I could listen to him talk about history all day long. Fantastic interview.

Slava Ukraini! 💙💛

Slava Ukraini!

UKRAINE 💪💜💛

Great report, Slava Ukraini

Brilliant interview. Very interesting

Thanks. Glory to Ukraine. God Bless Ukraine and her people. 🇺🇦🇺🇸

The crescent of countries that border Russia are where the worst wars are fought. The Geographer Mackinder and later Spykman describes this region as the Rimland that surrounds the Russian Heartland Britain is mercifully in the outer Maritime crescent. Petr Pavel Czech President seems to have started a COLLECTIVE SECURITY agreement that incorporates all the countries from Norway to Ukraine ....the Arctic to the Black Sea ...Scandanavia + Eastern Europe ..a new power bloc ? Norway has $1,626 BILLION in its wealth fund. Putin has 150 bn at most.

Corruption keeps any possible growth down.

James as an interviewer goes from strength to strength. Interesting questions put to an interesting and knowledgeable guest. I hope the politicians are paying attention. Military men and the historians are all singing from the same song - Russia will not stop its current course of action until it is stopped.

A very good historian. He and Prit Butter have done much to shine light on this forgotten conflict.

Russia still coming to grips with loss of empire.

Great presentation Nick!

I'm still wondering what really necessitated this war!! barbarism or bullying???

Times radio you are a blatant instrument of power . Propagada kings

Really interesting! I love the indepth analysis and understanding of today based on past

The difference between the Austro - Hungarian empire and the Russian empire, is that the constituent parts/subjugated peoples were approximately the same size as either the Austrians, or Hungarians, who themselves are different in language, ethnicity, etc. The Russians were and are the largest single (by far) ethnic group in the Russian empire, then, and now.

What an Amazing individual, wish are politicians were half as intelligent as Nick Lloyd . He truly understand what are politicians can not it seems. Wish I could afford to send them his book.

Russians view Ukraine and Belarus as one of their own states. Like the relationship between any Russian city or province to Moscow. To let go of these two states for Russians it's hard pill to swallow.

You should put chapters in the video to make it easier to skip the intro.

Sounds pretty hollow when the Ukraine is losing every day

RUSSIA'S FUTURE WITHOUT PUTIN!

Putin is the most obsessed leader of any country since WW II. Obsessed by an assumed great Russia from the past, obsessed to be recognized as a global player, obsessed by Ukraine and obsessed about his legacy.

Very interesting, especially comment about how russia cannot be great state without Ukraine shows very deep understanding by the speaker

The political system in UK is rotten 😂😂😂😂

"The Soviet understands one word; Action...respects only one word; Force." Dean Acheson. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

Great combination inferior complex with a feeling of superiority.

Ukrainian mentality give hope for all occupied states of the Russian “federation” . Push back a d stop feeding the Moscow octopus that gorges on the resources of its occupied territories

Slavia Ukraini ♥️ 🇺🇦 stop Putin's impearalisim

The book is very important in showing the differing stages of World War I. I think Professor Loyd might have concentrated more on how many Central and European leaders saw the war as giving them a great opportunity giving the fighting meaning. Poland after all rose from the ashes and endured even the later cataclysms, The Baltic peoples established states in which their national cultures arose and could not be erased by the Soviets. Ukrainians came out of the war striving to set up a national state across the old borders and Moscow agreed to the Soviet formation as a reaction to Ukrainian resistance to Bolshevik rule.

Britain just cant get over the fact that it became an irrelevant peon of Washington. Britain lost the "great game", Russia prevailed.

Are those "russian" loses russian? Or loses of the Russian Imperial Army which included other nationalities?

What makes security situation in Europe very-very perilous is Europe, Nick.

This guy, Nick Lloyd seems well informed

USA stay the course with Ukraine 🇺🇦

Putin's greater Russia is at totally depending on the years you are looking at. Before 1700 "Russia" was only an unimportant area somewhere around the region where Moskov is situated nowadays. And all countries like Lithuania, Poland, Brandenburg, Prussia, Hungary, Austria and earlier Macedonia, Greece etc are much more of importance in the easten European regions highly above the "Empire of Russia" which more or less started with "Iwan the Great"

How about the civilians in Dresden? None was killed there, right?

The stalemate is in the western governments - not in Ukraine.

Thanks for an insightful interview. In this and historic context, looking forward, hoping to see the plans of the allies to end the war, come to fruition. The Russian people certainly may not want to embrace a second “Versailles”.

What a bizarre situation! Russia? What do we mean by Russia? Many cultural/ethnic/ financial differences. Who are the proud and superior Russians, when SOOOOO much of 'Russia' is STILL living in desperate poverty whilst a few of their elites have grabbed all the resources to themselves. Russia seems to be a nation at war within itself and definitely with its own ego and elite paranoia. Whole nation of disfunctional demographics where NOT all of the 145 million population are culturally 'Russian'. Putin poses as superior but is infact paranoid about civil conflict more than is paranoia about imaginary attacks from the west. All that confusion can only cause internal disaster. Slava Ukraine

A very confusing headline (on the picture) suggesting, it seemed, that Ukraine is doomed yet the interviewee seems to say the opposite. Can you check this up please.

Russia is racing towards a million casualties

He wants to revive the Soviet Union which is impossible..

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-funny how Ukraine became a democracy and russia became a fascist state

If he is for pre 1914 Russia, he has to also recognize all other countries have same boarders as of 1914…he wants only RU to claim, and rejects others to do so…Armenia had different size at 1914, and Russia was the one who gave part of Armenia to Turkey…💔💔💔💔💔💔

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Young James seems to be taking a stance of a semi-expert and a book critic as well. He lacks the academic stature to be both but is fed by the material Times Radio chooses to churn out. Maybe when he is appropriately qualified he may take such a stance but would certainly not be working for TR. If his ambitions are in journalism then better research is a skill he will need and, again, TR is not good soil in which to thrive. As he is personable and articulate perhaps a spell in on-the-spot research and reporting will put him in the same category of some of Britain's great, solid journalists, especially as the greats have passed away or are now very old. Good luck to him. Re the click bait title, Dr Lloyd's work or comments here are congruent with it. Some of Dr Lloyd's ideas in his many books and papers are thought provoking and he is largely correct the eastern front in WW1 being an area of ignorance for too many of us in 'the west'. He is right that war did not end suddenly in 1918. My own grandfather had been in Flanders and expected to go home after the armistice but was instead sent, as part of a mix of Scottish and English regiments to the Balkans, middle east and Caucasus in un-sung continuations of strife partly related to what became known as the civil war in Russia after Lenin took power. Brits and Commonwealth experienced men were needed to be buffers against 'warlords' filling power gaps and resuming old scores lasting from over a century before. Dr Lloyd can wake us all up to what happened and how the Sykes-Picot Agreement cost the world the chance of having a possibly settled Arabia with the breaking up of the Ottoman empire. My grandfather ended his service being posted to Egypt alongside French counterparts at Suez not long after TE Lawrence had started to make his way home via Syria. The joint troops were then moved to Trieste where they got bored and went home via a badly mauled Italy. These aspects of the WW1 period and beyond need airing. However, Dr Lloyd is at least as simplistic as V Putin (from after 22 minutes in) by failing to mention the Decemberists, the 1905 damp squib Russian revolution and how a 'Tsarist mentality' was an probably is how the peoples of a conjoined massive area which was only an empire when that word was fashionable through the 19th century and beyond. The Bolsheviks did not win anything, merely replacing a royal line with a bureaucratic one but, to a Russian "comrade" from Vladivostok to Odesa the Tsar concept is convenient as someone to blame yet have powers to mobilize when Mother Russia is threatened. Religion was supposedly banned under Marxian doctrine yet people still attended churches or improvised ones in some cases, then after Stalin when the CP was supposedly in charge, to the people it was just somebody (occasionally in pairs) in Moscow. Dr Lloyd would have had to acknowledge that Russia since about 2010 has been expanding production east and not vying with China but being part of the Eurasian market developing into the biggest ever seen, including India, South East Asia after recovery from US failures and horrors in Cambodia to a point which has made the 'west' just another economic zone but no longer the top one. Russia's immense resources and transport system do not just make a part of China's initial notion of the BRI but essential to new 'silk roads' and it has the Arctic routes as well doing very nicely with input from Japan and China calling itself a "near Arctic state". The 20th century model 'west' with its "rules based order" of trading (= restrictive) has to accept that true free trade is happening and it is crossing Africa and to South America. The term "global south" is clumsy but means south and east and west, just not necessarily the USA. In this context it is explicable why Russia's central and eastern populations are rising and a large proportion of incomers are from over Russia's southern borders. If the USA, EU and our dear UK want to prosper in proportion to all in their populations they need to understand how trade is the antithesis of war, where traders do not expect everyone to be the same in faiths, governance styles and cultures. Yes, be able to defend ones people but huge military mechanisms used for "projection" are so passé and the biggest never had the right to interfere and make up wars to fight, losing every single one. Ukrainians will thrive through hard work alongside neighbours without undercutting but the areas and types of governance regions on the map by next Easter could be surprising. No more weapons but help with rebuilding, each state according to its means.

It beggars belief why any Russians would want to die for this little man

The battlefield in Ukraine has degenerated into trench warfare because neither side has the strength and skill to do anything else.

Ypres ….. my relatives called the street by the same name “Wipers.” 😂. However, NOT FUNNY after all. 😢

I thought Ukraine was declared as a country in 1917.

From the military perspective, you have been talking about manoeuvre, high tempo, precision because you have not fought a peer opponent since WW2, Nick. A historian should have a better grasp of this. But I guess he does redeem himself on this by saying that this is what a real war looks like.

Putun is quite satisfied with the Nation of Russia.

And cui bono was ww 2 that was even prolonged?

Interesting view. The war never ended in the East. What does this mean for Germany? The coup d Etat by blowing Nordstrom 2 might introduce an interesting playbook. Russia is always been afraid of Germany. A much better insight now is given then by the demographics theory of Peter Zeihan

*How come this guy and no one understands, that you have to present another world history to the Russians ?*

Meanwhile the meatgrinder is getting filled with ukrainian soldiers. Get real

When will historians include the contribution of Black Men and Women in both WW I and WW II who gave their LIVES, BLOOD, SWEAT and TEARS to liberate Western Europeans from Facism in Europe? Just asking - on account of the fact that I am interested in history...

And just what happens if ukraine 'doesnt' survive in the end?

This clip will not age well.

Russians tend to forget that Lenin himself was a German plot lol

Don't like the way he characterises the 'creation' of Ukraine by some kind of treaty. Kiev and different groups round about have always fought for their independence, mostly from Russia but Bolsheviks, the Whites, the French, the Poles and anarchists have all had a go at dominating the area. The Ukrainian spirit is remarkable for its tenacity and persistence and at very least Ukraine needs to be allowed some peace and non interference, especially from its northern neighbours.

This is a laughable rendition of anglosphere projection and propaganda

The nonsense over at Times Radio continues a pace.

So we went from a review of a book about ww1 to current propaganda...

Advertisements every 5 minutes? Come on UKposts. I scrapped going to view the whole thing. Don't waste my time.

Doggy: " You're on my bed, and I'm hacked off!" Kitty: "Yeah, yeah - whatever! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz"

Ukraine is just name! But the same Slavs original as all Slavs but who is khazars ‼️‼️

British are always obsessed with speaking about other's failures and rarely looks to reflect and articulate clearly and confidently what it has done wrong. Obsessed with learning lessons and never learning them or learning them and then forgetting to make a concrete conclusion so as to have a blueprint for the future. Nations and their people are generally not good at this.Look in the mirror and stop judging other people and nations. But at the same time, it's always curious how they are obsessed with Russia and orientalism in general, actually same as the French. It's quite funny because Russia hates the west especially Great Britain and USA, the "Axis of Anglo-Saxons", but the British, French and German will always have a love affair with Russia.

Russian public have had enough

What an absolute BS.

Slava Botkraini

Putin and Zelenskyy are of Bolsheviks dynasty! Bolsho means majority of gov communist were Jews‼️

You know, you know.....................What a poor command oif the English language!

Can you get facts before broadcasting. START from coldwar era and move towards today. By the way where did you graduate from!😫

More CIA propaganda 😂😂😂😂

SLAVA KOKAINA !!!!!!

Venäjä kuului menneisyydessä mongoliaan.havitteleeko Mongolia Venäjän miehittämistä . tuskin kuitenkaan.aikooko Venäjä mennä luomis historian alkuun saakka 😮

Look at this repeating Trump. Peace through strength lol

When you mention Russia, I assume you also mean Ukraine ?

Putin got an empire too? 😂 i

Nice propaganda piece. You are looking more delusional as each week goes by, people are looking elsewhere for the truth now.

There is a really annoying high pitched audio noise in this video. Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this?

Copium

😁absolutely hilarious

Delusional

The stock gapped up a few days ago. Gaps always close. shareholders should have sold after the gap up, but I wouldn't buy again yet if I was in that situation. IMO, not much difference here than with a penny stock.

Putin NEVER mentioned a greater Russia but he did insist upon a smaller ukraine with no nazis . This is a vast difference .you appear to beleive that russia is still a stalinist state

Another amateur pseudo-historian

Tell people how many Russians died in ww2 fighting on the soil they fight now , they suffered mass losses and they having the same thing happen again now ( thing is today they suffer more losses because they avoid civilian deaths ) . Russia has enough firepower to wipe out Ukraine out but that means mass deaths ( non nuclear ) . Russia could make Gaza look like an amateur battle but we don’t see that , more the opposite.

HEY!LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO BRITISH EMPIRE "SUN FINALLY SET"!

More garbage. Never anything but on this channel. Zero basis in truth or reality or sanity.

Unfortunately, Ukraine is also doomed by Russia.

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This guys a clown