10 Surprises of the War in Ukraine
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- čas přidán 7. 02. 2024
- In this video, I introduce you to the 10 surprises of the war in Ukraine set out in Emmanuel Todd, The Defeat of the West (La Défaite de l'Occident). What has the reality test of the war taught us about geopolitics, history and the future of the US-led alliance of NATO?
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Its crazy that everybody is pretending like the war in Jugoslavia never happened
"American intervention"
Mississippi has health metrics approaching Bangladesh.
We do live in liberal oligarchy like romans had that kind of democracy before they became one man show.
Excellent. Great to see people in Britain using their brains.
Ultimately, it does not matter if the West lifts its manufacturing output, because if there are not enough troops to use said weapons then they are simply not going to be used or indeed not used properly. Ukraine has been calling on neighbouring countries to return Ukrainians that left the country at the outset of the war and has been "press ganging" its population into the military, where the average age is now 45+. The war need not have happened, but players such as Boris Johnson convinced Zelensky to rebut any notion of a negotiated settlement. Biden's rhetoric has also changed, going from "we will support Ukraine for as long as it takes" to "we will support Ukraine for as long as we can". The Western military products are also more complex and require greater skill levels to operate and maintain, whereas the Russian products are [generally] more utilitarian and robust requiring less skill to operate and, in most cases, maintain.
Very interesting. Perhaps a number of these points are not so surprising if one pays attention to relatively recent history. The first thing is that this war did not begin in February 2024. It begin with the US instigated and funded Maidan coup in 2014. If one looks at the Rand think tank documents the plan was to draw Russia into a war in Ukraine, sanction it heavily so that it would collapse as a unitary state. It could then be balkanised and the West could steal its resources.
I am surprised that the superiority of Russian offensive and defensive weapons was not among those 10 highlights. The converse is true of Western/USA weapons.
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An interesting analysis which reflects closely a lecture that I have been giving for some time. In essence, the USA is using the war in Ukraine and also its allies, to facilitate a desperate rearguard action to maintain its world hegemony, which is an integral part of its political philosophy and self-esteem. NATO and European countries have essentially been hijacked and groomed to support and legitimise this probably doomed initiative. It is not easy to explain this shift except perhaps in the case of the UK which followed George W Bush slavishly into Iraq, against considerable public outrage. As a UK citizen, I too was surprised and aghast at the alacrity with which the UK adopted a bellicose posture in 2022 although one suspects that the political machinations of the charlatan Boris Johnson were a significant factor. This is contemporary politics: in the event of a crisiis the USA attributes the roles of hero and villain (no nuances), and proceeds on that basis without regard to precedents, past history and the long perspective.
Merci Monsieur pour diffuser la pensée de Todd
Russia mistake in the early stages was trying to use her forces to stage a protest and force a coupe instead of all out war
I hope Todd's book will be translated into English as my French language skills are quite bad. Good video!
This is excellent, I agree 100% with the 10 surprising facts!!
The unchecked greed and arrogance towards others, will be met with retribution unawares from the arrogance.
Russians withdraw voluntarily from Kyiv as part of the signeerattu peace deal in Istanbul April 2022.
Good to see that the true significance of this battle is coming to light.
I suspect Emmanual Todt was listening to Alexander Mercouris....
Thank you.Great help.
There is war all over the world, Congo etc but everyone makes a song and dance about Ukraine war.