Ever heard of the Monroe doctrine ?!! 1823 ? Check it out and stop acting like an "international Nazi " fascist. Please.

Mearsheimer and Chomsky are especially myopic and delusional in that regard

I agree. Here is where he finally gets out of the ivory tower and deals with life.

Absolutely. Noam Chomsky blaming putin’s invasion on the west and Ukrainian’s ideas of freedom broke my heart. The man who taught me about freedom seems to think only Americans deserve it. I am impressed with the professionalism with which TS addressed his peers, and think it’s cosmically hilarious that Chomsky always told us to be critical even if those we agree with, and that really applies on this. It’s nice to see it addressed.

I agree. He puts to words the confused musings I had on the subject while I was busy with other things.

That impress's people does it , myself I would rather have Truth and Facts . ukposts.info/have/v-deo/oplzjKOZoq2atKs.html

He mentioned that a few times in other videos

A PhD in History in the time in which he would have completed it - he must have worked primarily with documents written in those languages - in his case, Russian, Ukranian, German - as his primary source of information, so it is sort of baked into the cake.

Agreed!

Marginal "professor" Snyder is our American jerk. Most Americans would not agree with him. We see reality that Russia has now 25% of Ukraine because Russian people there voted for going back to Russia. More (Odessa, Harkov) to come to Russia. More to come to Poland (Lvov).

Послухайте ще лекції на каналі Єльського університету який веде Снайдер про Україну зараз. Дууже цікаво

He does not even know that Crimea is Russia since 1783. "Big Expert" in history. Hi from America.

@@mishaknopkin2199 хай фром эмэрика, мишка кнопкин. я із росии и считаю что Крым украинский. А ещё жители СПб и Карелии должны вернуться в свою законную гавань и войти в состав Финляндии, моя подруга оттуда сказала, что там все референдум хотят.

@@jjsmthr Nu i schitaj a nam Ameriknzam po hui

@@jjsmthr A kak ty ugdal chto kot u nas v Amerike Mishka a ne Misha? any dogadki o koshke Knopke?

He reminds me Steven Martin from Roxana movie. The more hi lies the more his nose grows, like Pinokio's. He has "no comments option" for practically all his videos. The biggest Historian Lyer in the World. Hi from USA. 😁😁😁😁

Marginal "professor" Snyder is our American jerk. Most Americans would not agree with him. We see reality that Russia has now 25% of Ukraine because Russian people there voted for going back to Russia. More (Odessa, Harkov) to come to Russia. More to come to Poland (Lvov).

Thanks from Ukraine

Thanks from Odessa!

Thank you from Kyiv💛💙

And I think it's beautiful 🇺🇦

They're nazis, yoyo.

Почти вы добрались до сути. Отдельных фашиков хватает и на Украине и в России. И там и там вельможи втихаря очень уважают организационные таланты Алоизыча и с удовольствием устроили бы фашизм. Но только для этого надо перестать воровать и приторговывать собой, а это трудновато для людей влюблённых в деньги больше меры. Так что ни вам ни нам фашизм ещё долго не светит, будем обходиться старой доброй привычкой ко лжи и насилию, цель оправдывает средства и прочими старыми добрыми наработками.

Excellent point re: the term "Rashism"

@@IBACb This is a great solution for you. It allows you to continue to remain ignorant and throw words) A more intelligent and educated person can explain the situation using generally accepted terms, such as chauvinism and jingoism.

@icky Vicky Fools have always been and always will be. My favorite sort of fools are those who judge people by nationality.

@icky Vicky Fools judging people by nationality have always been and always will be

He reminds me Steven Martin from Roxana movie. The more hi lies the more his nose grows, like Pinokio's. He has "no comments option" for practically all his videos. The biggest Historian Lyer in the World. Hi from USA. 😁😁😁😁

​@@mishaknopkin2199I won't go so far as to call him a liar. His knowledge of history is just based on what he read, which in many cases isn't the truth but only what got recorded by the prevailing powers that be or victors of war. He is just an inferior historian that doesn't investigate far and deep enough. He irresponsibly peddles the American version of truth.

@mishanopkin Get back to cleaning potatoes, damn kremlinbot. All of Eastern Europe sends a big footprind on your genocidal propagandist temple. GFY.

What do you hope for German left if Russia wins? ( I don't see the connection between this war and German left, would you explain?)

@@majdavojnikovic I don't see Russia win. - I see a catastrophic defeat. And therefore a chance for Russia, to turn from an Empire to a (or multiple) nations... But to your question: The German left was deeply fractured since the reunification of Germany. On the western side there were the anti-imperialists and the anti-nationals while on the eastern side, there were anti-Germans and what I call the "traditionalists". As we are quite a few years after the unification, these lines ofc. have blurred to a large extent. But still - there are some leftists, that are still fond of Russia (some anti-imps and some traditionalists). This war is bringing these differences back on the table. While in day-to-day business, these questions may not be as important as they are now.

@@thomaslange3826 you don't see Russia winning this war, but we don't even know what winning is for Russia:) ( And Russia is not leftist whatsoever. ) But if it still wins, even if you don't see it winning?

@@thomaslange3826 so you are international socialist?

@@AndreAndFriends wow. What arguments! Argument: "One XY says" is about as bad as it gets... The companies... America... Kinda boring! Try harder!

Lol too bad such comments are entirely without substance. These categories of "schizo-fascism" or whatever Snyder wants to use to rise up the ranks of corporatized/financialized academia (if one can call it that) are absolutely worthless for _actually understanding_ (descriptively ie _not_ normatively; historical materialism - cui bono? Who benefits?) that can _easily_ be applied with _more_ corroborative evidence to the so-called "West". Time for some _actual_ history instead of the 1-dimentional manichean "clash of civilizations" bullshit Snyder spews as his fucking profession. What is described as "not fascist" ie a "Liberal democracy" is in actuality a bourgeoisie (ownership class, ie _not_ working class) dictatorship. Liberalism is the unconscious death drive that fascism makes conscious (I mean my god, we're literally _destroying the earth_ and not only aware of this but accelerating this process), hence the appeal - it's honest/authentic about what capital-L Liberalism is. _This_ is what generates the social miasma of ubiquitous nihilism that pervades where "morality" and any normatively asserted values merely become shields of performative piety, excuses of plausible deniability to ritually absolve the actions of pure self-interest that are reinforced _materially_ by *capitalism.* I mean really, in the most important ways the nazis didn't really lose WWII. The only distinction between the US neoliberal corporate empire and the third Reich fascist project is that conscious aesthetic/ideological understanding that serves as a lode star of consensus values, chopping off the viscerally ultranationalist id in favor of a generic "cost-effective" corporate sheen (serving "the market" gods essentially; an unconscious ideological drive to maximize "efficiency" aka capital accumulation in neoclassical/neoliberal econ), trading an explicitly racist ideological lens for one guided by that drive toward technocratic "efficiency". As hilariously briefly referred to in a single aspect of his writings, fascist political theorists like literal nazi Carl Schmitt noting this distinction of authentic ultranationalism as the essence of "the political" itself; basically a tribal friend/enemy distinction at its core (check out his self-described "political theology" The Concept of the Political for more here), but beyond that that the only "principle" of Liberalism (undergirded by capitalism) is precisely to _avoid_ that "political", embracing conflict avoidance and compromise for its own sake, a fundamental _denial_ that 'the political' even exists and simply mediating between two _actually_ political sides (no surprise, aligning far more closely toward the side that benefits its material interests). Something Trump has intuited pretty well simply by being a resentful narcissistic dipshit and thus calling out (often correctly sadly) the media etc. _explicitly_ as "enemies", which masses of people inevitably relate to as their material conditions are inevitably stripped out and auctioned off to the highest bidder like obsolete copper pipe. From this understanding, Schmitt of course then conceives of the political tactic for the nazi party, which is to exploit such a tendency for Liberal capitulation to gradually accumulate institutional power/alignment over time until passing a threshold where a full takeover cannot be effectively resisted in that Reichstag Fire -> Enabling Act template of sovereign exception (reconceiving the idea of the political "sovereign" from the Hobbesian state leviathan or whatever, _instead_ as the entity who is able to decide on the state of _exception_ to that legal superstructure, as this act is inherently defined by its superseding of the law). Sheldon Wolin's conception of "inverted totalitarianism" I think elaborates this well also in its aesthetic distinctions and dogmatic devotion to capitalism, the god of gold. Far from hyperbole there's a direct continuity to the _literal_ nazis, with SS officers like Otto Skorzeny (basically nazi james bond, Paladin Group), Reinhard Gehlen (the Gehlen Organization), Klaus Barbie (the "butcher of Lyon" - active in France and then directly involved with Operation Condor in Bolivia), et al put directly on the CIA's payroll for anticommunism counterinsurgency bona fides (ie terrorism). Infamous pedophile Paul Schafer another notable SS protected in the US rat lines to South America, his "Colonia Dignidad" acting as a node for Condor in Chile to cultivate ideological alignment instrumental in Pinochet's ascension. Vincent Bevins' book The Jakarta Method I think also well illuminates specifically how the Indonesian counterinsurgency model was exported to Brazil, further evolving into this terror network of Operation Condor, effectively the Monroe Doctrine 2.0, the CIA of course acting as the SS 2.0 for transnational corporate/finance capital, extended further in its global latticework in the "stay behind" networks established in Operation Gladio and wielded as a part of its "strategy of tension"; basically acting as NATO's covert enforcement preserving its utility as a tool of political domination over Europe keeping "the Americans in, the Germans down, and the Russians out" as succinctly put by NATO's first secretary general (relevant in regards to NATO's role in catalyzing the current war in Ukraine with the OUN and all the intelligence cultivation of fascist paramilitary there and across the region). I mean this is the _tip_ of the imperialist iceberg here but one need only look at US "regime change" operations post-WWII (alongside their establishment of the international financial system that works at the behest of transnational US corporate power) Iran in '53 with Operation AJAX installing the Shah as dictator for the next 20+ years until a grassroots revolution took hold in '79, Guatemala in '54 with Operation PBSUCCESS, Sukarno in Indonesia, Lumumba in the Congo, the _first_ 9/11 in 1973 in Chile overthrowing democratically elected Allende for Pinochet's military dictatorship, et al.), immediately post-WWII imposing the Bretton-Woods international financial system with the US dollar as the "global reserve currency" using the leverage of being the only industrialized nation-state _not_ bombed to shit and taking the imperial baton from the British and their pound sterling. Which is merely all to point out the _enormous_ ideological lacuna (or just plain disingenuousness) stemming from a chasm of historical understanding from Snyder, ironic given that is his supposed profession (similar to Anne Applebaum), and subsequently the reality that there's really only two choices for humanity, to echo Rosa Luxemburg's succinct political slogan (before being executed by the fascist paramilitary freikorps who later become that SS - shocker - directed by Ebert's ostensibly 'social democratic' SPD, splitting with the international socialists over the issue of war bonds during WWI): *_socialism or [continued] barbarism._*

Yeah, indeed

He reminds me Steven Martin from Roxana movie. The more hi lies the more his nose grows, like Pinokio's. He has "no comments option" for practically all his videos. The biggest Historian Lyer in the World. Hi from USA. 😁😁😁😁

@@mishaknopkin2199 nice try, миша кнопкин, nice try. Get your ruble andd, what's about your mobilisation?)

@@cutekiller2693 I am Russian American for 31 years. A Big Wheel in Science in one of the most famous American Corporations. So pity to see this Bandera Insect Cluster in my Country.

"Timothy Snyder is a trusted voice in Eastern European history. Concise analysis and connections. BRILLIANT INTELLIGENCE. Thank you." Have you checked his sources and actual work? The train keeps going... There is no train...

Согласна. Я только вышла на него

I DO agree....so sad that posts with absolute garbage can get tens of millions of views....hard to have hope for our country. Makes me glad that I am old.

I can say the same about the whole channel .... excellent content!!!

Russia isn't fascist, at all. They're not exploiting resources or labor, and they're not shaming or putting jews and minorities in ghettos, they are autocratic though, they have a bunch of oligarchs in the government and they all have to obey a supreme leader. So its a mix of autocracy with oligarchy, and they are attacking civilians, so you could say that they are terrorists, like the Taliban or the narcos

About exploiting and Jews and minorities...Neither did Italy in the 1930's, and they proudly called themselves fascists@@supernimo739gaming7

We are all with you.

@@AndreAndFriends дякую ❤️

You've already loss. you had a Country , the breadbasket of Europe but you could not run it. You let the Nazi's take over (Ukraine is full of them ) I was there 8 years ago when you were killing Russian speaking people in the Donbass with British arms. Where have all the posters of Stepan Bandaera gone and all the RED and BLACK flags. You can fool some of the people some of the time but NOT all the people all of the time . True colors will soon show.

He reminds me Steven Martin from Roxana movie. The more hi lies the more his nose grows, like Pinokio's. He has "no comments option" for practically all his videos. The biggest Historian Lyer in the World. Hi from USA. 😁😁😁😁

@@mishaknopkin2199 What happened to these poor little Ukrainian Kiddies ukposts.info/have/v-deo/oplzjKOZoq2atKs.html

America is the ultimate terrorised state which invaded dozens of countries, if America is nuked the whole world 🌍 sigh with relief

This convo needs to be put in front of all American exceptionalists and diabolists.

Someone should suggest to kissinger that Israel give up territories for peace, or yo chomski that the US trade some of its states for peace when the next war cones. I think his answercwould be different. The French never accepted the loss of their Eastern provinces to Germany, so I hope macron doesn't want ukraine to do that either.

True. I live in Russia. It's a repressive society underpinned by mind control beyond the comprehension of anyone from the west, and the fear is very great in the population at large.

The issue here is eastern Ukraine plus Crimea, which is historical Russian land since the 1700's to about 1922, and Russia having a naval base in Crimea since the 1700's. Then the USSR happened, with Russia being the big dog state of the USSR, Ukraine being another state. And, the Russian Ruling Elite don't want The West to have that land by way of Ukraine. It's prime real estate, with a substantial Russian history and ethnic-Russian population, and it's a core of Russian history, it's core Russian neighborhood. Russia is taking a stand on multi-polarity of the world, along with China, in counter to The West / USA.

Russians enjoy being Russia. Many, of all ages.

​@@bonsummers2657you don't seem to realize that plenty of European powers colonized lands from 1500s-1900s. You might as well be saying India should be part of the UK because it was UK territory from 1700-1940. There is no logic. And the world thinks it is comical.

It isn't difficult to predict a bear's next moves if you provoke it yourself :) That's exactly what USA and GB were doing since 2014 and even earlier.

He reminds me Steven Martin from Roxana movie. The more hi lies the more his nose grows, like Pinokio's. He has "no comments option" for practically all his videos. The biggest Historian Lyer in the World. Hi from USA. 😁😁😁😁

The issue here is eastern Ukraine plus Crimea, which is historical Russian land since the 1700's to about 1922, and Russia having a naval base in Crimea since the 1700's. Then the USSR happened, with Russia being the big dog state of the USSR, Ukraine being another state. And, the Russian Ruling Elite don't want The West to have that land by way of Ukraine. It's prime real estate, with a substantial Russian history and ethnic-Russian population, and it's a core of Russian history, it's core Russian neighborhood. Russia is taking a stand on multi-polarity of the world, along with China, in counter to The West / USA.

​@@ilyaginsburg1888gops: "nato made us shit our pants!"

Marginal "professor" Snyder is our American jerk. Most Americans would not agree with him. We see reality that Russia has now 25% of Ukraine because Russian people there voted for going back to Russia. More (Odessa, Harkov) to come to Russia. More to come to Poland (Lvov).

Waste of time to listen to his BS without any option to comment.

He is lier and manipulator of historical facts. Example of liberal fascism, contemporary Goebbel of ultra liberal radicals.

@Misha: you can email Prof. Snyder. Why sulk here?

Greetings to Poland from Massachusetts.

@@mishaknopkin2199 Did you ever read a serious history book? You could read his books. He has written several good books.

America is the ultimate terrorised state which invaded dozens of countries, if America is nuked the whole world 🌍 sigh with relief

He reminds me Steven Martin from Roxana movie. The more hi lies the more his nose grows, like Pinokio's. He has "no comments option" for practically all his videos. The biggest Historian Lyer in the World. Hi from USA. 😁😁😁😁

His current Yale class on Ukraine is being broadcast free online!!!!!! ukposts.info/have/v-deo/h52QdWuLi4d-zmQ.html

He's a bit too heavy on the straw man. Russia is a mafia state, not a fascist one. More like Bolivia, less like Venezuela. Think mexico, not Nicaragua.

@@lloydgush russia is obviously a faschist state. You would know this if you read some of Snyder’s scientific works. Or if you were to leave in Ukraine

Did you notice that he talked a lot about fascism without ever defining it?

@@starczarar he talks a lot, that's his career, and he has discovered what sells

Marginal "professor" Snyder is our American jerk. Most Americans would not agree with him. We see reality that Russia has now 25% of Ukraine because Russian people there voted for going back to Russia. More (Odessa, Harkov) to come to Russia. More to come to Poland (Lvov).

He was swallowing so hard that I was worried that his throat would collapse. 😢

I think the fascism isnt that he said. when the fascism emerged was struggle between left and far right feelings in the society. capitalists were scared that communists come in power and they helped far right come in power to end the commusts. that is fascism. its the weapon capitalists aginst communism. it also has militarism, far nationalism and common hatred.

He is, and his books (I've only read 3 and there are, I think 10!) are remarkable. Just listening to his lectures and interviews about his books is enlightening.

He reminds me Steven Martin from Roxana movie. The more hi lies the more his nose grows, like Pinokio's. He has "no comments option" for practically all his videos. The biggest Historian Lyer in the World. Hi from USA. 😁😁😁😁

Marginal "professor" Snyder is our American jerk. Most Americans would not agree with him. We see reality that Russia has now 25% of Ukraine because Russian people there voted for going back to Russia. More (Odessa, Harkov) to come to Russia. More to come to Poland (Lvov).

What’s this ?? A ZOMBIES reunion ???🥸😜

@@ROWBRONCO Да, да, да! Но давай уж на своём родном напиши то задание, что тебе дали, не теряй время, а то мы без твоих коментов не поймём в чём дело

🌕🌕🌕 America is the ultimate terrorised state which invaded dozens of countries, if America is nuked the whole world 🌍 sigh with relief

I think there was a lot left out ukposts.info/have/v-deo/oplzjKOZoq2atKs.html

Marginal "professor" Snyder is our American jerk. Most Americans would not agree with him. We see reality that Russia has now 25% of Ukraine because Russian people there voted for going back to Russia. More (Odessa, Harkov) to come to Russia. More to come to Poland (Lvov).

Have you also read Bill Browder?

"Totally true. You cannot deal with Fascism with words." Then why doesn't west listen? Why can't west make a solid arguments? Why can't west stop lying, bullying and insulting, creating accusations without a purpose of the words? Because you can't deal west with words, as west is completely fascist culture, projecting themselves on others.

He reminds me Steven Martin from Roxana movie. The more hi lies the more his nose grows, like Pinokio's. He has "no comments option" for practically all his videos. The biggest Historian Lyer in the World. Hi from USA. 😁😁😁😁

@@mishaknopkin2199 If you want lies in history, check out some Russian textbooks.

@@dragonade85 Russian/Soviet textbooks are quite objective. Hi from USA 😁😁😁😁

@@mishaknopkin2199 The ones that delete any mention of Ukraine? The ones that make no mention of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, or of Katyn, or indeed of any of Russia's actions in Poland? The ones that lead people to believe that Britain changed sides during WW2? Very objective.

@@dragonade85 The ones which bring the very main truth: the Soviet Union saved the World from Nazi in 1945. And the World order is based on that simple fact. Russia is among Five-Big in UN and nobody can change this unless WW3. And now Russia returned its territories in Ukraine with people who are happy to be back in Russia. Not objective?

Check out his Yale Lecture series on Ukraine. It will change your world view.

checjk out his 20 session “history of Ukraine” on UKposts; I’ve been binge listening while working outdoors. I wish all Americans would read and listen to Mr Snyder.

He is well-known among intellectuals as a Historian of Eastern Europe. He is Professor of History at Yale University.

Very true, his lecture are excellent and as non-biased as it gets!

You enjoyed his classroom lectures on Ukraine? Whoa. I kept waiting for him to talk about Ukraine. Instead, he talked about the alphabet, the ways rulers become rulers, etc.. He got lost in silly ephemera and never made a point or told the history of modern Ukraine....which I THOUGHT was the intention of his class. What a waste of money...to send your kid to Yale and find this teacher jabbering on about the alphabet. I fall into the realist camp, but that doesn't mean I don't like listening to the other side's point of view. Sorry to say, Snyder doesn't have one that makes sense.

@@PIANOSEEDS the more lessons you watch the more you learn...am at lesson 30 ..and yes in the beginning it seems that way ...profound studies acquire time

I enjoyed those lectures and also recommend the book Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy. He gives the best history of Ukraine in English.

And do not forget Timothy Snyder is always is a good historian to get informed even with social media.

I have just discovered the channel... This was one of the best Snyder interviews. He is always an interesting guest, but he really have made great points. This channel has very few subscribers considering the people that he has interviewed

America is the ultimate terrorised state which invaded dozens of countries, if America is nuked the whole world 🌍 sigh with relief

Marginal "professor" Snyder is our American jerk. Most Americans would not agree with him. We see reality that Russia has now 25% of Ukraine because Russian people there voted for going back to Russia. More (Odessa, Harkov) to come to Russia. More to come to Poland (Lvov).

"His argumentation at minute 45 is so simple and clear, yet hard to comprehend to any nation that has never endured atrocities of deportations, "reeducation" and in general destruction of its intellectual elite by some other big world power." You understand he is telling disinformation from start to begin? Bucha atrocity is known to be made by Ukraine. Mariupol atrocity is known to be made by Ukraine. It is Kiev that was terrorizing, "reeducating" and destructing their citizens from what they were, to become something citizens were not, and then killed them for that if they didn't accept and yield, abandoning their language, culture, religion and soul. His arguments are simple because he is deceiving and reinventing events and cause-effect reasons, projecting almost everything.

The thing is that a majoryty of his subscribers are russians or russsian- speaking people. And they're all dwelling on Michail's russsian-language channel which there's here on You Tube too. They're far more su bscribers on(in ) it. Sorry for my poor English ... But I' m russian(half russian if one can express it in more exact terms)and I try to lern English. That's why I'm here.

Only reason I found this was Sarcasmitron cited Snyder as the basis of his Ukraine videos.

Blessings from Switzerland

what a Bullshit 😂

What or where is your society?

There was a lot of death and pillage in America, but likely not to the extent you're imagining. Most people died due to disease Europeans brought with them, and not because Europeans decided to murder them.

ukposts.info/have/v-deo/h6p-gIaKj5hos4k.html

Marginal "professor" Snyder is our American jerk. Most Americans would not agree with him. We see reality that Russia has now 25% of Ukraine because Russian people there voted for going back to Russia. More (Odessa, Harkov) to come to Russia. More to come to Poland (Lvov).

My mother’s family were polish farmers in Ukraine when Russia invaded and sent them to Siberia gulags where they died. My mother became an orphan at 4yrs old. She said “Russia saved her life”…..think about it. The Germans slaughtered people but Stalin wanted workers/slaves. The Ukrainian people were mostly Nazis supporters of German ss who were all murders worse than the German ss. Snyder forgets that part

I would be interested in that too. Afraid that such material is difficult to find in English translation. I googled "russian literature from polish perspective" with some results

Look for: Czesław Miłosz 'Native realm'.

@@geothon Czesław Miłosz 'Native realm'.

@@KM769 Thank you.

Eva Thompson “Imperial Knowledge: russian literature and colonialism”. Great work.

That is not the essence of fascism. Fascism is a state united around a dictator. The U.S. has never had a dictator, though Trump seems to want to be one.

not yet but it could be soon .

Its where its going

As a Romanian, I feel the same way. But it's a kind of paradox. On one side the Russian culture with its undeniable geniuses and on the other the primitivism and sadism of the Russian people with the tens of millions of victims of tsarist and communist imperialism, especially Stalin, Putin's hero. I think all the peoples of Eastern and South Eastern Europe (except Serbia and oddly Hungary) are Russophobic

powodzenia!

Poland is a dictatorship supported by a reactionary catholic church.

@icky Vicky I agree. I know what Bereza Kartuska is and that before World War II there was discrimination against Ukrainians, Jews and other minorities. And I can say "sorry about that." But I also remember my grandparents' stories. I think the best way is to say "we forgive and ask for forgiveness".

We Jews can say the same about poles. Too bad the red army did not disintegrate poland to nonexistence.

plus "glorifying a seemingly better past".

Marginal "professor" Snyder is our American jerk. Most Americans would not agree with him. We see reality that Russia has now 25% of Ukraine because Russian people there voted for going back to Russia. More (Odessa, Harkov) to come to Russia. More to come to Poland (Lvov).

I am watching those lectures myself. There are 6 so far, a new one is posted weekly as they happen so subscribe to the channel for the notification or be mindful to look for new ones each week.

He reminds me Steven Martin from Roxana movie. The more hi lies the more his nose grows, like Pinokio's. He has "no comments option" for practically all his videos. The biggest Historian Lyer in the World. Hi from USA. 😁😁😁😁

@@mishaknopkin2199 lol dude

"particularly in the former communist word" Yeah, calling anyone you don't like a fascist is definitely something you hear very rarely in western democracies, especially these past few years...

Not really. A schizofascist is a bad guy that does not know he is a bad guy, just like all the bad guys.

@@Saruman38 He's talking about where it started, not how it's used now only.

It was because the Soviets couldn't call the Nazis either "Nazis/national socialists" (too close to Soviet socialists) or Germans (since they were helped by a dozen other counties and communism is supposed to be internationalist). (The other term used during the war was "Hitlerite".)

You are correct. Soviet propaganda never explained fascism in terms of dictatorship. Because if Russians knew what it was, they might want to fight their own government. So the meaning became diluted in the Russian consciousness. When Putin claimed Ukraine and Zelenskyy were Nazis, the West burst out laughing at that nonsense reason for war.

do not worry, the old putinist is on the Mirotvorez website now. Anyone can get his personal information and smash his face. As they do years in Ukraine

@@olgaltey3278 That upsets me that we heed to the advice of such lowlives as him in the West, he sold his own country to China, and has been getting the dividends ever since, by and large I don't respect neither him nor whoever quotes that senile russist pro-Putin pro-Kremlim walking dead

After All Elizabeth Holmes was able to put one over on him, Kissinger, George Schultz, and Rupert Murdoch, among others.

Totally agree.

You are very brave to out yourself like this on the internet. Regardless of wether or not we agree politically I respect your honesty and openness.

Hey there! Kudos for nuanced take on politics. As a Russian interested in foreign politics (partially because we have none functional in Russia) and didn’t sleep through the night on 2016 elections, I was amazed at what happened and had high hopes for Trump. As much of a buffoon Trump is, he was the sort of man Putin perceived as a threat to deal with carefully rather that start war while he’s in office. The other thing was that Hillary, a corrupt to the bone establishment politician, had no honest stance on anything. I don’t think voting for the one candidate that has no dementia is bad. You also now have really based Ron who doesn’t make himself a buffoon in public eye and thus presents as a more competent politician rather than media man Trump is. Stay strong, stay sane, don’t fall into far-something ideologies. I hope it all ends soon

@@jordanhicken7812 I appreciate that reply. At times I feel a little bit sick over the whole thing in Ukraine. Not just the war itself, but the ways different people are dealing with it/experiencing it. Quite a few people I know and love. I don't like a lot of the knee jerk hate towards Russians, though I think a lot of what I saw in Georgia wasn't really hate and was more frustration. One of my closest friends from Kazakhstan is ethnically Russian and very orthodox and is now living in Russia with her husband and daughter and she's trying to get her Russian citizenship. She's one of the kindest people I've ever met in my life. We connect over our common faith. Calling ourselves "conservatives" doesn't seem to say much to me. She's my friend and she affirms my faith in being called to love. She knows Americans don't "hate Russians" in a personal way through her friendship with me. I have another close friend from Kazakhstan who lived in Russia and now lives in Tbilisi. When I visited her in Russia, even though she's not religious she found a Catholic Church so that we could go to mass together. I didn't even ask. She thought that was important for me. I saw her and her husband recently in Tbilisi. I love her a ton. She doesn't want Georgia to get too russified, but primarily she speaks Russian 😂. She knows that. She made pancakes my last day there. My friend and sister. Calling her "liberal" doesn't mean much. I have a Russian flag and a Ukrainian flag at home. I hate that a Ukrainian flag bumper sticker now suggests something about my politics to people. It's like how the mask during covid suddenly became a political symbol whether you wanted it to or not. If you wore one it was because you supported the new global elite, and if you didn't it was because you wanted to kill babies. - I love my friends. I can't celebrate everyone's beliefs, but we're each individually called to Love.

The comment of the sane outlier here... TDS seems to have eaten Snyder's brain. And his wholly unsubstantiated regurgitation of the Russian collusion hoax. Fine historian but when it comes to analyze the reality in the country he is living in he is more than clueless

@@LoliLikesPedobear lol you actually think putin thought of trump as a 'threat' to be dealt with carefully?? There are none so blind as those who won't see.

Marginal "professor" Snyder is our American jerk. Most Americans would not agree with him. We see reality that Russia has now 25% of Ukraine because Russian people there voted for going back to Russia. More (Odessa, Harkov) to come to Russia. More to come to Poland (Lvov).

Well people should reject imperialism. Why is that left wing thinking? Is it right wing thinking to want to be an imperialist?

@@arjan2777 It's 19th century logic

@@TravisJones812 I think that it has more to to whether you are an imperialist yourself or whether you are one of the victims or targets of imperialism. Imperialists invent all kind of stories to explain that they are really the good guys but for a target of imperialism like Ukraine it is self evident that Imperialism is not a good thing. Zelensky himself is not exactly left wing, certainly not in a European context.

So you think it's fine and dandy that your country was founded on mass genocide? On slavery? You think the Native Americans didn't reject all that manifesting? And no, Ukraine was never willing to negotiate away their territory to an invading force that was intent on erasing their identity. If China were to invade you would you be willing to appease them by ceding any of your territory? Of course not. And if they had raped your children and grandmother, would it be wrong for you to want revenge? Your blind spots are astounding. You think the US was 'going strong' right through the 90s?? Try picking up a real history book. I don't know why I'm bothering with this, you're clearly just another idiot Republican.

They realised what would happen to the Ukrainian citizens if Ukrainian territories stayed under Russian control. They must have been horrified. Nobody could imagine a European country acting so barbarically in 2022.

How so? Didn't he say America was basically acting like current Russia during the Vietnam war?

He isn’t always right. But as close to real situation as American can be, probably.

It's also a pretty good adjective for the Russian government.

@@kmg474 and the canadian government and the british government and the german government and in some american states etc. in the way they treat their own citizens when they have a different opinion than the state official policy - people are being taken away their freedom of expression (ironically the thing on which they like to brag about in their own empty & shallow discourses), they are taken away their bank accounts, their livelyhoods (such a soviet communist move :)) ), cancel from their job, imprisoned & taken to court for protesting a school board on how they abused your children, book banning in universities etc.

@@kmg474completely not,Ukrainen state is fascist

​@@brookman2923mmmm no, no it isn't. Just open your eyes.

@@kmg474 yes,it’s so for sure! Open your eyes! Political parties closed down,opposition media closed down,only one tv channel with Zelensky … freedom is limited severe other than Ukrainian languages are forbidden ,other religions forbidden…sure 100% fascist state Saloreich ( Ukrainians themselves gave this name to their country)

You've lost me there. Pushkin glorified war, duels, and everything else "manly and chivalry". Much like every other "manly man" of his time. I fail to remember imperialist depictions in his prose, i.e. how cultured great russia is compared to barbaric savages of the Caucasus, and how much good russia is doing by bringing civilization through death and fire. Then again, I might have faulty memory, and he indeed did it. But then Dostoevsky... He's a chauvinist, a racist, absolutely, but imperialist? With his polish parents? Like lmao. Dude wrote about existential dread. What political imperialist agenda he had and when? Maybe you can find something when he was young and cared, but the works people know him for, crime and punishment, brothers karamazov - really? But probably beyond this point, what exactly would one expect from writers living through actual empires? It was completely normal to want to conquer others, universally, across various western cultures, expansion for the sake of expansion. The key ingredient that would make it truly bad is divide into superior and lesser races.

Channel One Russia.

I stand with Ukraine! A Brazilian living in Odessa :) Your country deserves all the respect and recognition

@@paulajnt wooow I lived in Odesa for 6 years. What's your Instagram?

@@paulajnt thank you for support! 🇺🇦🤝🇧🇷

He reminds me Steven Martin from Roxana movie. The more hi lies the more his nose grows, like Pinokio's. He has "no comments option" for practically all his videos. The biggest Historian Lyer in the World. Hi from USA. 😁😁😁😁

@@mishaknopkin2199 Миша, тебе Путин разрешил такое писать?

So what, every time a foreigner is interviewed about Ukraine there has to be a Ukrainian present? Was Snyder wrong about you?

@@kkpenney444 A good idea is to invite a Ukrainian volunteer or expert who knows the matter from inside. I have a great respect for Tymothy Snyder but he is not a Ukrainian, doesn't reside in Ukraine and cannot know all the context. Especially when interview comes from russian side, feels weird discussing what is happening in Ukraine without anyone who actually lives here.

@@user-vr3gr9ex1l This is ridiculous. You're allowing perfect to be the enemy of good. I guess we should all just shut up about you then. Good luck.

Perhaps you have not enough exposure in academic situations with an international background in which English is primarily a bridge language. What is more valuable to you -- educated perspectives from a variety of cultural backgrounds or ease of consumption.

@@youtubewatcher2 1) That's kinda unreasonable to expect from random people on youtube, and it's irrelevant too. 2) Both. Product is a product, better fluency won't make the content worse. I see no contradictions here.

@@NorthonBruce unreasonable expectations is the issue. Yours, for example.

He may well speak in spurts and bursts in Russian too. I don't think his English is that bad,,,I think it's just the way he talks.

@@susanbalog8355 His Russian speech is good, he understands English well, it's just obvious that he often struggles to find a fitting word in English, most likely because, and this is my guess, he didn't practice it too much until recently. Well, because, obviously, as a Russian journalist (and he is a good journalist) he worked primarily in Russian.

He reminds me Steven Martin from Roxana movie. The more hi lies the more his nose grows, like Pinokio's. He has "no comments option" for practically all his videos. The biggest Historian Lyer in the World. Hi from USA. 😁😁😁😁

@@mishaknopkin2199 okay, comrade.

The issue here is eastern Ukraine plus Crimea, which is historical Russian land since the 1700's to about 1922, and Russia having a naval base in Crimea since the 1700's. Then the USSR happened, with Russia being the big dog state of the USSR, Ukraine being another state. And, the Russian Ruling Elite don't want The West to have that land by way of Ukraine. It's prime real estate, with a substantial Russian history and ethnic-Russian population, and it's a core of Russian history, it's core Russian neighborhood. Russia is taking a stand on multi-polarity of the world, along with China, in counter to The West / USA.

"Mikhail Zygar, "Founding editor-in-chief of Dozhd TV channel ". That says it all. PS That a professor at Yale university would stoop to this level also says a lot. " What does it say?