thank you for time stamps

I hope you succeed in Ukraine and Russia

Sorry, Lex. This was a weak guest and a weak interview. But hey! You have great guests too and do great interviews too! No one bats a thousand!

NATO's invasion of the slavic peoples lands! It isn't the first second of third time the past thousand years! Not overly interested in the opinions of american people who have advocated the murder of 60 million babies! Not least devastated numerous regions and peoples across the planet! Britain and the u.s. flooded china with cheep rice driving local producers out of business!

i no b

Yes I always tell people. Lex took over the important space left by CR

Let's hope Lex doesn't let us down with a scandal like CR. I agree with you: lex is great!

All I can say is "You got Punked" Lex and worse than that You did NO homework at all. There are dozens of lies that he told you, knowing that by stroking your ego, he would get away with it. You Lex was a lamb that was led to slaughter. Willingly.

I think it's a great complement. Charlie was definitely a top-tier interviewer. I only had public access growing up so he was the first to expose me to long form interviews, which was truly some of the most wholesome content Public TV had to offer. Then it was Rogan who exposed me to podcasts. Then Lex, who I think Is currently carrying the torch

I always loathed Charlie Rose. He had great great guests but he always butted in to his guests answers, never letting them answer fully, so irritating! What an ego that man had. Lex never does that…ever. Great set yes, so stylish.

Yep his face interface kept coming up when I was listening to it in Spotify 😆

Kot is a Russia-hating ju. What else is new? His kind has designs on America, too. We’re being invaded and replaced as we speak.

Am I a Historian to you? Do I look Historical to you?

He is but he’s lacking on his current events a bit. Russia has depleted a huge percentage of NATO arms passed on to UKR and pretty much annihilated Ukraines armour, artillery, airforce, navy. The largest army in Europe by a distance in February. They’ve done it with heavy losses but less than Ukraine. And here a very interesting bit. Their manpower has been roughly equivalent to Ukrainian. Approx 200k. Even though they had a lot more to throw from standing forces. What ever war they are fighting isn’t the projected, laser guided, always own the air, can’t politically stomach losses war America has hogtied its forces into. The goal are clear. Maybe brutal. And it seems a mix of the first war (artillery is still king), the second war (fast mechanised armour spears for breakthrough and low level combat air support). And then I think the unpredicted bit. Overwhelming intermediate ballistic missiles rather than complete air dominance. Behind the media bullshit. Europe and Americas military doctrinal planners are watching with great curiosity. And probably respect. And not a fuck ton of civilians dead which always seem to be an unintended consequence of American doctrine. Which will sacrifice 500 brown skins accidentally killed if it saves a few GIs. You lose the people as soon as you win the war. Now. The question is. How these strategies would match up when they face real foes. Like each other. Very hard to know. Of it comes down to willingness of men to die. In great numbers? Just take a look at American internal political and cultural pulse. Yanks hate each other more than anyone else.

@robb1324 I went to the comments just to see if anyone else noticed 😂😂

I'm here for it 🍿

Yes, it will be interesting

The CIA shill Kotkin would never agree to it.

Mearsheimer is a stooge and a false intellectual who would be utterly destroyed by Kotkin’s vast expertise and rigor.

@@AvanaVana lol doubtful

Thank you for such an interesting discussion from two men who understands how important history is as a way to make better decisions in the future.

And you know, Chris, you are very right about it, Chris.

Not if you are Russian

@@renopro3639 LOL

more like die of alcohol poisoning halfway through

@ Chris No sweeter sound than your name. How to win friends and influence Dale carnegie, iirc

Yes, I found the way he constantly said Lex, combined with his tone, a bit off and slightly creepy.

Stephen Kotkin is a master of communication. In general he is being affectionate and fatherly by addressing him by his first name, talking to a younger man, Where he talks about Stone and Mearsheimer, he is drawing himself up, and asserting his knowledge and authority. And his emotional response to what he sees as a bogus claim. I have seen him lecturing. When his students ask him questions, he thinks for a moment and then says "Great question........what do YOU think?". He then listens respectfully, and ties together the student's thoughts with his own. I deeply admire him.

@@kevinmcinerney1959 he's an intellectual pigmy, nothing impressive about him, except, I suppose for his manner of expression which could give the impression that he is smart.

@@kevinmcinerney1959yes but it still sounds condescending as though he is the father of wisdom and Lex is the naive child.

@@bellaluna730 I'd stand by my description. Take this exchange Kotkin "Let's take that point that you just raised which is a deep and fundamental point, and I think you for that" Fridman "Do you guys hear that? I think that was a compliment.." Kotkin "Lex. I'm sitting here in front of you" Fridman "It's an honor" Kotkin "And it's a mutual honor" I think that shows more than token respect to Fridman. Kotkin has appeared twice on this forum. I

Yes as a 70 year old Canadian living in the sticks I greatly enjoy the internet that brings me these wonderful lectures!

skål, kamelåså!

mkay

Hello Hanna!

it's not healthy to make up stories for likes and responses in the comment section on UKposts

Good thing you’re trying to form a well balanced picture of the history of your country. Commendable

Kotkin sounds extremely Agnorant. 無禮和無知, 可笑又可悲I bet he cannot understand any Chinese but love to make judgments on China. May be he cannot understand any Russian too…..

Its simple, east bad, west good. Orange man bad , sleepy man good.

TBH, this guys only good take on China is the most obvious, the housing bubble...but let's be real, in the US, median homeprices/median income is higher than it was during 2008...it's not like we're doing much better. I agree with CCP reigning in their technology sector. Jack Ma is no Elon Musk, he's a foolish narcissist that would have destroyed the country. I'm sure CCP was watching how google/ms/twitter/fb were breaking the general consensus of Americans and rule of law and said FUCK THAT! "Tibet is Ukraine, Xinjiang is Ukraine, Hong Kong is Ukraine". Lol well in that case Iraq is Ukraine, Afghanistan is Ukraine, Ukraine is Ukraine....this guy's Western bias is nearly unbearable. World seems awfully fragile at the moment...impossible global debt spiral, record global energy crisis, and a potential for nuclear war over energy/resources....LOVE HOPE PEACE

Old man good

Totally 👍

Or Col. MacGregor

​@@SDNickyRocks Oliver Stone is a somewhat insightful individual. MacGregor on the other hand is a propagandist that pulls facts out of thin air ala. Tucker Carlson; nothing to be learned from listening to him.

better to have Professors John Mearsheimer and/or Jeffrey Sachs

Was looking for this type of comment. He just takes some point as obviously truthful from one side and while a lot of people feel they are debatable. A lot of the things he blames Russia can be said about US/NATO as well... I am not surprised he is popular in leftist circles. I do agree with @tfratello that John Mearsheimer might be a better match perhaps if they would go into the nitty gritty details. @lexfridman please please make it happen

For sure!!!

Exactly

Yes!

I totally agree and I find Kotkin really professional, informative and interesting

yes please especially what he thinks of Putin's deranged speech on Red Square recently

It's good, but really he needs them both in the same room.... Just doing one interview and then another doesn't really allow the challenging of ideas that would be ideal.... I think Scott Ritter should also be in the room for that discussion, because I just see so many assumptions being made here, and his perspective is also highly enlightening

A historian should NOT abuse the RAPE METAPHOR - it is AD HOMENEM. Historians should stick to facts - Kotkin is a bad historian

patronising intelligentia is the worst intelligentia..He would love it under Stalin

I agree with you in part but if you get two extreme shills on opposite sides of the spectrum most of what you get is lies and BS.

Lex very rarely pushes back, instead he says let me play devils advocate or something like that. I don't know kotkin's work so I can't know where he's biased or not, but I do know Oliver Stones work and how much real life in person digging goes into a project. Kotkin seems like he doesn't want to put the US on the hook for any of whats happening now, and actually makes it sound like we've been great to russia, when I know from my own research that is so far from the truth. I feel lex doesn't want to offend his guests, but on rogan he told people to check out Oliver Stones work and that goes against kotkin. By the way im no fan of Putin, I just know how deplorable the US is and what they've been doing to russia for 3/4 of a century

WHAT THIS MAN IS SAYING IS WRONG china is giving Russia everything they need he is full of crap

Kotkin lies.

@@spudwesth😂ok

sure if you are into braindead propaganda BS 🤡🤡🤡

What head space do you inhabit? Rabid hatred of Putin and Russia? Ah well, you are being given a very good lesson. Now watch the West collapse now the truth is emerging.

Have always thought so too. A debate between them would be amazing.

He’s a Russia-hating Ju. What else is new? His hatred keeps him on his goal.

Pure wisdom!

But he talks a lot of nonsense. Everything be mentions can be applied to the USA. To start with, the USA is such an imperialist country that it is the only to drop atomic bombs on foreign soil while thousands of American diabetics inject with insulin for dogs. Regards from Spain!

A clown.

He's an imbecile who expresses himself well. Almost everything he says is complete nonsense, which is clear to anyone with a critical faculty. Increasingly, you don't even need a critical faculty - merely eyes to observe the unfolding fiasco across every domain that is developing with respect to the war in Ukraine. When you are trying to solve a problem it helps if your understanding has some connection with reality. Kotkin's has none.

fully agree, i've watched both i agree with some of the points each made and disagree with some, having both viewpoints like that , allows for a better understanding as well as a more clear perspective of everything going on. I hope he manages to get an interview with Putin as well and perhaps even Biden

By diverse, you mean Kotkin's drivel about some imaginary friendliness of the Western countries towards Russia, and Trump being misled by Putin. This guy is as an unbalanced propagandist as they come.

Oliver Stones opinions about Ukraine was shocking. Im tired of A-list actors and directors trying to pontificate to the masses. I have always enjoyed Oliver Stones movies, and enjoy watching many a fine actor im a movie. But please can they just start sticking to what they know

@@tommck2386 So after many years, the first time Stone says something you don't like, you don't trust him? The Wall Street was a masterpiece, particularly the Teldar Paper speech. Stone obviously knows his stuff. Why don't you trust him now?

I don't think he have done a really good job, an interviewer should be equal to everyone, and lex pushed back a lot more here than in the Oliver podcast

For example?

Kotkin needs to debate Jeffrey Sachs on West's ḧelp" on Russia. If I listen to Jeffrey Sachs, who were involved with US dealings with Russia right after Soviet Collapse, those "help" were insincere & half-baked. I believe Jeffrey Sachs over Kotkin. Those points about Russia economy & need for western tech did not happen. I don't agree with imperialistic Putin. I would go for John Mearsheimer, realist IR scholar over Kotkin

Barely anything would…he described zelensky in an almost churchillian way…now its clear zelensky is a drugged up, corrupt actor who was chosen western countries to play the propaganda role snd take instructions…history has revealed kotkins bias and he should be discounted as a serious historian

Mob tactics. They constanty remind you they know who you are... Already used it in Casino...

The way he talks is so hard to listen to

clasic condescending

This is your main takeaway? Pathetic.

@@alexdod606 saying the name of the person you're speaking to isn't condescending

My expectation when watching this discussion is that Kotkin's remarks were not going to age well (i.e. he was going to be proved wrong about everything). However, I did not expect this to be apparent so soon. Being interesting and wrong is completely worthless. Indeed, it is worse that worthless because it serves to mislead. The thoughtless idiociy being spread by Kotkin ad others of his ilk is going to cost Ukrainians very dearly in pain and misery.

He literally explains alternate possibilities when presenting information, but I’ll remember your comment and see how IT ages. Also, as an aside, strongly disagree about “being interesting and wrong” is worthless. Expands your universe of thought

@@MrCyaltrbye Putting a gun against your head and pulling the trigger is interesting, but dumb. Try it and see how well it "expands your universe of thought." If you do dumb shit in the realm of foreign policy, it may lead to war. If you then do dumb shit in the conduct of that war, you may end up dead. I suppose if you are dumb enough to make these blunders, you are probably also dumb enough to call them 'thought-expanding.' Of course, in a sense you are right: the kind of dumb shit that Kotkin comes out with has no consequences for him, and so could be considered 'thought-expanding.' However, that is to miss the rather important point that it's dumb shit. Leaving aside logical and empirical considerations, there is also a question of morality. When the topic under consideration concerns matters of life and death, you really should treat it with greater seriousness than the intellectual equivalent of masturbation.

@@ahmedabdullahi8180 You illustrate perfectly the problem with this interview: people come away after watching it believing there is a Russian Federation war on Ukraine. This is about as accurate as describing the American civil war as round two of the War of Independence against the British. In some respects it is a plausible definition, except in every important respect. Kotkin's understanding is like walking into a fairground hall of mirrors where everything is upside down, or fatter than it should be, or thinner, or receding into the distance, or looming over you. Any analysis is as good as the conclusions you can draw from it, and thus the forecasts you can make. But events in Ukraine and globally are not going in the expected direction. He reminds me of the geniuses before the Iraq war about whom it would be fair to say that everything they insisted couldn't happen did happen, and nothing they said would happen actually did. However, this makes Catkin quite useful as a heuristic: whatever he says, believe the opposite and you won't be far off.

@@ahmedabdullahi8180 You are mostly missing 8+ million Ukrainians who are ethnic Russians, the failed state that has existed since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, external influence amounting to interference, the abandonment of the Westphalia principles by Germany in the Balkans, with the inevitable wars that resulted, the same policy directed towards Ukraine through the EU, and the civil war that has been raging there for nearly a decade that was quietly ignored by the same parties who now express outrage about the current round in essentially the same conflict. What you miss is that there has not been a transition from a state of peace to a state of war in recent months, but merely from one state of war to another state of war. Furthermore, however painful, there is more chance of it ending peacefully since the recent Russian intervention than there was a few months ago. What is also missed is the global escalation of this conflict 'on principle' by the same powers that have hitherto demonstrated a complete absence of principle, and those who will bear the cost of this global escalation - namely, those who are most economically vulnerable - in the West and elsewhere. Not understanding this context is to understand nothing, which I'm afraid is rather Kotkin's condition.

Well you have a small-ish group of people who pretty much have their story in lock step. Ask yourself, what might a small-ish group of people gain by synchronizing their story? What are the probable outcome of adopting the story? That should give some indication of why some people might share a story. And sometimes that story is wrong. Anyway, participants to the story have different reasons for telling it -- people in news, academics, war companies, government executives.... Each gains something different from that story. They can fit in (especially in polite society), make profits, exercise "emergency" powers, etc. that's the hopeful prize if they can achieve the outcome of their story -- more war. And if the story needs to ignore what was reported about Ukraine from before 2022 to be effective, then that is the story to tell.

👍and what about today?

And what about today lol

@@Neauxluh do you live under a rock? It’s boys and girls against the #1 army in the world .Total defeat and capitulation is inevitable

Well i like to hear him now talk about a diminishing weak russia that makes us (the west) look like dumbasses after we spent all this money in aid and we made all these speeches just for it to have no effect.

I would like to see him now saying that Russia ran put of ammo, Putin has seven Parkinsons, the Russians are fighting with shovels, the Russian economy is in "tatters" and the West is doing great, because you now, it is the West😅

I agree- both of them.

Kotkin is a pathetic nwo shill. Stone is 100% correct

“ Truman administration deserves credit for standing up to stalin regime “ Yea and also dropping 2 atomic bombs murdering millions of innocent civilians. This guy is a disgrace and a fraud. Stone owns him

Someone needed to counterbalance Stone.

Stone should be arrested.

Calling Kotkin a historian is like calling Ukraine a democracy

I'm Romanian and I'm well aware of my country's rather "complicated" past with Russia and I also fully agree with Stephen here. I tried listening to Oliver Stone and his views with an open mind, out of respect for his achievements, but I had to close the podcast after less than 1 hour because I was getting angrier with every bullshit argument and justification he was coming up with. But I guess it's common for otherwise intelligent and well-educated people to have some wacky and irrational beliefs...

Gay boys

@@SergeyPashchenko Look who's talking. 😄

So you wanted to listen someone who agrees with you completely. You remind me of Stalin then haha

@@SergeyPashchenko youre russian, and thats enough, i dont have to call you gay or anything else, because youre russian. hahahahaa

This guy is a propagandist. He pretends to know who putin speaks to or what happens inside the kremlin, wich is absurd.

How old are you the west is responsible for most of the wars and destruction of our society. The west is not a friendly player on the world stage they are the bullies and propagandist. KOTKIN follows the western propaganda.

Kids

Agreed, he’s the indisputable master of the topic. Btw, his “good fellows” appearance with the Hoover Institution a few months ago is equal parts entertaining and enlightening as well, not least because he sounds exactly like Joe Pesci…

Every adult on earth should be listening to him. Including us, europeans

Saaaaaaame

Im not Russian but to say the Ussr was weaker than the west is pure ignorance keep in mind that the USSR was fighting France England Germany USA the only reason it lost was stupid greedy leaders if Stalin was replaced by a normal human with normal iq this would have a different end

I like Victor Davis Hanson also, but he is more folksy, drawing on his rural background and links to blue collar attitudes.

Why don't you just marry him, then? Just kidding.

Yeah he was good in the history bit, everything else such as his god awful analogy was god awful.

Civilized.

I agree however, the amount of information and insight cannot be overstated. The rise of podcast with shows doing hours long deep dives into previously subjects dominated by 10 min soundbites of establishment directives translates to hope in the future of world society as a whole. Well done, Lex!

Calmly spoken, long winded propaganda is still propaganda 😂 "Countries are sovereign and can freely choose the alliances they want to join".. this Kotkin guy. Yeah, except when those countries are named Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Syria etc. There seems to be a sizable cognitive dissonance here. This guy is clearly in the tank for a specific side. Also this guy, "we live in a democracy and we can criticize the government." 🤣 Where is Julian Assange right now? in what old Soviet bunker does Edward Snowden have to hide away in, for fear of CIA / NSA assassination? Lol Anytime someone whitewashes a particular side, you know they're fulla sh!t. Trust the ones that at least attempt objectivity and a full spectrum analysis.

THe olf Dart is crazy and a warmonger..Azov is nazi and international law forbid nazi parties,,They kill women in Donbas for real and with impunity..not some imaginal rape stories..Why can Kosovo break free from Serbia but not Donbass can't..Olf Duck

@@scroopynooperz9051 Agree. 😑

Violence really produces afterlives, or stockholm syndrome says it does?

It’s “Kyiv” not Kiev.

I lived in Moscow all my life and I have relatives in Kharkov. This war has seriously fucked me up. Although it did open my eyes on a whole lot. I really hope I get to meet Lex

@@purewhiteness3355 Were you raised to pretend that violence produces afterlives? When black people were forced to walk the plank in the middle of a ocean of pure manipulative sociopathy on the way to the land of the fee, were you raised to pretend that those drowning and shark attack victims went to a happyland in the sky like putin and the pope says is what happens to the victims? Following the olde money?

@UCmRrggd5UEe6yt7x59Chj-g I didnt suggest your family owned slaves. I just asked you if your family moreless likes to pretend that violence and homelessness frostbite and starvation and drownings and shark attacks produce afterlives, as is what medically untreated stockholm syndrome would suggest, if you do like to pretend that the pope is honest and putin isnt really a manipulative sociopath. Following the political arena debate evading olde money more accurately now? Do you think the victims of putin's sociopathic violent attack on a neighboring country, magically floated off to a happyland in the sky that the pope says is really what happens? Can you see how stockholm syndrome works on cognitively dissonant types of people who have been affected by exposure to violence and intimidation of it? Would you vote for a very caring atheist in russia, one that legalized weed even?

But 1 month on, his stance is 180 degrees incorrect.

@@captainchokdee1039, Lex’s or Kotkin’s?

@@bogdanryabyshchuk4488 kotkin. He is so wrong on Ukraine situation

@@captainchokdee1039, what happened in the month since the interview? Also, if something is 180 incorrect, doesn’t it make it correct 🤔

@@bogdanryabyshchuk4488 I keep reading people saying hes wrong, so i must clearly be missing something myself. personally i think he hit the head on the nail!

Huge breath of Ukraine propaganda...here's the "best guy to lead the country" ukposts.info/have/v-deo/cXZ_eIGbp6pzs40.html

Definitely, I nearly unsubscibed from Lex for having that pos Stone on, but I got over myself 😂

@@Cazza1206 Get over yourself

@@offensivediscourse8514 🤣 I clearly said I did

@@Cazza1206 i read the first half of your comment and replied before reading the second half. My bad.

Wenn man sowas mal im öffentlichen Fernsehen erleben dürfte…

​@@ruinerblodsinn6648 PBS ist öffentlich rechtlich. Leider kommt zu Zeiten, in denen der Duchschnitt des deutschen Publikum TV schaut, meist Unfug und für interessante Sendungen muss man Schlaf opfern. Was sagt dies über das Publikum aus?

Bring him back after nato collapses and Russia annihilates Ukraine ahah

​@@DonAl_Capone so never bring him back then?

​@@wc8246you want to take back you message yet?

WHAT THIS MAN IS SAYING IS WRONG china is giving Russia everything they need he is full of crap russia is doing much better in this war then stephen kotkin is saying

This kptkin guy will be demolished.

Ohhhh, good one.

Yes both are extremely biased

@@dannyadzic3335 It would be a great debate because they both make good factual points for the side they're speaking on. Not because they're extremely biased. We see extremely biased people in the news every day lol.

Saying we should do conscription military is stupid . Less motivated troops and we make us less likely to defend ourselves . This guy says we should wait until we are invaded to fight back. We should have done no fly zone in Ukraine but joe Biden didn’t . Putin smells weakness like a shark

Wow that's awesome because I Started with $5,000 at the same time. Now at 52,000$.

@@adityarawat6796 Congratulations that is a real success story in my opinion. Success because you didnt allow the amount to determine whether or not you would jump in. Good job. See you at the 100k meet and greet.

I'm at 1.25k now!

I've really just been following the advice of Mrs Patricia and another youtuber. The plays I do myself I typically base on my own research and I tend to buy at a buy price I feel is just then sell when I see major percentage gain wetter that be in weeks or months. I'm holding some long term like DKNG

Did you gain from just listening to these vids, or do you have an adviser or other info?

LOL !!

Well said sir!

Mr. Kotkin, why are you hiding your birthplace? Were you born in the Soviet Union? Btw Russia is already winning the war in Ukraine and the USA is loosing its dollar system and its superpower status! You are an old cold war warrier and a man of the past. You have lost, too.

@@Nik-jq4tx Quite right.

@@Nik-jq4tx how does birthplace have anything to do with what someone has to say. Also, 1 flagship cruiser and 11 generals may beg to differ

I couldn't agree more Steven! Well said. Lex is doing great work with these. And they DO make a difference.

Is it? It is just tailored to the audience wishing to buy his product. Other than that, he is outstandingly biased

Who is this guy, Steve? Startlingly articulate, cohesive, well crafted thoughts, and ending with a wonderful emotion. Beautifully done, Steve. Greetings from St Pete in FL.

@@gdiwolverinemale2745 what's the title of book? I'd like to hear your analysis.

@@markb8468 Try "Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe". Not that I know what's in it. Today, there are ten times more communists in America than in Russia, so I am not even sure what is the purpose of writing such crap

It's really cool when somebody who ACTUALLY knows Russian history talks about Russia

Too bad his reply to Oliver Stone is beyound shallow and obtuse. He doesnt seem stupid enough to really believe what hes saying, which can only mean hes renting his opinion to the train of western propaganda.

Same here. He's very insightful and nuanced.

What did you learn about him?

@@markb8468 he’s too much of a statist though

Yeaah, it is brilliant! This is a true gem. The rhetorics he uses and his arguments are so so hillarious that we watched it as a study group while doing my master's in Comunicology, subject: Propaganda. It was hillarious, after every statement, everyone could turn down any of the things he said. Just so blatant and listening to him painting this cartoon of Russia and Putin, the SMO and it isn't even annoying but it is so so funny, like he is acting as a character, in some bizarre parody, repeating a stereotypical prejudice and repetition of references of mental issues and somehow every harm done to Russia, like some sanctions for something their leader is guilty of (allegedly..) while the people are saying "more sanctions", and let's look where Russia is standing today.. One word explains it - Projection... I am listening to him one more time and it's funnier every time, because I catch some new things every time. And I am really amazed that people in the US and West altogether fall for this and actually these people live in this bubble., while the West is a minority both in terms of population, technology, influence, trade, it is really a reflection of desperation, and a superiority complex, again, projection, of an ever more crumbling influence and all aspects of life altogether... Damn, but now, as I keep on listening, as I write this, and have to stop all the time just to marvel at the delusional bubble which is omnipresent in the Collective West . I am in Berlin and it is so weird when you realize that the people on the top, they are not just talking their points, but no they genuinely believe it. I am amazed and now, as we are watching Israel "defending itself", you can reflect and just compare.. Ukraine has done its role , it did good but it was never intended to win but to prolong the war , as every US endeavour, like Vietnam or Afghanistan, it keeps the US afloat. Today is Friday, 3. November 2023. and I am really worried as everything is set up for a change of everything.. Whatever happens, I hope that we don't go nuclear.. The "Escalation Ladder" just skipped up a few steps. Yemeni Houthis said "to hell with it, launch the rockets" .. The Us desperately wants this war with Iran but it's unwinnable, but, as I said, their wars aren't meant to be won, just to happen and to last as long as possible and then, invest into rebuilding what they destroyed but this time, there is something different.. Israel is showing their true face, the US also, and they are becoming more and more isolated.. Greetings from the past, from a stupid guy, who doesn't know what is happening today.. I wish you well.. on this day, I am worried about the response from Hezbolah, as Israeli genocidal "self defense" has gone to far. . . Everyone is talking about that but no, an illegal occupying power doesn't have the right to self defense, but has to ensure the safety of the occupied party,yet, Gaza has a population consisting of a majority of minors, meaning children, so...They are killing children and America cheers it as the double standards are making everyone's distrust just rise and spread... Stephen, you are the one who is delusional.. people who actually observed the developments, view this as pop-culture mainstream cheap propaganda and I'm proud to say, voted as the worst propagandistic talk, with such an abundance of fallacy and projection, oh man... now it's just too much of this bullish ... Every but every statement is a fallacy, unbelievable....

Thanks for not being an idiot. This dude Kotkin is so biased it’s unbelievable

​@@beyondrecall9446 quiet part out loud much? Lol

Never going to happen. To much truth to take on this issue.

In a way, I think it is unnecessary... there is so much material already out there from Mearsheimer. 🤔

@@johnsalamito6212 Cohen (1938-2020) is no longer, but I agree that it would be interesting.

@@steveogle3679 lol

Mearsheimer is full of shit on the subject of Russia.

But I hope you notice, he's aware of that and his later interviews feature his modified speaking voice. Still, I noticed the "Joe Pesci" voice early on and found it to be funny - not great for a very serious and intelligent man.

I was thinking Joe Pesci during the whole interview so I’m glad it wasn’t just me. 😊. Doesn’t reduce my enormous respect for his knowledge and insight of history. I love listening to interviews of this guy.

Lol. I said the.same thing. I thought Meyer Lansky wandered into the studio. Some mob character....

Don't tell me you fell for this propaganda.

@@petar4002 Some, not all. No one is perfect.

100% agree. Well said.

@@neight123 very interesting, not sure I would call this a conversation, though. Was 99% one sided.

...or an average intelligent 62 year old that is hungry for these doses of knowledgable insight.

lool you must smoke the same shit as this dude because he is babling a lot like 15:00 Navalyni is the second most important person in russia? wtf ! this was just a start of his babling.

Oh please, it was banal assertion after banal assertion with no corraborative back up for said banal assertions. That's called "propaganda". This is just the typical New York, cosmopolitan, Jewish, antiRussian,pretentious, BS we've listened to for 40 years. All fluff, no substance.

Im new to lex, what are the other two

@@mayb8701 depends on what you want. History? Awkwardness? The Kanye one would be good if you want to see Lex challenged. Kanye is A wreck

The voice of all the generations listening to him right now. Boomers, Silent Gens, Genx, millennials, everyone interested. No one age group has a corner of the market on good listening. :)

Voice of a generation? Is that specific to English speaking countries? & What is it he has said & Why do you think he speaks for a generation of people?

@@lukecockburn1140 relax man. Too early for your bs. Go to work or something

@@longdcikbill3528 @LongDcikBill I'm calm I haven't indicated any different You said something I'm asking questions to understand your perspective If that was not a shallow statement you should be able to answer it was only 2 fairly simple questions & not hateful & I'm not going to discuss what I do or what I'm doing But I don't know why you think you should have any influence over what I do

@@lukecockburn1140 awe. You’re A little feisty this morning. Why so defensive. Why so angry. Relax bud, life isn’t that bad. But also if you think I feel the need to explain myself to you, you’re sadly mistaken.

Remember the scene in the movie divergent where several hundred/thousand people were under some kind of mind control but like maybe three of them were actually cognizant? That's what this comment section is like. Anyway, in that movie one or 2 of the 3 aware were visibly distraught and forcibly removed from the group....

Oh man, I tried listening to the whole thing, but I was just getting angrier and angrier just because of the sheer stupidity of the arguments. The only reason I didn't dislike the podcast is because I like Lex's work too much, but that episode was pretty much a dumpster fire just because of the utterly retarded shit the guest was saying... 😄😂

I had a hard time getting thru the stone interview. Love him as a director but he was dead wrong about russia

@@brandonhopkins1106 Agreed, I tried to give him fair space to persuade me and it was terrible. I just couldn't see his side. Would love to see Kotkin and Stone discuss the point.

Why would you listen to a director, who is great at his job, but knows nothing about history and its intricacies. It must have been a mix of his feelings and irrelevant personal opininons. Am I wrong? Haven't see it, but why would I watch a director commenting history. Zero qualification and education to comment on history.

I’ll preface my comments by saying I love alot of Oliver Stone’s movies, but the professor Kotkin is 100% spot on, and Mr. Stone can keep making movies and people should not take him seriously with regards to his politics which has always been left leaning since forever in his case.

In what way?

because Stephen teaching Lex boy what reality is but not some fantasy world of Lex hot bath.

my instinct says people who say the others name every other sentence are often full of shit :D

@@ralfy666 pretty foolish and insecure of you. guess you weren’t paying attention then

@@ralfy666 it is just way he talk, it is same like Joey diaz always says Joe Rogan. No meaning behind it

@@alco2758 he might be in more danger here because we are still bombed. But after the war is over, welcome to Kyiv, Lviv or any other Ukrainian city

@@alco2758 and Kotkin knows much more about soviet history and psychology and mentality than stone. From my experience, living in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and often visiting Russia, Kotkin is closer to being objective. Though talking about any European or American, and even Russian being objective more than Ukrainians dying on our own territory is not correct.

@@alexandrabut5553Do you actually consume Ukrainian media? If they say that Russian kids need to be killed and Russian soldiers need to be castrated, do you actually think that anybody who's not a VSU cheerleader is safe in your country?

@@alexandrabut5553 Both Kotkin and Stone are biased, but Stone tried to be objective. I do agree that Kotkin knows much more about Eastern Europe's history, but when you are biased that just makes you a more dangerous disinformation tool.

@@alco2758 or it makes you more dangerous tool, when you listen to putin and believe what's he's saying. What disinformation exactly is Kotkin telling?

@Klim Chung I got to the part where he said stalin killed 18-20 mil. Pretty sure this man doesn't have anything worthwhile to offer

@Klim Chung What do you mean 0% accurate ?! Do you mean that Russia did not attack Ukraine and no ordinary people are dying everyday in Ukraine because of Putin's war ? Do you mean all of this destruction of schools, hospitals and houses that they show in news are made up ? 5 millions refugees is a lie ? why they leave their country and flee to western countries ?

@Klim Chung You are just repeating the Putin,s version of this war. If it so and this version is true and Russia 's army are rescuing people of Ukraine , why these 5 millions refugees who escaped to western countries did not go to Russia instead ? By the way, do you justify all the crime that Russian's army has been committed in this war, for instance in Bucha where they killed innocent people ? Please just answer these questions, you do not need to teach me history. For your information, I have watched the interview with Oliver Stone and Noam Chomsky and more, so I know what has been going in Ukraine and I do not watch only CNN.

@Klim Chung In my view Iraq or Vietnam war were a crime against humanity and just stupid people can defend USA war in these countries and it is the same when we talk about Russian war in Ukraine. I live in Europe and I see how Ukrainian refugees feel safe here and nobody force them to com here. So stop talking bullshit. Leave your bubble come here and see with your eyes and talk to them and see how they hate Putin and his fucking war.

I am Romanian and I find it just as insulting. He clearly doesn't understand the historical conditions, the struggle of the people here, he doesn't even get the whole picture. He almost blamed you, us and all the countries around here for sufferind under Rusia. He denied all our people sacrificies while painting Putin as some decent guy. No wonder Ukraine banned him, I think that he is in danger in the entire Eastern Europe after his ignorant claims... So, this interview was refreshing, finally someone that actually understands what is happening today while also with the informations to look at it from a historical point of view... Great interview!

But he understands Putin

I agree, Stone lost credibility when he made that stupid JFK movie.

@@ZaKrakilla Careful here. Polarization gets us nowhere. Stone produces documentaries that are meant to question our views. Every side has their unpleasant laundry which leaves us closer to the truth. Putin is not a monster he is a man among many in this play. Leadership is hard, history is often harder.

And as a Ukranian you allowed jew to rule you and to get you in a war with a Slavic Orthodox brothers

"I am sending this link to all in my sphere" How dare you bypass the all-knowing, infinitely wise, UKposts algorithm! that recommends only silly cat videos! The UKposts secret police will soon be at your door, or worse, shadow ban your comments! /sarcasm

Kotkin is a Nazi apologist

Yes.

The West is total chaos ruled by an incompetent European parlement en the WEF

another clown 🤡

@@8888LR don't be rude

Yes, loading his readers and audience with historical facts instead of lead.

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bs. He actually has a very biased perspective, particularly from a recent historical standpoint

@@gdiwolverinemale2745 Yeah, well, that's just like your opinion, man.

@@jeffreylebowski3216 Yeah, well, and what do you think is like your comment then?

Much more grounded in reality and not based on "ideological gut feelings" and an attempt to fit the current Ukrainian invasion into a particular world view like Oliver Stone did in his latest interview. Stone was attempting to cram a square peg into a round hole and it was painful to watch.

He is full of shit, nazis were brought to power in 2014 by the beautiful west in Ukraine that then went on to try commit genocide in the Donbas to get rid pro russian voters

Well, he is just says very well rounded propaganda. One must know much more, from external sources, to see where is he rounding the truth and puts soap on the round edges.

He just had an interview posted on the Hoover Institution within the last week and you can check it out on UKposts.

Stephen Kotkin is a toady of the American empire , how disapointing.

@@10.6.12. Well, at least the American empire is something to be proud of. Look at the Russian empire. Is potato!

@@clancywiggam the Russian empire isnstipupendous they saved you from the NAZIS FOOL.

@@10.6.12. Yeah, thanks for absorbing all those German bullets for us, they had at least 25million fewer after dealing with Russia. Meanwhile, in EU land, we live pretty well, post war, including Germany, while in Russia, what's little Igor getting for Christmas? IS POTATO!!!!

I have revisited this video a few times to recalibrate where we are at.

Kotkin was like Nostradamus, for telling the future. Kherson, a year later, now liberated! Screw Putin and those who continually keep him in power! He’s nothing but a gangster!

Like what? Absolutely everything he said was proved false but I guess Wagner is fighting with shovels 💀💀

Can you believe after the first 10 years of cash and weapons and staff into Ukraine there's all-out war? Yeah, after hearing Kotkin glorify "grandmas with iPhone" calling in the strike location or former cooks filing bottles with explosives now..... It's hard not to wonder, "is a 25000% budget increase for the Ukraine war anywhere near enough?"

I agree. I imagined a Russian historian who has researched the USA and it’s politics and presidents. Invasions (or I should say failed invasions) of other countries e.g. Cuba. I just see this whole interview as propaganda in order to promote something that GHW Bush gave a speech on, I think I can even pin point the date he gave that particular speech…… 9/11/1990. It doesn’t take a genius to see what this is all about.

@@FUNKINETIK what makes you think that Russia or non-western part of the world do not hold and promote their own propaganda? Is freedom of speech a propaganda to you?

@@memoriesventures3533 I was agreeing with YP Wong who suggested that Lex should consider finding a balance for a different perspective. Obviously other countries will promote their own values. . and defend lies that have been fabricated against them.

@@FUNKINETIK Thanks. I appreciate the fact that Lex had always tried to be unbiased as possible, acknowledging the fact that it is always a struggle for him. I think Lex would do much greater for humanity if he can broaden his scope, especially to Asia where the people often see the world very differently. Pls consider that Lex.

@@YaPingWong Exactly !

Yes