Barbara Walter on How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them | Upfront Summit 2022
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- New York Times bestselling author Barbara Walter talks with Jeff Berman of Magnet Companies about how civil wars start, how to mitigate risks for one, and the unique aspects of American democracy.
Recorded March 1, 2022 at the Upfront Summit. - Věda a technologie
One thing to remember was Yugoslavia wasn’t a part of the Warsaw Pact. But BEFORE Yugoslavia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, etc. hated each other.
I love her historical insights and equating it with what’s happening now. It’s not rocket science! We have studies from history up to today which teach us exactly what is happening now in the USA and what we can expect from the current political climate. I could listen to her talk for hours
Her example of how Milosevic used a strategy to "other" the Croats sounds similar to the speech Biden gave Sept. 2nd, 2022. Curious as to what her opinion is on Bidens speech.
and what biden and Trudeau did to other the unjabbed
When he called them "semi-fascists"?
I just finished her book. Fascinating.
Fellow Council on Foreign Relations, PhD political science U of Chicago
@@toddswanson3676 Would you be open to recommending other works that you've found interesting?
Top of mind comes Philippe Gigantès' 'The Secret History of the Rulers of the World: The Power & Greed of the Grand Acquisitors' was recommended to me by a colleage, ten years ago; It covers ~3500 years of history, including rulers who were x) bent on acquisition, often at any [human] cost, and y) law-makers, bent on controlling the chaos. The author's choices of political leaders were often nuanced, which was appreciated.
Joseph Campbell's 'The Hero With a Thousand Faces' and Stephen Fry's recent Greek-mythology series, particularly 'Heroes', I'd rushed to get back to, though they're not political-science; But Ray Dalio's 'Principles' I'm enjoying, right now, and am happy to recommend it.
People need to learn what democracy actually means.
Democracy is mob rule.
That concept alone is why this country was founded as a Democratic Republic.
BIG DIFFERENCE.
That's it- There'so much room for responsible fiscal conservatism, business legislation, and so on, within the ability to vote for representation. Autocracy is a hell of a step backward into threateningly risky territory; Capital flees areas of instability and a civil war would have horrifyingly, broadly bad effects on the standard of living.
...and the fact that were not even a democracy.. Duh.
I hope the FBI is keeping a careful list of all these extremists, left and right
You know they only care about the right. :/
nah just the criminals bud, most of them happen to be right, I know one with 91 felony counts, a real piece of shit @@Noodlepunk
@paullavallee1631 How many antifa have been arrested? Lmaoo they are allowed to burn down cities but cause it is the serfs its OK?
so we are basically fucked.
if CIA didn't allowed you to study in United states, who give you the permission to study the other nations you have come up with? I have just realized today that US is not democratic as we hear or expect
The CIA cannot allow her to study the United States. As she was working on the CIA's behalf, she could not because according to its 1947 charter, it cannot gather intelligence on the United States. Had her work-group included the US, it would have violated the CIA charter.
You are the only one surprised by these variables.
Honestly I look forward to another Civil War. We have got way too many problems that can be taken care of at the ballot box. No one has anything incommon anymore and talking isn’t working.
My god, that does not sound good. Thanks for her professional knowledge though.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
Imagine that Sweden declares their democracy superior 🤣
She is a professor..it is called studying!
Good luck idjits
This is hysterical.
Why?
@@jtFacts77 she is probably part of the "sons of the soil" who is being downgraded by the newcomers.
@@artonodarmodjo6154 Oooooookaaaay. (Backs out of room slowly. )
The truth hurts, eh?
Not in the least, it’s a warning of where we could be heading if we’re not careful
truth teller
So the Russian ukraine war is this a Civil War.
More Minorities like low gas prices, less crime, and jobs. Barbara thinks Republicans are deplorable. Biden divided the country more and never reached across the isle.
Barbara doesn’t think that. The facts do. This was brewing long before the current inflation crisis.
She is brushing over history, and frankly having been deployed to several of the places she mentions, it is obvious she hasn't done her homework.
She probably has done much more homework on the subject than you, who just make comments from a keyboard
She is ignoring a large part of Balkan History,.
It is only a 1/2 hour interview. Go read her book.
Listen to her other, longer lecture(s) on CZcams.
How is the democratic party not a racialized party when they have advocated for race specific policies for decades.
One must understand the Liberal as an infantile, sheltered creature, in which the Real World is not as powerful as their Harry Potteresque conception of good and evil.
FAFO
How can she speak about the deaths of civilians and the horror of war in such an easy and lackadaisical fashion. Zero empathy, bordering on sociopathic
And with a smile on her face I might add. There's some emotional tone deafness there unfortunately.
Lack of emotion is exactly her point. I would guess that she doesn't lack empathy for those folks, but her message wouldn't be bolstered by being lachrymose. You sound like someone who might be looking for reasons to denigrate the messenger because you can't refute the facts of her message, a tactic similar to people who blame a rape victims because she wore a short skirt. Focusing on the wrong things won't help us out of our mess, but that will take honesty on the part of our citizenry who lay awake at night with fears of a dark skinned horde coming for their stuff.
That’s completely looking past the actual issue here. She’s simply a professional, not an alarmist, that’s just how she always talks. If you can’t look at this intellectually from her line of work, you shouldn’t be in this line of work.
I think it's mostly to do with the fact that she's a professor who teaches this stuff to academic students. However point taken, and she may need to adjust herself to mainstream - particularly if she's trying to alert and inform a broader audience. Regardless the information she's providing is critical.
You can't have ties to CIA and not be a little sociopathic
I just read her book. Not fascinating at all.
Why? Do you not like FACTS?
..am not much of a reader; but it is so refreshing to just listen to her!
dave u mad?
If a book is not a novel or a comic it does not have to be fascinating!
It has to present well researched facts and good reasoning.
You probably don´t like her and her book because it doesn´t praise the USA as the "greatest democracy on earth"
Oligarchy, not a democracy
Nonsense