its territory in search of peace in 1947. The jury is still out.

    • @Chris-yg6lo
      @Chris-yg6lo 22 дні тому +1

      ​@@rakadusIndia didn't benefit

    • @archyology
      @archyology 21 день тому

      In WW2 it didn't benefit Germany to fight to the last man, they really fought long after it was clear the war was lost. We're obviously not there yet for Ukraine.

  • @kazab873
    @kazab873 22 дні тому +21

    2019 Rand Report says it all

    • @Skousen77
      @Skousen77 22 дні тому +1

      "(Over)Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground (Ukraine, red.)"

  • @kevintewey1157
    @kevintewey1157 22 дні тому +7

    U s citizens that want peace are the only ones that are mature and seriously responsibly committed to the country and their soldiers best interest.
    So ...

  • @user-is7up6ln6m
    @user-is7up6ln6m 22 дні тому +40

    Let’s talk peace too many lives lost in stupid Ukraine war

    • @JoseManley
      @JoseManley 22 дні тому +10

      Tell Russia to leave.

    • @VadimBolshakov
      @VadimBolshakov 22 дні тому +1

      @@JoseManley stop spamming stupid comments Ukrobot

    • @amandapeluso4217
      @amandapeluso4217 22 дні тому +9

      ​@@JoseManley tell the US and NATO to stop being the aggressors. You obviously know nothing

    • @barrygyles2211
      @barrygyles2211 22 дні тому +5

      @@JoseManley no NATO must fall for peace to come.

    • @brucenorman8904
      @brucenorman8904 22 дні тому +4

      All thanks to Putin

  • @artistphilb
    @artistphilb 22 дні тому +20

    The trouble with the Regan out spending strategy is that it didn't stop, too many people get rich from it even when it no longer serves the nation, or is actually detrimental to it. America doesn't think that it could be bankrupted by military spending like the Soviet union was.

    • @jesseterrell2109
      @jesseterrell2109 22 дні тому

      It might not have stopped but it slowed down during the 90s and even during GWOT in the 2000s with the % of gdp spending on the military dropping after the Cold War ended. They called it down sizing in the 90s thanks to the Clinton administration which left the US in a weaker military position after 9/11.

  • @vladimircurkoski1455
    @vladimircurkoski1455 22 дні тому +7

    My country can take a country in a week. Yeah SURE I love how even those Americans who think they are smart and out of the system are actually so under propaganda that they actually believe in own bs, I can't speak in the name of Huties and Yemen but I remember that his country (USA) with whole NATO on their side wasn't able to capture single mountain village in Serbia for more than 11 weeks and it was Serbia after years of sanctions and hyperinflation with newest military equipment 15 years old.

    • @deputyVH
      @deputyVH 22 дні тому

      Are Americans in Ukraine?

    • @elenaustyuzhanina297
      @elenaustyuzhanina297 22 дні тому

      ​@@deputyVHyes, they are

    • @deputyVH
      @deputyVH 22 дні тому

      @@elenaustyuzhanina297 Not officially. There's no Army divisions there.

  • @user-is7up6ln6m
    @user-is7up6ln6m 22 дні тому +9

    Hawks in Russia want to level Ukraine

    • @deputyVH
      @deputyVH 22 дні тому

      That's national suicide for Russia. Even China will distance themselves from Russia if they do that.

    • @nedialkosimonov3893
      @nedialkosimonov3893 21 день тому

      80% of russian population now wanted this to happen!

  • @JabberwockyGB
    @JabberwockyGB 22 дні тому +6

    If Russia provides Hezbollah and the Houthis with hypersonic anti ship missiles then Western naval assets are at risk. Providing Iran with R37 hypersonic air to air missiles allows them to target US / Israeli air refuelling. So US support for Israel could result in devastation for them both.

    • @michelsascha
      @michelsascha 21 день тому

      To mention an iranian flag can quickly be painted on Mig 31k wings wtih kinshal and say hello to mister carrier within a range of nearly 3000 miles.

  • @user-cv9vi7hp7n
    @user-cv9vi7hp7n 22 дні тому +29

    Мне вот интересна позиция моралистов запада... захват территорий в 21 веке недопустим... Почему? Давно ли что-то изменилось? Захват ФРГ территории ГДР, развал Югославии, оккупации целых стран или их частей... Все это происходит постоянно... Люди не изменились жители "сада Бореля", все так же относятся к жителям "джунглей" как к людям второго или даже третьего сорта... и если "цивилизованных" людей отправить не необитаемый остров, без шансов на спасение, они превратятся в дикарей еще до того как иссякнет заряд батареи на их айфонах... Кто вам дал право решать что хорошо, а что плохо? Кто вам дал право решать, что можно, а что нельзя?

    • @VadimBolshakov
      @VadimBolshakov 22 дні тому +2

      потому что можно только западу! не понятно чтоль?

    • @turboponies
      @turboponies 22 дні тому +2

      Все примеры из 20 века. Мнения как дырка в попе - есть у всех, и извергает одно и то же

    • @user-cv9vi7hp7n
      @user-cv9vi7hp7n 22 дні тому

      @@VadimBolshakov именно то, что это не так... и объясняют западу, как в Африке так и на территории "страны 404")

    • @user-cv9vi7hp7n
      @user-cv9vi7hp7n 22 дні тому +1

      @@turboponies так а что изменилось в 21 веке? и кто решил, что что-то изменилось? в том-то и дело, что мнение есть у всех. а запад никто не назначал "смотрящими" над планетой Земля. В свое "саду Бореля" могут делать что хотят. А за пределами "сада" они никто и звать их "никак".

    • @trolslovenski
      @trolslovenski 22 дні тому +2

      Good description of american EXCEPTIONALISM👍

  • @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602
    @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 22 дні тому +4

    This is a good conversation, but both Pascal Lottaz and his guest Michael Rossi missed something important. When Israel invaded and began tearing Gaza apart, no one wanted to talk about the Ukrainian War anymore. And now that Ukraine has attacked Kursk, invading Russian territory, no one wants to talk about the Middle East anymore. There is a seesaw effect, creating opportunities for diplomacy first in Europe and now in the Middle East. The problem is that these windows that would allow for pacification in one region or another are being wasted, because Netanyahu and Zelensky are unwilling or unable to accept any kind of peace. Business as usual of war creates the seesaw, throwing attention and perception from one side to the other, but does not find a permanent solution to the Ukrainian and Zionist problem.

    • @deputyVH
      @deputyVH 22 дні тому

      Can't you follow both? You can if you're interested.

  • @shinysteel101
    @shinysteel101 22 дні тому +27

    This is merely a battle. Cluster lost and died (for our sins) at Big Horn. Please understand, it was a battle. Not a war! Who controls North America? Not Sitting Bull's progeny.
    Winning the war is everything. Russia will!

  • @Black_Sun_Dark_Star
    @Black_Sun_Dark_Star 22 дні тому +17

    Ikraine is the king without clothes while NATO and USA are the seamstress selling him the invisible gown.

    • @jamessmithers4456
      @jamessmithers4456 22 дні тому +3

      Very vvery clever metaphor

    • @matthiaspizzini8010
      @matthiaspizzini8010 22 дні тому

      And your friend Putin is just a piece of shit (sorry, i am not as poetic as you are)

  • @MichaelKennedy-tr1xc
    @MichaelKennedy-tr1xc 22 дні тому +7

    Putins words have been proved correct by NATOs actions. If Ukraine hadn't been occupied then it would have ended up with full NATO membership..rather than beneficial neutrality that every treaty since their independence stated. Interfering with the internal politics of Ukraine shows it was the US that broke the Budapest Accords.

    • @mayamichelle6741
      @mayamichelle6741 22 дні тому +1

      This. Clear as day. 💯💯💯

    • @TheBatlash
      @TheBatlash 22 дні тому

      If Ukraine would have been part of NATO, this war would not have happened.

    • @matthiaspizzini8010
      @matthiaspizzini8010 22 дні тому

      Yes, i can see the "BENFICIAL NEUTRALITY". Its very beneficial for the ukrainians...right?

    • @AndersHeywireDK
      @AndersHeywireDK 22 дні тому

      Putin is a lying coward😂🤣

  • @thomasstorgaard9750
    @thomasstorgaard9750 22 дні тому +6

    Austria should not have annexed Bosnia in 1908, then Prince Ferdinand would not have been shot.

    • @ralphbernhard1757
      @ralphbernhard1757 22 дні тому +2

      The annexation was an *effect,* not a cause.
      What caused the annexation was the encirclement strategy of the Entente powers, starting with GB-France in 1904, and Russia joining up 1907.
      Serbia was used as "buck catcher" by bigger powers, as a "useful friend", and Belgrade had a "Greater Serbia"-agenda for Bosnia.

  • @jluke168
    @jluke168 22 дні тому +5

    Peace seems out of fashion these days.

    • @deputyVH
      @deputyVH 22 дні тому

      There have always been wars throughout history. It's human nature to be tribal.

    • @jluke168
      @jluke168 22 дні тому +1

      @@deputyVH Yeah I understand that, more modern history context it seems like in the post WW2 and then vietnam and even second Iraq war, a lot of people were like peace should prevail because peace is good and war is bad because war is bad, and now it seems like war is good because our enemies are bad, and peace is bad because peace is weakness to our enemies, missed it earlier but there were those moments even in WW1 were people saw the humanity in each other, but now it's technology turbocharged propganada, and if you're lucky and live in a free country, it'll come in two flavours, else you get one flavour.

  • @lynchcreekmuzzy5759
    @lynchcreekmuzzy5759 22 дні тому +3

    How many people have seen video of Zelensky dancing as a cross dresser?

  • @NuisanceMan
    @NuisanceMan 22 дні тому +3

    The Soviet Union was not going bankrupt. The idea that Reagan somehow caused their breakup is a self-serving American fairy tale. The Soviet economy was doing okay -- not growing very fast, but okay -- until the last two or three years when Gorbachev tried to fast-track perestroika. This backfired and caused numerous problems. Then Yeltsin and "shock therapy" took over and caused a depression worse than the Great Depression of the 1930's, not only in Russia but in most of the other former Soviet republics as well.
    The Soviet Union moved away from Communism and then broke up due to a political crisis of legitimacy, mostly among its ruling "apparatchik" stratum, not an economic crisis.

  • @Bisquick
    @Bisquick 22 дні тому +3

    The USSR's intervention in Afghanistan was _also_ pretty much the exact same imperial cat's paw project. The US infamously facilitated Operation Cyclone in the _EARLY 70s_ arming/training the mujahideen in Afghanistan via the Pakistani ISI (also see: Iran Contra, BCCI, Safari Club, etc.) in order to _"give the USSR its own Vietnam"_ as its cold-warrior architect Zbigniew Brzezinski (whose daughter is "coincidentally" on MSNBC's Morning Joe) put it, provoking the Soviet invasion in '79 after first having denied 10 intervention requests from the government to prevent "regime change" (by self-declared "communist", obv CIA psycho Hafizullah Amin) shortly after the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan established post-Saur revolution. Alexei Kosygin, the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, explains the reason for initial reluctance to Taraki's request for Soviet presence in Afghanistan quite clearly, only caving when the situation was clearly not going to improve otherwise:
    _"We believe it would be a fatal mistake to commit ground troops. [...] If our troops went in, the situation in your country would not improve. On the contrary, it would get worse. Our troops would have to struggle not only with an external aggressor, but with a significant part of your own people. And the people would never forgive such things."_
    NATO is an arms distribution network for the military industrial complex and essentially the public face of a European sphere of US domination, covertly enforced by a "strategy of tension" of violent social control mediated by corporate-controlled technology (check out Chomsky/Herman's Manufacturing Consent or Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti) seen in things like Operation Gladio in Italy (see: "years of lead", Aldo Moro assassination, Bologna bombings, etc.) with parallel operations in _every_ NATO country (and even non-NATO countries like Finland and Sweden, their recent officialization merely perfunctory) where the CIA directed explicitly fascist paramilitary insurgencies (so-called "stay-behind" armies) to stoke public fear toward particular goals favorable to US corporate/finance capital and continued US hegemony. Its internally recognized geopolitical functionality or raison d'être as succinctly put by its first sec.gen Lord Ismay was to, _"keep the Americans in, the Germans down, and the Russians out"_ and hey, what a "coincidence", it appears to continue to enforce this state of affairs, especially obvious when noting the industrial sabotage of Nord Stream II clearly perpetrated by the US against Germany (a callback to interwar Germany and its imposed separation by Western powers to prevent a socialist-aligned industrial base which the Bolsheviks were _explicitly_ counting on for the USSR project to have any chance at success).
    Since I clearly have nothing better to do, let me give a brief sketch of the trajectory of US empire up to now if anyone even reads this/gives a shit lol...
    The US has positioned itself as the "consumer of last resort" at the end of the global supply chain to absorb inevitable overproduction of capitalism through cheap consumption or of course through our favorite activity of war/arms sales (military Keynesianism, the only button we can push at this point clearly), launching itself to hegemony post-WWII via imposing the Bretton-Woods international financial system with the US dollar as the "global reserve currency" using the leverage of being the only industrialized nation-state _not_ bombed to shit and taking the imperial baton from the British and their pound sterling, creating the World Bank and IMF which trap nation-states into dependency relationships to perpetually extract rent and maintain "full spectrum domination" over the global working class for the benefit of transnational corporate/finance capital (maintained by regional oligarchies in subordinated nation-states). As Nixon's treasury secretary John Connally succinctly put it, _"The dollar is our currency, but _*_your_*_ problem."_ See: "washington consensus" and its "structural adjustment" policies (hence the emergence of BRICS broadly aligned _against_ this global financial coercion and all that it entails).
    To list just a few more "regime change" reference points for the expansion of US empire: Iran in '53 overthrowing democratically elected Mossadegh to prevent nationalization of oil and installing the Shah, Guatemala in '54 to prevent democratically elected Arbenz from mild land redistribution, Sukarno in Indonesia putting in Suharto who would invade East Timor backed by the US, Lumumba in the Congo, the _first_ 9/11 in '73 overthrowing democratically elected Allende with Pinochet's military dictatorship, Operation Cyclone funding/training the mujahideen in Afghanistan to provoke USSR into invasion in the 80s (almost a 1:1 of Ukraine) touched on earlier directly leads into those same mujahideen infamously fracturing into the Taliban and Al Qaeda, "oops" (also funneled into Chechnia in 90s, as Putin surely knows) - my god this is merely the _tip_ of the imperialist iceberg - and this is of course _besides_ the overt depravity of Korea (killing ~20% of its population; two US generals - Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel - dividing Korea along the 38th parallel and even maintaining the prior Japanese imperial management from Japan's occupation in WWII, much like how the US maintained effectively all of the Nazi leadership in West Germany, Reinhard Ghelen running the BND, Klaus "butcher of Lyon" Barbie utilized in Operation Condor in South America, etc. etc.), Vietnam (including Cambodia, Laos, with the intention of "containing China" as revealed by Pentagon Papers), propping up Chang hai Shek's military dictatorship in Taiwan while smuggling heroin out of the "golden triangle", etc. etc...all this stuff is directly connected to a continuity of history charted by tidal material interests (ie _class_ conflict) that have established a centuries long entrenched imperial latticework around the world via colonialism,maintained for the interests of the ruling capitalist class within these
    Israel is a settler-colonial bulwark to protect oil and the trade routes for oil like the Suez Canal, e.g. by tempering Egyptian opposition like Nasser who nationalized the Suez Canal; originally established by the British empire, post-'67 being subsumed firmly into the imperial patron of the emerging US hegemony. So long as its existence is predicated on this settler-colonial conquest and subsequent apartheid, "peace" is utilized merely as a mirage to gain further concessions of land/control, hence "iron-clad" US complicity in arming and covering for their ongoing genocide.
    The entire "middle east" (West Asia) region was carved out of the former Ottoman empire post-WWI, as the Bolshevik revelation of Sykes-Picot secret treaty revealed which exposed the French, British collaboration drawing these borders with czarist Russia's assent and betrayal of the promise of sovereignty offered to Arab rebels that overthrew their prior Turkish rule (also see: the so-called "great game" for colonialization of the region); hence Arab state collaboration that continue to exist to this day, with the only exceptions being Iran post-'79 (overthrowing the CIA/MI6 installed military dictatorship of the Shah mentioned earlier) and Syria which the US is currently occupying 1/3rd of and as current NSA Jake Sullivan bluntly put it to Hillary Clinton in a wikileaked e-mail, _"AQ_ [Al Qaeda] _is on our side in Syria"_ in the form of Al Nusra and other "moderate rebels" (actual euphemism), Operation Timber-Sycamore funneling arms from NATO-deposed Gadaffi's Libya while also flowing more generally across Africa (Al Shabbob, etc.) destablizing the whole region for imperial management.
    _"We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false"_ - William Casey, -demonic arcon- CIA director under Reagan. Surely he's giving two thumbs up in hell, which is probably hard to distinguish from the world he helped create.
    Which is all to say - it ain't "broken", it's *_fixed!_*
    It's no coincidence these barely distinguishable factions of the US imperial bureaucracy continue to place the most -fervent passion- money in a firehose to the peripheries of US hegemonic control and it's no coincidence the first and only thing the fossil/corpse known as Joe Biden can come up with when pressed is that he _"brought NATO back together, jack!"_ (paraphrasing lol...) War is a racket, as Maj.Gen. Smedley Butler famously put it, upon reflecting on his role as a _"fixer for the gangsters of capitalism"_ , staunchly backing FDR/New Deal and firmly opposing capitalism.
    Nuclear apocalypse is the ultimate destination of endless escalation which thanks to the material interests staked in entrenching global bourgeoisie dictatorship over the global working class achieved under the pretext of the "cold" war (not very "cold" when, say, engulfed in napalm...) happens to be the raison d'être of the US natsec state since its inception; the divine right of "the market", the management of savagery, a means to no ends - where all possibility is strictly bound to profitability and everything and everyone, including the very planet itself, is for sale for the privatized profits of insatiable individual psychopaths who despite having everything only ever want more...
    To echo Rosa Luxemburg from interwar Germany, before of course being executed by the freikorps paramilitary (later becoming the SS, shocker) at the behest of Ebert's ostensibly _social democratic_ SPD party, almost immediately resonating the truth of such a succinct political dichotomy to this day:
    *_Socialism or_* [continued] *_barbarism._*

    • @trolslovenski
      @trolslovenski 22 дні тому +1

      I took some time and read it all. Golden comment. Bravo.
      There is still hope truth will come out to everyone 🙏

    • @GunLinser
      @GunLinser 21 день тому

      Quite fascinating read.

  • @johnnyk.2911
    @johnnyk.2911 22 дні тому +1

    Sending peace and love to the Russian people, there is a large majority that are brainwashed and support the US government. But there is a minority that know better, the American government is out of control.

  • @richardguevara8879
    @richardguevara8879 22 дні тому +35

    The US is at peace with Canada because they couldn't defeat them back then. Ukraine (a country created by Russia) is Russia's neighbour. Russia views Ukrainians as their slavic brothers. Russian does not want to destroy Ukraine.

    • @severianmonk7394
      @severianmonk7394 22 дні тому +2

      I think the sibling rivalry has taken over in Russia now and is totally out of control. No fraternal love to be lost by now.

    • @joe_ninety_one5076
      @joe_ninety_one5076 22 дні тому +4

      Skavic underlings might be a better description.
      'To be an enemy of Russia might be dangerous, but to be a brother is fatal'.

    • @bigtechisbigbrother8690
      @bigtechisbigbrother8690 22 дні тому +6

      @@joe_ninety_one5076 You spelled America wrong.

    • @joe_ninety_one5076
      @joe_ninety_one5076 22 дні тому

      @@bigtechisbigbrother8690 America claims no brothers.
      This is a Joe ninety one original. It fits Russia to a tee. Ask native Ukrainians and Belarusians how they are respected as 'brothers'. It is hard to believe that millions of them died to save Russians in the Great Patriotic War.

    • @LarryLogan-bt2hj
      @LarryLogan-bt2hj 22 дні тому +1

      The US own’s Canada outright today in every way . They didn’t need an army to take it over .

  • @user-kv3ww2gb2e
    @user-kv3ww2gb2e 21 день тому +1

    Don't forget, as Clinton long ago said:" It's economy, stupid," and the US economy is on decline.
    History will repeat itself, as in nineties with USSR.

  • @learyrichardgeorge300
    @learyrichardgeorge300 22 дні тому +36

    RITTER TOLD YOU RUSSIA WON TWO YEARS AGO

    • @BocaoZ
      @BocaoZ 22 дні тому +7

      It did, this is a hiccup

    • @deadpoolguy283
      @deadpoolguy283 22 дні тому +5

      Well, they did. The War Cotract is 3 Years though

    • @wallingnaga6563
      @wallingnaga6563 22 дні тому

      Would have won if NATO/US didn’t pump in 150 billion dollars into Ukraine .

    • @cozytime9067
      @cozytime9067 22 дні тому +14

      Russia won long time ago what Ukraine is doing now is like a blind cow walking towards tree's

    • @tonyp2865
      @tonyp2865 22 дні тому

      They did, then NATO put them on life support. Ukraine is like Biden.

  • @ennuiennui7
    @ennuiennui7 22 дні тому +2

    Vietnam was quit not because of Nixon becoming sensible, but because of Ellsberg whistleblowing, plus US at some point did not have enough troops to control internal unrest

  • @Paladiesh
    @Paladiesh 22 дні тому +7

    In a war you move as quick or as slow as the enemy lets you. Modern warfare is such that quick advancements are incredibly costly. Much more so than in any previous war. I strongly doubt US could do a blitzkrieg type invasion in any country that's getting even half as much military assistance as Ukraine's getting right now. I mean try envisioning a scenario where the US would try invading Iran with Russia and North Korea (and partially China) supplying them. How well would that go?

  • @fstaheli
    @fstaheli 22 дні тому +2

    I love Neutrality Studies, because the discussions are always so matter-of-fact and sensible. It's hard to find that among ANY of the US establishment media.

  • @matthewobrien7326
    @matthewobrien7326 22 дні тому +3

    I am baffled at this entire interaction. I have never seen as uniform misunderstanding of the entire region as I just watched. Russia did not invade Ukraine to capture a few regions. The Russian economy is not humming along, wartime economies are unsustainable without conquest. People supporting Ukraine are not "sending" Ukrainians back to fight against their will. In a 47:00+ minute video there is not one accurate representation of the conflict. It's just bizarre.

    • @matthewobrien7326
      @matthewobrien7326 22 дні тому +1

      Sorry, I forgot to mention that the assertion the incursion into Kursk "has completely stalled" is also abject nonsense. Just complete and utterly disconnected from reality.

  • @casualgamer3689
    @casualgamer3689 22 дні тому +2

    It’s ludicrous to think that NATO would invade Russia. First of all NATO is a defence organisation and every country decide on its own if it wants to take part in attacking another nation and most country’s population would never back an attack on Russia.

  • @johnlund2036
    @johnlund2036 22 дні тому +6

    19:05 There was a very similar agreement in March and April of 2022 that was being negotiated between Ukraine and Russia, the USA and UK told Ukraine not to take.

  • @grahamrobson9292
    @grahamrobson9292 22 дні тому +17

    What’s this olive branch ? Rhetoric olive branch is not worth anything as it is offered by criminal entity.

  • @laurenth7187
    @laurenth7187 22 дні тому +7

    Michael Rossi is prof of History of Science and medicine, what the heck... Is Ukraine a medical issue ?

    • @trolslovenski
      @trolslovenski 22 дні тому +4

      Its a historical issue. And he is a lot more legit as nafo couch generals on hohol side of things😉

    • @deputyVH
      @deputyVH 22 дні тому +1

      But he watches the Russian news. 🙄

  • @wickman.r4662
    @wickman.r4662 21 день тому +1

    Incursión:
    1. Boosts morale
    2. Begins establishing a buffer zone along the Ukrainian international boundary.
    3. Regions near Kursk are economically stressed to pay for lodging and food.

  • @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2
    @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2 22 дні тому +37

    Russia cannot give back parts of it's territory BY LAW. The 4 Ex Ukrainian oblast are 100% part of Russia now (passport, money, identification, etc) Contrary to the west, Russia is a big follower of internal and international (U.N.) laws.

    • @joe_ninety_one5076
      @joe_ninety_one5076 22 дні тому +3

      @@ThereIsAlwaysaWay2 That is really very funny. Hilarious actually.

    • @joe_ninety_one5076
      @joe_ninety_one5076 22 дні тому

      @@ThereIsAlwaysaWay2 That is really very funny. Quite hilarious.

    • @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2
      @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2 22 дні тому +4

      @@joe_ninety_one5076 That's a real written law inside Russia's constitution. What's funny in a law??? You got a weird sense of humor.

    • @roberth4395
      @roberth4395 22 дні тому +2

      ​@@ThereIsAlwaysaWay2that is still stupid.
      I took something that belings to you, but I cannot give it back to you, because Joe does not share food.

    • @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2
      @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2 22 дні тому +1

      @@roberth4395 The population voted at more then 80% to get independence from Ukraine in 2016. 6 years later after being bombarded by Ukr for 8 years and 14 000 to 18 000 death they voted to join Russia ate more then 90%. Funny how people pretending to care about democracy REJECT 90% votes IMMEDIATELY the moment they don't like the result. (Trudeau elected with 34%, Macron with 38%, US has cheating notoriously embedded in the system) People from the west, I love democracy ONLY when the votes fits their opinions.
      Fun Fact = Ukraine disbanded 11 political parties and imprisoner 44 dully elected member of the parliament. SUPER DUPER DEMOCRACY.

  • @petes6521
    @petes6521 22 дні тому +2

    Thank you Professor Rossi!

  • @Froghole-gw6xq
    @Froghole-gw6xq 22 дні тому +6

    The odd thing is that Reagan didn't have to outspend the Soviets, as collapse was probable without SDI by the mid 1980s. As Fritz Bartel has shown, the debts incurred by most Comecon countries during the 1970s (in order to bridge the gap between public expectations of improving living standards and the increasingly poor performance of command economies) could only be financed at a vast premium once the flow of Western credit was choked off with the Volcker Shock (1980); that meant the Soviets underwriting their allies to an unacceptable extent, whilst holding down civilian investment and living standards at home to do so and subverting the legitimacy of their own system in the process. Then, when the impact of the Volcker Shock eventually led to a collapse in oil prices in 1986, the Soviets were only able to finance their own system by means of inflation (and, of course, they could no longer finance their allies). Soviet collapse followed quite quickly. SDI may have been the cherry on the cake, but it was not the cake itself, and the fact that so many US policymakers keep saying that it was all down to Reagan is partly a species of self-delusion, and partly a way of justifying ever increasing military appropriations at the expense of investment in civilian infrastructure and the welfare of the US people as well as international stability.

  • @kazab873
    @kazab873 22 дні тому +12

    Has Zeli run out of houses and the White stuff...keep the grift going, at the tax payer's expense!

    • @deputyVH
      @deputyVH 22 дні тому

      Has Putin run out of conscripts?

  • @nicolasjuandecardenas7921
    @nicolasjuandecardenas7921 22 дні тому +4

    While Putin is the commander in chief there must be other views in the government that seek harsher response.

    • @severianmonk7394
      @severianmonk7394 22 дні тому +1

      His name is Dimitri and I find him wildly attractive.

    • @deputyVH
      @deputyVH 22 дні тому

      If so, they are even more deluded.

  • @williams.1980
    @williams.1980 22 дні тому +1

    1.A - that thing that pascal says is "sickening" and "mind boggling". that is the rules based order. someone mentioned the ability to print and spend. 'Rules based order'. pascal is simply pointing out the dynamic that has been there, basically for ten years. "to the last Ukrainian". now they say it as if it is a new thing in light of the Russian "war of aggression".

  • @gregchijoff9959
    @gregchijoff9959 22 дні тому +16

    Indeed. Talk about military premature ejaculation. Ukraine blew it!

    • @MuzorewaRatshikuni
      @MuzorewaRatshikuni 22 дні тому

      Too graphic, my dear Sir!
      But nonetheless on point.

    • @zamokwakheluvuno5715
      @zamokwakheluvuno5715 22 дні тому

      ​@@MuzorewaRatshikuni😂

    • @deputyVH
      @deputyVH 22 дні тому

      How do you work that out? Ukraine just aquired some bargaining power. POWs and fertile land.

    • @gregchijoff9959
      @gregchijoff9959 22 дні тому +1

      @@deputyVH Russia has many thousands more Ukrainian prisoners, most of whom are happy to stay prisoners until the end of hostilities. Prisoner swaps go on all the time, however, more to Russia's advantage as Ukraine doesn't hold many Russian prisoners. Ukraine acquired some potato fields and missed the main prize of the Kursk nuclear power station. That was their main goal. Over the past 2 weeks Ukraine has lost something like 500 pieces of tech. in the Kursk salient - anything from tanks, AFV's trucks, artillery, anti-aircraft systems. They are being bled white in Kursk. Their best troops and tech. Russia is happy to sit there and let the Ukrainians keep filling the sack with more troops and equipment.
      Meanwhile, Donbas creaks and collapses. Ukraine just lost Pokrovsk and New York.
      The raid into Kursk Oblast was always going to be temporarily. A PR stunt. It is rapidly starting to unfold.

    • @deputyVH
      @deputyVH 22 дні тому

      @@gregchijoff9959 Sounds like you think Russia is going to win? I wonder how the Russia people feel about being invaded and displaced?

  • @barryscott6222
    @barryscott6222 22 дні тому +6

    Here is an endgame:
    Russia takes all territory East of the Dnieper - plus Odessa and Transnistria.
    Belarus occupies all of the rest (West Ukraine) as "peacekeepers".
    And that is the mechanism and Buffer, that separates Russia from Nato.
    But effectively, defacto, Russia ends up owning all of Ukraine.

    • @markward3981
      @markward3981 22 дні тому +2

      Highly unlikely. Western Ukraine would be twice as hard to take and ten times as difficult to govern.

    • @fedorevdokimenko3978
      @fedorevdokimenko3978 22 дні тому +1

      @@markward3981 Western Ukraine is much less populated and urbanised. There is almost no large industrial zones there aswell to use for defense.
      The population of Western Ukraine is very specific. They hate Russians. But, they hate Poles, Hungarians, Slovaks and all others including eastern Ukrainians and even each other. They will sell each other for a cent, same way as they shoot each other right now when somebody tries to flee the country. And at the same time the regions of Western Ukraine are the leaders in draft avoiding statistics,
      So, I think Western Ukraine would be much easier to occupy and especially much easier to govern if remember what is happening to the settlements in Eastern Ukraine: they are ghosts of dust and trash, no one lives there. IF Russia would come in Western Ukraine with the war, most of population would forever leave the country to the West as refuges.

    • @markward3981
      @markward3981 22 дні тому

      @@fedorevdokimenko3978
      Noted , thanks for the feedback.

    • @barryscott6222
      @barryscott6222 22 дні тому

      @@markward3981 By "endgame" I meant following the unconditional surrender by Kiev.

  • @stephencunningham6557
    @stephencunningham6557 22 дні тому +2

    19th century peace terms if its Russia. But it's ok for Israel.

  • @alexhayden2303
    @alexhayden2303 22 дні тому +3

    They Could do it in other areas?
    Do they really have the resources after Kursk?

  • @chick930
    @chick930 22 дні тому +1

    When has your country ever taken another country in a week with heavily armed,. Hinars, ATACMS, manpds, DRONES, tanks, intelligence etc etc approx 200,000 soldiers that had been digging in for 8 years
    Quite simply they have never done this
    Russia I feel is reserving forces and ammunition in case nato intervenes

    • @deputyVH
      @deputyVH 22 дні тому

      So they are scared?

  • @mave2207
    @mave2207 22 дні тому +3

    Great interview, thank you gentlemen!

  • @renstein8210
    @renstein8210 22 дні тому +1

    At 18:00, that is exactly what the first few days after 24 Feb 2022 were. The west did not want that. The west wanted this conflict.

  • @hullumarko
    @hullumarko 22 дні тому +11

    Bully is suprised when victim strikes back.

    • @brendanc5519
      @brendanc5519 22 дні тому +1

      Ukraine has been the bully since 2014.

    • @ashfield1425
      @ashfield1425 18 днів тому

      @@hullumarko I assume you are talking about the U.S.?

  • @LionelBellec-yb7wr
    @LionelBellec-yb7wr 22 дні тому

    Who can believe that Trump and Harris are 50-50 in the polls and who can imagine Ukraine winning Russia?...

  • @BRANFED
    @BRANFED 22 дні тому +4

    Micheal Rossi totally misreads USA military capabilities .. the reason the USA can take a country in a week is because the USA ALWAYS picks a fight with other countries where the USA has a decisive tech, artillery, and material advantage.. Russia is fighting an actual peer and both sides have large amount artillary,tanks, mechanized infantry
    IF the USA fought a peer like China or Russia, the results will be much different than our wars in iraq.. the USA might still win but this is not guaranteed and the cost in lives and machines will be substantially higher.. its also doubtful the US industry could keep up with the losses the USA would suffer.. id say the USA is incapable of producing enough arms to sustain a war of more than 3 months

  • @wladicus1
    @wladicus1 21 день тому +1

    _ Russia invaded Ukraine.
    _ Ukraine is defending as best it can with minimum help from Europe and USA. They are afraid to commit beyond a meager supply of weapons.
    _ Ukraine has no option but to fight the Russian empire in any way it can against assured extinction.
    _ Ukraine is committed to fight to the death if necessary for its freedom.
    _ A line in its national anthem declares its position " We will lay down our soul and flesh for our freedom"
    _ So for Ukraine all your talk is nonsense. What is the use of giving up if the result is ensured enslavement and eventual extinction as a nation and culture?
    _ Talk is cheap. Action is destiny and death is ensured for everybody anyhow. Wake up!

  • @ivan_prime
    @ivan_prime 22 дні тому +12

    22:35 -- the Red Army was never in Afghanistan. It was called Soviet Army since 1946. Typical western professor with a degree in intersectional underwater basket weaving.

    • @soniavadnjal7553
      @soniavadnjal7553 22 дні тому +2

      Weren't "Red" and "Soviet" inter-changeable terms? Or synonymous? That's how I always understood them.

    • @ivan_prime
      @ivan_prime 22 дні тому +3

      ​@@soniavadnjal7553 to you as a layperson they might be interchangeable, but to anybody from USSR they wouldn't be and to somebody who's supposedly an expert on the topic they shouldn't be either. What would you call the military of today's Germany? You wouldn't call it Wehrmacht, it is called Bundeswehr these days.

  • @Loke-h3w
    @Loke-h3w 22 дні тому +1

    Are you sure Japan is the strongest ally of the US ? Japanese has long memory. Try removing the 40,000 troops in Japan and you will see.

  • @arctic004
    @arctic004 22 дні тому +9

    You don't seem to realize how overwhelming the power of Russia is. When they decide to play the surprise blitzkreig card it will be over

    • @grahammelvin37
      @grahammelvin37 22 дні тому +6

      Ha ha and what are they waiting for its been 2 years 😂😂😂😂

    • @azaktube
      @azaktube 22 дні тому +2

      In 3 Days yeah?

    • @cretumarius9616
      @cretumarius9616 22 дні тому +1

      @@grahammelvin37it’s called escalating management. Read more you might learn a thing or two

    • @grahammelvin37
      @grahammelvin37 22 дні тому

      @@cretumarius9616 arite nob gobbler u go and show the ruskies how to do it

    • @AndersHeywireDK
      @AndersHeywireDK 22 дні тому +1

      🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣❤😂🤣😢👍

  • @ericteng7725
    @ericteng7725 22 дні тому

    To quote a famous cliche: the West is in no position to make any demands!!

  • @jayte4932
    @jayte4932 22 дні тому +8

    Great guest. I appreciate his translated work a lot. Thanks Michael. Danke Pascal.

  • @elleyc8614
    @elleyc8614 22 дні тому

    This small incursion on a tiny part of the Ukraine/Russia border might demonstrate why Russia was not keen to see Ukraine as a NATO member.

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 22 дні тому +20

    Zelensky didn't try to prevent the conflict through diplomacy because he lacks honor and integrity.
    In 2014 there was a coup. Soon after, there was a massacre in Odessa (dozens of people were burned alive). Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. A civil war broke out due to the rise in ethnic tensions. For 8 years the Ukrainian military was indiscriminately shelling civilians living in Donbas.
    If Zelensky honored the Minsk agreement and pledged neutrality, none of this would have happened. The 8 year civil war would have ended and Donbas would have remained part of Ukraine. War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy.
    Zelensky, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande admitted that Ukraine had no intention to honor the Minsk agreements.
    Who didn't want peace? Who advised against the 2022 peace talks in April? Hint: someone visited Zelensky in Kiev at that time
    Russia's national security was compromised once NATO began to expand eastwards. Russia clearly stated that Ukraine joining NATO was a red line (November 2021) and unfortunately this concern was never taken seriously. The Russians openly stated: if nothing changes, we will be forced to act in order to defend our national security. Enhancing the national security of one country at the expense of another is unacceptable. The Russians have legitimate security concerns.
    20th September, 2021: Ukraine launched military drills with US and NATO
    NATO is not a defensive alliance. NATO illegally bombed Yugoslavia (a direct violation of the U.N. Charter).
    We should never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq etc.
    Who blew up the pipeline causing an environmental disaster?
    Zelensky banned all opposition and arrested a leading priest.
    Zelensky tried to invoke article 5 under false pretenses. Remember the incident in Poland.
    Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed.
    Poroshenko said, “Our children will go to schools and kindergartens-theirs will hide in the basements”.
    Russians will never forget the 2014 Odessa massacre. The whole world needs to know about it.
    Why was Denis Kireev eliminated? He was a member of Ukraine's negotiating team during the peace negotiations. He wanted to help his country.
    Ukraine has a hit list. They target artists, journalists and ordinary citizens. Hundreds of children are on this list. 13 year old Faina Savenkova was placed on this list.
    Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is on this list. Jimmy Dore (American stand-up comedian, podcaster) and Aaron Maté (Canadian writer and journalist) are on this list.
    There is evidence that Ukrainian troops have been indiscriminately shelling civilians in Donbas (they used petal mines and targeted areas where there was no military presence).
    The azov troops trapped in the azovstal steelworks in Mariupol used human shields. They refused to allow civilians to leave despite of humanitarian corridors being present.
    Russia held a proposed cease fire in order for the civilians to leave, but azov would not allow the civilians to leave.
    Ukraine has committed many acts of terrorism (car bombs and other forms of assassination). Darya Dugina (journalist) R.I.P.
    The first terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed the truck driver and the individuals in the adjacent car (innocent civilian victims).
    The second terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed two parents and severely injured their young daughter.
    I have done a lot of research and it took me a long time to write this comment. I have stated a lot of facts and I have given my honest opinion.
    I have provided a brief summary of events that took place. In order to explain this whole situation in great detail, a book would need to be written.
    Hopefully someone will write an UNBIASED book, stating facts and allowing the readers to form their own judgments. Everything I said can be fact checked and verified.

    • @joe_ninety_one5076
      @joe_ninety_one5076 22 дні тому +3

      You post this easily debunked rubbish at least once a day.

    • @trolslovenski
      @trolslovenski 22 дні тому

      Nicely summarized. Golden comment. Bravo. Thank you🙏

    • @joe_ninety_one5076
      @joe_ninety_one5076 22 дні тому +1

      @@trolslovenski Is golden excrement common where you are?

    • @AprMonkeyKing
      @AprMonkeyKing 22 дні тому

      Ukraine is a real place the ru is not

    • @marissakeynes2532
      @marissakeynes2532 22 дні тому +1

      The one who scuppered the peace deal was the British clown who's no longer in office. As for the killing of peace negotiators, well that's right out of zio's playbook.

  • @NachttiSchlampE65
    @NachttiSchlampE65 22 дні тому

    Shame on me for not putting trust into the earlier videos with Michael Rossi. 15 minutes in and he is a typical guest at Neutrality Studies.
    Knows his stuff, doesnt seem biased. Describes the situation and potential results/effects for both sides. Decent analysis of the situation on the ground.
    Another person to follow, thanks again mr. Lotuz.
    Top Arbeit mal wieder

  • @benisrood
    @benisrood 22 дні тому +9

    Bit of a clickbait title, Pascal. Mr. Rossi isn't saying this.

    • @blubblubwhat
      @blubblubwhat 22 дні тому +2

      To be fair rossi isch just tip toing without saying anything .

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents 22 дні тому +2

      He knows what the bot narrative is and wants to appeal to them 😉

    • @deadpoolguy283
      @deadpoolguy283 22 дні тому +1

      @@arostwocents Speaking of Bot: You know Zelly wont sleep with you, yeah?

  • @annalivia1308
    @annalivia1308 22 дні тому +1

    The problem of the SU in Afghanistan was that the local population resisted. Russia will have no such problems in the four regions. It will be a hard border, maybe Ukraine sends missiles over (like they did with Donetsk and Lugansk since 2014) but I doubt that.

  • @vitordasilva545
    @vitordasilva545 22 дні тому +3

    The losses for Ukraine are not 1500, they have lost all of their soldiers already. What the Russians are fighting now are their Shadows.😂😂😂😂😂

  • @martinyeomans3319
    @martinyeomans3319 21 день тому +1

    Wow, prof or no prof these two are desperate for any reasoning to excuse Russia.
    As much as I hate to say it,no matter the outcome Russia is buggered for years to come at minimum.

  • @JamesWhelan-mu7ci
    @JamesWhelan-mu7ci 22 дні тому +4

    💪 🐻 ☘️ 👍

  • @chrisgreene2623
    @chrisgreene2623 22 дні тому +2

    This is good , in league with the Duran for analysis.

  • @bettyboop-xg6jo
    @bettyboop-xg6jo 22 дні тому +6

    Dr. Rossi. You have to admit that is quite funny. 😂

    • @eerotabell1952
      @eerotabell1952 22 дні тому +1

      Peyton Place?

    • @bettyboop-xg6jo
      @bettyboop-xg6jo 22 дні тому +1

      @@eerotabell1952 no. Every mafia lawyer in Italy is referred to as Dr Rossi. Cheap joke, I admit.

    • @eerotabell1952
      @eerotabell1952 22 дні тому +3

      ​@@bettyboop-xg6joNot cheap, it just reminds me Peyton Place, I'm that old.

    • @bettyboop-xg6jo
      @bettyboop-xg6jo 22 дні тому +2

      @@eerotabell1952 But it was a great show. My mother loved it. Good old days.

    • @soniavadnjal7553
      @soniavadnjal7553 22 дні тому +2

      ​@@bettyboop-xg6joWell I had no idea.

  • @the_optimism_project
    @the_optimism_project 21 день тому +2

    Neutrality Studies peddling Russian propaganda? Rename your channel to Pro Russian Propaganda Studies

  • @simbarashemangandu9176
    @simbarashemangandu9176 22 дні тому +4

    ukrain is doomed