Well said, Fareed. As a Russian who was luckey to escape that horrible place years ago, I cannot agree more. Russia has really become more xenophobic, more inhumane than it was in the last two decades of the Soviet Union which I still remember growing up in Moscow. There was not so much hatred then toward other countries, nations. Even Soviet propoganda kind of seems nice and tame compared to what is shown on Russian TV today. I often feel like people in my former homeland became insane.
You don't need it, but for anyone interested in seeing what russian propaganda looks like today there are a couple of channels that show videos from russian tv with english translation. The first is russian media monitor and the second is russian media clips collected. You'll be amazed.
Probably not much different than What's Happening Here in America where the hard-right Fox News and all the derivatives constantly putting fear into people who have been listening for more than 20 years constant dribble of Lies misinformation and hatred. All these fools have been brain washed. Now tha Foxes Snooze has been asking more balanced questions the hard right are now denouncing them. Go figure.
I've been watching this unfold over the years and you verify what I have observed. Such an extraordinary country of past musicians, intellectuals and writers, and yet it is descending into crisis and ruin.
He is one of those experts in the media. He's giving a monologue, without being interjected with diverging views. Not that I disagree with him. But for someone who does not have ADHD and with critical thinking skills, open discussions with diverse view points are far more informative.
Ya, he generates a narrative that is nowhere close to reality, to formulate an unfounded, factual free, fairytale, opinion onto his viewers. Keeping his audience in an uninformed twilight zone, with delusional view points. Only understood by his braindead audience.
@@manjunathmnm Modern USA is still very much a country of all our tribes united along with immigrants! Too bad more individuals don't learn to handle their emotions and practice self restraint, or the globe might already be a safer place for everyone to exist upon in peace. Adults are accountable for training the youth whether they be parents or not.
Fareed is blatantly wrong. In America, political leaders disagree all the time. Yet, when a lowly russian rogue fellow disagrees with putin is weakness. The western media feeds off negative news from Russia, they blow out of proportion whatever negative news that Comes from Moscow all in a bid to endear americans to support it's useless war mongering
Im a teacher, lived 10 years in Russia. My wife is also a teacher. In numbers Russian education seems like europe but the reality is very diferent. Its much worse unfortunately.
Thank you sir. Mr Fareed, you have in just a few short minutes opened a door to understanding the situation in both Ukraine, and the Russian Federation. Of all the videos and written information I have reviewed as an interested third party, this thoughtfully presented information is key to a solution and resolution of both the conflict and setting the Russian people free. Good Show sir. I applaud you. Well done. I hope the folks who need to see this video actually watch it and understand it’s implications. 👍 keep up the good work sir.
Russian life expectancy fell due to the spread of AIDS, which was spread by the Americans by selling drugs from Afghanistan, because they supported al-Qaeda's fight against the Afghan government in the nineties, when the Russian state literally fell apart into lawlessness. Thus, the USA weakened the Russian nation and provided funds for its mercenaries in Afghanistan.
That wasn’t the point it means the average Russian society is advanced and fully of intellectual people the problem is most people are focused on other things instead of building a community and for decades, Russians have only known Russia so they are leaving. There’s lots of Russians. In Serbia, Lithuania, Germany Bulgaria etc why stay somewhere where you won’t make as much money for your skills when you can make more in another country, full of people who are too dumb to do them
Russia's military power of their elite is ideal for the elites in the west, who never wanted to be elected or be accountable. Keep in mind until they grow powerful to purge their competition that scenario isn't going to happen. The Elites themselves also know if they take too much for themselves in the wrong way it'll just come to bite them in the ass later. IE attempts to make it illegal to get healthcare in the USA led to senators being sniped at and shot by random civilians, and for their homes to be invaded and for them to be assaulted by their literal neighbors.
Some years ago I was responsible for managing dozens of technical personnel for a large international company. We recruited mostly Russians and Ukrainians. The Russians were a nightmare to work with (many anger issues) and their project managers (Europeans, Indians, and a few Americans and Canadians) complained constantly about the Russians. The Ukrainians, however, were seen as near perfect techies. That was years ago, but it's doubtful that much has changed.
I had the same experience with Russians engineers in Brazil. I worked as interpreter. They have narrow mindset and brazilians asked to change personnel frequently. This happened all the time. One engineer tried to change prices of his stay in our country, to get some money. They recives very bad payments in Russia in comparison with the west. They finally decided to buy a brazilian engineering company because they were unable to change theirs practice.
This is a thoughtful take with a lot of supporting data. Looking at how the map has changed since about 1945 I would say it is just a continuation of the same problems that cannot be solved with the structure they use.
@@evaluateanalysis7974 TRUE. America is a democracy with free thought which promotes constructive change in all areas. Russia, China and Nth Korea are dictatorships where progress is very limited.
@@Marked150 You like, didn't even watch the video didn't you. You could try and say the same thing about America. Or Europe. Or India. Or China. But you'd be wrong in all of those cases, because this is a Russian phenomenon.
I partially agree with what Fareed said. Regarding the education level, I am not that sure you can compare Russian Universities with European ones. Based on which data? If you check FT ranking and others you don’t see any Russian universities ranked as the best universities in the world.
Shows to me that you don't understand what's the underlying trigger behind the rankings - American or British universities are not ranked in the top 20 all the time because they are so much better than others but primarily because its all structured around their publications being printed in Journals. Most of them are. If you think about Countries like Germany or Russia it works entirely different there. In Germany most research founding are not being printed in Journals for different sponsoring reasons. Lower number of publications or financing equals lower ranking. This is not necessarily correlated with the quality of the education. e.g. Countries like Russia or Ukraine have evidently the highest level of literacy almost worldwide.
Russia sounds like the GOP: 1. Harder to attain education 2. Focus on religion over science 3. Crack down on human rights 4. Difficult healthcare access reduces life expectancy
Russian life expectancy fell due to the spread of AIDS, which was spread by the Americans by selling drugs from Afghanistan, because they supported al-Qaeda's fight against the Afghan government in the nineties, when the Russian state literally fell apart into lawlessness. Thus, the USA weakened the Russian nation and provided funds for its mercenaries in Afghanistan. They also spread AIDS in the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine to exterminate them.
@@dcal1736 What planet are you on? That is easy to answer. Not just the last 4 years. Democrats have done a lot of good things for more than 4 years. If you are living in a blue state and not doing well, you have yourself to blame:) All the most important US high tech companies are in blue states with high paying jobs. If you want to improve your education level, most of the best universities are in blue states. But most likely they won't take you:) Just look at all the blue states, in terms of GDP per capita, they are much higher than the 3rd world s-hole you are living in:)
What is also striking about the state of modern Russia is how closely it resembles the kind of society that the Right-wing in the USA aspire to. 'Traditional family values', restoration of religion (the right religion obviously) as a state-sponsored and mandated activity with influence and regulatory powers over citizens and 'public morality', strict control over democratic rights and suppression of political opposition, institutionalised xenophobia, militarism, expansion of the parasitic extraction of finite resources, disdain for science, anti-intellectualism, ethno-nationalism, and of course the central role of an authoritarian leader who cannot be challenged and who is not accountable to the law or to the electorate. No wonder the US far-Right (which now includes the dominant wing of your Republican Party) is so keen on Putin's Russia, and no wonder Putin is so keen on them and their leader, Donald Trump.
The Right wing in the USA support many of those things, but they aren't supportive of the end goals. No one wants an authoritarian leader but they don't mind giving him the power to become one. Like saying the law is unfair and people should be exempt is different than saying they want someone who can remove congress.
@@genericscout5408 - I take the point that the Right-wing in the USA is not unified and is often incoherent and contradictory about its end goals,. Many of them do seem to want an authoritarian leader (the US Republican Party's programme in the last Presidential Election was basically to back whatever Trump said at any given time - in essence the 'Fuhrerprinzip') but I accept that this is often not an explicit goal. What is obvious is that many of them simply do not care about democracy or authoritarianism, and this is abundantly clear when they speak or are interviewed - although the smarter ones may try to disguise this. Partly because the far-Right profess a general contempt for ideology, are often astonishingly ignorant, and have little or no political literacy, they are often confused and inconsistent - but that doesn't mean that they do not push an ideological agenda. Trump and his MAGA/America First mass movement are fascists by any reasonable definition, even though they have no idea what the word means.
You just made a good case on" DIVISION ' . Perhaps the USA is the most divided country in the world ! Watching different news channel's & programs seems to give a person that impression.
@@dearlrogers3498 I don't know if the USA is the MOST divided country in the world. But what makes it unique and so different from other divided societies is its sheer size (geographically and population-wise), the economic and cultural significance and domination of the US in the world at large, the fact that so many of its citizens (especially on one side of the political divide) are armed, the cultural proclivity towards, and celebration of, violence as a means to achieve goals, and the gruesomely unpleasant transformation of some 'Conservative Christian Evangelicals' into an aggressively authoritarian fascist political movement. There are other large countries/economies with wide ethnic and cultural diversity (notably China and Russia) but neither of them have the same kind of political fracture as we see in the USA. But in any case, neither of those countries provide very encouraging role models or precedents. Russia is politically and economically unstable and China's prospects in the medium term are not so great either - two consecutive failed harvests (and/or a drastic fall in global trade) and it faces starvation and social collapse.
We must remember that Russia (along with most of the Slavic and othodox world) did not embrace the Renaissance nor adopt the resultiing social changes of the reformation.
Copernicus was from the Slavic country of Poland, which also is home to Krakow and its prestigious university dating back several centuries. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was the largest state in Eastern Europe for about 200 years, and Ruthenians, the precursors of Ukrainians, were well-represented in both the student body and the faculty of many European universities. And the commonwealth had a more democratic system of rule and greater religious toleration than most of its Western European contemporaries. One of Ukraine’s most respected institutions of higher learning is named after Peter Mohyla, an Orthodox metropolitan who brought Renaissance scholarship to his people and sought to bridge the divide between Western and Eastern Christendom. And lastly, the world’s first constitution with a separation of powers into executive, legislative and judicial branches was written in 1710 by Pylyp Orlyk, a Cossack hetman who professed the Orthodox faith. Russia is the outlier. And had the Novgorod Republic not been eviscerated by the despotic Muscovite tsars, Russia too would have turned out very differently.
@@MackAttack655both the Renaissance and the Réformation occurred in Ukraine and Belarus which were parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at that time. Moscow expanding west and annexing them was exactly how Russians first encountered some of the ideas that developed during those periods. The Orthodox scholars from Kyiv were initially the ones who (with partial success) pushed the Russian church and state to modernize
@@MackAttack655 the writer should have written orthodox rather than slavic, for all the examples you stated have been part of the western catholic tradition.
I'm not so sure that Russia's education system is as up-to-date as that report claims. Yes, maybe for the elite. But in general, others who should know claim spending and focus on education had declined dramatically in the last two decades. Of course, I can't know first-hand who is right, but the truth is most probably in the middle. Inn which case, the situation is not a good one. This bad education would seem to line up well with Russia's seeming inability to be part of a modern, high tech world. They can use modern tools, maybe, but they cannot make any of their own, it seems.
Russia's education system is so good everyone leaves Russia for an American education instead... real vote of confidence when no elite stay in Russia for their education, just ask Putin's daughters.
The problem appears to be, that it's not exactly clear what the next moves might be. Civil war in Russia could still come to realisation. The on the ground situation remains extremely tense. Prigozhin indicated that Ukraine and NATO are not a threat to Russia. This could also have been the view of the Russian military before the illegal war even started, as reports suggest parts of the Russian military were actually in support of the Wagner revolt. Prigozhin most likely formed this view from information provided by either Putler's inner circle or the Russian military establishment. Thus the basic premiss behind the illegal invasion has collapsed. The motivation for war seems most likely about Adolf Putler's political survival, in the context of Navalny political fallout. The only way a dictator can survive the fallout from their evil deeds, is to remain in power by even greater evil deeds (like starting a war) and often by manipulating public opinion and adopting harsh punishment for dissenting citizens. There is no other option for them, otherwise they are in dire straights. China is no longer backing Russia. They have agreed that Crimea belongs to Ukraine. The Chinese European Union Envoy indicated this last week. China now seems to have given up on Russia as a failed state. Russia's biggest threat is actually China !!! They have fought over territory in the past. China wants to take Manchuria and Vladivostok back from Russia, which used be Chinese territory. 😂🤣🤪
Civil War in both China and Russia are very normal. The only thing abnormal now is how long they've gone without one. Normally it's every 80 years in China's case and in Russia's case they had a few civil wars in a few decades a while ago.
While mostly I agree with you, your thoughts about Putin's motivation is too abstract. Simply put Ukraine was about to start developing a major new gas and oil development in Luhansk and Donbass that had the competitive advantages of closer to the European market, with an established pipeline system and without the challenges of production and transport through and over permafrost. This would put the Russian oil and gas profits (half of which Putin skims to pay off Kaderov and his other cronies upon which he relies to prop up his kleptocratic dictatorship) at risk. You will notice that while Putin was willing to concede back Territory, so far none of it is close to where the new gas field would be developed. (Putin only has to prevent its development for a minimal win.)
@@larryclemens1850 Btw Crimea also has a lot of underground resources (plus the Sevastopol base, which is why it was attacked first). Putler just don't want to see a wealthy and successful Ukraine; he will succeed in that, but only because he won't live long enough.
@@iankent608 Not really, it's racism and bigotry in eastern europe that is the problem. Best and the brightest would never want to live in eastern europe.
Russian statistics don't matter. What matters are the actual facts on the ground of what changes or what doesn't change. Russians embezzle money instead of actually holding their ends of the bargain. Which is why "Magic" like night vision goggles don't exist in Russia.
A good report about facts that I was unaware of. I would like to know more on the subject, e.g. more on the reasons for Russia's low life expectancy, is the population decreasing, etc. Thanks for listing sources. I will check them out.
@Yuri-uy5muyone can Google this lol. 71 years in ruZ as of 2020. It's obviously a lot lower now thanks to the Ukraine military and western weapons. In 2021 male life expectancy was 64 LMAO! World Bank as a source
Here's some numbers for you. Russia is number 1 in Alcoholism. Russia decriminalised some forms of wife abuse and assault. The average Russian makes $6,600.00 per year which works out to $120.00 per week or $3.00 per hour with many babushka's on measly $100.00 per month fixed pension incomes.
Churchill was an important voice in Eisenhower’s CIA Coup in Iran, removing their democratically elected leader Mossadegh, and installing the Shah as an American puppet. (CIA Operation Ajax. MI6 Operation Boot 1953)
the history of Russia for over a century now has been mired in tragedy and unfortunately for everyone it is getting to the point where an arrest of denial is necessary since the opportunities to break from that cycle are decreasing as the consequential impacts increasingly spiral into malignant and pernicious fractals of deeper violence and threats. it is not unique to Russia and although the wider crisis in sovereignty is universal to varying extents the problems that Russians are facing, raising, fighting and projecting are ever more acute and dangerous. the answer to the question asked by Vladimir Lenin - 'what is to be done?' - is facing its own revolution. the Bolshevik hens and cockerels are coming home to roost. the ghosts of 1917, of tsarism, of capitalism by other means, of Stalinism, of Sovietism and of Communism are looking at Russia squarely. authoritarianism is a distraction. Ukraine is a distraction. nuclear weapons are a distraction. the PRC and NATO are distractions. Russia has to look at itself. it has to. it is the sick man of earth and it currently seems to want to treat everyone else as if they were crabs in the same bucket.
It worries me that there are similarities between what putin says about protecting traditional values etc and what many conservatives in liberal democracies are saying too.
There's nothing wrong with traditional values, adhering to those principles generally increases one's lifespan and happiness. But Russia isn't a very traditional country if you look at the data associated with it (e.g. family values, abortion, prevalence of drugs, disease, healthiness) and how people there live. That the russian government promotes one or two traditional ideas doesn't make the country traditional. Unfortunately both conservatives and liberals have been deceived by Russia's propaganda in that regard. An example that truly illustrates this is back when Russia decriminalized some forms of domestic violence. Some advocates said that it was part of traditional russian culture and that some domestic violence in fact could be good for the woman since it "increases male births". No traditionalist person would ever make such asinine, depraved remarks. Then there's the issue with alcoholism and addiction that paralyzes big parts of Russian society. Not very traditional at all. Neither is war and imperialism. The traditional view would be to do what it takes to stop all of this.
In Putin's Russia that's a sham, until by traditional values we are mean throwbacks to some dark, barbarian past, something that is an antithesis of both Christian values and those of the Enlightenment and humanism. I wonder if the same applies to the so called conservatives in liberal democracies too.
Do you know that the average Russian makes a measly $6,600.00 per year which works out to $120.00 per week or $3.00 per hour with many babushka's on $100.00 monthly fixed incomes?
Do you know what is Purchasing Power Parity? No wonder you guys can figure out how Russia's $60 billion defense budget matches the output of NATO's humongous military budget. Fareed is an overrated pundit. He says stuff to control your minds.
It may be true that in St. Petersburg and Moscow there are world class universities, but few jobs other than IT or civil service (military mostly, little research otherwise). I'm Canadian and have encountered hundreds if not thousands of IT professionals that fled the Soviet Union and Russia in the last 30 yrs. They are proud to be Russian, but not proud of present day Russia or Putin. The education outside of the major cities is for low level mechanical, administrative or other blue collar work (nursing, etc.). Education in a particular domain is not an education, it is training and foundational. An education in my mind means how to think for your self. Russians today are profoundly incapable of thinking for themselves no matter their education levels or accomplishments.
I know someone who has worked as an engineer in Russia, China, Ukraine and Poland. He said that Russia is stagnant and run by Russian mafia, and poverty is staggering outside the main cities. China develops slowly and eastern Ukraine was full of the Russian mafia. He said that Poland is developing at a very fast pace, it is protected by NATO and the world bank has helped enormously. Poland gets better every time he visits, everywhere in Poland is being upgraded and beautified. Ukraine is ready for progress, Russia and China are falling behind.
You say "Russians today are profoundly incapable of thinking for themselves" I am iranian-American, not russian, but i have to say many Iranians who thought and spoke for themselves paid heavy prices and were crushed. Also if you think Americans can truly think for themselves, you should take vacation in Florida!
How much of Russian mortality rates are due to alcoholism? Are female death rates equally as dismal? I somehow doubt it, or you'd have not just looked at male mortality.
Very good point but you're still left with the question of what it is about Russian society that is a driver of all of that alcoholism. And that brings you back to the points Fareed was making. I agree, though, that talking about the state of Russian male life expectancy without mentioning alcoholism was a notable and unfortunate oversight.
Females life expectancy is similar to most of developed countries. Russia's male death rate is high only because of alcoholism. They missed the real fact.
See, this is the problem with those who study in Russia, they take the fact that a lot of people get an education in Russia and think it’s the same level of education as in the EU. But it is not.
war and inherent socio-economic problems are not two seperate issues! They are connected by the later being one reason for the war. Putin mentioned clearly, that the war had been the only way out of "several different" issues. So not only "NATO-agression". Not only "Nazi-Coup-regime in Kyiv". Not only demilitarization of the "Kyiv militants". Not only preventative action against biolabs in Ukraine. No. RuZZia needed - in their minds - an injection of youth, ingenuity and manpower. They disguised that as recreation of the great Soviet-Union and pleased their deep routed genozidal instincts. But besides the facts mentioned in the monologue, there is so much more. RuZZia anyway could not much longer sustain on it's fossile dependency due to decarbonization. That got now excellerated. Commodities infrastructure in permafrost regions litterally is melting away. RuZZia needs expertise, ressources, investments and manpower to update that infrastructure. It could not have achieved that alone, thought as a bigger more mighty country that would be easier - but now is screwed. Not at least the totalitarian turn now makes necessary innovation even less likely. A failed state. Spanning 11 time zones. Havng 6000 nukes. Sitting in the UNSC as a P5...
Putin’s favorite political philosopher is Ivan Ilyn, and he has fervently promoted Ilyn’s ideas through his reign. Much of the “21st century’s” ideals were explicitly rejected by Ilyn, and Putin is trying to create a state that conforms to Ilyn’s writings.
Having worked in Russia 22 years ago, there have been huge societal improvements since then. It is a conservative society and isn't in favour of western liberal ideas. Why do we go around the world trying to impose our values on other people? It isn't 'one size fits all'.
@@bonnie7898 I wasn't referring to democracy at all, but since you mention it, Russia is, in theory, a democracy. However, democracy in Russia is a very new idea and was only introduced in the early 1990s. It would have stood a much better chance if the USA/NATO hadn't pushed relentlessly eastwards after promising not to advance one inch to the East. When I was there I gained a totally new perspective - the Russians are terrified of NATO. They wanted to join but were refused. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, they thought we were all going to be friends, but with NATO hoovering up all the former Warsaw Pact and Soviet countries, but denying Russia membership, they concluded, quite rightly it transpired, that they were the target. Ukraine was the red line for Russia. They made that very clear, but the USA backed and funded the putsch in Western Ukraine in 2014 that had no support in the East or South, the Minsk Agreements were constantly broken, the Ukrainians constantly attacked the breakaway regions in the Donbas, shelling civilian areas which received no coverage in the western media, and now we have this disastrous war, a proxy war in which thousands upon thousands of Ukrainians and Russians are dying while Americans sit safely at home.
Exactly. To each their own. It is imperialistic to force your way of life on other people or see them as the enemy simply because they differ culturally and socially from you. Such imposition will crumble under its own weight. Take a look at France at the moment. The world is big enough for everyone. Fareed Zakaaria has not stayed in Russia for an extended period, yet he speaks as though he understands everything Russian. One word, Phony commentator.
Fareed Zakaria's understanding of Russia is most apparent by what he didn't say, or attempt to do: i.e., draw conclusions from paradox and mystery about Russia's higher male mortality despite having an highly educated population, a very powerful and influential Kremlin leadership, and a resource-rich economy with employment prospects and many international customers. It's great he used the Winston Churchill's quote about the Kremlin power struggles, but the description of Russia as, "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" is always appropriate for Westerns trying to explain Russia. I was already familiar with the higher mortality rates of Russian males and the population decline that was occuring even before the COVID-19 pandemic and Russo-Ukrainian War, but it can't be solely blamed on Putin's government because the demographic trend had been occuring in Ukraine as well. The demographic problems were one of the justifications to take Ukrainian land and population. Drug use, HIV/AIDS, lower birthrates, and complications from alcoholism are all contributing factors, but it's not restricted to the Russian Federation and Putin's government. Putin's move toward conservativism and the Russian Orthodox Church is something that hallened relatively recently.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime collects and analyzes data on drug-related deaths. In their annual World Drug Report, they publish a list of countries by absolute and relative mortality of the population (deaths per 1 million inhabitants). As statistics shows, most deaths (both quantitatively and relative to the size of the population) are observed in the..... UNITED STATES. Rossia is in 15th place on drugs, after "civillized democratic" Sweden, Germany, Estonia, UK, and other west countries. The same are about alcogolism. I understand how much you want to believe that Rossia is the most drugged, drinking and poor country in the entire universe according to the diabolical propaganda of the garbage msm cnn. But it's all lies. You all live in a total lie about Rossia..... Enjoy this cnn lie.
thank god we have,... Fareed... to examine the state of Russia. How in the world would we have known if it wasnt for Fareeds awsome reporting and examinations. We can all take this to the bank ladies and gentlemen. Bravooo Fareed Bravo , Encore 😮
I got a dozen expat friend from Russia: no education isn't anywhere as good unless you count propaganda as education and are comparing to the poorest Eastern European countries. In a lot of the higher education you also need both bribes & connections to get in (that's exactly why most of my friends left).
Excellent reporting. Thank you, Fareed. I would disagree with one comment regarding education levels. The Soviet Union had high education standards but those standards have eroded under the Putin regime. Without Western or external support, Russia will not be able to maintain or develop advanced systems to operate modern infrastructure (like oil extraction). The sanctions imposed due to the Ukrainian aggression, along with the youth diaspora, will exacerbate the internal weaknesses within the tech classes in Russia.
Comparing Russias education to the whole of Europe is like comparing it to the whole of America (and yes, dear US Americans, that includes all countries in North- & South America). I don't think that comparision makes any sense at all.
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Well said, Fareed. As a Russian who was luckey to escape that horrible place years ago, I cannot agree more. Russia has really become more xenophobic, more inhumane than it was in the last two decades of the Soviet Union which I still remember growing up in Moscow. There was not so much hatred then toward other countries, nations. Even Soviet propoganda kind of seems nice and tame compared to what is shown on Russian TV today. I often feel like people in my former homeland became insane.
Just out of curiosity, what would you chose: rope or knife, if xenophilic Ukraineans find you?
You don't need it, but for anyone interested in seeing what russian propaganda looks like today there are a couple of channels that show videos from russian tv with english translation. The first is russian media monitor and the second is russian media clips collected. You'll be amazed.
Probably not much different than What's Happening Here in America where the hard-right Fox News and all the derivatives constantly putting fear into people who have been listening for more than 20 years constant dribble of Lies misinformation and hatred. All these fools have been brain washed. Now tha Foxes Snooze has been asking more balanced questions the hard right are now denouncing them. Go figure.
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I've been watching this unfold over the years and you verify what I have observed. Such an extraordinary country of past musicians, intellectuals and writers, and yet it is descending into crisis and ruin.
This five minute analysis by Mr. Fareed has more information in it, than listening to HOURS of so many of the other "experts" in the media.
He is one of those experts in the media. He's giving a monologue, without being interjected with diverging views. Not that I disagree with him. But for someone who does not have ADHD and with critical thinking skills, open discussions with diverse view points are far more informative.
Thank you, Fareed. You have a way of explaining things with such clarity and honesty. So grateful for your episodes, Take care.
Fareed is much more intelligent than the common journalist. He thinks deeper about the issues he reports on.
Ya, he generates a narrative that is nowhere close to reality, to formulate an unfounded, factual free, fairytale, opinion onto his viewers. Keeping his audience in an uninformed twilight zone, with delusional view points. Only understood by his braindead audience.
Yes, he's very articulate.
@@MarkedMoneyTechI hope he would have articulate the same way modern American problems which are much worse than any other countries now
@@manjunathmnm Modern USA is still very much a country of all our tribes united along with immigrants! Too bad more individuals don't learn to handle their emotions and practice self restraint, or the globe might already be a safer place for everyone to exist upon in peace. Adults are accountable for training the youth whether they be parents or not.
@@manjunathmnm It has always been bad.. Today you see it more often, because of social media, being in every pocket. One incident is headline news.
*Fareed always has the most insightful takes on geopolitics!*
Fareed is blatantly wrong. In America, political leaders disagree all the time. Yet, when a lowly russian rogue fellow disagrees with putin is weakness. The western media feeds off negative news from Russia, they blow out of proportion whatever negative news that Comes from Moscow all in a bid to endear americans to support it's useless war mongering
It all adds up to being miserable in Russia..
Russia has the richest mortality rate in the world when it comes jumping out of the windows of 10 story buildings!!!
Im a teacher, lived 10 years in Russia. My wife is also a teacher. In numbers Russian education seems like europe but the reality is very diferent. Its much worse unfortunately.
That was such a frank and well thought out speech. Thought provoking. Thankyou
Thank you sir. Mr Fareed, you have in just a few short minutes opened a door to understanding the situation in both Ukraine, and the Russian Federation. Of all the videos and written information I have reviewed as an interested third party, this thoughtfully presented information is key to a solution and resolution of both the conflict and setting the Russian people free. Good Show sir. I applaud you. Well done. I hope the folks who need to see this video actually watch it and understand it’s implications. 👍 keep up the good work sir.
Fared is interesting but his conclusions seem to come from head office , tends to be just neocon propaganda.
Russian life expectancy fell due to the spread of AIDS, which was spread by the Americans by selling drugs from Afghanistan, because they supported al-Qaeda's fight against the Afghan government in the nineties, when the Russian state literally fell apart into lawlessness. Thus, the USA weakened the Russian nation and provided funds for its mercenaries in Afghanistan.
Actually he just further took people's minds and eyes off of what's actually happening
@@ldo1308 Ooh, scary vagueposting.
@@ldo1308You could literally be referring to anything.
Thanks for the insight. 👍😂
Thanks. What a segment. That's exactly how I felt about Hungary. And now I am glad I've never experienced Russia
That wasn’t the point it means the average Russian society is advanced and fully of intellectual people the problem is most people are focused on other things instead of building a community and for decades, Russians have only known Russia so they are leaving. There’s lots of Russians. In Serbia, Lithuania, Germany Bulgaria etc why stay somewhere where you won’t make as much money for your skills when you can make more in another country, full of people who are too dumb to do them
It seems there are many in the US, certain politicians in particular, who are using Russia as a model for their vision for this country.
Almost the entire GOP
Russia's military power of their elite is ideal for the elites in the west, who never wanted to be elected or be accountable. Keep in mind until they grow powerful to purge their competition that scenario isn't going to happen. The Elites themselves also know if they take too much for themselves in the wrong way it'll just come to bite them in the ass later. IE attempts to make it illegal to get healthcare in the USA led to senators being sniped at and shot by random civilians, and for their homes to be invaded and for them to be assaulted by their literal neighbors.
Great show this morning. Great analogy of history.
Wow. That was stunning. Thanks for this analysis.
Super analysis as always by Fareed. Beauty to watch his analysis
no fareed is gay😂😂 fake news
I prefer intelligent gays to stupid illiterate morons 😂😂
@@rarirover44 YOU're spread ing fake news!! He isn't gay!!
That is a very profound conclusion. A fine piece, very thought provoking - thank you. Jane Soole
Excellent commentary. Thank you.
@@josephstolen-election5949 From the nature of your sloganistic comment I assume the "Joseph" in your name refers to Joseph Stalin.
The loud crunching sound you hear is the boots of the Russian army retreating. Ukraine will win this war. 🇺🇸💙💛
Yea.
In the media😂
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@@Yuri-uy5mu I believe the only 🤡 Here must be... YOU 😮 Davai.
That crunching is it because they are stampeding and crushing those who are slower and weaker and are under foot?
@@Yuri-uy5mu🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦💪💪💪
Wow, really great review. It's important to know it and to consider it!
An excellent analysis, Mr. Zakaria ! Thank you !
Always interesting to listen to Mr. Fareed. Thank you. 😊
Some years ago I was responsible for managing dozens of technical personnel for a large international company. We recruited mostly Russians and Ukrainians. The Russians were a nightmare to work with (many anger issues) and their project managers (Europeans, Indians, and a few Americans and Canadians) complained constantly about the Russians. The Ukrainians, however, were seen as near perfect techies. That was years ago, but it's doubtful that much has changed.
are you joking?
I had the same experience with Russians engineers in Brazil. I worked as interpreter. They have narrow mindset and brazilians asked to change personnel frequently. This happened all the time. One engineer tried to change prices of his stay in our country, to get some money. They recives very bad payments in Russia in comparison with the west.
They finally decided to buy a brazilian engineering company because they were unable to change theirs practice.
@@surendrapant4702 people think just because the war its ok to be racist
@@TheAbrantino Russians are not a race.
Tell that to Sergei Brin of Google, there are a lot of Russians from Russia working in his office in Silicon Valley. Include me
This is a thoughtful take with a lot of supporting data. Looking at how the map has changed since about 1945 I would say it is just a continuation of the same problems that cannot be solved with the structure they use.
You can say the exact same thing about America
@@Marked150 "You can say the exact same thing about America" You could - but it would be a lie.
@@evaluateanalysis7974 TRUE. America is a democracy with free thought which promotes constructive change in all areas. Russia, China and Nth Korea are dictatorships where progress is very limited.
@@Marked150Yeah, the USA map is so different from the 1940s. Whatever
@@Marked150 You like, didn't even watch the video didn't you. You could try and say the same thing about America. Or Europe. Or India. Or China. But you'd be wrong in all of those cases, because this is a Russian phenomenon.
When you are being compared to Haiti and Alabama, things are not going well
I partially agree with what Fareed said. Regarding the education level, I am not that sure you can compare Russian Universities with European ones. Based on which data? If you check FT ranking and others you don’t see any Russian universities ranked as the best universities in the world.
Compare Russian Universities with European ones? Russia IS European. It's the biggest country in Europe even if we exclude it's Asian territories
I thought that was the case also.
@@laurikotivuori1585 Not sure if Putin considers Russia as European. He talks about Russia versus Europe.
Because FT presents the picture it wants you to see. If Russian universities are not that good how come the Russians were the first in space.
Shows to me that you don't understand what's the underlying trigger behind the rankings - American or British universities are not ranked in the top 20 all the time because they are so much better than others but primarily because its all structured around their publications being printed in Journals. Most of them are. If you think about Countries like Germany or Russia it works entirely different there. In Germany most research founding are not being printed in Journals for different sponsoring reasons. Lower number of publications or financing equals lower ranking. This is not necessarily correlated with the quality of the education. e.g. Countries like Russia or Ukraine have evidently the highest level of literacy almost worldwide.
They seem eternally cursed by their overly violent past ruled by psychopathic "strong men" who care little about the suffering of their people.
Excellent synthesis, Fareed!, very well done!
Russia sounds like the GOP:
1. Harder to attain education
2. Focus on religion over science
3. Crack down on human rights
4. Difficult healthcare access reduces life expectancy
Fareed is literally always a very thorough thinker and always interesting
I used to think that Russia was stuck somewhere between the 20th and 21st floors. Now it's clear, it went further down.
Russian life expectancy fell due to the spread of AIDS, which was spread by the Americans by selling drugs from Afghanistan, because they supported al-Qaeda's fight against the Afghan government in the nineties, when the Russian state literally fell apart into lawlessness. Thus, the USA weakened the Russian nation and provided funds for its mercenaries in Afghanistan. They also spread AIDS in the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine to exterminate them.
@@Yuri-uy5mu Have you? Apart from the renovated Moscow centre?
Very sad but true 🇬🇧
You summed up the Republican party's platform at the end, Fareed.
That is the reason he compared Russia with Alabama in number of patents which is just a scaled down version of Putin's Russia:)
Ok Mr. Knucklehead tell me some things that Democrat politicians have done that is good in the last 4 years.
Republican voters want no wars, less taxes, secure borders, jobs, cheap fuel and energy, and to stop sexualizing little children!
That stood out to me, too. Anti-intellectualism is a disease with many supporters, west and east.
@@dcal1736 What planet are you on? That is easy to answer. Not just the last 4 years. Democrats have done a lot of good things for more than 4 years. If you are living in a blue state and not doing well, you have yourself to blame:) All the most important US high tech companies are in blue states with high paying jobs. If you want to improve your education level, most of the best universities are in blue states. But most likely they won't take you:) Just look at all the blue states, in terms of GDP per capita, they are much higher than the 3rd world s-hole you are living in:)
It would be great to have Fareed and Steven Kotkin sit down for a discussion.
This was brilliantly said right here.
Comparing Russia to Alabama…. LOL!
Well said.
Sad but good report Mr Fareed .. it’s amazing how much trouble one man can make (Putin) 😔
What is also striking about the state of modern Russia is how closely it resembles the kind of society that the Right-wing in the USA aspire to. 'Traditional family values', restoration of religion (the right religion obviously) as a state-sponsored and mandated activity with influence and regulatory powers over citizens and 'public morality', strict control over democratic rights and suppression of political opposition, institutionalised xenophobia, militarism, expansion of the parasitic extraction of finite resources, disdain for science, anti-intellectualism, ethno-nationalism, and of course the central role of an authoritarian leader who cannot be challenged and who is not accountable to the law or to the electorate.
No wonder the US far-Right (which now includes the dominant wing of your Republican Party) is so keen on Putin's Russia, and no wonder Putin is so keen on them and their leader, Donald Trump.
The Right wing in the USA support many of those things, but they aren't supportive of the end goals. No one wants an authoritarian leader but they don't mind giving him the power to become one. Like saying the law is unfair and people should be exempt is different than saying they want someone who can remove congress.
@@genericscout5408 -
I take the point that the Right-wing in the USA is not unified and is often incoherent and contradictory about its end goals,. Many of them do seem to want an authoritarian leader (the US Republican Party's programme in the last Presidential Election was basically to back whatever Trump said at any given time - in essence the 'Fuhrerprinzip') but I accept that this is often not an explicit goal. What is obvious is that many of them simply do not care about democracy or authoritarianism, and this is abundantly clear when they speak or are interviewed - although the smarter ones may try to disguise this. Partly because the far-Right profess a general contempt for ideology, are often astonishingly ignorant, and have little or no political literacy, they are often confused and inconsistent - but that doesn't mean that they do not push an ideological agenda. Trump and his MAGA/America First mass movement are fascists by any reasonable definition, even though they have no idea what the word means.
You do know that Russia is home to over 200 nationalities and a very large Muslim population, right?
You just made a good case on" DIVISION ' . Perhaps the USA is the most divided country in the world ! Watching different news channel's & programs seems to give a person that impression.
@@dearlrogers3498 I don't know if the USA is the MOST divided country in the world. But what makes it unique and so different from other divided societies is its sheer size (geographically and population-wise), the economic and cultural significance and domination of the US in the world at large, the fact that so many of its citizens (especially on one side of the political divide) are armed, the cultural proclivity towards, and celebration of, violence as a means to achieve goals, and the gruesomely unpleasant transformation of some 'Conservative Christian Evangelicals' into an aggressively authoritarian fascist political movement.
There are other large countries/economies with wide ethnic and cultural diversity (notably China and Russia) but neither of them have the same kind of political fracture as we see in the USA. But in any case, neither of those countries provide very encouraging role models or precedents. Russia is politically and economically unstable and China's prospects in the medium term are not so great either - two consecutive failed harvests (and/or a drastic fall in global trade) and it faces starvation and social collapse.
Very interesting! Thank you.
Concise and detailed and sharply to the point.
Empaire who's foundations are fear and lies can't end peacefully
So true...
Excellent !
Good analysis!
So Vladimir Putin is definitely not the 21st century equivalent of Tsar Peter the Great…
We must remember that Russia (along with most of the Slavic and othodox world) did not embrace the Renaissance nor adopt the resultiing social changes of the reformation.
And you still losing to her every time. Maybe you didn't embrace Renaissance well?
Explains why other s***holes such as greece have always had 3rd world levels of corruption and 3rd world social mentality.
Copernicus was from the Slavic country of Poland, which also is home to Krakow and its prestigious university dating back several centuries. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was the largest state in Eastern Europe for about 200 years, and Ruthenians, the precursors of Ukrainians, were well-represented in both the student body and the faculty of many European universities. And the commonwealth had a more democratic system of rule and greater religious toleration than most of its Western European contemporaries.
One of Ukraine’s most respected institutions of higher learning is named after Peter Mohyla, an Orthodox metropolitan who brought Renaissance scholarship to his people and sought to bridge the divide between Western and Eastern Christendom. And lastly, the world’s first constitution with a separation of powers into executive, legislative and judicial branches was written in 1710 by Pylyp Orlyk, a Cossack hetman who professed the Orthodox faith. Russia is the outlier. And had the Novgorod Republic not been eviscerated by the despotic Muscovite tsars, Russia too would have turned out very differently.
@@MackAttack655both the Renaissance and the Réformation occurred in Ukraine and Belarus which were parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at that time. Moscow expanding west and annexing them was exactly how Russians first encountered some of the ideas that developed during those periods. The Orthodox scholars from Kyiv were initially the ones who (with partial success) pushed the Russian church and state to modernize
@@MackAttack655 the writer should have written orthodox rather than slavic, for all the examples you stated have been part of the western catholic tradition.
Fantastic piece
Very insightful.
I'm not so sure that Russia's education system is as up-to-date as that report claims. Yes, maybe for the elite. But in general, others who should know claim spending and focus on education had declined dramatically in the last two decades. Of course, I can't know first-hand who is right, but the truth is most probably in the middle. Inn which case, the situation is not a good one. This bad education would seem to line up well with Russia's seeming inability to be part of a modern, high tech world. They can use modern tools, maybe, but they cannot make any of their own, it seems.
You are not serious! Russia can make anything the West makes. The West still depends on their rockets to go to space.
I think people in Russia don't see any point in creativity and development. Yandex tried and now it is not only nationalised but also used for war.
Russia's education system is so good everyone leaves Russia for an American education instead... real vote of confidence when no elite stay in Russia for their education, just ask Putin's daughters.
@@user-fl5wl9zf2d Then, build your own rockets to take you to space!
You…do realize we use their space program to send people to space, right?
The problem appears to be, that it's not exactly clear what the next moves might be. Civil war in Russia could still come to realisation. The on the ground situation remains extremely tense. Prigozhin indicated that Ukraine and NATO are not a threat to Russia. This could also have been the view of the Russian military before the illegal war even started, as reports suggest parts of the Russian military were actually in support of the Wagner revolt. Prigozhin most likely formed this view from information provided by either Putler's inner circle or the Russian military establishment. Thus the basic premiss behind the illegal invasion has collapsed. The motivation for war seems most likely about Adolf Putler's political survival, in the context of Navalny political fallout. The only way a dictator can survive the fallout from their evil deeds, is to remain in power by even greater evil deeds (like starting a war) and often by manipulating public opinion and adopting harsh punishment for dissenting citizens. There is no other option for them, otherwise they are in dire straights. China is no longer backing Russia. They have agreed that Crimea belongs to Ukraine. The Chinese European Union Envoy indicated this last week. China now seems to have given up on Russia as a failed state. Russia's biggest threat is actually China !!! They have fought over territory in the past. China wants to take Manchuria and Vladivostok back from Russia, which used be Chinese territory. 😂🤣🤪
Civil War in both China and Russia are very normal. The only thing abnormal now is how long they've gone without one. Normally it's every 80 years in China's case and in Russia's case they had a few civil wars in a few decades a while ago.
While mostly I agree with you, your thoughts about Putin's motivation is too abstract. Simply put Ukraine was about to start developing a major new gas and oil development in Luhansk and Donbass that had the competitive advantages of closer to the European market, with an established pipeline system and without the challenges of production and transport through and over permafrost. This would put the Russian oil and gas profits (half of which Putin skims to pay off Kaderov and his other cronies upon which he relies to prop up his kleptocratic dictatorship) at risk. You will notice that while Putin was willing to concede back Territory, so far none of it is close to where the new gas field would be developed. (Putin only has to prevent its development for a minimal win.)
Wishful thinking here
Just one phrase tells me how ignorant you are: "China wants to take Manchuria back form Russia". Manchuria is a part of China and always been.
@@larryclemens1850 Btw Crimea also has a lot of underground resources (plus the Sevastopol base, which is why it was attacked first).
Putler just don't want to see a wealthy and successful Ukraine; he will succeed in that, but only because he won't live long enough.
very well said
Education rarely agrees with authoritarianism which makes me wonder if the education statistics are true.
Or the claims of authoritarianism in Russia leveled by Western propagandists ...
High rates of alcoholism in many Eastern Europe countries is a major factor in lower life expectancy.
@@iankent608 Not really, it's racism and bigotry in eastern europe that is the problem. Best and the brightest would never want to live in eastern europe.
Russian statistics don't matter. What matters are the actual facts on the ground of what changes or what doesn't change. Russians embezzle money instead of actually holding their ends of the bargain. Which is why "Magic" like night vision goggles don't exist in Russia.
A good report about facts that I was unaware of. I would like to know more on the subject, e.g. more on the reasons for Russia's low life expectancy, is the population decreasing, etc. Thanks for listing sources. I will check them out.
Search - Russian alcoholism, hepatitis, health care, war, industrial safety, Covid, drug abuse, suicide
@Yuri-uy5muyone can Google this lol.
71 years in ruZ as of 2020. It's obviously a lot lower now thanks to the Ukraine military and western weapons.
In 2021 male life expectancy was 64 LMAO! World Bank as a source
@Yuri-uy5mu I think your numbers are off , dude.
@Yuri-uy5mu Russia: 57 (!) not 75!
But an average of 77 is still quite bad for the _richest_ country in the world
Here's some numbers for you.
Russia is number 1 in Alcoholism.
Russia decriminalised some forms of wife abuse and assault.
The average Russian makes $6,600.00 per year which works out to $120.00 per week or $3.00 per hour with many babushka's on measly $100.00 per month fixed pension incomes.
Well said
Really interesting thanks eye opening.
Fascinating! There are a lot of smart Russians, but their hard work is almost never rewarded in the same way as an illegal business.
@@Yuri-uy5muis that why people fled the USSR to get to western Germany
Churchill - a wise man and clinical observer of his fellow man.
Churchill was an important voice in Eisenhower’s CIA Coup in Iran, removing their democratically elected leader Mossadegh, and installing the Shah as an American puppet. (CIA Operation Ajax. MI6 Operation Boot 1953)
Well done Fareed.
That's an interesting analysis
Thanks Fareed for Your thoughts on today's Russia.
the history of Russia for over a century now has been mired in tragedy and unfortunately for everyone it is getting to the point where an arrest of denial is necessary since the opportunities to break from that cycle are decreasing as the consequential impacts increasingly spiral into malignant and pernicious fractals of deeper violence and threats. it is not unique to Russia and although the wider crisis in sovereignty is universal to varying extents the problems that Russians are facing, raising, fighting and projecting are ever more acute and dangerous.
the answer to the question asked by Vladimir Lenin - 'what is to be done?' - is facing its own revolution. the Bolshevik hens and cockerels are coming home to roost. the ghosts of 1917, of tsarism, of capitalism by other means, of Stalinism, of Sovietism and of Communism are looking at Russia squarely. authoritarianism is a distraction. Ukraine is a distraction. nuclear weapons are a distraction. the PRC and NATO are distractions.
Russia has to look at itself. it has to. it is the sick man of earth and it currently seems to want to treat everyone else as if they were crabs in the same bucket.
Excellent analysis
Very true
Russia young adults could very well be versed with the likes of Shakespeare only to be basically tied to the turret of a tank, eventually.
It worries me that there are similarities between what putin says about protecting traditional values etc and what many conservatives in liberal democracies are saying too.
Like what traditional values? Don't just throw unsupported ideas around. Be specific. Thank you.
There's nothing wrong with traditional values, adhering to those principles generally increases one's lifespan and happiness. But Russia isn't a very traditional country if you look at the data associated with it (e.g. family values, abortion, prevalence of drugs, disease, healthiness) and how people there live. That the russian government promotes one or two traditional ideas doesn't make the country traditional. Unfortunately both conservatives and liberals have been deceived by Russia's propaganda in that regard.
An example that truly illustrates this is back when Russia decriminalized some forms of domestic violence. Some advocates said that it was part of traditional russian culture and that some domestic violence in fact could be good for the woman since it "increases male births". No traditionalist person would ever make such asinine, depraved remarks. Then there's the issue with alcoholism and addiction that paralyzes big parts of Russian society. Not very traditional at all. Neither is war and imperialism. The traditional view would be to do what it takes to stop all of this.
In Putin's Russia that's a sham, until by traditional values we are mean throwbacks to some dark, barbarian past, something that is an antithesis of both Christian values and those of the Enlightenment and humanism. I wonder if the same applies to the so called conservatives in liberal democracies too.
@@virginiaoflaherty2983that’s all they do. Gaslight but have no substance.
I guess it would, to anyone who blindly believes whatever the media tells them to, without question
That was the most surprising thing to me about Putin’s invasion. Losing the economic and global progress into the 21st century.
Watched twice.
Brilliant.
229,000 russian occupiers killed so far 😱
Would be cool if they could lose without dragging down their neighbours.
Some interesting points.
Excellent evidenced and rational report thank you. Impressive.
Do you know that the average Russian makes a measly $6,600.00 per year which works out to $120.00 per week or $3.00 per hour with many babushka's on $100.00 monthly fixed incomes?
Do you know what is Purchasing Power Parity? No wonder you guys can figure out how Russia's $60 billion defense budget matches the output of NATO's humongous military budget. Fareed is an overrated pundit. He says stuff to control your minds.
Did you know that lying is a bad habit?
It may be true that in St. Petersburg and Moscow there are world class universities, but few jobs other than IT or civil service (military mostly, little research otherwise). I'm Canadian and have encountered hundreds if not thousands of IT professionals that fled the Soviet Union and Russia in the last 30 yrs. They are proud to be Russian, but not proud of present day Russia or Putin. The education outside of the major cities is for low level mechanical, administrative or other blue collar work (nursing, etc.). Education in a particular domain is not an education, it is training and foundational. An education in my mind means how to think for your self. Russians today are profoundly incapable of thinking for themselves no matter their education levels or accomplishments.
I know someone who has worked as an engineer in Russia, China, Ukraine and Poland. He said that Russia is stagnant and run by Russian mafia, and poverty is staggering outside the main cities. China develops slowly and eastern Ukraine was full of the Russian mafia. He said that Poland is developing at a very fast pace, it is protected by NATO and the world bank has helped enormously. Poland gets better every time he visits, everywhere in Poland is being upgraded and beautified. Ukraine is ready for progress, Russia and China are falling behind.
You say "Russians today are profoundly incapable of thinking for themselves"
I am iranian-American, not russian, but i have to say many Iranians who thought and spoke for themselves paid heavy prices and were crushed. Also if you think Americans can truly think for themselves, you should take vacation in Florida!
@@ma228DeSantis and Trump’s doing!
This is sheer xenophobia. That’s why I’m making screenshots of such stemware to show others what people who watch anti Russia reports on CNN are like.
As a child of a migrant family to Russia, I cannot disagree. Russia is like a medieval state, it does not grow.
What a tragedy for so many Russians, not to mention everyone they are attacking!
Especially those who are being attackee
What ever happened to the state that boasted possessing the most advanced and sophisticated military system on the planet?
The mujahedeen of Afghanistan's Taliban made them flee in disarray.
I doubt the Russian people want his traditional values. They were wild about blue jeans and jazz since the Soviet Era. ✌️🤘
I love your program! I remember in early 90th we said the same thing about China.
How much of Russian mortality rates are due to alcoholism? Are female death rates equally as dismal? I somehow doubt it, or you'd have not just looked at male mortality.
Alcoholism is the reason. Now add in the special operation aka Ukraine war and it's gonna plummet.
Very good point but you're still left with the question of what it is about Russian society that is a driver of all of that alcoholism. And that brings you back to the points Fareed was making. I agree, though, that talking about the state of Russian male life expectancy without mentioning alcoholism was a notable and unfortunate oversight.
Females life expectancy is similar to most of developed countries. Russia's male death rate is high only because of alcoholism. They missed the real fact.
@@amendar.potterfield4400 Maybe the alcoholism factor didn't fit with the propaganda he wanted to spew
@@amendar.potterfield4400Russian men drown in vodka because their society is the most miserable on earth
Thank you; the decline of russia is also a result of their history and 100 years of communismen; they never had a democrated government.
Alcoholism is rampant in such a cold, cruel environment.
Please note that "advocate" is pronounced differently as a noun and as a verb. The same applies to "graduate" and other words with the same ending.
That Haiti-Russia-Africa life expectancy comparison makes my blood run cold! (ʘ ͟ʖ ͡⚆)
That says a lot about overrated Fareed. Africa is not a country.
@@yawos9024he never said it was one
I've always noticed most Russians look wayyyy older than they are. 50s and 60s look like they're 80 or 90s 0_o
Same with republicans. A dumb life of cult fear is harsh on the body
😂😂😂
Thought "The Third Wave" was written by Alvin Toffler, after his first book "Future Shock?" rr Normandy, Fra.
See, this is the problem with those who study in Russia, they take the fact that a lot of people get an education in Russia and think it’s the same level of education as in the EU. But it is not.
war and inherent socio-economic problems are not two seperate issues!
They are connected by the later being one reason for the war.
Putin mentioned clearly, that the war had been the only way out of "several different" issues.
So not only "NATO-agression".
Not only "Nazi-Coup-regime in Kyiv".
Not only demilitarization of the "Kyiv militants".
Not only preventative action against biolabs in Ukraine.
No.
RuZZia needed - in their minds - an injection of youth, ingenuity and manpower.
They disguised that as recreation of the great Soviet-Union and pleased their deep routed genozidal instincts.
But besides the facts mentioned in the monologue, there is so much more.
RuZZia anyway could not much longer sustain on it's fossile dependency due to decarbonization.
That got now excellerated.
Commodities infrastructure in permafrost regions litterally is melting away.
RuZZia needs expertise, ressources, investments and manpower to update that infrastructure.
It could not have achieved that alone, thought as a bigger more mighty country that would be easier - but now is screwed.
Not at least the totalitarian turn now makes necessary innovation even less likely.
A failed state.
Spanning 11 time zones.
Havng 6000 nukes.
Sitting in the UNSC as a P5...
Putin’s favorite political philosopher is Ivan Ilyn, and he has fervently promoted Ilyn’s ideas through his reign.
Much of the “21st century’s” ideals were explicitly rejected by Ilyn, and Putin is trying to create a state that conforms to Ilyn’s writings.
"Russia's traditional values" like what, cleptocracy and invading its neighbours?
“So you’re telling me there’s a chance?”
Having worked in Russia 22 years ago, there have been huge societal improvements since then. It is a conservative society and isn't in favour of western liberal ideas. Why do we go around the world trying to impose our values on other people? It isn't 'one size fits all'.
@@bonnie7898 I wasn't referring to democracy at all, but since you mention it, Russia is, in theory, a democracy. However, democracy in Russia is a very new idea and was only introduced in the early 1990s. It would have stood a much better chance if the USA/NATO hadn't pushed relentlessly eastwards after promising not to advance one inch to the East. When I was there I gained a totally new perspective - the Russians are terrified of NATO. They wanted to join but were refused. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, they thought we were all going to be friends, but with NATO hoovering up all the former Warsaw Pact and Soviet countries, but denying Russia membership, they concluded, quite rightly it transpired, that they were the target. Ukraine was the red line for Russia. They made that very clear, but the USA backed and funded the putsch in Western Ukraine in 2014 that had no support in the East or South, the Minsk Agreements were constantly broken, the Ukrainians constantly attacked the breakaway regions in the Donbas, shelling civilian areas which received no coverage in the western media, and now we have this disastrous war, a proxy war in which thousands upon thousands of Ukrainians and Russians are dying while Americans sit safely at home.
Exactly. To each their own. It is imperialistic to force your way of life on other people or see them as the enemy simply because they differ culturally and socially from you.
Such imposition will crumble under its own weight. Take a look at France at the moment. The world is big enough for everyone. Fareed Zakaaria has not stayed in Russia for an extended period, yet he speaks as though he understands everything Russian. One word, Phony commentator.
The US government seems to care not for its own people but suddenly seems to have great interest in curing autocracies around the world. :)
Fareed Zakaria's understanding of Russia is most apparent by what he didn't say, or attempt to do: i.e., draw conclusions from paradox and mystery about Russia's higher male mortality despite having an highly educated population, a very powerful and influential Kremlin leadership, and a resource-rich economy with employment prospects and many international customers.
It's great he used the Winston Churchill's quote about the Kremlin power struggles, but the description of Russia as, "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" is always appropriate for Westerns trying to explain Russia.
I was already familiar with the higher mortality rates of Russian males and the population decline that was occuring even before the COVID-19 pandemic and Russo-Ukrainian War, but it can't be solely blamed on Putin's government because the demographic trend had been occuring in Ukraine as well. The demographic problems were one of the justifications to take Ukrainian land and population.
Drug use, HIV/AIDS, lower birthrates, and complications from alcoholism are all contributing factors, but it's not restricted to the Russian Federation and Putin's government. Putin's move toward conservativism and the Russian Orthodox Church is something that hallened relatively recently.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime collects and analyzes data on drug-related deaths. In their annual World Drug Report, they publish a list of countries by absolute and relative mortality of the population (deaths per 1 million inhabitants). As statistics shows, most deaths (both quantitatively and relative to the size of the population) are observed in the..... UNITED STATES.
Rossia is in 15th place on drugs, after "civillized democratic" Sweden, Germany, Estonia, UK, and other west countries.
The same are about alcogolism.
I understand how much you want to believe that Rossia is the most drugged, drinking and poor country in the entire universe according to the diabolical propaganda of the garbage msm cnn.
But it's all lies. You all live in a total lie about Rossia.....
Enjoy this cnn lie.
Полностью согласен с г-ном Захарией. В России всё именно так.
thank god we have,... Fareed... to examine the state of Russia. How in the world would we have known if it wasnt for Fareeds awsome reporting and examinations. We can all take this to the bank ladies and gentlemen. Bravooo Fareed Bravo , Encore 😮
I got a dozen expat friend from Russia: no education isn't anywhere as good unless you count propaganda as education and are comparing to the poorest Eastern European countries. In a lot of the higher education you also need both bribes & connections to get in (that's exactly why most of my friends left).
Ruzzia is destroying itself!
Excellent reporting. Thank you, Fareed. I would disagree with one comment regarding education levels. The Soviet Union had high education standards but those standards have eroded under the Putin regime. Without Western or external support, Russia will not be able to maintain or develop advanced systems to operate modern infrastructure (like oil extraction). The sanctions imposed due to the Ukrainian aggression, along with the youth diaspora, will exacerbate the internal weaknesses within the tech classes in Russia.
The last smart man on television 🥲
At least one of very few.
Comparing Russias education to the whole of Europe is like comparing it to the whole of America (and yes, dear US Americans, that includes all countries in North- & South America). I don't think that comparision makes any sense at all.
Education isn't likely even free South of the US border so that's a harsh comparison. Russia, Europe, USA, and Canada have free education.
@@Cocoisagordonsetter As if you could name even half of the european or south american countries. You have no idea what you are talking about.
@@moos5221 LOL. I I've lived on 3 continents. How about you genius?
How is this guy good? He is been wrong on absolutely everything he has commentated on in this war?