Ukraine The Full Story | By Ambassador Chas Freeman
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2023
- Former US Ambassador Chas Freeman explains expertly the entire history, causes, and effects of the Ukraine war, shattering the common narrative about an "unprovoked" war. The Ukraine War was very much preventable but US Neocons chose to push Kiev into the abyss to wage a bloody proxy-war for the sake of their megalomaniac world-domination phantasies. Where does this leave Ukraine, Russia, and Europe for the years to come? Listen to the Ambassador giving a succinct overview of the lessons from the Ukraine Proxy-War.
Full transcript here: chasfreeman.net/the-many-less...
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Pascal’s academic articles about neutrality studies:
“The Future of Neutrality”. Geneva Center for Security Policy, Policy Briefs, no.4, 2023. ISBN: 978-2-88947-407-3.
“Dual-Neutrality for the Koreas: A Two-Pronged Approach toward Reunification.” Defense & Security Analysis, 2022, doi.org/10.1080/14751798.2022....
“The Politics and Diplomacy of Neutrality.” Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199743...
“Neutrality Studies.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/97801....
“Going East: Switzerland’s Early Consular Diplomacy toward East and Southeast Asia.” Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte 27 no. 1, 2020, 23-34, doi.org/10.5169/seals-881084
“Violent Conflicts and Neutral Legations: A Case Study of the Spanish and Swiss Legations in Wartime Japan.” New Global Studies 11, no.2, 20 17. 85-100, doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2017-0018
Pascal’s books about neutrality studies:
Lottaz Pascal, and Ingemar Ottosson. Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War 1931-1945. London: Routledge, 2021. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/o...
Lottaz Pascal, Heinz Gärtner, and Herbert Reginbogin, eds. Neutral Beyond the Cold: Neutral States and the Post-Cold War International System. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022, rowman.com/ISBN/9781666901665...
Reginbogin, Herbert, and Pascal Lottaz, eds. Permanent Neutrality: A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020, rowman.com/ISBN/9781793610287...
Lottaz Pascal, and Herbert Reginbogin, eds. Notions of Neutralities. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019, rowman.com/ISBN/9781498582261...
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Mark Twain also said..."The truth has no defense against fools determined to believe lies."
"It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth." -Alexis de Tocqueville
Schiller: "Against stupidity, the gods themselves battle in vain."
@@junkscience6397well said, for the world is not just destroyed by the evil but also the ignorant
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Western usefull idiots for Russia. Every time the narrative about Ukraine is just simply inverted into being a sob story for the poor oppressed Russians who have tiny, defenseless home country that gigantic empires like its bordering countries try to conquer just to ban the Russian language everywhere in the world just for fun, apparently.
The Russians have, you know, the biggest country on earth. Isn't that enough?
Yes, but the Russian people are beginning to learn. They are waking up to their dictatorship.
This is precisely the history as it happened.
The current narrative will not stand the test of time because although in official circles the facts are denied, ultimately, the truth is well known by those whose job it is to know.
Vietnam was similar. Iraq and Syria too.
Luckily, this time, world leaders have a chance to do something about it. Not on the battlefield, of course, but in economic/financial deprivation. While the US is busy rattling sabres, other nations are building alternate economic systems/partnerships, cutting the US/Europe out.
(Can't say I'm happy about it, living in Europe. But it's certainly needed and a long time in coming.)
The best lecture on this war I have heard. Thank you!
One of the few voices who can explain very well the background.
Not really.
There have been many voices saying the same thing for many years - well before the current war.
But there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.
I have not words to express my gratitude to Chas Fredman.
One of the best narrative on Ukraine conflict. Very thoughtful, thorough history on the conflict in Ukraine, & lessons on Ukraine conflict.
Not really. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was the response of a delusional dictator, Putin, obsessed with his idea of being a great Russian leader and establishing his legacy. Instead, Putin will go down in history as a total failure and like Don the Con Chump in the USA .... one of the worst country leaders in history.
His BS about NATO and Russian security concerns are just an excuse. it was never about NATO and security concerns as Russia already has several NATO countries on its border already. Furthermore, no country in the world, including Ukraine, will allow a tiny minority of separatists to just walk away with part of their country. And even more so when such separatism is instigated and egged on by another country like Russia. The real reason for Russian aggression was the theft of valuable land resources in that land. Which Russia proved with the theft of Ukrainian grain and other resources upon their invasion.
Every student of politics and history should see this
This is the informed diplomatic analysis that should have determined U.S. policy that has been displaced by militaristic American exceptionalism under both parties of the duel-opoly. Th U.S. State Dept. hasn't done diplomacy for over 30 years.
I was in Berlin in Dec89. I was thrilled with the Wall finally coming down. I had been there once before as a young long hair in 1972. I remember hearing about the promise to Gorbachev not to move NATO one inch to the East and he did not protest the German re-unification. It was a new world!
In 2011 I noticed the front page of the New York Post. It had a crude cartoon of Putin with dripping fangs, The headline read, “Vlad the Impaler”
This was something you might see during the first World War. I was surprised to see how easily Americans are led with crude propaganda techniques. They don't ask why. In 2014 I explained to a friend that it is complicated and that there is a lot of history to consider.
My friend responded, “Yeah, that was then and this is now!” or “Borders are sacred.”
I suppose that this is common with all wars, speculation becomes allegation and allegations become facts without benefit of any evidence read to us by trusted presenters. In the US, they are employing public relations as if it was a lethal weapon. Ukrainians are chess players, can't they see that they are just a sacrificial pawn?
The sophistication of the American propaganda machine is breathtaking. It has transformed the US into a nation of sheep. The people of Ukraine cannot stand up to it. The people of Germany can't either.
When Putin became President of Russia in 2000, he saw Russia's future as a partner of the West, maybe even in the EU. He was disillusioned by the neocon agenda, and warned Obama against interfering in Libya, that it would create large numbers of refugees. He wanted Russia to be treated as an equal by the US with its own culture. Instead he found America trying to fit Russia into its own worldview, as part of the European chorus. He started to believe that America wanted to destroy Russia.
The current elites of Ukraine are proxies. Their future is in Western banks and not with the Ukrainian people.
I have subscribed to the NY Times for over three decades. Never once have I ever seen a "cartoon" on the front page. Your story is fake.
I said the New York Post! It was a crude illustration on the front page. Putin had just thrown Western capitalists out of Russia that were buying up Russian natural resources. What Newyorker doesn't know the difference between the Times and the Post.. @@junkscience6397
Excellent lecture, history, interpretation.
Thank you sir, for your astute survey of the truth,...and your courage.
Outstanding!! Truth!! So rare!!
Former United States ambassador, Chas Fredman lays down history of Russian and NATO conflict in Europe for the last 30 years event for event and how it led to the current war in Ukraine.
Very thorough and educational.
The US support for the Kiev government - and indeed their building-up of a new elite in the country over the last ten years or so - is 1) about American claims of the right to "project Power", in this case principally against Russia and China, but really globally, and 2) about their investments - geopolitical, military, corporate and financial investments - in Ukraine and the wider region of Eastern Europe over the last twenty years. In both of these dimensions, Ukraine itself is just a pawn, or a proxy. The idea that the US would be in this out of some altruistic regard for principles of international law, or "inviolable national sovereignty" is just bollocks: they are trying to shore up American investments and prerogatives over Ukraine. Europe (NATO and the EU) are in this mostly as a show of obedience to the US and because so many in the Euro elite really believe that America is "indispensable" for Europe and always will be. So they are selling out European secrirty and industry for the US' ambitions.
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Very good lecture, thank you very much! !!
I'm so glad this story follows my own beliefs.
Imagine if this lecture was put in place of the evening news on every channel of every station in the world?
Thank you for your realistic and eloquent words to this. I agree with every one of them with no need to add more.
Chas was principal interpreter when Nixon met Mao. In a long distinguished career he was also ambassador to the Saudis, and he also knows Arabic, if I'm not mistaken. Men of this calibre are shut out and the likes of Blinken is secretary of state! China doesn't have to do anything. If your brightest and best are shut out you're done.
china's biggest advantage over the west is its politboro, a body of total mystery to westerners.
You're so right. Americans greatest threat is not China. It's the people leading them.
Thanks! The great lecture!
Detailed truth.
Fantastic TRUTHFUL AND HISTORIC FACTS
i listen to a chorus of inportant voices (duran, sachs, atlas, norton, etc ) but you pascal are a true soloist.
Thank you for letting us know.
Thank you for this thorough explanation of current world events.
It is clear, US, UK NATO EU are at fault, wanting war at the cost of whole world Peace to subject humanity to peril, and prepared the ignorant for self destruction.
It is not... Just some personal observations
the US and France have nukes -would you like Russia them to surround the US with weapons on the border ?????? that would never be accepted, NATO was supposed to be protection against the Sovietunion, the Sovietunion haven't existed in 30 years!-NATO have proven not to be for protection but for agression , we saw that when NATO attacked Serbia, we know that the US have had plans for splitting up Russia and doing a regime change for many years, Rand corp. have written about it Robert Kagan and George Soros have written books about it, it's known ideology held by powerful people in the US , it's really all about the monopolar world where the US dominates everything with 850 military bases around the world and NATO expansion plus petro dollars and the swift systems using sanctions to control-and the non Western world wanting a multipolar world where everybody have a say @@marions7423
That's a really good survey of the history and maneuverings.
Very informative ! Thankyou
Chas Freeman represents integrity like no other public servant in the US
Great lecture
Mark Twain, “The War Prayer” (ca.1904-5)
['In 1905 Mark Twain wrote "The War Prayer" in response to U.S. military intervention in the Philippines. Editors rejected it, "unsuitable," leaving Twain to remark, "since only the dead are allowed to speak the truth," it would never be published in his lifetime.']
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism … on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun … nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener. …
Sunday morning came - next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces alight with martial dreams - visions of the stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender! Then home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! … The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said …
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Then came the “long” prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its supplication was, that an ever-merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers, and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work….
An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a robe that reached to his feet, his head bare, his white hair descending in a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale even to ghastliness. … he ascended to the preacher’s side and stood there waiting. …
The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside - which the startled minister did - and took his place. During some moments he surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes, in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said:
“I come from the Throne - bearing a message from Almighty God!” …
“God’s servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two - one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of Him Who heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this - keep it in mind. If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbor’s crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it.
“You have heard your servant’s prayer - the uttered part of it. I am commissioned of God to put into words the other part of it - that part which the pastor - and also you in your hearts - fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ … When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory-must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle - be Thou near them! With them - in spirit - we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it - for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
(After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”
It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.
Source: Mark Twain, “The War Prayer.”
Thanks for this! How sad that it still holds so true. 120 years and 2 world wars later and we are not a step further in our collective war hysteria.
@@neutralitystudies Better get Russia to stop attacking Ukraine then.
Hey I got kicked out of school after year 10 but even I realise that you don't need to be Einstein to understand that this bloke is speaking the truth!. Thankyou.
Excellent and honest talk.
This guy Amb. Freeman was grossly gaslit by AIPAC once upon a time. Someone perhaps worth listening to in full. Thank you for posting this.
Thank you Sir for your informative speech, wondering if Biden or anyone in the current Administration can sit down and learn from you.
Is that supposed to be a joke?
The likes of Ambassador Freeman, Jeffrey Sachs, and John Maersheimer have already given the White House more than enough advice. The White House chooses to ignore said advice due to ideology, greed, or both.
Biden is a Russophobe, and has surrounded himself with Neocons and zealots with a burning hatred of Russia. The common sense and wisdom of those calling the White House with good advice is lost on this crowd.
They can't, they don't have the brain cells.
Don't think the US Military Complex cares about lives or peace for that matter. They prefer the never ending war. Profits is all that matters.
True and old weapons sold to make room in the army warehouse to display new weapons. Ukraine is a testing ground for newly invented weaponry. Never ending story about the arms industry.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs has given the same analysis of this Russia Ukraine conflict that's been stoked primarily by the US and NATO.
Like Jeffrey Sachs comments too🙏🙏🙏
Yes, and John Mearsheimer also.
Très bon exposé des faits.
Ambassador Freeman is the last of the great statesmen in America. It's a pity that America has deemed statesmanship as obsolete and had resorted solely to military might after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Yes military might and the Disneyisation of the presidency. US politics is a very dangerous joke.
Jack Matlock is still kicking, but his public speaking ability is somewhat infirm. Hopefully he will write more essays
well posted. Amb. Freeman is a man of great intelligence, experience and integrity. Question: why is he not consulted by the White House on international matters ? Answer: Because he is not a neocon, and not in sympathy at all with what they stand for. Bravo Ambassador !
He was an ambassador to Saudi Arabia and has experience w r t China. He's pro-Muslim and pro-China. He has no experience related to Europe, and especially not to Eastern Europe.
Nancy Pelosi found his views about the Tiananmen Square massacre undefensible.
He would not be helpfully for today's military activity
' Ukraine Crisis - What You're Not being Told .'
Interesting, Informed and Informative!!!
Perfect analysis. Unfortunately he has no power to stop this war. Watching this video was painful seeing how Ukraine is being destroyed for NeoCon whims and American war shareholders
True, but the power is in all of us, sometimes it is just one voice, other times it takes many. Horribly, as history has shown, revolution is the only alternative. Even a lamb, surrounded by wolves will retaliate. But the hope is that sense will prevail, opening realistic negotiations.
One of the best, if not the best, most truthful, comprehensive, detailed overview of the Ukrainian matter, with spot on effect analysis that I have seen up to today.
Thank you so much for your concrete presentation of the whole geopolitical Situation.
I am translator and historian. You perfectly analyze the Intention of the actors without prejudices. We suffered so much under the Western main stream media.
Thank you, Mr. Freeman, for the truth. One of the best lectures on Ukraine conflict.
Mr. Freedman absolutely brilliant!!
An important speech. How can we incentivize sober emotional-adults to run for office in the West, especially in the USA? (Currently, we mostly have a bunch of media-savvy kids who have learned tricks of how to _sound_ like adults.) We need mature people like Chas Freeman to show us a path forward, before our political systems collapse.
The sobering adults are too few and far in between to begin with, &even fewer are allowed into the inner circles, & the real sober ones would never put themselves or their families through the 🤡 sh*t show that is the American election system. Nice try America, but it’s already been proven to be a faulty, failed system. Question is what are people going to do about it? Hold onto the illusions of failed experiment or make something new?
Very good question. Make a thought experiment: travel back to the ancient times of ancient Greece in your mind: imagine a politician who is a part of a ruling elite of an Empire of the size never seen before on the face of this Earth. Deep In his heart he hopes that his political achievements would become the pinnacle of political thought forever and he will be remembered by all Humanity as the greatest reformer, who solved the problems of war and prosperity and happiness for people once and for all! And now imagine the modern day politician who has all the historical science at his disposal, he sees the nature of Humanity, he sees the scale and the repetitiveness of all political processes in thousands years. He sees how tens of thousands of prominent politicians are now forgotten even by historians. If he is a smart person, he no longer sees an opportunity to invent something new and long-lasting in politics neither to make a name for himself that will leave in the centuries. So if you are not greedy what is the point to make a political career nowadays?
All you can achieve in field of politics is in fact an imitation. In the best case it would be the imitation of skillful diplomacy of the past, when your "radio signal" of true knowledge is constantly jammed by all your colleagues, including these from all other countries, who are not as educated as you and in fact create a "noise signal" of mediocrity. And at worst you will get the old fool farce, the address to the nation of Joe Biden from the Oval Office, that is also the imitation.
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." -Alexis de Tocqueville Sadly, that day has long come and gone. In the past 45 DAYS, the US has borrowed 1,000,000,000,000.00 USD!
How are all 4 replies to this gone? Does this mean UA-cam deleted them or is it something about my account or what
I need to download this video for future reference
There's a lot to say about it, and a complicated matter, but I've always wondered what was so un-acceptable about Ukraine staying neutral, like Austria after WW2?
If you disagree with Chas Freeman, you do not need to worry. His sentences are too long for most Americans to understand. And most Americans do not have the short term or long term memory to consider this amount of history, which is mostly less than twenty years.
More importantly, Mr Freeman does not speak their language - the one where the US is always right, always mighty and will always prevail.
Nah, they don't remember the last 20 years... they remember longer that that, but selectively, like the foundation, the civil war (they are pretty fond of the confederation that lasted just 5 years !) pearl harbor, D-day (thinking they save Europe when Russia fought 10 times more Germans division and lost 25+ millions) , civil right movements (which they think eradicate racism), 9/11/2001 ... but they ignore the context of everything that may make them the bad guys.
I take issue with you comment that they can remember 20 years of history. They have difficulty acknowledging 6 months! How many western article spoke of Ukraine's Nazi problem, yet it was all forgotten by April 22!
A good summary of the situation. Why don't the UK and EU leaders have this information - or do they, but are too weak to stand up for truth?
They do.
He does not say what Russia should have done. He does mention that Russia tried it's best to push for neutrality and avoid war
NATI is america's captive market for USA weapons.
How often does one experience the clear thinking of a chas Freeman?
what a great wisdom
Thanks very clear speech by Chas Fredman
If more people like this US ambassador Chas Fredman, I think peaceful solution can be achieved instead of going to war
A singularly impressive voice although it is one that seems to be crying in the wilderness.
Great explanation! Thank you!
It’s so dreadful that no governments can be trusted to behave honourably. Our world is sick.
These imperialist ambitions only belong to the US n its vassal states. Other countries have no part in this evil coalition. So don't try to drag others into your pool of mud
Don't try to drag others into your own pool of mud. These imperialist ambitions only belong to the US n its vassal states. Other countries have no part in the insanity of this evil coalition.
They should take responsibility for all this sickness
objectively, China and Russia leaders are the adult in the world, you should question most blame you can put on them and verify if it's not western propaganda talking.
Russia and China are just fine. As are many brics and pro brics nations. Stop projecting.
Although he could have supported the Russian perspective even more, it was a good description of that local situation. He should expand this thinking to every other hotspots in the world, and see if not US/Nato have done the same there. In short, he was _still_ too forgiving towards the liberal western regime and their 50+ yo war for global hegemony.
Russian Federation perspective does not need support, my country is one of the sides of the war, we are in desperate need of a balance perspective from outside, from China or maybe from India. Our boys are no less zombies than Ukrainian boys, we need to stop the war right now, no matter what's the cost.
28.40:" Ukraine wanted to reconquer russian speaking territories Moscow has illegally annexed"....rather vague! To clarify:
the annexation ONLY occurred after the special operation in 2022. Before that- as Ambassador Chas himself pointed out those territories were FULLY Ukrainian , but Ukraine in the MINSK agreement had promised similar status like Quebec in Canada.... EXCEPT Ukraine did not keep to the agreement and for 8 years those areas suffered constant bombardment and killing mainly from Asov battalions.
A great speach and message by Chas Freeman. Made by the man of integrity, wisdom, morality and good heart. I do agree with most of his observations and statements in full, with few in part, yet in one conslusion less than with others - thougj I understand and approve the roots and motives for this stament. Namely, the statemnet that both parties - Russia and the US/NATO have lost equally. No: Russia is paying a substantial price, yet it is gaing immensely in very important areas that do work for Russia's gai today and will work even stronger in the coming future. Shortly: Russia is on the right side of history and on the rise, the US/NATO are not.
Excellent presentation. Neutral, explaining the origins and the consequences, and how everybody here made grave mistakes of judgement, and how everybody is a loser.
The Ambassador's history lesson is correct in every detail as far as I understand the history of the region.
At the very end of his presentation, I disagree with his statement that they have been no winners.
The US arms industry, and to some extent the European arms industry and those invested in it have got very rich at the expense of the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians and lives devastated. Think about what sort of people enrich themselves like that!
The propaganda and hate generated since 2008, the Russophobia and extension to other US bogeyman states such as China and Iran is so deep it will take decades to undo. We now have a new chapter adding to this with the conflict in Israel, again the result of deeply rooted political errors, manipulation, and gross mistreatment of humans.
There are many unpleasant regimes around the world as there has been for centuries, but the number 1 threat to human existence is the neocon power core within the USA which drives US foreign policy no matter what colour the elected party is. Until, somehow, these psychopathic monsters are eliminated. We are all doomed. They will not stop such is their evil twisted ideology.
We can only hope that the drive to multipolarity will accelerate and that countries will free themselves from the evil grip of US Hegemony. Only then might the American people wake up and start to identify the traitors from within who have been brainwashing them into being the global bully since WW2. The American people aren't evil, just easily led and stupidly believing American exceptionalism rather than understanding that they've been enjoying an inflated lifestyle courtesy of their rulers bullying the world into allowing them to print money and accumulate debt with no consequences. The American middle classes are starting to feel less well off now and maybe this will cause them to wake up and demand an overhaul of their corrupt political system that serves only the politicians and their billionaire donors. The same is true to a lesser extent for the stronger European nations, especially Britain, who, of course, is just a lapdog of the US empire.
I hope more people will try to understand what is really going on and abandon mainstream media, which is now almost totally unreliable.
The Russian state is also likely to emerge a winner at the end of this war. It is gaining strength on many levels.
They world post WW2 would have been a more peaceful place without the constant interference by the US.
Thank you Sir ❤
Very Good Thank You
Thanks for your honesty
Agree with everything apart from at 35:20 - NATO expansion was legal but NOT if , as the U.S. did overthrow a democratically elected sovereign government to achieve it. That makes NATO expansion into Ukraine illegal. As far as the Russian invasion of the Donbass goes, if it ok for the Kiev region to not consider themselves Ukranian by overthrowing the Ukranian government the it is perfectly legal for the Donbass to do likewise and enlist Russian support as the Kiev separatists enlist American. Kiev overthrew the Ukranian government then played the trick of saying we are now the government of all Ukraine. That was a lie.
Thank you for your presentation!
You can't judge Russian military "failure" by the goal that Russia herself never had. Russia never declared her interest in occupying Ukraine. Not once. Russia finally sets on a strategy to wait out the western aid to Ukraine. And it's kaput is near. Then Zelensky will have to negotiate.
They won't negotiate with Xelynnsky or Biden's Neocon crew. They've lied to Russians many times in the past, and nothing they sign or promise can be trusted. It will be either capitulation or full destruction. At some point military will overthrow Xelynnsky to escape anihilation and negotiate capitulation. They will need to accept territorial loss and neutrality.
There will be no negotiations. Not anymore.
Zelensky is so desperate now. There is a huge empty gap in the Ukrainian population in the male segment. Ukraine is finished for the next 50 years. Russia will dictate the terms, no negotiations needed.
@@dkudlayThe US won't permit Zelensky to negotiate. This is their war.
@@user-wj6dt5bq3w youre about 2 years too late with that analysis
Pro Tip: "When you know, most, of what Chas knows. These changing times become, oddly, reassuring." - Unattributed.
There are so many rational People in the USA but none In the US Government
Thanks for such a well balance opinion.
This is a must watch for understanding this war. The best primer for what is actually going on.
It is great to see there are still people capable of objective critical thinking. it is sad to see them only speaking up while they are already well into retirement, and not when they had a chance to make an impact.. As much as I appreciate the fair and straightforward assessment in this video, I cannot help but thinking… Was it not his department that put all these wheels in motion while he was in charge under Clinton?
Ukraine needs to seperate itself from SS Galicia.
Sorry but the Western media do not learn anything,we keep on the broken narrative,rs😂😂
I've got a russian father and an ukrainian mother, I was born in Crimea before the collapse of Soviet Union, I have friends and relatives in Kiev. I've lived most of my life in Moscow. This is the BEST take on the conflict I've ever came across, zero propaganda and emotions, just bitter facts. This is exactly how I, an insider, see the events. Thank you!!!!
Glad this helps. Ambassador Freeman is a brilliant observer. Which shows that sober-minded people all around the world can understand what this conflict is about by just focusing on the brute facts. I also recommend the videos with Nicolai Petro, especially his „The Tragedy of Ukraine“. I think that will speak to you too.
Oh and this one here. I wonder if you agree to this too: ua-cam.com/video/i0qzJys953o/v-deo.htmlsi=TK8n3FJghAg0tg0v
Fighting for peace sometimes is the most difficult war. If our goodwill and desire for peace could produce the kind of economy and profits the military industrial complex generates, perhaps it would be a fair fight.
Refreshing to hear an unblemished perspective!
a very good overview but at 17 minutes the claim that russian soldiers were fighting alongside the Donbas rebels can't be true. Too many civiians in the area totally deny presence of Russian soldiers and so do the rebel fighters themselves, who are very proud of sustainng their effort to defend Donbas wherever possible. (maybe some old Russian soldiers on their own initiative might have com to Donbas help.....Where did they get the arms from to defend themselves? from the soldiers of their area, police etc.
One of the best explanations on the subject.
Thanks
Sir, you are very very correct, from Nigeria
“Wars don’t decide who is right. They decide who is left.”
man, habe das jetzt erst gefunden, eine Stimme mehr für den Frieden!
If you are going to be an ambassador to your country it invariably means you are highly intelligent and able to anticipate the motivations of others and the consequences of various actions and Chas Freeman is certainly an example of this.
Thanks for this summary Chas. I personally doubt that Ukraine will find internal cohesion with the far right Azov brigade in their midst post war. It's doubtful that Russia will be able to de-nazify Ukraine, there's always the too many far right fanatics seem to survive, as they did post WW2. However, quite how the Ukraine situation will be managed after the war will be an ongoing political problem for the west and possibly Russia. It could be that the Chinese are the best positioned to help resolve the ongoing drama in Ukraine post war, whatever that looks like. And then we have the EU which has its own internal strife to contend with. One thing is for certain, the USA needs to sort itself out internally and to fit in with the rest of the globe. It should realise its position as one country among many, and exceptional not in the least bit. The US has to 'grow up'.
Bingo. I agree 100%. As well as that there will be no long term peace agreement. The sad course of events.
The big question is: Would the so-called West have learned something from all this? I don't think so. The US has been making gross mistakes for decades, and if changes seem to take time, they will arrive sooner or later, and America will have to accept that it is part of the world and not the world itself.
I salute Ambassador Freeman for being courageous in providing the true assessment of our involvement in the conflict in Ukraine - and the European allies that are complicit in this disastrous war. His balanced presentation shuttered the myth that Putin was out to go to war and a war criminal, which should not be trusted. These opinions have been shared by most of my friends, who have been fed the Western narrative of the one-sided story of the conflict.
The ambassador provides a solid overview here, but he is mistaken in concluding that the Russian military is too weak to defeat Ukraine. Russia was very clear in setting out its objectives for its special military operation. Central to Moscow's strategy is the destruction of Ukraine's powerful military. This was nearly accomplished, only to have NATO countries pour unsustainable amounts of money, equipment and training into propping up the remnants of Ukraine's decimated forces. The result is that much of NATO's military capability has now been lost, squandered on the killing fields of Ukraine, an additional benefit to Moscow.
2 months down the road, it's obvious how desperate Zelensky has become, now drafting women into his army. Russia is not in a hurry to 'win this war'. Putin has discovered to his surprise that the war has brought him unintended good news - strong relationship with China, a stronger economy than ever, despite the sanctions, and the highest ratings he ever had, and a possible third term. All he needs to do is to keep whittling away at the dwindling Ukrainian resources and building up the Europeans and American war fatigue. And when Zelensky has no choice but to surrender, Russia will be able to dictate terms they would not have dictated before the war. The Israel-Gaza situation even benefits him, lifting American pressure and stretching American resources further.
@@tuesdae666 The Russian strategy has been wildly successful.
A Great Lecture by Chas Fredman the truth Always Comes to light US Foreign policy once again has caused no justice for the common people & nation of Ukraine in this instance ignoring Russian concerns regarding Ukraine staying a neutral state, the US will walk away
like every conflict they have been involved in since the aftermath of World War 11, will they Including NATO in this instance learn a lesson that could have been avoided questionable.
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The United States of hypocrisy won’t learn anything!😢
United Snakess of Hypocrisssy.
So, I've been reading up on NATO and the Warsaw pact, and discovered that NATO was created several years before the USSR created the Warsaw pact. Then HOW did the NATO decide its objective was to counteract a force that didn't exist yet???
Warsaw bloc was indeed created as a response to NATO. The initiative in terms of confrontation started from the West. USSR, UK and the US were allies during WWII, but after the war USSR was hugely damaged, many cities were in ruins, millions of people perished. It had its hands full with reconstruction problems. At the same time many ordinary people in Europe were sympathetic to USSR, left-wing ideas were quite popular. At that time it wasn't obvious as it is now which of the two systems would be more successful. After all, USSR was a victorious power, it has inflicted 80% of casualties on German armies and reached Berlin. So the US and the UK were worried about the rising power and abandoned many agreements made during the war. Churchill's Fullton Speech was one of the first bricks, NATO was establishes soon after that. It all deteriorated quite quickly -- USSR and US entered Korean peninsula as allies fighting Japanese occupation, but later that division line between allies turned into a war between two systems. Tragic
@@q___m2158 that's my point. Yet our schools teach that part of history in a way that 99% of students remain convinced that WE were forced to react to the USSR aggression, not the other way around... Kinda like the DOD engaging in defense. Orwellian...
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In the US/West, History isn't absolute truth, but it is taught as such. It is a primary political tool used to "enable/enhance" both ease of nationalist governance AND foreign policy. ;-p
Wow!
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As a Asian man, I relly appreciate Freeman's frankness. Before I only knew Russia has robbed a lot area from my homeland. Now I starts to pity Russian.
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It is good to hear the truth from an expert American. He should be the advisor to Biden; not Victoria Neuland who started the Ukraine problem.
This is one of the best explanations I ever heard, my respect for his honesty. I see the US has more good people, the world would be much safer if they could be president instead of those criminals in charge now.
19:11 As 2021 ended, Ukraine stepped up pressure on the Donbas separatists and deployed forces to mount a major offensive against them timed for early 2022.
Can you/anyone point me to more reading material about this planned early-2022 Ukrainian offensive?