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What can I say but thanks for stating what has been clear. That western liberal democratic values are not shared by everyone, and those who believe they are, are deluded. In the end power matters. My greatest disappointment this week (although I burst into laughter at the time) - hearing my boss, UN SG António Guterres, and a former president of the Socialist International, use a line straight out of a John Lennon song in his first comments after Putin announced his invasion - "give peace a chance". The man is 73, but talks like a 15 year old; still isn't that the very definition of an international socialist.
While I do believe that you only stated truths here, you should not talk about military might. Warfare today depends on the willingness of being submissive to M.A.D. and Russia is overusing this card. It has nothing to do with military might, that ridiculously enough is struggling to take over a militia.
David Starkey has one of the greatest minds of our time. If only our Government listened to what he has to say and more importantly acted upon his wisdom!
Ironically, part of Dr. Starkey's lesson is that, in essence, it has been given many times in the past and ignored, and our leaders will still keep ignoring it. When given the choice between war and dishonour, our leaders have invariably chosen dishonour, but they got war.
It's all well and good to condemn aggressive action, generally. The calcification of resignation for history to repeat itself is grounded in the non-response false narrative which is to ignore just security concerns and factual history concerning Russia's possession of eastern parts of the Ukraine going back to when Poland-Lithuania holding the west mutated the language and the culture.
Starkey follows my analysis of Ukraine very closely. One thing Starkey misses out is the unreliability of Russian technology and manufacture, which may leave the Russian army with broken tanks strewn all over the battlefield. See my analysis of this, taken from first-hand experience. See my analysis on the Nutrient Nirvana video channel. Apologies for the poor internet connection, but I live in the sticks. Ralph Ellis
@@DonBean-ej4ouThe standing joke used to be that, after turning up late for the previous two world wars, the USA was determined to be early for the third. Ironically, after committing trillions of dollars and the lives of countless thousands of its citizens to protect America (and the 'Free World') from totalitarianism (dressed up as: 'Communism', 'Soviet Socialism', 'National Socialism', 'Imperialism', 'Islamism', etc.), lately essentially the same Trojan Horse has been dragged into the republic smothered in fake tan and draped in the stars and stripes. Hopefully, the old adage will still hold true, that: “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”
There's a difference between power and force. By showing force you're actually showing your lack of power. And Mr Putin as an individual will certainly lack power in a very short space of time.
@@zootsoot2006 nice example of why we're here. Smart asses arguing over words whilst others are getting their might together ready to smash anyone that's in their way.
As a student of history for the last 60 years, I have avoided the news cycle and the political rhetoric over these events. This is what I have been waiting for.
The truth is that a large number of people in Russia want a new empire but here is the question far do they actually want that empire to stretch? Most people do not seem to understand how wide they want their influence to go. I may surprise people to find they want it to stretch from the Bering Sea to the Atlantic Ocean with them hold everything in between. And the subjugated areas are not going to be free.
@@garymitchell5899 Indeed, I certainly had my own thoughts about Starkey’s comments. Yet Alex and Alexander are always able to bring their own wisdom and perspective to an answer some one gives. I’m merely expressing my respect for them and their experience, that’s all. I don’t think I indicated an inability to think my own thoughts, but rather an interest in gathering more information about an enormously complex situation. (Edited for typo)
@@bighands69 so, the French, Germans, Italians, Spanish, etc (Britain?) are going to let themselves be subjugated? You do have to be careful poking the beast (that conquered the world) or it may wake up.
Please don't apologise for being an 'old fashioned historian' - even with tongue-in-cheek. There is nothing 'old fashioned' about seeking to use one's own observations, evidence with logic and reason, to understand anything.
Plus I would not trust any historian who changes his viewpoint for the fashionable thinking of the day, over facts. To stand with facts despite not being popular at the moment is crucial. We need more of that. To go back and colour history with our modern sensitivities, notions, values, may suit some, but completely negates the truth. A great disservice. We are only fooling ourselves. History is often not pretty. Not Kumba Ya! We cannot sanitize it or judge it from our modern viewpoint. We have to allow history to live in it’s time. As imperfect or appalling as it may be to some of us.
@@DreamsSketcher Yes. IMO, David Starkey is rigorous and erudite toward his approach to history and analysis. I was mostly convinced of this after watching two of his videos - 'Interpretations of History' and 'Really Bad History'. It is the methodology, the approach to the subject that caught my interest. Your other point is regarding presentism, also known as retrospective bigotteering. In the case of recent cultural events I think it is moral presentism that is at work for political and quasi religious reasons.
His history seems fine. It is his viewpoint. But he is indeed old fashioned in his political.outlook. And what does woke mean? A person who believes in social justice and equality? Then I sign up.to the club! I think he is a rather outdated old schoolboy. He should keep to.writing about the Royals. That is his scholarship, and leave schoolgirls alone.
@@chowes41 woke is a religion and nothing more. It helps no one. It harms many. If you were using your human skills of observation and critique you would know that.
@@nonfictionone Please use your '"skills of critique" as you put it, to tell me why social equality and justice is a 'religion'. I do not believe in God. I do know how to use these skills, which is why I would like to know why forwarding a society in which equality is a valuable asset "harms many".
As a British citizen, and soldier, never have I felt so informed, yet feel such despair at our current situation and anger that our leaders have allowed this to happen
While the west has made mistakes it cannot really behold directly responsible for what is developing in the east. If the west was to try and get directly involved in the east it would still get push back. The only way this could have really been avoid was after the collapse of the USSR if the west with force had of went into Russia and took over the place and installed their own leadership but that would still have got us to where we currently are only it would have happened 25 years ago.
@@bighands69 you make absolutely no sense. When the wall came down in 89. Russia was never vulnerable. It always had neuclear deterent. Can't you see Putin will not allow NATO up to his border, which was his fear, with Ukraine expressing interest in NATO. Do you seriously believe USA would stand for russian military on the Mexican or Canadian border? I thought not. Remember USA action when Russia had missiles in Cuba?
@@bighands69 Do you ever step back and wonder what "the West" even is? If it's the people, history and values, then what are those? The people: a multicultural nation of immigrants. The history: racism and sexism. The values: Globalism, LGBTQ+, Progressivism, Eco-lunacy, Managerialism, Divesity, Equity, Inclusion, and censorship, corporate partnership and the law to enforce all this. If anything, it would be even more terrifying if our elite were more competent and confident in the use of force because they would use it to do even more terrible things. I will always be on the side of my country's people, but it's like a body-snatcher has flayed the country and is wearing it as a hideous skin suit. This freak is now dancing in my face and demanding I show patriotism toward it. Think of a patriotic Russian in 1930 being asked to bow before the Soviet regime. I would take up arms if it came to a 1942 situation, but other than that, I would secretly wish for my elite to face defeat.
Spokes 101 Yeah , Well it's the Leaders who have caused it all and cowardly hide behind Putin , using him as their scapegoat because it is extremely important that they don't get found out exposed ? Putin has been misrepresented as public enemy number one I myself have never seen it that way Putin never wanted to be a leader ( in my opinion a sign of a good natural leader ) I believe they want to topple Putin like Gadaffi and other leaders because once they get into Russia properly there is only 100 years of resources waiting for them ? So yeah they need Russia and yeah they want rid of its leader to set up their NWO !
I greatly enjoyed your very frank and honest talk. It’s so refreshing to hear a truthful account of what is happening without the media hysterics and woke spin. You’re my favourite historian and thank you
Yes. After the last 5 years I no longer have any trust in the MSM and feel unable to even entertain the idea that politicians have my best interests at heart.
If the BBC were any good, this is the kind of background analysis they'd be providing instead of their entirely predictable woke hand-wringing. David Starkey's exposition is totally spot-on and delivered with brilliant if depressing eloquence.
Just because it was easy to understand does not make it better. David is historian, but BBC is news. You do not blame ice hockey team for being shitty in basketball game. I'm happy that you made an effort and listened to historian, but do not blame BBC for not spoon-feeding all you want to know.
Loved your take on GB News with Mark Steyn last Thursday. Indispensable - no spin, spirited disagreement, points explained - I learnt a lot - and had to lie down. Not used to such TV fare !!
The Foreign Office used to talk of the Wykamist Fallacy, where everyone in power is assumed to behave like they went to school at Winchester. In the US the History Departments at most universities have become worthless social justice courses that are impossible to fail, to give easy A grades to bad students.
You can still fail those courses, but you have to have certain immutable, European, characteristics. Or should I say more accurately, you have to _be failed_ from those courses.
I've not actually taken the courses right through (full year or more with examination etc) but have attended many a lecture and discussion, and what seemed to be doable was to use jargonista filler so long as the sentiment - Europeans and anything civilizationally attributable to this group being bad, implicitly if not overtly, with the philosophical quandaries being the extent to which these perceived pathologies are conscious/intentional or dangerous ignorance - was rightly oriented. It did seem to be of interest that the European/colonial progressivism would itself have to be torn apart, albeit much later than the pressing issues of the imposing -ists, -isms & -phobias. What did not seem to be an endearing direction to take was that of applying the deconstructive, reductionist, critical lens to those very concepts, of like origin to the maligned concepts, which are held in near religious esteem and which have so much utility to these new brave souls; namely those notions of Progress, Equality, Secularism, Human Rights, and that whole slew of Idols. It was a tad strange given that receptivity to the eventuality of euro/colonial prog-liberal infrastructure having to be overcome was something to ponder, but clearly naming the particular concepts and highlighting that by the otherwise haughtily accepted rationale so too would these be relics of the ingrained, inseparable -isms for which the rest must be conquered. Im quite tempted to write up some works that take that line to see what broader reception might be had, haha
Starkey follows my analysis of Ukraine very closely. One thing Starkey misses out is the unreliability of Russian technology and manufacture, which may leave the Russian army with broken tanks strewn all over the battlefield. See my analysis of this, taken from first-hand experience. See my analysis on the Nutrient Nirvana video channel. Apologies for the poor internet connection, but I live in the sticks. Ralph Ellis
Could probably add a late 20th century version of this: it's a mistake to expect despots to behave as they did when they actually were at school in Winchester.
As a native Bulgarian, who paid attention in history class at school I am considered pro Putin, when I dare to say any of the truths that were mentioned by the brilliant Mr. Starkey. Knowing history is indeed giving a damning sense of powerlessness in situations like the one we are all in right now. Thank you Mr. Starkey for this short and realistic evaluation!
@@David-cm4ok I think it's undeniable. There are a list of opinions one cannot hold and words one cannot say. At the least you will be censored and in many cases arrest and prosecution will follow
I am not a European so I've no emotions attached with whatever happened in the past wars or cold wars in Europe. But I've read little bit history and it helps. For example if you read a master piece "The Great Game" you'd know there's a deeply entrenched russophobia in English speaking media and UK parliment since last 2 centuries, there were guys 2 centuries ago who were paranoid about the Russian invasion of Delhi, Indian subcontinent and they were the one who started great game with Russia which ended in 1990. Now as Europe is aligned with UK and USA this russiohobia has sunk into Europe. You'd see Switzerland which was neutral during WW2 and bankrolled the genocide of Jews is taking side against Russia. I know Russia has her own share of mess but amount of russophobia in Europe doesn't justify it.
I couldn’t agree with you more. It is disgusting watching our politicians miscalculate and misread our adversaries. And to emasculate ourselves...evil ensues. Thank you David Starkey for giving us a voice.
Also, the average age of British farmers is 55 years of age. Tony Blair and the EU changed subsidies from being paid for the amount of produce being produced, to the amount of land being owned, therefore allowing ageing farmers to sit on the land drawing a payment without focusing on production and preventing new entrants from ever starting. Now they are planning to remove all subsidies when the average agricultural debt is around £100,000. This country has a lot of trouble ahead of it.
Blair has done far more than destroy Britain, he has destroyed the West. What's more the MSM keeps giving the war criminal airtime. If he now blabbers on about Ukraine he should be challenged on Serbia
What a pleasure to listen and learn from your videos. I feel you are providing a real service, an exceptional level of education with us. You highlight facts, history, and marry it all together to make sense of what we see today. Thank you so MUCH. 🇨🇦 I am sending this to my 20 year old daughter who is struggling to understand what is happening in Ukraine. It has upset us all. But the younger generation are shocked and particularly unnerved by the aggression. My husband’s grandfather who was designated a war hero after 4 years on the front lines in WW2, had said that 3 generations out from war, the lessons are forgotten. That is why history often repeats. When it comes to response to aggression, there are no great responses without great risk. But I can’t help but think the greater generation would have reacted differently to this aggression and move by Putin. There’s been much softening in the last 30 years with the western nations response. And that is why we are here. Of course we cannot predict where war will go. But we cannot let someone like Putin continue. Especially as he makes noises now about doing the same to Sweden and Finland. Sometimes we have to stand up, forget about the economic ties. Sometimes we have to help our friends whether they’re in our little club or not.
The biggest issue is that we are talking about the post-nuclear age ... Russia could be stripped out of the map in a second, what he has done is not "military might" ... It's cowardice, Putin prefers to nearly destroy its country in order to stay in power. It's not that he is stupid, he is just desperate.
@@GH-lq9fg The thing is that's not true, Russia is a vast landmass with it's population scattered all over it, plus Russia has actually taken the time to build nuclear shelters for entire cities. The US is nowhere near as big, it's population is massed together in major locations which are at the mercy not just of the blast raduis and fallout of nuclear weapons but the fallout of what they are targetted at, - dams, fault lines, tidal waves etc. Remember it was Trump that scrapped the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty not Putin and it's the US touting the "First Strike" option as a valid military strategy not Russia. I can see where Putin is coming from not wanting the reduced flight times and increased risk of having missiles on his doorstep accompanied by rhetoric and policy like this.
You revealed another problem unwittingly, an addiction to pleasure and avoidance of PAIN. Westerns want comfort, will give away their country and allowed their women to be raped to avoid being called RACIST. Europeans need to seize the historical moment.
We've systematically dismantled our military, our ability to manufacture, our ability to create our own energy and our own food. We largely import skills and trained people from abroad rather than bothering to train our own population. How can we have such an extensive and expensive education system and some of the most prestigious and most highly thought of seats of learning in the world yet still constantly moan about having a shortage of doctors, engineers and other skilled workers? It's madness. Some of us have been banging this drum for decades but have inevitably been labelled far right, racist or xenophobic. The past few years and especially the last few days has revealed the need for a broad self sufficiency in the basics to be utterly vital.
@Gethin Hooper What you're describing isn't liberalism; it's financialization. And you're right: allowing the oligarchs of the big banks and hedge funds to "rationalize" the economies of the great powers in their own interests has totally emasculated us.
Wow what an amazing analysis ! You are so switched on that it makes the rest of us seem asleep. Such a fascinating insight. Very enlightening. History really can tell us so much about the present. Thank you so much!
Thank you, David, for this frank and honest insight into this insane Western world in which we find ourselves. This should be compulsory listening for all in the vain hope we can return to common sense values.
Aren't they competing insanities, west and east ? Jane Goodall observed our closest surviving relatives, whose best and bestial behaviours resonate with our own. Perhaps our species is due its Darwin Award, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. As David so masterfully demonstrates, Poisoner Putin is more realistic than our arrogant and condescending establishment. Yet how foolish and delusional is the wise ape, the self-named homo sapiens ? The great brain, the binocular vision & the opposable thumb, all trumped by narcissism.
@Ram Rod I think there is an awful.lot of testosterone here. Comparing Trudeau with a schoolgirl. My my..patriarchy always undermines the so called feminine values, such as Liberal humanism, equality and holistic ecological thinking, when it feels under threat. I am sorry to say that I cannot stand Starkey's politics, despite his rather good historical research on the Royals especially. But he is an outdated old fashioned patriarch. Perhaps he should be living in the Victorian era. We can maintain a strong defence at the same time as espousing all those so called feminine values. He speaks just like Putin. He too has anti "schoolgirl" rhetoric. I suppose schoolboys are acceptable though?
@@Paulsyfi These are culturally associated with the female. Thus the arguments forwarded by eco-feminists. Starkey uses the term 16 year old schoolgirl to undermine these values. He uses age and gender as derogatory. And by doing so, falls into the very argument that Putin and his mafiamen uphold.
I read a piece in the Independent today. It was about the likely outcome of a nuclear war between Russia and the west. Basically, it didn't say anything that hadn't been said a thousand times before. But it ended with 'But don't worry. There are legal constraints that make nuclear war almost impossible' (I'm paraphrasing). Imagine the lack of imagination required to write such a thing. That if either side, or both, had come to the conclusion that the situation was desperate enough to use nuclear weapons (almost assuring their own destruction in the process), they would be in any way prevented from doing so by a lawyer or international judge.
It just shows how stupid those in power have become. It's that kind of thinking that kills your own people. The only reason Putin wouldn't use nuclear weapons is that he is trying to rebuild the Russian Empire and have that as his legacy.
Given what Russia has shown of its military in the last nine days... Equipment simply breaking down, systems from the 60's still in use, weapons systems being abandoned useless and what they do have being soundly beaten by civilians... Not to mention their armed forces deserting due to a lack of food, water, supplies and fuel... I have doubts any of the Russian nuclear arsenal will even work as intended. In fact if it weren't for the nuclear arsenal, I'd be advocating for a preemptive invasion of Russia to force through a regime change that the public have wanted and been denied for decades. They've shown their army and air force to be utterly pathetic and inconsequential. Now's the time for a preemptive strike whilst half their army is bogged down in a country of mostly civilian insurgents that they still cannot achieve air superiority over.
Thank you; and amazing that you manage this in the teeth of a blizzard of ignorance and hysteria. Truly a relief that your talk arises from a perspective of facts and historical data.
Dr. Starkey As usual your view of the world through the eyes of history is spot on. We in the USA are strong but we have wasted our strength and time on things that aren’t worthy. Now that we need strength we have wasted it on things that are unworthy of the time and expense.
Great talk Mr Starkey. Like you, I never thought I’d see a time in Europe when we are so at the mercy of a regime that is willing and able to exert force to achieve its goals. Leaders like Putin think in terms of decades, and will accept many deprivations in support of long term goals, whilst our leaders think in terms of weeks if not days. NATO has extended its responsibilities to include much of the former Warsaw Pact countries, and yet it has reduced it’s military capability and is currently unable to defend itself. For sometime the current period has felt like the 1930’s with a defeated and dismembered Russia seeking to restorers its lost territories whilst the West fails to recognise what is really going on. While all this is happening there is another power in the Far East watching and waiting to see if it can take advantage. If Putin “wins” in Ukraine there is going to be a long and difficult road for the west and I’m not sure it’s up to the challenge.
Nato is the military wing of the Woke American Empire and its open borders Globalisation project. Its been surrounding Russia for decades and has overplayed its hand. European Civilisation is being destroyed by the Woke American Empire not Christian conservative Russia.
"...the aim of public education is NOT: ...to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence...Nothing could be farther from the truth. The aim...is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality..." Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
...and good for those countries and their leaders. Our elite's shortsightedness means they deserve to lose. Our elite's imposition of progressivism in social affairs, immigration, education and the economy means that I have no attachment to the regime that rules us.
THIS is the test of the free world, which has been looking drunk and doddery on the throne for some time. Either we stand up and say NO, or our borders start rolling inwards from this point. With terrorists (eg the woke, blm, etc) working at bringing down the culture from within. I don’t want nato fighting Russia that would be WW3, but the free world must act as one to cut Russia out of the world until it utterly capitulates or thus is very much the beginning of the end.
Every cloud has a silver lining. Let’s hope our government comes to its senses over its energy policy. Also it’s time to incentivise farmers to produce food rather than rewilding the land.
@@beckyweisfeld6977 My comment was rather more focused on farming in 2022. With grain exports from Ukraine and Russia curtailed by war and sanctions, we should be looking to local farming to secure our food supplies this year.
The trick is to find one that's unbiased, and many are. Real history, as compared to what's peddled by the governments, one will find, is very different.
Or at the very least elect prime ministers who understand history. Churchill wrote history to a distinguished level, and Thatcher read history religiously. Since her we've had prime ministers with heads either in the clouds or stuck up their own rear ends.
sadly they, the government only hear what they choose to hear, and hear only what fits or suits their narrative. look at the dis-rest amongst the populace, and how instead of addressing the issues they are grouped together and described as deplorable.
All very well said 👍🇬🇧 I’ve just got to say, I live in the north of England and I know the beautiful countryside where the fracking companies were hoping to frack. It literally did make me cry ! Everything has become so difficult now, my lovely mum always used to say a country that doesn’t make sure it’s self sufficient is extremely foolish !
I mostly agree with Dr Starkey however I am absolutely 100% against fracking. It is too damaging to the local ecologies where it is set-up. The future is, and always was, small modular nuclear reactors. The left's ideological disposition against Nuclear Energy has paralysed us. We are, paradoxically, more dependent on fossil fuels now than we would have been with a consistent nuclear energy policy.
Thank you again Mr Starkey. I'm glad there is still someone who knows these things, unlike me - properly. More still that they are said. I know you are right. You know why you are right.
Oh where to begin. I can dimly remember that after the USSR fragmented into 15 sovereign states (four of which harboured Soviet era nuclear weapons) that the British prime minister (John Major) referred to the end of the Cold War having a 'peace dividend.' Note that John Major's profession before he became a politician, was as an accountant. So the Peace Dividend meant that the UK and other NATO member states could cut back on military expenditure. Reducing not only the size, but also the capabilities of the British armed forces. This was a policy continued by his successors, take a bow Sir Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson. Thus the Royal Navy has dramatically been downsized in terms of numbers of surface warships and of submarines, as well as numbers of personnel in the Royal Navy and Royal Marine Commandos. The Royal Air Force was subjected to various cuts by the Cameron-Clegg coalition government. As has the British Army which has a vastly reduced amount of serving personnel, and cut-backs in terms of equipment. There is also the disappearance of so much of the strategically important industries to support armed forces. Coal, iron, and steel production has withered in the UK. So has industries such as ship-building. The design and manufacture of military aircraft, whether they be aeroplanes or helicopters, has become the province of multi-national conglomerates. Compare and contrast this with our neighbour, La Belle France. France does not as a rule make use of multi-national military projects. No, the French state maintains a state sponsored arms and munitions industry. In a way the international response to the Russian attack upon Ukraine reminds me of one of Aesop's Fables. 'Fair Shares for All' where a Rabbit stands up and addresses a gathered crowd of animals, demanding fair shares for all animals. After the rabbit has finished making it's speech, a voice from the back of the crowd says 'A fine speech hairy feet! A pity that it does not have the teeth and claws of us Lions.'
You are an amazing historian, this was such an important broadcast and it was emotional because you know we are witnessing a turning point in history, God bless you David Starkey.
Do you know David, you restore my sanity, with your knowledge, expertise and cast iron historical facts. Married with articulate presentation skills and warm narration; You are our best historian by a country mile. God bless you good sir. This boomer of 65 years is a lot more happier with your broadcasts. Philip. Wirral.
I am British. For a while it has seemed to me, much of the population does not have affection or any kind regard for where they live. We take much for granted and complaints there are many. Are we prepared to battle to defend these islands and our allies from those who wish us harm?
I think, ultimately, there are probably enough people left who will. But no doubt there's a substantial number who would flee, or refuse to take up arms in defence of the country. It isn't the same country in any meaningful way as it was in 1939 and the balance changes for the worse all the time, I think. I am one of those soft democratic liberals who welcomed mass migration with open arms finding it pleasant to hear foreign languages spoken on our streets, to see the diversification of food and other items in our supermarkets. I didn't anticipate the tremendous damage caused to our society by the presence of millions of people who don't necessarily share our ways, our manners, our values and who only seek a better pay packet and will leave as soon as that narrow financial incentive evaporates while simultaneously the country destroyed its industrial base and effectively converted its service base into clients of China or other foreign powers, that would fold in a moment if the financial interests were threatened. These things are immediately connected; Britain was resilient in the past largely due to its much-mocked "nation of grocers" state. The small businesses in their multitudes and immediate connection to specific places had deep roots, they bought from the larger businesses that were rooted via these smaller firms, and even the largest businesses were often quite localised due to these local incentives. Take the aviation industry focused around the South Midlands and the West of England, largely due to small firms locating there initially and staying even when relocation probably would have made more sense. Today, however, these globalised rootless firms will close any factory or facility that scores poorly in a transient financial climate, uprooting thousands of people or causing them grave hardship. Such people are more likely to become similarly rootless if they follow their jobs around the country (or world), and naturally they lose their immediate connection to home and country. Why stay to defend a home you rent, in a neighbourhood with only shallow acquaintances, a city you've lived in for six months, a country you've lived in for eighteen months?
I wish to thank and congratulate you for this succinct expose of the situation we, as Westerners, find ourselves in. I shall share it with those I know and hope they do the same. May this be a wake up call for our leaders and their people to realise the predicament we are in and determine to respond appropriately.
We are the victims of our own success. Since the victory of the West in the Cold War we have lived in a fantasy world of unicorns and rainbows. The values which led to that victory have since been dissolved away by the self hating acid of Woke. David is right to point out that this is an existential crisis which requires the rediscovery of older, tougher values and a hard headed recognition of the necessity of hard military power to protect them.
Western powers still have a massive level of military capability. Take the US for example it has an airforce that is twice as large as China and Russia combined. The French and British navy would control the mediterranean and Northern Sea's. The Americans will control the Atlantic and Pacific Seas. Once the west realizes what is at stake they will wake from their slumber which is already starting to begin.
Fundamentally, it's not about wokism; it's about international finance buying off the politicians to allow them to offshore our manufacturing, erode our work force's skills base, and dominate our media. They're the termites, and they've hollowed us out from the inside.
Absolutely spot on David, but in all honesty we in Britain have never been ready for war, it is a throw back to the 1660’s and parliaments fear of large standing armies, where another Cromwell might emerge. The days of sending our military to the far flung corners of the empire have long gone. We have been reactive not proactive in every war since the 17th century and have gotten away with it somehow. But now I fear it is as marshal soult said, the British are the best and steadiest soldiers in the world, thank god there are so few of them.
The issue for the new east is that it will not be able to expand quickly enough to reach the UK. By the time it reaches if it can at all Britain, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and France will have massed armies so large and technical that they will be extremely formidable. And that excludes the Americas.
🤔 hitler did france In six weeks...... With modern tech, cyber. It will be quicker. Do you think the remaining west could do anything? So if the uk has 20'000 fighting strength now In its army, portugul a lot less and spain the same as us. We dont stand a chance, when it comes to numbers. What military industry does spain, portugul have to build a military In six weeks?
I watched the video one day after it was released. Four months later I can say it is excatly unfolding as described here. The mainstream media with their predicitions utterly failed against you professor Starkey! Great respect!
I think Dr Starkey is exactly right about this. What the situation boils down to is this: are we prepared to take on the Russians militarily yes/no? If the answer is "no", then our politicians might as well leave out the indignant squawking and name-calling. All of their talk is worthless hot air!
Thank you, this is spot on. It's so utterly depressing that it was there all the time, unfolding before our eyes for more than 20 years, but so many just chose to ignore it, chose to believe in peace, chose to think positively etc., and did virtually nothing, or even worse - sold themselves for a bit of Russian money. Nothing was hidden, it was obvious, yet - nothing was done. And here we are, especially those of us like me who live next to Russia and know that we're also on the list and that the old fart in Kremlin would kill in a blink of an eye to have a monument of him erected in our capital as well as in Kiev, Minsk, Tbilisi, Helsinki and elsewhere.
I think Mr. Starkey is absolutely bang on: everything rests upon power and our ability to enforce our values/principles. Without it, we are left helpless. We are learning this lesson, once again, rather late.
Dr Starkey is one of the few great intellects remaining in Britain. His brilliant analysis here needs wider dissemination. It is true that we have weak, useless, even silly, politicians in the west - we have no " leaders" - I wonder if those who could be leaders are put off by the intense (and biased) media scrutiny they would face? We are in a real mire, thats for sure
Our elites are completely captured by the Woke American Empire and its open borders Globalisation project. Unfortunately Globalisation destroyed democracy decades ago.
Oh, brilliant. Thank you Dr Starkey. The west have never even attempted to understand its adversaries, either in Russia or in the Middle East, and in the last couple of generations has gone incredibly soft and wobbly. And if you do not understand your adversaries; if you have no war readiness with decent armed forces, and if you have a feeble mind-set, you will always end up being undermined. So America has a huge military might, but totally the wrong mind set. America in particular, always assumes every nation and its peoples want to be like America, with American values (i.e. lots of money, basically) because America cannot conceive that any other system could be viable. Short-sighted and ultimately stupid. Which leads to what we have now. "We bellow, and wave around a straw." Truly wonderful. A great pity that there are so few (if any) leaders in the west who are as sensible and as realistic as Dr Starkey.
@@-M0LE the west particularly the US, needs adversaries to keep the military industrial complex rolling and also justify the continued existence of NATO
I am mindful of the 1930's and a demilitarised Britain and the West and a growing threat that everyone knew about but were unable to stop but more than that I see a lack of resolve and an absence of the steadfast qualities that we have previously been known for. Our markets have been given to China and our resources sold off to Russia, China and the Arabs. Those that fail to learn the lessons of history are forced to repeat them.
I wish to congratulate you for this expose of our truly shocking state of affairs in the West. I shall be sharing this with others and hope they do likewise so that we may wake up to what we have done and do better.
Just stunning David in all ways. I was fortunate as a working class lad who due to being a highly volatile child that my parents and infant school could not cope with, was sent to special boarding school in Gloucestershire. By pure fluke the teacher was a retired Oxford Don who read to us Homer, Tacitus, world history and took us regularly to Stratford on Avon to watch Shakespeare plays. Thus, even leaving at the age of 11 into a standard working class secondary school, I not only a very good grasp of history but a love for it as well that has stayed with me all my life. Listening to you David especially when you refer to the truth, lessons and examples of history makes perfect sense especially regarding your so true definition and need for power to defend our selves from those who want to abuse their power. I saw it when learning Tae Kwon Do that the toughest and potentially violent men who trained me were the calmest, gentle and wisest men I ever met because they had nothing to prove. You are so right, what we have thrown away and continue to do so, your analogy that so many leaders and influential people think just 'like' a Woke schoolgirl is so true and think of Putin as a mad fool which he is obviously is not.
Wow; what a relief to suddenly have, instead of our postmodernist Newsnight presenters and the like, new people of a wholly different calibre like Starkey (and Peterson, and others) speaking truth to us, even on new channels like GB news where David came across most impressively. A relief because for forty years I have been an outcast in my family for daring to follow my own path and challenge the accepted stories and think like this. Thank you very much David. You ask, despairingly, 'what can we do'. I suggest that there is a new way forward. It is by using a different form or power; a new Enlightenment. By properly developing a science of man for the first time; daring to take forward the fledgling science of evolutionary psychology and promote understanding how man's nature creates the complexity of interactions that leads to tribes and nation states. Accepting, as Nobel Prize winner E O Wilson did a few years ago, that evolution is multi-level, with selection operating on groups up to the level of nations (utterly anathema to his opponent Richard Dawkins and most evolutionists, because it doesn't support the ideas of human rights, equality and multiculturalism). More than that, by teaching such basic understanding of how people interact to students in schools and colleges, from elementary level up, kicking out the postmodernist teachers and lecturers who are currently abusing and distorting the minds of our future generations.. A country that did this might gain respect in the way that Britain did in the Scientific Enlightenment, as it spread the new way of thinking called science to a world based on irrationalism and superstition.
Yet a teacher was fired for failing to recognize a student's identity as a cat. Too much of the teaching is polluted with identify perversions and imaginary genders. I have read about this and it always is a prelude to decline and rot. I am sure this is recognized by our adversaries.
That’s all well and good but how will that address what’s happening NOW? And the Enlightenment was rationalism informed by centuries of Christianity. Europe is godless and now they have godless, weak leadership with the wolves at the door.
@@tomjackson4374 It's important to be aware of the Frankfurt school, who's members openly wrote of undermining Western Culture in order to bring in Marxism where earlier attempts (Germany in the lead up to WW2) had failed. Rudi Dutschke began 'the long march through the institutions' and the 60's cultural revolution in the West. The tool was postmodernism, propagated through the Universities, until a generation of students so taught would take up positions in academia and in schools. Now, as the plan reaches maturnation, we have 'woke' nonsense everywhere. Once again, this didn't just happen because 'we' let it. People we can name, who in Western terms are evil, set out to bring down the Western World.
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What can I say but thanks for stating what has been clear. That western liberal democratic values are not shared by everyone, and those who believe they are, are deluded. In the end power matters. My greatest disappointment this week (although I burst into laughter at the time) - hearing my boss, UN SG António Guterres, and a former president of the Socialist International, use a line straight out of a John Lennon song in his first comments after Putin announced his invasion - "give peace a chance". The man is 73, but talks like a 15 year old; still isn't that the very definition of an international socialist.
While I do believe that you only stated truths here, you should not talk about military might. Warfare today depends on the willingness of being submissive to M.A.D. and Russia is overusing this card. It has nothing to do with military might, that ridiculously enough is struggling to take over a militia.
Thank goodness for serious and honest historians like David Starkey.
Thankyou
I don't think I've ever heard a talk with which I've agreed so completely.
David Starkey has one of the greatest minds of our time. If only our Government listened to what he has to say and more importantly acted upon his wisdom!
I Never been disappointed in his lectures. His analytical intelligent unbiased talks are a blessing to anybody who has an open mind and want to learn.
Probably the most powerful and damning lesson Starkey ever gave us
Ironically, part of Dr. Starkey's lesson is that, in essence, it has been given many times in the past and ignored, and our leaders will still keep ignoring it. When given the choice between war and dishonour, our leaders have invariably chosen dishonour, but they got war.
It's all well and good to condemn aggressive action, generally.
The calcification of resignation for history to repeat itself is grounded in the non-response false narrative which is to ignore just security concerns and factual history concerning Russia's possession of eastern parts of the Ukraine going back to when Poland-Lithuania holding the west mutated the language and the culture.
Starkey follows my analysis of Ukraine very closely.
One thing Starkey misses out is the unreliability of Russian technology and manufacture, which may leave the Russian army with broken tanks strewn all over the battlefield. See my analysis of this, taken from first-hand experience.
See my analysis on the Nutrient Nirvana video channel.
Apologies for the poor internet connection, but I live in the sticks.
Ralph Ellis
@@DonBean-ej4ouThe standing joke used to be that, after turning up late for the previous two world wars, the USA was determined to be early for the third.
Ironically, after committing trillions of dollars and the lives of countless thousands of its citizens to protect America (and the 'Free World') from totalitarianism (dressed up as: 'Communism', 'Soviet Socialism', 'National Socialism', 'Imperialism', 'Islamism', etc.), lately essentially the same Trojan Horse has been dragged into the republic smothered in fake tan and draped in the stars and stripes.
Hopefully, the old adage will still hold true, that:
“Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”
@@DonBean-ej4ou at the cost of their citizens
Oh dear. You are so frighteningly correct.
Excellent analysis as usual, and I’m leaving the discussion better informed than I was at the beginning! Thank you!
There's a difference between power and force. By showing force you're actually showing your lack of power. And Mr Putin as an individual will certainly lack power in a very short space of time.
@@zootsoot2006 nice example of why we're here. Smart asses arguing over words whilst others are getting their might together ready to smash anyone that's in their way.
@@barrychuckle5565 Throw your words away then and pick up a stick, goddam you.
Yep, he absolutely nails it.
@@zootsoot2006 nice observation.
As a student of history for the last 60 years, I have avoided the news cycle and the political rhetoric over these events. This is what I have been waiting for.
The truth is that a large number of people in Russia want a new empire but here is the question far do they actually want that empire to stretch?
Most people do not seem to understand how wide they want their influence to go. I may surprise people to find they want it to stretch from the Bering Sea to the Atlantic Ocean with them hold everything in between. And the subjugated areas are not going to be free.
Can you not make up your own mind?
@@garymitchell5899 Indeed, I certainly had my own thoughts about Starkey’s comments. Yet Alex and Alexander are always able to bring their own wisdom and perspective to an answer some one gives. I’m merely expressing my respect for them and their experience, that’s all. I don’t think I indicated an inability to think my own thoughts, but rather an interest in gathering more information about an enormously complex situation. (Edited for typo)
Any student of history, as I formally was, uses all sources available to uncover the truth as far as it's possible to discern.
@@bighands69 so, the French, Germans, Italians, Spanish, etc (Britain?) are going to let themselves be subjugated? You do have to be careful poking the beast (that conquered the world) or it may wake up.
Please don't apologise for being an 'old fashioned historian' - even with tongue-in-cheek. There is nothing 'old fashioned' about seeking to use one's own observations, evidence with logic and reason, to understand anything.
Plus I would not trust any historian who changes his viewpoint for the fashionable thinking of the day, over facts. To stand with facts despite not being popular at the moment is crucial. We need more of that. To go back and colour history with our modern sensitivities, notions, values, may suit some, but completely negates the truth. A great disservice. We are only fooling ourselves. History is often not pretty. Not Kumba Ya! We cannot sanitize it or judge it from our modern viewpoint. We have to allow history to live in it’s time. As imperfect or appalling as it may be to some of us.
@@DreamsSketcher Yes. IMO, David Starkey is rigorous and erudite toward his approach to history and analysis. I was mostly convinced of this after watching two of his videos - 'Interpretations of History' and 'Really Bad History'.
It is the methodology, the approach to the subject that caught my interest.
Your other point is regarding presentism, also known as retrospective bigotteering. In the case of recent cultural events I think it is moral presentism that is at work for political and quasi religious reasons.
His history seems fine. It is his viewpoint. But he is indeed old fashioned in his political.outlook. And what does woke mean? A person who believes in social justice and equality? Then I sign up.to the club! I think he is a rather outdated old schoolboy. He should keep to.writing about the Royals. That is his scholarship, and leave schoolgirls alone.
@@chowes41 woke is a religion and nothing more. It helps no one. It harms many. If you were using your human skills of observation and critique you would know that.
@@nonfictionone Please use your '"skills of critique" as you put it, to tell me why social equality and justice is a 'religion'. I do not believe in God. I do know how to use these skills, which is why I would like to know why forwarding a society in which equality is a valuable asset "harms many".
EXCELLENT, DAVID, I WILL NEVER UNDER STAND WHY THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE YOU ON HAND TO HELP THEM IN A SITUATION AS WE HAVE NOW,!
Outstanding and vital analysis, thank you. Everyone who takes a view on what is happening should watch this
As a British citizen, and soldier, never have I felt so informed, yet feel such despair at our current situation and anger that our leaders have allowed this to happen
While the west has made mistakes it cannot really behold directly responsible for what is developing in the east.
If the west was to try and get directly involved in the east it would still get push back.
The only way this could have really been avoid was after the collapse of the USSR if the west with force had of went into Russia and took over the place and installed their own leadership but that would still have got us to where we currently are only it would have happened 25 years ago.
@@bighands69 you make absolutely no sense. When the wall came down in 89. Russia was never vulnerable. It always had neuclear deterent. Can't you see Putin will not allow NATO up to his border, which was his fear, with Ukraine expressing interest in NATO. Do you seriously believe USA would stand for russian military on the Mexican or Canadian border? I thought not. Remember USA action when Russia had missiles in Cuba?
@@bighands69 Do you ever step back and wonder what "the West" even is? If it's the people, history and values, then what are those? The people: a multicultural nation of immigrants. The history: racism and sexism. The values: Globalism, LGBTQ+, Progressivism, Eco-lunacy, Managerialism, Divesity, Equity, Inclusion, and censorship, corporate partnership and the law to enforce all this. If anything, it would be even more terrifying if our elite were more competent and confident in the use of force because they would use it to do even more terrible things.
I will always be on the side of my country's people, but it's like a body-snatcher has flayed the country and is wearing it as a hideous skin suit. This freak is now dancing in my face and demanding I show patriotism toward it. Think of a patriotic Russian in 1930 being asked to bow before the Soviet regime. I would take up arms if it came to a 1942 situation, but other than that, I would secretly wish for my elite to face defeat.
Spokes 101 Yeah , Well it's the Leaders who have caused it all and cowardly hide behind Putin , using him as their scapegoat because it is extremely important that they don't get found out exposed ? Putin has been misrepresented as public enemy number one I myself have never seen it that way Putin never wanted to be a leader ( in my opinion a sign of a good natural leader ) I believe they want to topple Putin like Gadaffi and other leaders because once they get into Russia properly there is only 100 years of resources waiting for them ? So yeah they need Russia and yeah they want rid of its leader to set up their NWO !
Leaders? Do you mean the largely mealy mouthed followers of fashion which clutter the House of Commons at our expense?
I greatly enjoyed your very frank and honest talk. It’s so refreshing to hear a truthful account of what is happening without the media hysterics and woke spin. You’re my favourite historian and thank you
I second the above
Yes. After the last 5 years I no longer have any trust in the MSM and feel unable to even entertain the idea that politicians have my best interests at heart.
If the BBC were any good, this is the kind of background analysis they'd be providing instead of their entirely predictable woke hand-wringing. David Starkey's exposition is totally spot-on and delivered with brilliant if depressing eloquence.
It's a shame that Stakey has effectively been banned from speaking on the BBC.
Just because it was easy to understand does not make it better. David is historian, but BBC is news. You do not blame ice hockey team for being shitty in basketball game. I'm happy that you made an effort and listened to historian, but do not blame BBC for not spoon-feeding all you want to know.
Loved your take on GB News with Mark Steyn last Thursday. Indispensable - no spin, spirited disagreement, points explained - I learnt a lot - and had to lie down. Not used to such TV fare !!
Thanks for mentioning this I must find this!
I so appreciate your message today. Tragic as it is. I was born in 1943. Always proud of being English and my heart breaks to see what it had become!
The Foreign Office used to talk of the Wykamist Fallacy, where everyone in power is assumed to behave like they went to school at Winchester. In the US the History Departments at most universities have become worthless social justice courses that are impossible to fail, to give easy A grades to bad students.
You can still fail those courses, but you have to have certain immutable, European, characteristics. Or should I say more accurately, you have to _be failed_ from those courses.
I've not actually taken the courses right through (full year or more with examination etc) but have attended many a lecture and discussion, and what seemed to be doable was to use jargonista filler so long as the sentiment - Europeans and anything civilizationally attributable to this group being bad, implicitly if not overtly, with the philosophical quandaries being the extent to which these perceived pathologies are conscious/intentional or dangerous ignorance - was rightly oriented.
It did seem to be of interest that the European/colonial progressivism would itself have to be torn apart, albeit much later than the pressing issues of the imposing -ists, -isms & -phobias.
What did not seem to be an endearing direction to take was that of applying the deconstructive, reductionist, critical lens to those very concepts, of like origin to the maligned concepts, which are held in near religious esteem and which have so much utility to these new brave souls; namely those notions of Progress, Equality, Secularism, Human Rights, and that whole slew of Idols. It was a tad strange given that receptivity to the eventuality of euro/colonial prog-liberal infrastructure having to be overcome was something to ponder, but clearly naming the particular concepts and highlighting that by the otherwise haughtily accepted rationale so too would these be relics of the ingrained, inseparable -isms for which the rest must be conquered.
Im quite tempted to write up some works that take that line to see what broader reception might be had, haha
Starkey follows my analysis of Ukraine very closely.
One thing Starkey misses out is the unreliability of Russian technology and manufacture, which may leave the Russian army with broken tanks strewn all over the battlefield. See my analysis of this, taken from first-hand experience.
See my analysis on the Nutrient Nirvana video channel.
Apologies for the poor internet connection, but I live in the sticks.
Ralph Ellis
Could probably add a late 20th century version of this: it's a mistake to expect despots to behave as they did when they actually were at school in Winchester.
@@corneliuscapitalinus845 EH?
i'm privileged to listen to a history master.
As a native Bulgarian, who paid attention in history class at school I am considered pro Putin, when I dare to say any of the truths that were mentioned by the brilliant Mr. Starkey. Knowing history is indeed giving a damning sense of powerlessness in situations like the one we are all in right now. Thank you Mr. Starkey for this short and realistic evaluation!
@@iamnooneu.k.1957 are you really comparing us to Russia?
How far back do we go with History, nana? What right have the Russians to their territory? What right have any of us to a grain of soil?
@@David-cm4ok I think it's undeniable. There are a list of opinions one cannot hold and words one cannot say. At the least you will be censored and in many cases arrest and prosecution will follow
I am not a European so I've no emotions attached with whatever happened in the past wars or cold wars in Europe. But I've read little bit history and it helps. For example if you read a master piece "The Great Game" you'd know there's a deeply entrenched russophobia in English speaking media and UK parliment since last 2 centuries, there were guys 2 centuries ago who were paranoid about the Russian invasion of Delhi, Indian subcontinent and they were the one who started great game with Russia which ended in 1990.
Now as Europe is aligned with UK and USA this russiohobia has sunk into Europe. You'd see Switzerland which was neutral during WW2 and bankrolled the genocide of Jews is taking side against Russia.
I know Russia has her own share of mess but amount of russophobia in Europe doesn't justify it.
@@David-cm4ok you might have the lowest IQ take on any subject I’ve EVER seen on any comments section.
Keep going David, great to see you back👍🇦🇺
Thank you Mr Starkey for a sane voice in the lunatic West
I couldn’t agree with you more. It is disgusting watching our politicians miscalculate and misread our adversaries. And to emasculate ourselves...evil ensues. Thank you David Starkey for giving us a voice.
Also, the average age of British farmers is 55 years of age. Tony Blair and the EU changed subsidies from being paid for the amount of produce being produced, to the amount of land being owned, therefore allowing ageing farmers to sit on the land drawing a payment without focusing on production and preventing new entrants from ever starting. Now they are planning to remove all subsidies when the average agricultural debt is around £100,000. This country has a lot of trouble ahead of it.
Blair has destroyed BRITIAN
@@risenshine2783 Not yet, take heart friend.
Blair is a war criminal
Blair has done far more than destroy Britain, he has destroyed the West. What's more the MSM keeps giving the war criminal airtime. If he now blabbers on about Ukraine he should be challenged on Serbia
@@theresagwhite3175 Blair is just "a" criminal.
David really is worth listening too. I’m so glad he’s started this channel. God bless the people of Ukraine 🙏🇺🇦🙏
What a pleasure to listen and learn from your videos. I feel you are providing a real service, an exceptional level of education with us. You highlight facts, history, and marry it all together to make sense of what we see today. Thank you so MUCH. 🇨🇦
I am sending this to my 20 year old daughter who is struggling to understand what is happening in Ukraine. It has upset us all. But the younger generation are shocked and particularly unnerved by the aggression. My husband’s grandfather who was designated a war hero after 4 years on the front lines in WW2, had said that 3 generations out from war, the lessons are forgotten. That is why history often repeats. When it comes to response to aggression, there are no great responses without great risk. But I can’t help but think the greater generation would have reacted differently to this aggression and move by Putin. There’s been much softening in the last 30 years with the western nations response. And that is why we are here. Of course we cannot predict where war will go. But we cannot let someone like Putin continue. Especially as he makes noises now about doing the same to Sweden and Finland. Sometimes we have to stand up, forget about the economic ties. Sometimes we have to help our friends whether they’re in our little club or not.
Outstanding!!! The world needs to listen to you Sir! I for one agree with you. Thank you and keep up your spirits!
Dr Starkey was fascinating as usual, if rather depressing in his very realistic assessment of the international situation.
The biggest issue is that we are talking about the post-nuclear age ... Russia could be stripped out of the map in a second, what he has done is not "military might" ... It's cowardice, Putin prefers to nearly destroy its country in order to stay in power. It's not that he is stupid, he is just desperate.
@@GH-lq9fg The thing is that's not true, Russia is a vast landmass with it's population scattered all over it, plus Russia has actually taken the time to build nuclear shelters for entire cities. The US is nowhere near as big, it's population is massed together in major locations which are at the mercy not just of the blast raduis and fallout of nuclear weapons but the fallout of what they are targetted at, - dams, fault lines, tidal waves etc. Remember it was Trump that scrapped the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty not Putin and it's the US touting the "First Strike" option as a valid military strategy not Russia. I can see where Putin is coming from not wanting the reduced flight times and increased risk of having missiles on his doorstep accompanied by rhetoric and policy like this.
You revealed another problem unwittingly, an addiction to pleasure and avoidance of PAIN. Westerns want comfort, will give away their country and allowed their women to be raped to avoid being called RACIST. Europeans need to seize the historical moment.
@@cannibalholocaust3015 wtf are you talking about? Where are you from?
@@GH-lq9fg Rubbish.
Theodore Rooseveldt had that wonderful phrase saying 'speak softly and carry a big stick'. We bellow and wave around a straw. - David Starkey 2022.
Amen.
The only problem with that is other countries have a Big stick aswell now. Try using the carrot you get more with that.
David has developed a great ability to narrate a story and communicate great insightful understanding of issues. Love him.
Thank you Mr. Starkey. Spot on.
what an amazing disquisition. a searing truth teller for our time
Mr. Starkey, I totally agree with you. I'm not in a position to do anything except agree and applaud your courage for speaking the truth.
Dr. David Stakey, Absolutely brilliant analysis.
Spot on brilliant
This was incredible.
No, it was all too credible.
We've systematically dismantled our military, our ability to manufacture, our ability to create our own energy and our own food. We largely import skills and trained people from abroad rather than bothering to train our own population. How can we have such an extensive and expensive education system and some of the most prestigious and most highly thought of seats of learning in the world yet still constantly moan about having a shortage of doctors, engineers and other skilled workers? It's madness.
Some of us have been banging this drum for decades but have inevitably been labelled far right, racist or xenophobic. The past few years and especially the last few days has revealed the need for a broad self sufficiency in the basics to be utterly vital.
Are vegans the symptom or the cause ?
@Gethin Hooper What you're describing isn't liberalism; it's financialization. And you're right: allowing the oligarchs of the big banks and hedge funds to "rationalize" the economies of the great powers in their own interests has totally emasculated us.
The Russian military has a lot of mechanical breakdowns and cheap Chinese tyre blow outs . Not buying this invincible russian military thing
All leading up to the inevitable CBDC.
Humanity is sleepwalking into slavery.
It's all been in the planning for a few decades now.
@@mididoctors okay bro
Thank you for that David. A thought provoking session.
You are much valued & appreciated
David it is a pleasure to hear you speak. Your channel is extremely informative and a God send during these tumultuous times. Thank you.
Well said David. There’s nothing quite so valuable as confronting the truth.
Well said David! Wish this was on prime time BBC1!
Wow what an amazing analysis ! You are so switched on that it makes the rest of us seem asleep. Such a fascinating insight. Very enlightening. History really can tell us so much about the present. Thank you so much!
Thank you, David, for this frank and honest insight into this insane Western world in which we find ourselves. This should be compulsory listening for all in the vain hope we can return to common sense values.
Aren't they competing insanities, west and east ? Jane Goodall observed our closest surviving relatives, whose best and bestial behaviours resonate with our own. Perhaps our species is due its Darwin Award, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. As David so masterfully demonstrates, Poisoner Putin is more realistic than our arrogant and condescending establishment. Yet how foolish and delusional is the wise ape, the self-named homo sapiens ? The great brain, the binocular vision & the opposable thumb, all trumped by narcissism.
Insane? Would you like an Eastern outlook instead?
Only common sense for you.
@Ram Rod I think there is an awful.lot of testosterone here. Comparing Trudeau with a schoolgirl. My my..patriarchy always undermines the so called feminine values, such as Liberal humanism, equality and holistic ecological thinking, when it feels under threat. I am sorry to say that I cannot stand Starkey's politics, despite his rather good historical research on the Royals especially. But he is an outdated old fashioned patriarch. Perhaps he should be living in the Victorian era. We can maintain a strong defence at the same time as espousing all those so called feminine values. He speaks just like Putin. He too has anti "schoolgirl" rhetoric. I suppose schoolboys are acceptable though?
@@Paulsyfi These are culturally associated with the female. Thus the arguments forwarded by eco-feminists. Starkey uses the term 16 year old schoolgirl to undermine these values. He uses age and gender as derogatory. And by doing so, falls into the very argument that Putin and his mafiamen uphold.
David, you're the best history teacher in the World, I enjoy every single video that you do.... you're an absolute Legend!!!!🇬🇧🇬🇧✌✌
I read a piece in the Independent today. It was about the likely outcome of a nuclear war between Russia and the west. Basically, it didn't say anything that hadn't been said a thousand times before. But it ended with 'But don't worry. There are legal constraints that make nuclear war almost impossible' (I'm paraphrasing). Imagine the lack of imagination required to write such a thing. That if either side, or both, had come to the conclusion that the situation was desperate enough to use nuclear weapons (almost assuring their own destruction in the process), they would be in any way prevented from doing so by a lawyer or international judge.
The Indy’s editorial policy is dictated by a Russian Oligarch and ex-KGB officer.
The HSE would have to be involved for a start.
" legal constraints that make nuclear war almost impossible" hahahahaha BOOM
It just shows how stupid those in power have become. It's that kind of thinking that kills your own people. The only reason Putin wouldn't use nuclear weapons is that he is trying to rebuild the Russian Empire and have that as his legacy.
Given what Russia has shown of its military in the last nine days... Equipment simply breaking down, systems from the 60's still in use, weapons systems being abandoned useless and what they do have being soundly beaten by civilians... Not to mention their armed forces deserting due to a lack of food, water, supplies and fuel... I have doubts any of the Russian nuclear arsenal will even work as intended.
In fact if it weren't for the nuclear arsenal, I'd be advocating for a preemptive invasion of Russia to force through a regime change that the public have wanted and been denied for decades. They've shown their army and air force to be utterly pathetic and inconsequential. Now's the time for a preemptive strike whilst half their army is bogged down in a country of mostly civilian insurgents that they still cannot achieve air superiority over.
Thank you Mr Starkey for clarifying this complicated situation.Very sobering.
Thank you; and amazing that you manage this in the teeth of a blizzard of ignorance and hysteria. Truly a relief that your talk arises from a perspective of facts and historical data.
Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it,
Those that do learn from history are doomed to watch other people repeat it.
Dr. Starkey
As usual your view of the world through the eyes of history is spot on. We in the USA are strong but we have wasted our strength and time on things that aren’t worthy. Now that we need strength we have wasted it on things that are unworthy of the time and expense.
Three words, SOBERING AS HELL.
Thank you for your knowledgable talk, David.
As usual eloquently put David. Painful but true. Thanks for the clarity
God bless you Dr. Starkey. Always a learning experience and you are not the only Cassandra. You are in a sea of Cassandras.
Great talk Mr Starkey. Like you, I never thought I’d see a time in Europe when we are so at the mercy of a regime that is willing and able to exert force to achieve its goals. Leaders like Putin think in terms of decades, and will accept many deprivations in support of long term goals, whilst our leaders think in terms of weeks if not days. NATO has extended its responsibilities to include much of the former Warsaw Pact countries, and yet it has reduced it’s military capability and is currently unable to defend itself. For sometime the current period has felt like the 1930’s with a defeated and dismembered Russia seeking to restorers its lost territories whilst the West fails to recognise what is really going on. While all this is happening there is another power in the Far East watching and waiting to see if it can take advantage. If Putin “wins” in Ukraine there is going to be a long and difficult road for the west and I’m not sure it’s up to the challenge.
Nato is the military wing of the Woke American Empire and its open borders Globalisation project.
Its been surrounding Russia for decades and has overplayed its hand.
European Civilisation is being destroyed by the Woke American Empire not Christian conservative Russia.
"...the aim of public education is NOT:
...to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence...Nothing could be farther from the truth. The aim...is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train
a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality..."
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
@@evolassunglasses4673 Who cares about christian? Both woke america and russia are anti-white
...and good for those countries and their leaders. Our elite's shortsightedness means they deserve to lose. Our elite's imposition of progressivism in social affairs, immigration, education and the economy means that I have no attachment to the regime that rules us.
THIS is the test of the free world, which has been looking drunk and doddery on the throne for some time. Either we stand up and say NO, or our borders start rolling inwards from this point. With terrorists (eg the woke, blm, etc) working at bringing down the culture from within. I don’t want nato fighting Russia that would be WW3, but the free world must act as one to cut Russia out of the world until it utterly capitulates or thus is very much the beginning of the end.
I am sharing your videos amongst people who would never otherwise listen. They are learning and sharing with others. 🌻
Every cloud has a silver lining. Let’s hope our government comes to its senses over its energy policy. Also it’s time to incentivise farmers to produce food rather than rewilding the land.
We can only hope 👏👏
Yes ditch carbon neutral nonsense start digging up Britain's coal and expand oil and gas. 👍 and nuclear
Boris has this week already very slightly moved from absolute net zero to necessary temporary deviation to carbon power if faced with greater threat.
@@beckyweisfeld6977 My comment was rather more focused on farming in 2022. With grain exports from Ukraine and Russia curtailed by war and sanctions, we should be looking to local farming to secure our food supplies this year.
@@beckyweisfeld6977 there is no global warming. I've been waiting for it for 20 years and it hasn't arrived my fuel bills in winter still high.
Brilliant. You Sir are immense and to be cancelled is another crime. Thankyou
All governments should employ an historian for reference to avoid the mistakes of the past...
The trick is to find one that's unbiased, and many are. Real history, as compared to what's peddled by the governments, one will find, is very different.
Ours employs the snake oil salesman David Olosuga
Or at the very least elect prime ministers who understand history. Churchill wrote history to a distinguished level, and Thatcher read history religiously. Since her we've had prime ministers with heads either in the clouds or stuck up their own rear ends.
sadly they, the government only hear what they choose to hear, and hear only what fits or suits their narrative. look at the dis-rest amongst the populace, and how instead of addressing the issues they are grouped together and described as deplorable.
Absolutely, make that a team of scholarly historians in their domestic and foreign office departments!
Brilliant!! I dearly enjoyed listening to this commentary!! Mr. Starkley is well informed. I understand the situation more clearly now.
All very well said 👍🇬🇧
I’ve just got to say, I live in the north of England and I know the beautiful countryside where the fracking companies were hoping to frack. It literally did make me cry !
Everything has become so difficult now, my lovely mum always used to say a country that doesn’t make sure it’s self sufficient is extremely foolish !
I mostly agree with Dr Starkey however I am absolutely 100% against fracking. It is too damaging to the local ecologies where it is set-up. The future is, and always was, small modular nuclear reactors. The left's ideological disposition against Nuclear Energy has paralysed us. We are, paradoxically, more dependent on fossil fuels now than we would have been with a consistent nuclear energy policy.
David Starkey is one of the most enjoyable people to listen to. Extremely informative on his subject.
Thank you again Mr Starkey. I'm glad there is still someone who knows these things, unlike me - properly. More still that they are said. I know you are right. You know why you are right.
Awesome episode. This is very informative. Thank you.
Oh where to begin. I can dimly remember that after the USSR fragmented into 15 sovereign states (four of which harboured Soviet era nuclear weapons) that the British prime minister (John Major) referred to the end of the Cold War having a 'peace dividend.' Note that John Major's profession before he became a politician, was as an accountant. So the Peace Dividend meant that the UK and other NATO member states could cut back on military expenditure. Reducing not only the size, but also the capabilities of the British armed forces.
This was a policy continued by his successors, take a bow Sir Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson. Thus the Royal Navy has dramatically been downsized in terms of numbers of surface warships and of submarines, as well as numbers of personnel in the Royal Navy and Royal Marine Commandos. The Royal Air Force was subjected to various cuts by the Cameron-Clegg coalition government. As has the British Army which has a vastly reduced amount of serving personnel, and cut-backs in terms of equipment.
There is also the disappearance of so much of the strategically important industries to support armed forces. Coal, iron, and steel production has withered in the UK. So has industries such as ship-building. The design and manufacture of military aircraft, whether they be aeroplanes or helicopters, has become the province of multi-national conglomerates.
Compare and contrast this with our neighbour, La Belle France. France does not as a rule make use of multi-national military projects. No, the French state maintains a state sponsored arms and munitions industry.
In a way the international response to the Russian attack upon Ukraine reminds me of one of Aesop's Fables. 'Fair Shares for All' where a Rabbit stands up and addresses a gathered crowd of animals, demanding fair shares for all animals. After the rabbit has finished making it's speech, a voice from the back of the crowd says 'A fine speech hairy feet! A pity that it does not have the teeth and claws of us Lions.'
Wow, incredibly interesting discussion of why we have ended up here! Thank you David.
My God ! Now I understand. Thank you Dr Starkey for speaking the truth…
A sobering and detailed analysis of the situation, thank you.
You are an amazing historian, this was such an important broadcast and it was emotional because you know we are witnessing a turning point in history, God bless you David Starkey.
Do you know David, you restore my sanity, with your knowledge, expertise and cast iron historical facts. Married with articulate presentation skills and warm narration; You are our best historian by a country mile. God bless you good sir. This boomer of 65 years is a lot more happier with your broadcasts. Philip. Wirral.
When at war prepare for peace, when at peace prepare for war.
I am British. For a while it has seemed to me, much of the population does not have affection or any kind regard for where they live. We take much for granted and complaints there are many. Are we prepared to battle to defend these islands and our allies from those who wish us harm?
I think, ultimately, there are probably enough people left who will. But no doubt there's a substantial number who would flee, or refuse to take up arms in defence of the country. It isn't the same country in any meaningful way as it was in 1939 and the balance changes for the worse all the time, I think. I am one of those soft democratic liberals who welcomed mass migration with open arms finding it pleasant to hear foreign languages spoken on our streets, to see the diversification of food and other items in our supermarkets. I didn't anticipate the tremendous damage caused to our society by the presence of millions of people who don't necessarily share our ways, our manners, our values and who only seek a better pay packet and will leave as soon as that narrow financial incentive evaporates while simultaneously the country destroyed its industrial base and effectively converted its service base into clients of China or other foreign powers, that would fold in a moment if the financial interests were threatened. These things are immediately connected; Britain was resilient in the past largely due to its much-mocked "nation of grocers" state. The small businesses in their multitudes and immediate connection to specific places had deep roots, they bought from the larger businesses that were rooted via these smaller firms, and even the largest businesses were often quite localised due to these local incentives. Take the aviation industry focused around the South Midlands and the West of England, largely due to small firms locating there initially and staying even when relocation probably would have made more sense. Today, however, these globalised rootless firms will close any factory or facility that scores poorly in a transient financial climate, uprooting thousands of people or causing them grave hardship. Such people are more likely to become similarly rootless if they follow their jobs around the country (or world), and naturally they lose their immediate connection to home and country. Why stay to defend a home you rent, in a neighbourhood with only shallow acquaintances, a city you've lived in for six months, a country you've lived in for eighteen months?
@@alexmckee4683 thank you for your detailed reply
I wish to thank and congratulate you for this succinct expose of the situation we, as Westerners, find ourselves in. I shall share it with those I know and hope they do the same. May this be a wake up call for our leaders and their people to realise the predicament we are in and determine to respond appropriately.
Thank you!
Deep appreciation from someone in the U.S.A., going through its own diminishment of capacity.
Very accurate and lucid analysis based on evidence and not feelings
We are the victims of our own success. Since the victory of the West in the Cold War we have lived in a fantasy world of unicorns and rainbows. The values which led to that victory have since been dissolved away by the self hating acid of Woke. David is right to point out that this is an existential crisis which requires the rediscovery of older, tougher values and a hard headed recognition of the necessity of hard military power to protect them.
Western powers still have a massive level of military capability. Take the US for example it has an airforce that is twice as large as China and Russia combined.
The French and British navy would control the mediterranean and Northern Sea's. The Americans will control the Atlantic and Pacific Seas.
Once the west realizes what is at stake they will wake from their slumber which is already starting to begin.
Fundamentally, it's not about wokism; it's about international finance buying off the politicians to allow them to offshore our manufacturing, erode our work force's skills base, and dominate our media. They're the termites, and they've hollowed us out from the inside.
We are listening David keep speaking the truth because many are being to hear
Absolutely spot on David, but in all honesty we in Britain have never been ready for war, it is a throw back to the 1660’s and parliaments fear of large standing armies, where another Cromwell might emerge. The days of sending our military to the far flung corners of the empire have long gone. We have been reactive not proactive in every war since the 17th century and have gotten away with it somehow. But now I fear it is as marshal soult said, the British are the best and steadiest soldiers in the world, thank god there are so few of them.
The issue for the new east is that it will not be able to expand quickly enough to reach the UK. By the time it reaches if it can at all Britain, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and France will have massed armies so large and technical that they will be extremely formidable.
And that excludes the Americas.
🤔 hitler did france In six weeks...... With modern tech, cyber. It will be quicker. Do you think the remaining west could do anything? So if the uk has 20'000 fighting strength now In its army, portugul a lot less and spain the same as us. We dont stand a chance, when it comes to numbers. What military industry does spain, portugul have to build a military In six weeks?
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Memory holed ???
@@istvanglock7445 Like that.
I watched the video one day after it was released. Four months later I can say it is excatly unfolding as described here. The mainstream media with their predicitions utterly failed against you professor Starkey! Great respect!
I think Dr Starkey is exactly right about this. What the situation boils down to is this: are we prepared to take on the Russians militarily yes/no? If the answer is "no", then our politicians might as well leave out the indignant squawking and name-calling. All of their talk is worthless hot air!
Terrific lecturer. Dr. Starkey: Please continue to enlighten us!!
Thank you, this is spot on. It's so utterly depressing that it was there all the time, unfolding before our eyes for more than 20 years, but so many just chose to ignore it, chose to believe in peace, chose to think positively etc., and did virtually nothing, or even worse - sold themselves for a bit of Russian money.
Nothing was hidden, it was obvious, yet - nothing was done. And here we are, especially those of us like me who live next to Russia and know that we're also on the list and that the old fart in Kremlin would kill in a blink of an eye to have a monument of him erected in our capital as well as in Kiev, Minsk, Tbilisi, Helsinki and elsewhere.
Its disgusting that you don't think the west did anything to provoke this. This is entirely the fault of the US.
@@henryclamore4791 Dana didn't say that the West was innocent in all of this. Read it again from 'but so many just chose ...' etc.
I think Mr. Starkey is absolutely bang on: everything rests upon power and our ability to enforce our values/principles. Without it, we are left helpless. We are learning this lesson, once again, rather late.
Brilliant analysis
I think that is your best talk yet! Brilliantly said David Starkey!
Absolutely fantastic rundown that included a strand of biblical references.
Dr Starkey is one of the few great intellects remaining in Britain. His brilliant analysis here needs wider dissemination. It is true that we have weak, useless, even silly, politicians in the west - we have no " leaders" - I wonder if those who could be leaders are put off by the intense (and biased) media scrutiny they would face? We are in a real mire, thats for sure
These days we don't like leaders they get weeded out in most selection processes. Look at the idiots in charge of most of our institutions.
It's worrying when someone (David) with more sense that the entire UK Government combined understands why this country is helpless.
Our elites are completely captured by the Woke American Empire and its open borders Globalisation project.
Unfortunately Globalisation destroyed democracy decades ago.
I would hope they have more sense than what they say in public.
Starkey's factual accuracy is delivered with such spine tingling aplomb it makes you hang on to his every word. !!!!
Oh, brilliant. Thank you Dr Starkey. The west have never even attempted to understand its adversaries, either in Russia or in the Middle East, and in the last couple of generations has gone incredibly soft and wobbly. And if you do not understand your adversaries; if you have no war readiness with decent armed forces, and if you have a feeble mind-set, you will always end up being undermined. So America has a huge military might, but totally the wrong mind set. America in particular, always assumes every nation and its peoples want to be like America, with American values (i.e. lots of money, basically) because America cannot conceive that any other system could be viable. Short-sighted and ultimately stupid. Which leads to what we have now. "We bellow, and wave around a straw." Truly wonderful. A great pity that there are so few (if any) leaders in the west who are as sensible and as realistic as Dr Starkey.
They aren’t adversaries until you make them adversaries
@@-M0LE the west particularly the US, needs adversaries to keep the military industrial complex rolling and also justify the continued existence of NATO
I am mindful of the 1930's and a demilitarised Britain and the West and a growing threat that everyone knew about but were unable to stop but more than that I see a lack of resolve and an absence of the steadfast qualities that we have previously been known for. Our markets have been given to China and our resources sold off to Russia, China and the Arabs. Those that fail to learn the lessons of history are forced to repeat them.
never a truer word spoken. I'm sure many of us have had the sensation of living within the fairlytale 'the emperor's new clothes', I know I have.
Love the intro. Short, punchy, full of personality
I wish to congratulate you for this expose of our truly shocking state of affairs in the West. I shall be sharing this with others and hope they do likewise so that we may wake up to what we have done and do better.
Just stunning David in all ways. I was fortunate as a working class lad who due to being a highly volatile child that my parents and infant school could not cope with, was sent to special boarding school in Gloucestershire. By pure fluke the teacher was a retired Oxford Don who read to us Homer, Tacitus, world history and took us regularly to Stratford on Avon to watch Shakespeare plays. Thus, even leaving at the age of 11 into a standard working class secondary school, I not only a very good grasp of history but a love for it as well that has stayed with me all my life. Listening to you David especially when you refer to the truth, lessons and examples of history makes perfect sense especially regarding your so true definition and need for power to defend our selves from those who want to abuse their power. I saw it when learning Tae Kwon Do that the toughest and potentially violent men who trained me were the calmest, gentle and wisest men I ever met because they had nothing to prove. You are so right, what we have thrown away and continue to do so, your analogy that so many leaders and influential people think just 'like' a Woke schoolgirl is so true and think of Putin as a mad fool which he is obviously is not.
Thank you 🙏🏻 great historian
Thank you so much for this oh so edifying exposé.
David, you are indeed an Excellent Teacher. Thank you so much for this podcast.
Thank God people like david Starkey still exist, to speak common sense is a rarity today. Get rid of all politicians and just have Mr Starkey..
Let's the BBC broadcast this asap!
Excellent. Just excellent.
Wow; what a relief to suddenly have, instead of our postmodernist Newsnight presenters and the like, new people of a wholly different calibre like Starkey (and Peterson, and others) speaking truth to us, even on new channels like GB news where David came across most impressively. A relief because for forty years I have been an outcast in my family for daring to follow my own path and challenge the accepted stories and think like this.
Thank you very much David. You ask, despairingly, 'what can we do'. I suggest that there is a new way forward. It is by using a different form or power; a new Enlightenment. By properly developing a science of man for the first time; daring to take forward the fledgling science of evolutionary psychology and promote understanding how man's nature creates the complexity of interactions that leads to tribes and nation states. Accepting, as Nobel Prize winner E O Wilson did a few years ago, that evolution is multi-level, with selection operating on groups up to the level of nations (utterly anathema to his opponent Richard Dawkins and most evolutionists, because it doesn't support the ideas of human rights, equality and multiculturalism).
More than that, by teaching such basic understanding of how people interact to students in schools and colleges, from elementary level up, kicking out the postmodernist teachers and lecturers who are currently abusing and distorting the minds of our future generations..
A country that did this might gain respect in the way that Britain did in the Scientific Enlightenment, as it spread the new way of thinking called science to a world based on irrationalism and superstition.
Yet a teacher was fired for failing to recognize a student's identity as a cat. Too much of the teaching is polluted with identify perversions and imaginary genders. I have read about this and it always is a prelude to decline and rot. I am sure this is recognized by our adversaries.
That’s all well and good but how will that address what’s happening NOW? And the Enlightenment was rationalism informed by centuries of Christianity. Europe is godless and now they have godless, weak leadership with the wolves at the door.
@@tomjackson4374 It's important to be aware of the Frankfurt school, who's members openly wrote of undermining Western Culture in order to bring in Marxism where earlier attempts (Germany in the lead up to WW2) had failed. Rudi Dutschke began 'the long march through the institutions' and the 60's cultural revolution in the West. The tool was postmodernism, propagated through the Universities, until a generation of students so taught would take up positions in academia and in schools. Now, as the plan reaches maturnation, we have 'woke' nonsense everywhere. Once again, this didn't just happen because 'we' let it. People we can name, who in Western terms are evil, set out to bring down the Western World.