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Don't confuse defeat with surrender, especially when communicating in French.

For many people such as us Romanians, Poles and the Baltics it meant a great day but we still have to deal with the mess they left behind, for some others it mean they lost money on weapons deals

Assuming somebody does not take the stand to fix the problem, yes all civilizations rise and fall, but for the average Asian, Russia is in the larger West, it is filled with white people and Christians, But ROME was split into 2 parts, the Western and Eastern provinces with the Western breaking apart into smaller states while the Eastern Roman Empire, Romanion by them or Byzantium by the Greeks fell to the Ottomans, after many years of stagnation, plagues and even being betrayed by there own Christian allies, There has never been a greater attempt to unify Europe since Charlemagne and Napoleon, but Maron is neither, don't get me wrong the sword has reigned for over 1000 years it will still reign,

Very good review, I can't wait to read Todd's book in Portuguese.

Emmanuel Todd's thesis in "The Defeat of the West" is simple. For him, the West owes its domination on the World thanks to the Protestantism which had imposed direct access of the faithful to the biblical text. Hence the obligation to teach the people to read and write imposed by the Protestant reform. This religious precept which had no economic motivation will have considerable consequences on the cultural and technical take-off of the West which will therefore dominate the world since the 15th century. For Emmanuel Todd, it is the end of christian religious beliefs which is the cause of the defeat of the West. He locates the end of these christian religious beliefs in the West in the generalization of homosexual marriage which he doesn't condemn but which he is content to note as a good dispassionate sociologist.

Video on ‘The Americans, would be cool fun. 😁

The current war and the events and circumstances in Russia nowadays are not very surprising, since they can be explained by a careful and objective analysis of comparable past historical happenings. Analyzing similar past historical events, according to my readings and observations, I think one is able to notice that essential great powers go through the same stages or phases of rise, growth and decline, one after another. The situation and conditions in Russia and the current war or conflict in Ukraine are comparable in many aspects to what happened to the USA during the Spanish American war of 1898. That war ended with peace negotiations, and the current war will very likely end the same way. After the Spanish American war the USA emerged as a reinvigorated great power and became more prosperous. Another notable observation is that about three decades before the Spanish American war, the USA went through the period of the Civil War, when the nation became divided and experienced a breakdown. Similar or comparable events heppened about three decades ago in Russia and the USSR in the 1990s. After the Civil War the USA recovered and regained its prosperity and strength. Similarly, in the last couple of decades Russia gradually got back its prosperity, influence and strength. Geopolitical alliances and groupings change with time, which could be a century or a number of decades. Interestingly, the word "West" in its modern geopolitical sense began to be used at the start of the 20th century, in order to bring the USA closer to European powers and to join the USA with Europe. Now that events are changing, the world is becoming multipolar, perhaps new words will be used to designate new geopolitical realities and alliances.

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„To make sense“ of us foreign policy isnt that difficult, actually. It is what it seems to be and what they say it is.

Dude: How did the USSR collapsed? Was it Socialism or Communism or...? Chad: Yes.

Excellent work. Errata: 1955 is not the first expansion of NATO. 1952: accession of Greece and Turkey. Let's not forget the original announced battlefield of the Cold War.

01:07:07 would be worth mentioning that NATO - Ucraine Charta has been signed in 1997 in Madrid. Same year Brezinskys book on the "democratic bridgehead" has been published.

I'm missing a few things or people that were and are important in this context. - Stalin suggested that the West return the former German territories in the East and East Germany in exchange for a neutral Germany, as in the case of Austria. The German Chancellor Adenauer refused. - Khrushchev was ousted when he spoke out in favor of rapprochement with West Germany. Incidentally, the first plans for Soviet Internet were made under him. Breshnev stopped it. Under Breshnev (who was Ukrainian by birth), the clans (oligarchs) also rose in Ukraine - including the Breshnev clan. - The US agreement with Saudi Arabia on oil production to ruin the Soviet Union. - Japan's rise to superpower status was halted by Ronald Reagan's US sanctions and financial policies (see "Princes of the Yen" by Richard Werner). - The fall of the Wall was promoted and planned also by circles around the Soviet secret services. See Reinhard Otto Kranz and Michael Wolski, code name "Lyuch". Under Andropov it was planned to get rid of Honecker because he refused to reform and open the GDR. - 1991 August coup against Gorbachev. Gorbachev dismissed the entire Soviet military and replaced them with pro-Western ones. - 1991 Belovezha Accords, which Yeltsin signed unconstitutionally (and despite previous referendums in the Soviet Union on the continued existence of the Soviet Union) in a private meeting, thus dissolving the Soviet Union. - In 1993, the de facto coup d'état of Yeltsin to power, who subsequently ruled unconstitutionally by decree only. - Brzezinski was influenced by the historian Alexandre Bennigsen (to promote and to support national independence efforts and destroy Russia from within) His daughter was also heavily involved in supporting the Chechen leaders of the time. The planned Chechen Naxar currency was already being printed in UK at the time. - The wave of privatization during the 1990s primarily affected companies that were of existential importance for Russia's continued existence and was based on the hypothetical nuclear bomb attacks on Russia by the USA. - Charles De gaulle's withdrawal from the nato structure and rapprochement with the soviet union was also due to the attempted coup against him in which the us foreign intelligence service and the german foreign intelligence service under gehlen were involved.

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Everybody is telling their own version of history skipping parts they don’t care about and amplifying parts they want. I’m amused how casually you mention Chechen war and Bombing of Serbia without giving any details of what was happening, how civilians were killed and bombed.

The Vulcans and the Rape of Russia. Jeffrey Sachs, Larry Sumners and the havard jews. Seven out of 8 Russian oligarchs involved inthe Rape are jews.

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Democracy = friendly dictatorship.

Re Soviet Union and a Marshall Plan. And "kicking a peace-loving enemy in the teeth when it was down on its knees." Two words: Jeff Sachs

I didn't know of Dr Faustus until I heard the Holy Spirit say to me that "Donald Trump was like Faustus, and I looked him up... Then I understood. Thanks for doing this show. It's my first time hearing you. I subscribed

Another good outing. Thanks. I'd counter that NATO was never really a defensive alliance. But that's too much to argue in the comment section. Have been wondering if you could explain the origin of the name for your channel?

Thanks for this very interesting translation insight on human development as found amongst current western peoples. I have been thinking along similar lines but from a spiritual perspective. It could be said that the western peoples culture has taken humanity into the void, cold and separation found in mass materialism. Away from religion and spiritual truths of the past. This is not essentially negative. people need to experience the cold, void and separation found in materialism.this help us to truly understand what love is.the aim then to retrace and retreat back to life of value based on love and spiritual truths. western culture is leading humanity into ,cacoon of void of mass materialism.The next stage of humanity development will be spiritual awakening and not religion. Those who have experienced the extreme void of materialism as found now,they will be able to choose a higher path due to this. individual spirit will be able to transform materialism into the warmth, togetherness and love found in spirit. Not death but a transformation.

Good video! I think you explain the situation in Europe and Japan well. Faustian and wannabe Faustian.

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7 minutes in and you still haven't even begun talking about the topic. Some of us have to go to work you know.. Bye.

Wrong about who prepped Maidan . US not Germany.

Excellent video but one small note. A basic Internet search at the time of Barak's election showed that both his parents and stepfather worked for the Agency / State Department and his first job was for an Agency front journal.

NATO is simply an opportunity to legitimize the presence of U.S. troops and military infrastructure in Eurasia. Control over Europe. To prevent the rapprochement of Europe with Russia... that's all

1:01:17 Greetings from Moscow Rational clarity

the future of the west is in the orient = where the sun of intelligence rises occident means where the sun sets. (indeed we see it every day )

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Thanks for this interesting video. As Italian in love with Late Antiquity, NATO Alliance reminds me that wonderful late-roman source known as Notitia Dignitatum, depicting the Late Roman Army as huge, magnificent, invincible bastion against the incoming "barbaricum", but actually, when the document was forced to face the reality of the V century, it showed clearly that all those legions, auxilia, numeri, cohorts, with their magnificent shields, were just paper soldiers and beautiful drawings, and on 476 AD after 80 years, there was nothing and nobody able to stop Odovacer. Just paper soldiers to please a bureaucracy feeling the entire system of power on which it was sitting was crumbling down.

NATO ha, ha, ha, the NAZI American Terrorist Organization! Can't forget the CIA supporting NAZI's going into Ukraine by 1949, then Harry Truman's initial NATO 'Police Action' in Korea. Of course General MacArthur shot his mouth off about Taiwan likening it to an unsinkable aircraft carrier. MacArthur going into North Korea did divert the PRC's PLA from taking care of the KMT. General Ridgeway had to settle for a truce in Korea. NATO grew in the 1950's as Churchill re-emerged in Britain (FDR's cousin) after bringing Truman along as his poodle out of office. Few people know Churchill arranged for the arrangement of Eastern Europe on the back of an envelope with Stalin in the Fall of 1944 before Yalta with FDR and Stalin. This covered Britain's phony war with France over Poland. Khrushchev was denied NATO membership as Stalin was.

The mass shootings are CIA created, as are most unrest via BLM & Antifa funded by Soros & set up by the intelligence agencies.

It has never been clearer to me that what is called the "civilized west" is in a total degeneration in which ethics, morality and respect no longer have any value. A completely derailed society that destroys itself in total euphoria and sucks the entire planet into it. They have no motivation whatsoever for a meaningful existence, let alone the need for a civilized, harmonious world. Dehumanization in which no attempt is made to come closer to each other but the chronic need for conflict is the driving force that produces illusionary "wealth". It's nothing but death and destruction. Ghosts in a state of stinking decomposition

Like your videos but I don't have 2 hours to watch this one. Starting at 1990 when things got real interesting.

About as tragic as the Massacre of Peterloo 1819 WHICH WAS ALSO TO PROTECT THE RICH !

Incredibly helpful and honest stuff. It is exceptionally rare when the westerners embark onto a soul searching journey of such depth and clarity. Even before Mr. Todd's book, these kinds of discussions flooded the Russian media. The west has lost its mind in many ways due to departure from the beliefs in a higher authority and higher good. Now the elites are seeking the eternal life in a body for themselves rather than trying to improve everybody's life. They are trying to "own" everything and everyone by printing "funny money", which is the #1 US export these days. And all that is covered by the deep secrecy, you may think that deep inside they are ashamed, but the secrecy is also a part of the internal struggle and serves the goal of establishing "the world government" (ancient British wet dream powered by the idea of superiority). Anyways, I'm glad that there is some alternative thought schools remaining in the west, however tiny. Also I'm glad that some counter-powers allow publishing such a material. I don't expect it's going to get popular, but nevertheless currently it is a liberal ideological desert, there should be some real discussion.

Democracy has taken the place of religion as a means for the ' elites ' to manage and control the masses. It's a total sham. Nothing more, nothing less.

The real reason of Angela Merkel admitting 1 million plus Syrians into Germany was not because of any heartfelt sympathy for them. It was because German industrialists wanted a source of cheap labour and Mrs Merkel delivered. The industrialists saw that America was getting a flood of migrant cheap labour from across their southern border made them jealous and nervous. They would need cheap labour in order to compete with the US. Now that Germany has lost their cheap Russian gas , I'm thinking the migrants will become drag on their economy

NATO is just another four letter word for EVIL.

Interesting you mention Thomas Mann and Christopher Marlowe as authors who contributed to the Faust legend, but not Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who's contribution is considered to be the most significant to this German legend (Urfaust, Faust 1 and Faust 2).

Outstanding perspectives from someone who is obviously very widely read and with an excellent meta-perspective of history and big ideas! While nothing is an aboslute truth, I can't help feeling completely aligned with what Todd is saying.

Considering the bellicosity of the 'Whig Commonwealth' it should be noted that at the same time the British military capability was undermined e.g. by *the 2010 'Strategic Defence and Security Review'* - a policy which Rob Johnson, resigned director of the novel 'Office of Net Assessment and Challenge' within the British Ministry of Defence, characterized as Britain now being incapable of engaging in military confrontation _on any scale_ (including counter-insurgency as during two decades of failed occupation/Westernization of Afghanistan). In other words, Great Britain - and by association the 'Commonwealth of Nations' - have been set up for catastrophe. The question is by whom - and to what end ?...

Maybe I'm not used to your MO, but after 15' still no substance... I loved your video on Todd's book, but here you're making a loooooong warm-up. Now 16'+ and it's kinda starting 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Which people shared common beliefs in the west? Did Native Americans share those common beliefs? What about enslaved Africans? Lol these arguments collapse without a racial perspective(as he is clearly talking about white people) yet there is always an attempt to run away from the racial nature of western society. Collective religious beliefs and disjunct religious beliefs have always and continue to yield the same results for non-white people, so again it’s an inaccurate lens as it leaves out too much of what really impacts/changes the world.

I disagree with Todd's characterization of the Maidan coup. It is clear that the US provoked a violent coup in 2014 to trigger a war with Russia that would divide Germany and Russia. Merkel went along for "democracy promotion", but not for the violent coup or a war that would hurt Germany more than anybody. In fact, Merkel vetoed Ukraine Nato/EU membership.

1:08:40 NATO!s needless aggression. Iraq invasion: nihilism and cult of lies

This is an excellent set of insights with a lot to unwrap from each of them. They clearly point at what is meant by the defeat. In my opinion, it doesn’t mean that the West will collapse, at least not immediately, but instead, it is slowly self-isolating, fortifying that bubble of self-instilled moral superiority that has blinded them to a changing world.