Dr Sasha Dovzhyk - "Imagine a World Without Ukraine." It's Horrific

Dr Sasha Dovzhyk - "Imagine a World Without Ukraine." It's Horrific - Now we Must Support it to Win.

4 місяці тому

Dr Sasha Dovzhyk is a London-based author from Zaporizhzhia and a special projects curator at the Ukrainian Institute London. She holds research affiliations with Goldsmiths and Birkbeck, University of London. Since February 2022, she has been dividing her time between London and Ukraine. Sasha has written on topics as diverse as the legacies of Chornobyl, transnational decadent aesthetics, and Ukrainian literature for various publications, including Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, CNN, The Ecologist, openDemocracy. Sasha regularly gives public talks, interviews, and moderates events on the topics of Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion and Ukrainian traditions of resistance.
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КОМЕНТАРІ: 243

@casperhfl 4 місяці тому

Great content, keep it up! Slava Ukraini, from 🇩🇰🇩🇰

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

👍👍👍

@genbure9908 4 місяці тому

Thank you, Johnathon, for all you do for Ukraine... incredible... wishing all a gentle, brave-heart yet indomitable New Year. Namaste 🙏 Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🔱💙💛💙🪬

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

👍👍👍🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

@reedaltman 4 місяці тому

You are not alone nor forgotten by US citizens. Not this one at any rate!

@nemo3874 4 місяці тому

the most US citizens will not be able to point to Ukraine on a map

@vintagepipesnightmares 4 місяці тому

@@nemo3874yup😆👍

@blackcountrylad464 4 місяці тому

@@nemo3874 What difference does that make, Vatnik? 🤡

@amalgama2000 3 місяці тому

@@nemo3874 Russian fascist sympathizer detected. I wish you all the bad in life

@peterturchyn8685 4 місяці тому

Moscow still needs to be held accountable for the Holodomor.

@shaiaheyes2c41 4 місяці тому

Agree, unfortunately Moskow has never been held accountable for anything. Last night I was reading about how Stalin and Felix Dzerzhinsky (founder of Cheka/NKVD/KGB/FSB) poisoned Lenin, most likely through his food by the hands of a cook. I believe the cook was Spiridon Putin, Lenin's chef and later the chef of Stalin (who was extremly paranoid, so he had to trust his cooks). Spiridon Putin was NKVD and KGB Vladimir and Igor Putin's (Vladimir Putin's cousin) grandfather. I'm anti Communism and don"t care for the psychopat Lenin, but I find this very interesting and wish the truth would come to light.

@sergiystoyan899 4 місяці тому

It is very nice to see Sasha Dovzhyk on this channel.

@jeanneknight4791 4 місяці тому

I am glad you invited Dr. Dovzhyk back. Thank you.

@maryjackson6785 4 місяці тому

Dear Ukraine from the bottom of my heart i wish u all the best for 2024.may God watch over u and your President and his family and his people not forgetting the Soldiers who work so hard bless them they are not forgotten let them know they are in our hearts.Slava Ukraine ❤❤❤

@carolwilliams8511 4 місяці тому

Heroyam Slava 🇺🇦🇺🇦

@gyrateful 4 місяці тому

Love from Kentucky, USA to both of you and all of Ukraine. 🟦🔱🟨

@mathildestoltz7327 4 місяці тому

Very interesting. Thankyou very much. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

@hrvojesvetec3058 4 місяці тому

No one in Europe will trust US if they dont help Europe to help Ukraine,which they said over and over that they will do.. time will tell,hope for the best and Europe should prepair for the worst

@pcopeland15 4 місяці тому

I whole heartedly agree. Americans should be reminded of this. I raise the issue whenever possible. Never underestimate the American tendency to get lost in domestic politics however. Or a strong sense of isolationism that has always been present in the US. That said, popular support, or antagonism against Putin, remains reasonably strong here.

@franksims6452 4 місяці тому

As long as we have this MAGA far right morons in sets of power the world is on its own. And if T-rump manages to be reelected America will be as much of a minnis as Russia. This statement is being made by an American

@carolwilliams8511 4 місяці тому

I agree. If the US turns out to be a bad ally, it will lose its reputation as the land of the free that can be relied on in extremity or even be a trustworthy trade partner 😢

@carolwilliams8511 4 місяці тому

I am immersed in Ukraine. Every day listening to the war news and channels like this. I do not consider it unhealthy but essential to keeping our morals alive. Like being vegan. We don't turn away from the horrors of animal farming and slaughter. While there are slaughterhouses there will always be battlefields. Tolstoy reputedly said this.

@nicholasyoung2794 3 місяці тому

Sorry to say the US government and media is not trust worthy, we're lucky they aren't worse however, not that they are very honorable human beings

@user-ko2dw7rp2g 4 місяці тому

Thank you and Slava Ukraini!

@carolwilliams8511 4 місяці тому

Heroyam Slava 🇺🇦🇺🇦

@user-vb1hy3li1h 4 місяці тому

Another wonderful interview. Thank you for bringing it to us. All the best to Dr Dovzhyk and all of Ukraine

@carolwilliams8511 4 місяці тому

The dimunitive little man in the red fortress 😅. Brilliant. Happy New Year Jonathan and all friends of Ukraine 💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

@EEX97623 4 місяці тому

This conversation is a personal favourite so far, thanks Jonathon and Sasha. Happy New Year from Tallinn, Estonia. Slava Ukraine.

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

👍👍👍my greetings to Estonia! 🇪🇪

@casperhfl 4 місяці тому

Agree 😀👍 Putler must be stopped!

@geraldstokes5661 4 місяці тому

I have grown by knowing ukranian people , such great spirit they have, it rubs off on me , Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

@samsungtap4183 4 місяці тому

Where i live there are both Russians and Ukrainians...i could tell you the truth but you wouldn't believe me !

@carolwilliams8511 4 місяці тому

My take from all of this is that there are many generous and heroic people all over the world. The outstanding support for fundraisers to aid the AFU has been truly heartwarming. Against the brutality of the evil empire, this alternative side to humanity is very uplifting and hopeful.

@jackthorton10 4 місяці тому

Indeed

@CrazyEightyEights 4 місяці тому

An(other) illuminating conversation. Please, Jonathan have Dr Dovzhyk back again soon. Best wishes for victory in the new year. Much love and respect from a sane American

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

👍👍👍

@CrazyEightyEights 4 місяці тому

@@SiliconCurtain ♡

@markdeckard7651 4 місяці тому

Sasha is brilliant, a gifted writer that makes you think and makes you laugh with soul and wit. I'm going through her prior work and am simply blown away. Grateful to have discovered her. 🇺🇦

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

👍👍👍

@gregoryadair3223 4 місяці тому

Thank you both for this wonderful conversation. Jonathan, I perceive that you work very hard, and bring a lot of warmth and intelligence to what you do. What a confounding, hard year this one was, may we redouble our love and commitment to Ukraine, may we be the citizens who make the difference. Warmest regards from the West Midlands. Wishing you a successful New Year. - Greg (the Californian)

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

👍👍👍 thank you for your kind and supportive words. It’s been an exhausting year, but as you say, we need to double up next year!

@farang_lao 4 місяці тому

Another great show. Bonus points awarded for saving the most eloquent guest speaker to close out the year with.

@carolwilliams8511 4 місяці тому

She was wonderful wasn't she? I hope she returns.

@Andres_1970 4 місяці тому

"Imagine a World without the Putin's Empire, it's Wonderful" (me)

@goenzoy712 4 місяці тому

Putin is in power since 2000 and not 2022.She also should think about this.

@18_rabbit 4 місяці тому

@@goenzoy712 what type of power? Is that the same potent power as that in a stable psycho-socially functional and healthy society that can get stuff done successfully, like UK, USa, germany, austria, and others? No, russia is and has been for over 170 years, relatively -speaking, a dysfunctional joke in terms of everything almost (and most russian writers of any type, going way back admit this readily!), and most importantly, military adventures like: the Crimea War in the early 1850's, which was "humiliating" on an extreme. The 1904/'05 war with Japan, in which a rising asian power obliterated the Ru army forces in the first well -documented battles, the Ru army troops didn't have a snowball's chance in hell to survive or win, and then the entire Ru naval fleet was taken out in i think it was one day or two days. Pretty pathetic. Then in the big wars, ru suffered mightily as it mismanaged and 'spent' ppl like they were not human beings. Most of us who know anything about history, and sociology, anthro, psych, and military operations, believe that ru's days are numbered. Get...ready.

@bakedbean37 4 місяці тому

"Imagine " ukposts.info/have/v-deo/rZejdaVvrnuByn0.html We can but hope.

@fromnsk 4 місяці тому

Imagine a world without NATO propaganda, it's wonderful

@williamvanholder3368 4 місяці тому

@@goenzoy712 he is much too long in power. He should never have to be in power that dictator. And Russians are stupid to vote on him.

@Yolanta-gh1oc 4 місяці тому

Thank you for this program. The best wishes in New Year. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇵🇱

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

👍👍👍

@theresamcpherson7352 4 місяці тому

Thank you Jonathan and Sasha! Wonderful as always! Jonathan, I love the fact that you allow your guests time to finish their sentences, a lot of hosts do not!

@1964corvair1 4 місяці тому

Excellent interview and discussion. Thanks so much to both of you. Here in Chicago we stand for Ukraine.

@SuperMagnum2011 4 місяці тому

Can’t imagine. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇦🤝👍

@sigaretter 4 місяці тому

Sasha is just awesome! Thanks!

@timsecord8207 4 місяці тому

Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava!🇺🇦🇨🇦🌻

@artn2950 4 місяці тому

Thank you Jonathon for having Dr. Sasha on your program! She is so passionate and insightful! She is a real jewel for Ukraine as well as any of the rest of us who are willing to think about the global issues brought up by this criminal invasion! We who are listening to you cover you with our prayers for protection and success!! 🙏🏻 Slava Ukraine!

@barbaramassey3787 4 місяці тому

Thank you for this interview. 😊😊😊😊😊

@alexwaterville8074 4 місяці тому

Thank you Jonathan. Could you do some interviews with the NAFO fundraising group in the new year. Hoping for better support for Ukraine 🇺🇦 in 2024. Let the victory begin. Thank you to all the Ukrainian defenders of democracy 🇺🇦❤️🇺🇦

@asan1050 4 місяці тому

Jonathan, thank you . Happy New Year!

@russzitaruk9702 4 місяці тому

Another great guest and interview. Always a pleasure to watch.

@sumiland6445 4 місяці тому

💛💙💜💙💛 listening now 😊 right on time 🇺🇦 🌏 🇺🇸

@tamarasidlartchouk3138 4 місяці тому

Love and best wishes wishes for the New Year Victorious for Ucraine from Italy ! 💙💛💙💛👏👏✌️✌️✌️

@robertcartino9677 4 місяці тому

GREAT INSIGHT...

@TKMcClone 4 місяці тому

Wonderful guest, great interview! 💙💛

@danielschaeffer1294 4 місяці тому

My New Year’s resolution: I’m living on Social Security and I’ll be getting a part-time job to contribute to charities that support Ukrainian refugees. Happy New Year, if possible.

@user-kk9eh3po3b 4 місяці тому

very interesting to listen to her --very good.

@16252 4 місяці тому

thanks for posting

@thegoodthebadandtheugly579 4 місяці тому

We need more people like this.. and we need to win this war if we are to avoid WW3.. how can the European West not see.. WW2 began the same way - and it only became WW2 because of their reluctance to destroy the enemy before they collected so many other countries.. if you want to save lives in the future, DO SOMETHING NOW.

@daveslater 4 місяці тому

Reasons to be hopeful. Thanks.

@frog252 4 місяці тому

Yet another great interview ! I've been following since the early days and have found the piling-up of anecdotal evidence on the cultural difference between UA and RU just so powerful . Putrid invaded to "save Russian-speakers, and all Sasha's classmates are fighting ...

@thor9563 4 місяці тому

Ukraine must undertake a campaign to connect with the over 700 thousand Russian men who fled their own country because they opposed attacking their peaceful neighbor and recruit their services whether direct military against the Putin regime, logistical assistance, or provide assistance in disseminating truth to their families and communities left behind. 700 thousand men who sympathize with Ukraine, the EU and the West are an untapped resource that must not be ignored~

@bobouzala 4 місяці тому

Thank you Dr. Sasha!!! Jonathan, Your guests are always excellent and know they are responsible for what's going on in our world!

@royjones1053 4 місяці тому

Thank you for another insightful discussion Jonathon and Dr Sasha Dovzhyk

@timotheusvanesch3959 4 місяці тому

Another thought-provoking broadcast. Thank you, Happy New Year & Slava Ukraini! 💙💛 (may democracy prevail this year!) About the media reporting: That got me thinking. To me, as a Western-European, having never been to RuZZia (before 2018), Putin made sense. He had clever speeches and I didn't séé the danger in him. Up to 2014 it seemed the man had some value to us, in Europe. We were wáy to busy with our own, Western-European integration to really watch his moves. So, apart from the political "a bigger fear of him losing than of him winning" (which is not true anymore, I might hope), I think there is also the bias of the clever criminal. Hamas bad. Stupid, young guys with guns wreaking havoc in Israel. Putler played a very clever game, so I think there still is a lot of cognitive dissonance; that he will "come to his senses". Much like you see in the GOP, with their Maga-freaks and now Mike Johnson. So you get reporting about "you see? He's willing to stop this, if only ... " - after which the silence starts. Because there is no "if". But that, in the West, is a very bizarre phenomenon; we usually work things out "the civilised way". At least, we tend to think we did for the past 60, 70 years. Or we were at least "fighting for the right cause" (which is very much debatable, of course).

@sergiystoyan899 4 місяці тому

Mr. Jonathan, thank you for your brilliant enlightening interviews. Would you consider an interview with Oksana Zabuzhko? She has a lot to say about the ideological roots of the war in Ukraine. Happy New Year!

@thor9563 4 місяці тому

@sergiystoyan899 4 місяці тому

@@thor9563 From the fact that men fled russia saving their lives, you draw the conclusion they are sympathizers of Ukraine? It is naive.

@doitdiddy 4 місяці тому

Excellent interview. Everyone should see this. Slava Ukraini!🎉

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

👍👍👍

@diff7212 4 місяці тому

Excellent

@tisme9690 4 місяці тому

Thank you Sasha and Jonathan. Happy New Year ❤

@peterfiset4039 4 місяці тому

Thank you Johnathan and Dr. Sasha for this touching conversation. Slava Ukraini

@radimcmar501 4 місяці тому

Sasha is justifyingly frustrated and it is so sad. Me as a sort of westerner i am ashamed, frustrated and helpless. How can we be so cynical, alibistic, complacent, stupid, relying on goodluck, while ukrainiens carry our weight? :( I need to do something cause it makes me mad

@uribensh 4 місяці тому

Great interview, thanks

@Guy-Lewis 4 місяці тому

36:45 "Anyone who would risk their mental health and listen to a talk show on the Russian TV ..." Classic, quotable, and so lamentably true.

@neilclay5835 4 місяці тому

Best wishes to you for the new year Jonathan.

@10screenwriter 4 місяці тому

Smart lady!😊

@thor9563 4 місяці тому

@gloriahoulihan8717 4 місяці тому

These actions are those of a mafia style, revengeful gangster. Not an army of strong military integrity. They have lost 40,000 at Avdivka alone so far.One day alone they lost 1,400! The tanks and other vehicles lost are staggering and would take me ages to write about. 87% of an original battle force is gone. I pray for Ukraine and for equipment and arms to be sent. NIGHTWALKER camouflage suits and pointers for night vision are being requested. If anyone wants to send it rock on!!! America could loosen up some of its reserves, old tanks included but who knows if they are just afraid. Women in Russia are going to be finding in the future the situation for them is going to be facing a different way. They will become breeding machines and more subservient to the decreased number of men left alive. Look around you girls, open your eyes. The National Wealth Fund is going down and down. You will be expected to not only have numerous kids but work too!

@samsungtap4183 4 місяці тому

If you want to no the truth about Russian losses..."MediaZonaBBCRussia". They have sound methodology. However i suspect maybe you don't want to no the truth much prefering to be lied too ?

@johncromwell2529 4 місяці тому

Thank you!

@searchingforsanity4170 4 місяці тому

Is she the modern day Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln? 25:03 "Language and proximity to borders define nothing. Its the values that people uphold and are ready to defend, that matter here".

@kneelingcatholic 4 місяці тому

She can toss word-salads almost as good Pres Z!!!

@TonyM540 4 місяці тому

WTF?

@searchingforsanity4170 4 місяці тому

@@kneelingcatholic better, she is brilliant and I love her. This is another favorite of mine: "this war hysteria is the only uniting factor within the russsian federation, otherwise they are spineless and atomized individuals who are not a society except for imperialism and a blood thirsty desire to expand."

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

Here eloquence is astounding. I’ll be reading the transcript of our conversation to find more nuggets like this!

@Petenz81 4 місяці тому

Was it a coincidence that Hamas suddenly decided to attack Israel so viciously which immediately drew the eyes of the US away from Ukraine and towards the Middle East.

@tornoricco 4 місяці тому

SLAVA UCRAINA ❤❤

@18_rabbit 4 місяці тому

this is exactly right, as she says, that without unity (and i'd add truely fully capable military assets into either Ukr hands or discreet operations of a coalition of allies using their mil assets) Ukr's end-of-war situation won't be acceptable, if they even have any victory of any meaning or magnitude, i'd say. This is so basic and so classic. It's basic basic warfare, AND unless we, the countries with capacity and military operational know-how, get ..on..the friggin ball, Ukr is likely to be SOL (shit out of luck). This is rapidly getting severely serious, for a few reasons including that Ru's are deeply engrained in the buffer zones ,etc. It will take specific machinery and weapons to deal with that fact. Guess what that means? It likely means good old american and UK know-how, pssibly german as well, IF the Ukr's don't come up with their own solutions (and the equipment they really don't have, from what i gather, though i could be wrong). This type of engineering is what some american co's and outfits are very very very good at ,and i know some german and austrian and swedish and other norsk, and UK entities are as well. Let's get...IT>..DONE. I went to a uni program of high caliber in international politics. There is no alternative to making sure Ukr has a solid victory. This is so basic.

@franksims6452 4 місяці тому

👏 hear, hear,

@terryhand 4 місяці тому

UKposts is deleting the most innocuous of comments. It's not enough that the EU is looking for ways to circumvent Orban - if that is the case - they need to break a habit that characterises everything about the EU and act quickly.

@RennieNightcart 4 місяці тому

Ukrainian composer of 'Carol of the Bells', Mykola Leontovych, (1877-1921) was murdered by a Soviet chekist thug ?!

@gloriahoulihan8717 4 місяці тому

Lovely earrings!

@GridDownSurvival 4 місяці тому

My votes as an American in the upcoming USA elections will be largely based on which candidates support Ukraine 🇺🇦

@amalgama2000 3 місяці тому

Haley or Biden, than. If Trump comes into power, it'll be a disaster then, for Ukraine specifically and the whole world in general

@bethanyrae001 4 місяці тому

Wow. Thank you

@DanWall-dn1vb 4 місяці тому

Do not forget, they want Alaska also.

@louisnaidu9140 4 місяці тому

Thank you Jonathan for another interesting interview. I pray that all law makers in the west and democratic world listen to the doctor and what she suggests to help Ukraine win and also understand the consequences of Ukraine losing.

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

👍👍👍

@blackcountrylad464 4 місяці тому

Slava Ukraini 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧💙

@MarkMark 4 місяці тому

I don't like this russian war. Let's keep doing everything we can to help Ukraine win.

@MarkMark 4 місяці тому

("Hilariously," when I used the non-euphemistic synonym of "don't like", my note disappeared.)

@johnfallon6906 3 місяці тому

I am one of many speaking to many of many thank you

@WalterBurton 3 місяці тому

Richard Haas is on tour for his latest book. He's giving "talks." If I weren't otherwise occupied, I might attend his upcoming visit to my local historical society, and I might make a point to ask him some hard questions.

@WalterBurton 3 місяці тому

👍👍👍

@PC-Phobic-Jean-Rene 4 місяці тому

Particularly interesting discussion. --- On third-viewed program, have to comment on backdrop-effect, which to put it mildly, is very annoying. WHY the need to do such a thing, totally escapes me. But it certainly is distractingly-noticeable, _as its NOT done well,_ so marring ghosting-effect. --- And that on both-ends. Puzzling.

@sashakasprzyk5683 4 місяці тому

The UK, the US, the Ukraine, the West, the EU. Sounds very similar to me. Cheers from Ovcie.

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

Is that in Slovakia?

@sashakasprzyk5683 4 місяці тому

@@SiliconCurtain In the Tatras. A hundred years ago was Poland. It's a little confusing what language we speak.

@PlanetFrosty 4 місяці тому

Ok, I’ll pray you feel better

@hagenneulen815 4 місяці тому

Mr. Selenski‘s biggest mistake has been to neglect a faster increase in fighting force on the ground!Apparently he had the hope to stop Russia with the ‚initial‘ batch of conscripted older soldiers and volunteers! He might be good in leadership, but here he made a huge mistake! On the other side we in the West (I am German) have to blame ourselves for doing not enough which would be possible - how should we get tens of thousands of capable refugees in Poland and Germany primarily to get back home to support the battle - if we are not willing to go (at least a bit) All In by ourselves - it‘s a pitty that especially German chancellor Scholz and his peer Biden are reluctant to let Russia loose this colonial war! The 2est and Ukraine have neglected heavily to position Russias colonial war as what it really is in the global South! We are still too busy in selling morale foreign politics with female focus - this is not well received in the southern hemisphere!

@sashakasprzyk5683 4 місяці тому

A war for access to a vacation villa.

@thomaslehmann9033 4 місяці тому

Bring on more new (!) informations, please. We all know very well, that Ukraine ´relies on the support of the West´. No need here to hammer that into our heads over and over again. It would be more interesting to show new perspectives, theories, or personal experiences by Silicon´s special guests. Apart from that, this channel here is surely one of the best.

@oldtechie6834 4 місяці тому

If you cannot win on the battlefield, try talk peace before there is nothing left to save.

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

Peace with whom? Both sides would need to want to negotiate. There’s no evidence Putin wants to.

@johnglover3682 3 місяці тому

This was a great interview. 1/16 watched. Some may know, I was in Lviv Jan 29 and left 30th for Odesa (these number are correct) I was in Odesa for Russian orc failure of their New Year’s Eve damper and out and about with Ukrainian youth early morning showing me with railroad Ray their bomb making, drone making,drone training makeshift laboratory Donated $. Shahed drone overhead, large air defense activity. Heard one drone making it passed port and air defense and it kept flying until we didn’t hear it

@PlanetWalking-qd8gv 4 місяці тому

Imagine??- tha's the plan!

@blackcountrylad464 4 місяці тому

And it's all going according to plan...not! 😂😂😂😂😂

@sashakasprzyk5683 4 місяці тому

Putin has notoriously ignored peace treaties. Why would you negotiate with him. The Budapest Memorandum is ironic here. Under the agreement, the signatories (Russia, Britain, USA) offered Ukraine "security assurances" in exchange for its adherence to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and for Ukraine to surrender the Soviet era Nukes on their soil).

@GwynBleys 4 місяці тому

Heave you read the memorandum? It prohibited direct political interference such as Senior US official standing in the middle of Kiev and encouraging rioters to kill Police. And it guaranteed peoples self determination such as succession from the state in case if any group of people felt threatened or appressed by the government.

@sashakasprzyk5683 4 місяці тому

@@GwynBleys Hilarious! Y didn't mention Hilton.

@sashakasprzyk5683 4 місяці тому

@@GwynBleys Are you gay?

@GwynBleys 4 місяці тому

@@sashakasprzyk5683 Why would i be gay? Are you mentally challenged?

@GwynBleys 4 місяці тому

@@sashakasprzyk5683 Hillary was not on Maidan square...

@christianecoughlan7392 4 місяці тому

Sounds like in France!

@blackcountrylad464 4 місяці тому

I loved the way Sasha blew away the russian propaganda myth about russian speaking Ukrainians. Her story of classmates who were russian speaking, from a heavily russified region, who are now all fighting at the front for Ukrainian freedom, calls out all the trolls and so called commentators who peddle this nonsense. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇬🇧💛💙

@donotmislead 4 місяці тому

The world without Ukraine is easy to imagine because it did not exist as a state in 1775-1917 and 1921-1991. And its absence immediately caused both WWI and WWII that would never happen otherwise. Austrian, German and Muscovite empires would never fight for Galicia in western Ukraine on 1914, there would be no USSR on 1922 and the Third Reich would be stopped in Poland on 1939 just like Muscovy in Ukraine on 2022.

@ryelor123 4 місяці тому

Sounds interesting but we always have to avoid things ending the way WW1 ended where the desire to get revenge ends up leading to a new war in a generation.

@seanlander9321 4 місяці тому

There’s certainly a moral dimension to helping Ukraine. However, let’s get real on a few points: 1. Ukraine has conveniently showed that the Russians are no match for NATO. 2. There’s no strategic loss to NATO if Russia wins the war it started. 3. A Russian victory is a problem for Europe in terms of refugees and covert attacks on Russians, anywhere. 4. Europe is going to have to fund more of its defence and will inevitably no longer be able to lean on Americans. 5. The seized Russian funds are never going to go to Ukraine.

@blackcountrylad464 4 місяці тому

Point 2 is very wrong. If russia is allowed to defeat Ukraine, russia absolutely WILL continue. They have stated this over and over. That continuation will involve invading a NATO country (Moldova, the Baltic States, Finland, take your pick). This will drag NATO into a full blown war. Point 5 is your opinion and I disagree. russian funds will, I believe, end up helping for war reparations. Slava Ukraini 🇬🇧🇺🇦💛💙

@APW554 4 місяці тому

Silicone curtain needs another name perhaps with Ukraine in to bring in new viewers it deserves……

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

Unfortunately the word Ukraine in a channel or book title no longer brings in a mass audience. The pro-Ukrainian ‘core’ bubble is not getting bigger. But we need to find ways to grow it.

@APW554 4 місяці тому

@@SiliconCurtainOnly say this as I run my own business for years and although we loved the name of our company (Est 2000 and still going) we decided to change it to get more customers and it worked. This was the early days of the internet and we didn’t even know what a web site was….So my suggestion Ukraine 2024…..

@andrewk4319 4 місяці тому

The few ATACMs rockets that Ukraine was given this fall were past their shelf life. These weapons were about to be destroyed. Yet we still keep these weapons largely unavailable to the Ukrainians. In my opinion, the reason for this could be summarized in a popular western myth, shared with Russia, that Kyiv would fall in 3 days. The west truly believed in this, and still can’t quite separate from this line of thinking. The problem of course, is the unnecessary prolongation of this war

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

I’m not sure this is the reason. Rather it’s a fear of Russian collapse and fragmentation of a nuclear power.

@andrewk4319 4 місяці тому

Agreed, this could be one of the reasons, but I was listening to your guest who gave a very special explanation. Ukrainians fight for their freedom and their survival, which was why kyiv could never fall in 3 days for anyone remotely familiar with the history of the Ukrainian revolution. The west, just like Russia, is frequently unaware of this motivation

@blackcountrylad464 4 місяці тому

Hi Jonathan 👋 Your comment that russia seems willing to throw away its soldiers, its tanks, its missiles, striking non military targets was perfect. You are correct. russia has failed in its military objectives.

@quantumeseboy 4 місяці тому

Americans struggle to imagine the world beyond their continent , oil-rich Middle East and Paris. Europeans(apart from Poland) don't seem to know what Ukraine is either, so most people imagine the world without Ukraine anyway.

@abodabalo 4 місяці тому

I have consciously been exposed to Ukrainian topics and people since at least 25 Years in Germany. I was missing though how strong the conflict with Russia has been.

@yingxiong7716 4 місяці тому

Without Ukraine there is no war period

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

? Your comment makes no sense.

@akeeriksson84 4 місяці тому

The cradle of Russia is Kyivan Rus from 830 AD when Rurik from ROSLAGEN in Uppland Sweden was asked to found a nation by the slavic tribes living in todays Ukraine. Valdemar (Vlademir) the great of the Rurik family ruled Kyivan Rus. Could it be that Putin is dreaming of making Kyiv the capital of the Russian empire again?

@user-ck4kq8tw3x 4 місяці тому

The first capital of Russia was Novgorod and probably even Ladoga...Putin don`t need to make Kiev capital of Russia he already have 4 of them..

@abraham520 4 місяці тому

Help ucraine... Than hepls you... After ucraine il come NATO

@sashakasprzyk5683 4 місяці тому

Trump has never attacked Putin. Putin is so grateful that he sent Trump a jar of hummus for Christmas: it's made of Russian chick pea.

@ronw8628 4 місяці тому

why don't you let your guest talk

@Frank_Terruci 4 місяці тому

I wonder what Dr Sasha Dovzhyk thinks about the quotes from Vitali Klitschko in the New York Post. Yes this is a mediocre publication in the United States, but him being quoted comparing Zelensky to Putin has a lot of people wondering if Ukraine even wants to continue the war. In addition, it adds fuel to to the calls for Ukraine to negotiate peace by giving away the territories occupied. Russia is on the ropes. Why would someone like the Mayor of Kyiv, a well know boxer, not recognize this and instead sow discord?

@pa3eka 4 місяці тому

my family on whom I depend to a greater or lesser extent, I am 72 years old physically disabled and I live in the Netherlands. Nobody cares about what happens in Ukraine. it is far away. Here in the Netherlands there is little to no support in the population as far as I know. I am the only one who supports Ukraine with the purchase of a coffee cup for €100 or a sticker with a tractor that tows a Russian tank for €50, I actually feel like I have been cheated. How do I know that I am not a smart Canadian gives money and enriches himself I have a strong feeling that that prevents me from donating more I don't feel like being a patreon of a handy UKpostsr who writes a nice story every day and has 400,000 subscribers, not a single note there that he donates 50% or something like that to a good cause

@williamvanholder3368 4 місяці тому

you are right the people in Europe don't care about Ukraine. I am Belgian and here too most people don't care. They want to stop the weapon and money donations to Ukraine and Russia may take Ukraine. I support Ukraine too on a very small scale. I donate through the organization United24 ( it is an organization from the president) But i think i am a big exception. But my fiancée is an Ukrainian woman, that makes a big difference, it means i am involved too. But Ukraine is not so far away. When Russia will have taken Ukraine, Moldova will be the next victim, and who knows maybe even the Baltic States and even Poland. People don't understand that the all Kremlin is crazy, Putin, Medvedev Lavrov and so on

@pa3eka 4 місяці тому

@@williamvanholder3368 thank you for react , everyone is thinking America come to help us , but they don’t , Only after they are attacked as well ( think about pearl harbour) before that happens Churchil was begging on his knees for help , The US did sent some goodies, but the only participating after Pearl harbour

@user-xr7iq7ku7k 4 місяці тому

The transport to and from Ukraine is not a problem it's Ukraine selling grain cheaper in Europe, it was meant to aid Ukraine not allow a tax free advantage in trade which Ukraine is taking advantage of, feel free to move through

@SiliconCurtain 4 місяці тому

The blockade in Poland is actually carried out by a tiny minority of trucks though - mostly far right and affiliated to pro Russian groups. So please don’t pretend this is a normal protest. It’s an offensive and evil act that harms a country fighting for its survival.

@user-xr7iq7ku7k 4 місяці тому

Odd you don't allow replies, and many Polish farmers will disagree

@blackcountrylad464 4 місяці тому

@@user-xr7iq7ku7k Jonathan does allow replies and it has been proven recently that russia has been influencing and funding the strike. Polish farmers are being manipulated by russian propaganda as are you.