Tony Blair explains what he thinks changed Putin
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- čas přidán 24. 05. 2024
- Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair recounts his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and how he changed from "Western-facing" to "cold and calculating."
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Almost 20 years Tony and we haven’t forgotten what you did.
Don’t you ever get bored of saying that? Doesn’t it stunt your thinking?
I was against the Iraq invasion and walked out of the British Army over the first one and I also believe the second was a historical mistake.
However, this man was the longest serving Labour PM in British history and therefore may have a few insights into world politics. He had a working relationship with Putin.
In this video he’s speaking about Putin.
Did you even watch it?
War criminal just like putin
@@wittsend541 Everything youve said is true and he does bring an interesting perspective.. but we still shouldnt forget.
Teflon really fits Cicero's famous quip, "Politicians are not born. They are excreted."
@@wittsend541 The world would be a better place if Blair was never born.
So yeah the POS deserves it all. Every word.
We will never let him or others forget that he is a murderer.
Tony Blair of all people gives his perspective. The man who lied resulted in the death of so many Iraqi children.
And British soldiers.
Yes, don't bother with the British soldiers who lost their lives hey? I would be willing to put money on you living in the UK
Screw soldiers...they died doing what they get paid to do...and that's killing innocent foreigners
Today's world is run by psychopaths. That explains a lot.
Lol everyone's lives on the uk and cries for the middle east...go live there...oh no...if you go there your wives and daughters will have to wear Abaya, can't drink or drive...your people are hypocrites
As an Englishman, the name Tony Blair instills so much rage inside me..
He's mastered the art of speaking without saying anything
well youre brain can´t process it so for you it´s just bla bla bla *lol*
That’s why Sanna Marin works for him. It’s amazing how you can get money for not making anything useful.
Like your mum
The problem is people now catch that and now no one believe him
That's Blair to a tee
What a strange world we live in: Mass murderers are not punished, are free to walk around and are even asked their opinions on TV. If that's justice, who needs it?
And they can even laugh on TV.
This is fortune cookie politics if I have ever heard it.
Only inaccuracy in your argument is that he is not a mass murderer.
@@MrGranfield let's say "war criminal", along with George W. Bush and Jose Maria Aznar
@@MrGranfield he is certainly a scumbag an embarrassment to the working class who is supposed to represent,
war criminal fits he chose to spread the lies that the bush administration cooked up therefore is is responsible for all the atrocities of the americans and the so called allies
Russia must be forced out of Ukraine, having gained nothing, and pay severe reparations for the atrocities they have subjected Ukrainians to. No amount will be enough.
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⚡A Ukrainian lawmaker called on the United States to provide air defense systems and fighter jets to Ukraine, saying that the situation on the battlefield is "far worse" than it was at the beginning of the war.
“It is hell” on the frontlines right now, Oleksandra Ustinova told reporters at a German Marshall Fund roundtable in Washington Friday. “We keep losing many more men now than it was at the beginning of the war.”
Ukraine can launch an op into Crimea. Punch right down the middle of their lines and strike deep. They could even trash that naval base and then pull back before the russians can close that hole and send reinforcements.
Doing that will pull forces away from strategic areas and allow Ukraine to smack them hard in another push elsewhere.
@@Glory_2_Russia Plenty more where they came from.
It's tempting, but it's worth remembering that's what led to the rise of Hitler.
You are there with a War criminal... There is no pride in talking with him...
Tony B . War crime in Serbia
Kissinger was the third man missing from this discussion.
Amazing how CNN doesn't see the slightest bit of irony having Blair call someone else a war criminal lol
So true 😔
Just the other day George W. Bush made that slip of the tongue about the "illegal invasion of Iraq".
That is point. Well expressed
But karma is coming for the NWO minion - it will be massive and in proportion to the crimes he has committed..
Or they see it but not saying it: equals framing
Moral of the story: Always take advice from a war criminal ...
I hope the UK and US also pay the people of Iraq and Afghanistan reparations.
you are a 1000000 million percent correct my friend
@@tonycruzman162 they have completely censored our net an media. im surprised i even see your comment.
An April 2004 Gallup Poll showed Iraqis believed the invasion was "worth it" to overthrow Saddam Hussein by a margin of more than 2 to 1. Then in 2006, sectarian violence kicked into high gear, and they mass murdered each other and blamed their liberators. You want us to pay Iraqis reparations for not knowing what was best for them better than they did.
As for Afghanistan, their population *doubled* during America's 20 years in the country.
Why would we pay them for being terrorists? Remember they attacked USA and Kuwait first!
@@kmay4963 😂😂🤪 I see you watch a lot of CNN propaganda… I have no words for you … But one “Ignorance” is terrible
A man who knows a thing or two about massive strategic blunders leading to unnecessary bloodshed and a more unstable world…
stop calling it a blunder. The illegal invasion of Iraq was an utterly premeditated, calculated and criminal act of mass terrorism and murder. Putin aint got nothin' on Blair.
Seems like Putin knows a thing about strategic blunders too lmao
Iraq is not an utter failure.
@@parsahasselhoff7986 that is in spite of Blair, Bush and Cheney - not because of them.
Yes one war crimes criminal taking about another war crimes criminal. Perfect guest
The irony of one invader giving an analysis of another invader being 'detached from reality'......
His calculation didn't account for reverse psychology. Yes NATO as an organization was taking a back seat these few years. Now he's the single person responsible for waking up NATO and garnering nation support/buy-in for NATO.
I think the previous US administration and its aftermath gave Putin a false impression that the US and NATO were no longer an obstacle.
@@dr.g3860 All he did was gamble on a hunch. And he guessed wrong. Now he lose.
Plus a bit of revenge for all Russia's digital meddling all these years in the West too. It's payback time.
@@dr.g3860 There's a picture of Obama talking to Putin, looming over him with clearly dominant body language. That was probably the exact point Putin decided he needed someone dumber and easier to manipulate in the White House.
Understandably, in peaceful times, NATO and defense issues were taking a back seat among western nations that wanted to put resources into bettering their lives instead of producing weapons, which explains the diminishing importance of a defense alliance. Putin has been working to drive a wedge in that alliance for 2 decades, recently with the help of his "asset", Trump.
Unfortunately for him (and fortunately for us), he jumped the gun and jumped prematurely into his plans to increase the "lebensraum" for Russia. The whole thing has now blown up in his face
Inevitably - and unfortunately - the western nations are waking up to the reality that there are aspiring Hitlers everywhere, in Turkey, Hungary and Poland, but especially the runaway one in Russia - and China needs it's own dictatorial chapter! Putin is a goner, done for, kaput, but he and his regime will take a while to collapse. Russia will remain a pariah among nations for at least a generation or so, and any hope for a benign leadership that can work on introducing proper democracy and reducing the endemic Russian corruption is slim, indeed. Getting permanently rid of dictatorial and cruel leaders for the Russian people is long overdue.
Putin calculated the west was fragmenting (Brexit, Trump, Macron, Erdogan, Afghanistan) but it all backfired. He's contending now with the fact that both UKraine, NATO and the west generally, did not lack the inner resolution to resist aggression.
We in the "west" are lazy. We don't want to do things of we don't have to.
But we, especially in central Europe, will do pretty much anything to not be under Russian management. Right now Ukraine and Poland leads the way.
Erdogan? Since when is Turkey, a country in the Middle East, a part of the West?
Ironically he united the west in ways that we haven’t seen in decades.
I do believe that Russia should get something out of their war. This should be a subtraction of 600 billion from foreign reserves.
Such as, asia, china africa just look at these country's, they don't treat their own properly let alone others, each one is mentally unevolved
'Premature negotiations'...negotiations are never premature, especially on stopping this war
It's never too late to arrest him... never mind that he is not in politics anymore...
I like to ask him whether the invasion of Iraq was rational or act of madness
I think the real question is was saddam mad or rational?
@@lowercentenary is Zilensky rational or a clown? Are we really having this discussion? Why tf should they care about saddam being rational or not ? And he sure as hell was rational if u go check on the Iraqi economic performance in his Era, Iraq had the fastest economy growth in the world till 2003, it was also the first exporter of oil in the world for some period, where did all of that oil go ? Why Iraq isn't even in the top 10 today when it comes to oil? How did it turn from being richer than Arab golf countries to decades of war? And smh saddam is the one to blame ?
Ps:I'm not even Iraqi but I know this much, Saddam might have been a dictator but he was a patriotic guy and fought for his country till the last second, and saddam's dictatorship is 10000 times better than the western democracy that we are currently seeing in Iraq today.
Whether * and terrorist lands ask for crap. Ukraine did zero but want to be her own land, which she was and is
@@Joeyknows924 well yeeees, if you destroyed their country you take responsibility and the west should have hosted every single Iraqi who asked for Asylum, even if they are the worst kind of humans ever and even if having Ukranians might sound better (which u want to believe) it is your responsibility, they were living in better conditions than most Europeans and they were filthy rich before the west came into the picture, but you want oil and fortunes, geopolitical dominance in the middle east but feel bothered by refugees smh, you made me remember a very famous Arab quote "they steal your bread, give you a bite and then ask you to be grateful", that's what yall are shamelessly doing.
@@Joeyknows924 1, they did not ask for "democracy", 2, democracy is a choice people come up with, anything else isn't democracy and especially not war, 3, you kill 500.000 Iraqi, destroy the country to the ground with massive bombing, kill every single official, destroy the army and the police forces, plant puppets, steal fortunes and you don't expect a civil war to happen for years ? And smh it is the fault of Iraqis ? Wtf? And about the Christian-Muslim thing, I'm amazed XD 😆 and you call Muslims extremists and terrorists? And you believe Christians are smh better while you are here thinking that Christians can kill people from other religions and destroy their countries but they should help other Christians, if this ain't terrorist thoughts I dunno what it is, and the funniest statement made by you is that Muslims should take Iraqis as refugees? How marvelous XD so you kill, destroy, steal fortunes and other countries bear the consequences because of your religious delusion XD , and finally middle easterns and North Africans are already taking Yemenis, Palestinians, Iraqis, Syrians, Sudanese, Sub-Saharan Africans, South eastern Asians ect as refugees and they don't even cry about it, but the ones who made all of those seek immigration are bothered smh. Anyways, If I believed in God, I'd say hell awaits whoever creat suffering and misery, but I believe in Physics and Newton's third law of motion states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
I wonder if Tony remembers “The Battle For Falluja”? You’ve only got to see the pictures of the city during the war, to realise how we were bombing civilians. Children to this day nearly 20yrs later are still being born at a disproportionate rate, with birth defects. Due to the uranium shells we were using. Not chemical weapons tho!
Every time a western leader mentions wars crimes by the Russian’s against Ukraine, the word Hypocrite, flows through my head.
I support Ukraine in the defence of their nation and sovereignty 100%. The west needs change their narrative about war crimes, and concentrate on the Ukraine defence from another angle. I would imagine not many countries can stomach a lecture about war crimes, especially when US or UK, try bringing up the conversation.
We even managed to blow up a car, full of children, during the Afghanistan evacuation, because we believed it to be a suicide bomber. That was an accident tho wasn’t it!
British army run over my uncles car with a tank back in 2004. I witnessed it with my own eyes and it traumatised me till this day. It was his wife driving with 4 kids. I doubt Blair knows nor anyone in the west cares.. we aren’t Ukraine so.. we’re only important to the west when it comes to energy and oil. Yet this man has the cheek to go on TV and meet people. I don’t know how can this man sleep at night knowing his inner self is a hypocrite and a killer
@@Jad490 Was Blair driving the tank? No! So how can he be a killer? Sorry for your loss, but this is about how Putin has changed over the past two decades, not a mandate to moan about the past, if you are so pissed off, blame your own government.
@@Jad490 sorry for your loss.
May their soul Rest in peace.
The fact that Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons, and the UK was threatened with a missile that would creat a 500m wave that would wipe out every living thing, slightly puts been actually born at all whether with a birth defect or not pales into comparison with total destruction of 60 million plus lives.
Isn't this the same tony blair who invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein government? 🤔
Interviewing the Great War criminal!!!
Both should be in jail
If Putin really wants all ex-soviet states to rejoin Russia, he should have improved the economy, improved the governance, improve the society, and turned Russia into a economic super powerhouse, then other ex-states would not hesitated to rejoin the mother russia once again. He is going about it the wrong way.
You can only achieve that if you have a real democracy in place. Russia never had a FUNCTIONING democracy. It just took 10 years after the collapse of the USSR to turn Russia back into a kleptocratic dictatorship.That was Putin's choice.
That's not what Russians want .
You've been lied to that not what's happening! Ukraine was killing Russian speakers in their country. Also trying to get nukes etc. Its so much look up AZOV, Ukraine civil war etc!
Yes, he hasn't exactly made it attractive for former countries of the Soviet Union to even consider rejoining mother Russia.
Other countries who used to be part of the Soviet Union, have moved on s lot, used to a more freer democratic way of life etc, used to democratically run governments etc.
Only way he could attract them back is to move with the times, to a more democratic way if life etc. Not the kind of out dated regime he still wants to go back to. Aggh no.
He couldn't do that while he robbed Russia blind.
Russia went from being a candidate to be in the EU and NATO after the fall of the USSR to being the 4th Reich.
yes, Putin did that.
Charismatic autocrats....
"In" The master race "Russians" are not part of another groups. Other peoples (sub-humans) fall under their domination and become part of their Empire.
Well they would never have been accepted into NATO, the US and Europeans never trusted them and assumed they would just have acted as Hungary or Turkey on steroids and made the whole thing collapse from the inside
This isn't all Putin . A lot of Russians don't like the West, hate it even
They hate NATO and the EU and the people in it . They look back at the 90s with scorn and the figures poltcally seen as amoral .
It's not all Putin . They don't want to be a democracy and they don't want to be a wealthy prosperous country .
My cousin-in-law was in university with Blair. Same class. I asked him what he was like. He thought for a few moments and replied “Soul-less.”
Nobody believes you
It's a sick world when you miss Blair.
Bro you know blair did the same shit putin is doing to iraq, idk if I would miss someone like him, all the guys in britain rn are incompetend but at least not war criminals lol
he makes putin look a amateur
Why would you miss him?
BLAIR BLARING THE GUILT OF OTHERS EXACTLY LIKE HIM!
Miss Blair are you mental he is scum I would trust Putin before Blair, a disgusting excuse for a human being who with Biden needs JAIL.
Putin and the country of Russia needs to pay for all they have damaged in Ukraine, and then some.
oh lol
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When war criminals from Usa/ UK and nato countries will pay for killing millions people and destroying Iraq,Syria, Yugoslavia, Yemen Afghanistan just to mention some ??????
Hipocrat !!!!
One way or another they absolutely will. The timescale is going to be pretty long though.
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For someone who invaded Irak without any justification .... I don't think it's rational to speak about this :/ what a joke
So true
With Hussein on power there would be war as well. Dictators always end murding and torturing as he did already in his period time
@@siren369xstar8 Arm in arm with Bush.
There was a lot of justification. Just read about Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
@@anglospherefederalist4460 Weapons of massive destruction did not exist it was a lie, they went there and they destroyed a whole country without ANY VALID justification, it was a sovereign country and they invaded it 🤷
Hey Tony boy, didn't you forget the "unthinkable"???!
The moment he said prime minister Johnson i was like "wtf this video is old!"
Imagine what a great country Russia could have been...very advanced, on friendly terms with its neighbors and the rest of the world? Tragic, how far it has declined. Russia, your people deserve better!
Merci !😀
come on its the US who has ripped up all the treaties who have worked on stopping the gas pipelines who refused every cooperative gesture that Russia made , well they got what they wanted and maybe we will all pay
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You forgot to end the sentence with "if only the Americans were not interfering in Continental Europe's affairs and doing their utmost best for Europe to turn its back at Russia".
Tony Blair should examine his own lies and miscalculations more closely.
He was tricked into supporting the invasion of a souverain country - Iraq. Shame on him, Shame on Zakaria for not bringing that up.
Tony Blair "honestly believes" what he did as PM was right...
I'm guessing Putin honestly believes what he is doing in Ukraine is also right...
Hands up if the world honestly believes both these guys are delusional war criminals...
IRAQ IS AN EXAMPLE
Yu have brain man of God
@@MegaVimal22 thank you for the comment this blair is a criminal
Very interesting to listen to this a year later.
Why captions are so messed up in this channel?
Those surrounding him do not tell him the truth in fear of their lives. He has treated others ruthlessly, losing his ability to communicate.
His own fault 😔
Just like Trump!!
Stalin was the same. Anyone perceived even the slightest threat to his leadership was executed.Putin would do the same.
@@labadoor2607 trump would fire you not kill you lol
They don't tell him the truth not from fear from greed Putin goes they go and the cash goes
@@weeguy52 What....you don't think Trump would be pulling the same shit as Putin, if he wasn't stopped??? His idols are From North Korea and Russia... How stable do you think Trump is??? He does everything he can, to ruin people's lives that don't agree with him or question him.. He is an ignorant, unstable drug addict, that is a racist and a bully... He is capable of anything!!
Blair: "The aging process is visible from those pictures."
Zakaria: "Not of Putin, but of you."
SAVAGE
@@c.james1 That's a generous reading of it. Though, what he actually said was, "More of you than of Putin," suggesting he was actually making the contrast between the two men.
But even if he was just clarifying for the viewers, it's still pretty savage to tell your guest he looks old in the first 30 seconds of the interview.
@@c.james1 He probably did. My main point was that Zakaria's comment was pretty savage.
Tony Blair was talking about himself so it wasn't savage at all
i scrolled down to find this....i can't believe he did him like that...haha...great way to start the interview...makes it worse that tony and vlad are the same age..hahah...but putin was already pretty much bald there , he just got fatter and older....its tony's all grey hair and aged facial features that suck for him...aging does suck lol
Haha so brutal and awkward
One good deed does not cover millions of deaths
No good deed, he's lying here too, (by omission mostly but directly too because the US was behind the coup under Obama and Biden and his pervert son made loads of money there and continue to do so. The US is destroying itself.
Tony blair is the last person on earth to call someone else a war crimminal
Well I too am calling evil little man putin a war criminal. Anybody with half a brain can see that
Is that our Tony the war criminal, they've given up looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, all they found were old Russian tanks.
Yep, he orders an illegal invasion of Iraq, then leaves government and the old boys network make him special envoy to the middle east. Would be funny if it was not traggic with all the Iraq civilian deaths due to his warmongering.
War criminals being interviewed as an elderly statesmen. And they wonder why CNN viewership is tanking.
If someone could change the name of the country, from Ukraine to Iraq, Tony Blair could be very successfully describing his own "success ' in Iraq!
. With war and dealing with agressive nations, Tony Blair was at the forefront of the modern era. Other interviews he described various US lead retalitory reactions of which he said he was as guilty as anyone and would agree to let history be his judge. The UK is without a leader at the moment because honesty, above all, is a leader's top mandate. Britain needs to realize Tony Blair was instrumental in ending the violence from the IRA. I say he would be an excellent interm leader till an election. Not only for his experience and judgement on what works on the world stage but he is respected and liked by Russia and especially Vladimir Putin. Consider this as an alternative as Lame Duck P.M. during a serious crisis of war is fundamentally flawed. Putin said the UK would be the first nation nuked should NATO create a no-fly zone or get directly involved.
I not only respect Britian's Parliment more than the US's Congress but a Tony Blair would be someone I could trust not to F-up like a divided US mid-term would do and be guaranteed disasterous. This I 100% believe and so should you.
@@markwebber526 i almost chocked when i read that you trust Tony Blair! lol
Surely you must know the WMD's and the 45mins and of course the sexed-up dossier claim which in reality was nothing more than a fantasy and a lie in order to drag UK to war where thousands and thousands of civilians were killed!
If you trust this man, it says everything to know about you really!
The success of the war on terror was security for Israel They set out to destroy arab nationalistic governments
Listen buddy, Iraq committed UN Confirmed Genocide with chemical weapons in the Halabja massacre, you do NOT FUCKING tell me Saddam did not have Chemical weapons?? BULLSHIT of course he had Chemical weapons!!! You have fallen for lies on the internet. The invasion of Iraq was 100% justified to stop a madman who has destroyed the lives of millions of his own people.
@@drscopeify typical American response! By the way, UN has also confirmed that no WMD's found or existed prior or during the invasion!
Have a nice day!...buddy!
He became more calculated and less emotional
Unlike people in the comment section, I think this guy would know about finances more than any of you and you should try to learn from him, he's worth 60 million dollars, and he doesn't even create anything, he deserves much more credit than people give him. He is one of the foremost entrepreneur of our times, who helped create jobs for hard working Americans across 50 states.
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair saw what he wanted to see.
John McCain “I looked into his eyes and saw three letters, a K, a G and a B.”
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The war criminal who was part of the illegal Iraqi invasion of 2003.
THe interview is quite interesting - Blair answers quite smart from today's perspective, worth watching!
Agreed 100%
Why we talking about John mccain constantly? He's long dead and gone
More like Putin was ALWAYS cold and calculating, so acting westward-facing was all a ruse.
As soon as Putin realized that he couldn't worm his autocracy into the United States, THATS when he started to care less about appearances.
He watched America turn itself inside out during the pandemic and noticed that under Trump it had taken its eye off the ball so to speak. Putin has always been the same his grand plan was to return Russia to the former soviet regime.
He hasn't failed yet. The party of QAnon is still out there, and seems to have decided that the problem with Trump is that he wasn't quite crazy enough.
@@paulgibbon5991 Keyword: Yet; Seeing how badly he's losing to Ukraine, consider me an optimist.
Do you even know why Russia went into Ukraine?
@@karlharrison2449 Sure, it's was for some B.S. reason about wanting to "Liberate Ukraine from Nazi control", when in reality Putin just wanted to realize his dream of reviving Russia's former glory before his illness takes his life.
The irony is pungent
😂 A war criminal call another a war criminal
"The first Putin I met". Blair knows there's clones of Putin 😂
The death of 500,000 dead Iraqi children was "a very hard choice, but the price-we think the price is worth it"
Madeleine Albright. USA head of state department
How can you compare Iraq? The west got rid of Saddam. The Iraqis celebrated this. We then had Iran getting involved and all the mess started.
They should have got rid of Saddam but have someone ready in place. That's the miscalculation
@@kitikit1833 == The Iraqis celebrated this
Are you high or something? did CNN tell you that?
there is ongoing occupation still of IRAQ by USA!! it was USA who created ISIS to topple Syria!!
start taking pills pal!
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Back in the 80s the US was supporting Saddam to help him fight a war by proxy against Iran. Once he had served his purpose and stopped playing ball with them he was suddenly this great menace.
@@kitikit1833 tell us ypur mothers and childrens adresses.
or your entire nation is 80 story flames
@@davidmccann9811 don't argue with the west korean bots. their citizens are too busy eating 29 cheeseburgers a meal to get online.. 👍
Tony blair and cnn what a match
He's gaslighting Putin?! "Detached from reality"... What is wrong with this guy?!
Look who's talking ! His words are as meaningless as farts.
Why hasn't he been tried for war crimes yet ?
And why are there no sanctions on my country the u.k. for the war crimes committed by its leader in the past ???
It has to be the same rule for everyone.
Either way he has done an excellent job recruiting countries for NATO, especially the ones on his border! Slava Finland! Slava Sweden!
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oh come on it‘s the best HR department ever
Putin is quite calculating and smart usually, so I'm surprised he made such a stupid move of invading Ukraine and didn't foresee Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
He seems to be totally cut off from reality now. Because the Russian military is in an appalling state and is in no way capable of invading and occupying a country the size of Ukraine. And he's in absolutely no position to take on the 21st century military capability of NATO in a proxy war he now finds himself in. He can't even move 1970's tanks across the Ukraine border without them breaking down all over the place and some have parts inside from salvaged from Russian household electrical appliances. It's a major humilation for Russia, showing the world clearly that Russia no longer a great military power and has lost the fierce and respected army it once had. So Russia has resorted to sheer brutality, massive shelling, missile strikes and artillery fire on civillian towns and cities in an effort to either force Ukraine into surrendering, or just to punish Ukraine and degrade the country and prevent its membership to EU and NATO.
If I were Putin, I'd be looking for a fast way out of this situation rather than prolonging the pain or dangerously escalating the situation with tactical nuclear use, which I think maybe his only option soon.
Some are questioning whether Putin is rational still, and there's also rumours he is terminally ill with leukemia, which may be influencing his decision making into taking huge gambles. Historically, Putin has been motivated by money and enriching himself, but now has more money than he can spend in a lifetime and is nearing the end of his 'career' in his 70's and health failing, he may be drunk with power and looking to leave his mark and some kind of political legacy. He's always been consistent about his desire to re-create the Soviet-era borders of Russian Federation, and to push back at NATO, and has been slowly doing that for 23 years.
Often despot dictators that are weakened (and let's face it Russia's economy is in an appalling state, now shrunk to the size of Italy, and a mere fraction of the size of UK's) resort to wars as a way a) detracting from their own failures by rallying patriotic support and presenting Russia as the victim/under attack b) propping up a failing economy through conquest expansion.
After 19 years since the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, has the West forgotten this war?
The Iraq war is said to have resulted in 1 million deaths the difference is russia have weapons of mass destruction
A message to the future generations never make russia feel threatened
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Don’t have arrested him for war crimes? Oh no was collateral damage
War criminal further warmongering
Maybe Putin saw that Blair never got arrested for his illegal invasion and policy of regime change in Iraq, and thought "I'll have some of that!"
Except he didn't kill innocent children and steal washing machines and toys, like putin's men.
The USA invades and the UK followed. Unfortunately no matter who the PM was at the time, we would have followed the Americans into war no matter what. Blair gets too much stick for Iraq and is only remembered because of the war.
Blair gets the stick because of all the lies he told to justify the invasion. One million people marched in London to say "not in our name". Out of a country of 75 million that's a lot, given a silent majority who were against it. The dodgy dossier and all that BS they spouted at the UN undermined the credibility of the US and UK. Personally I don't know why anyone has respect for his opinion.
Exactly
Totally, contributed anyway, I truly believe that they get their instructions from the rich then hold g7 and g20 to discuss how to carry it our, just keeping us all divided!
23 years in power: "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely".
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If you think Putin is the issue..then you're a fool who's blind and isnt paying attention
@@jordanthirkettle3067 You know Putin plays the Jesus card inside Russia, no ?
Putin corrupts, absolute Putin corrupts absolutely.
@my two cents......ermmmmm let me think about that. Hmm no.
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Good interview. Takes a war criminal to know a war criminal.
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I visited St Petersburg in the pre-Putin days aboard a U.S. flagged ship delivering food aid wheat and found the people friendly, curious about the west and hopefully for their bright new future. Sad to see them succumb to an Authoritarian with all their hope lost. No sanction relief until Ukraine recovers ALL their territory.
I guess Russia also suffers from the curse of natural resources as many other countries did . What an temptation to create an autocratic state with an omnipotent leader, sourround yourself with a bunch of corrupt oligarchs who work for you and exploit the resources. Makes you and them flithy rich, powerful and above the law.
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My question to Brits is why would Tony Blair even mention Boris Johnson in the context of solving the trade issue with Ireland. As far as I have seen from the US... Boris is a buffoon who was willing to sell his country out to Putin in the form of the BREXIT vote, to become PM. I am aware enough of British politics to know that Jeremy Corbin is not the answer, but surely their must be a better guy than Boris.
It's their fault. They keep on voting for this monster. I don't feel sorry for them
Don't forget, reparation costs, economics, rusky war crimes, give back crimea!
Boy....how did this interview age!
Smart, to understand a war criminal, ask a war criminal
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Very apropos
poor rabbits
Thank you. And we know how awful he was.
Every video about Ukraine/Russia has a idiot quoting some work of fiction in a bid to appear wise
He never changed, the mission was always the same. The way he presented himself only changed based on how much power he reached.
And how much he was getting boxed-in and pressured and betrayed. Nato wouldn’t get an inch closer was the agreement already in 1989, and since then they only kept advancing and advancing, until the ‘rockets’ were pointing almost inside Putin’s nostrils already. Yes the war is terrible, but they have done exactly everything they could to trigger one, and Putin had tried to solve it by talking already many many times before
Good to know that at least someone else gets it.
Yeah, Putin always was a slimy bstrd! I remember saying to my gf when he took over: “this is more dangerous then the CCCP”!
The guy has dead eyes, like a fish. You can’t trust such a person!
Je suis d'accord!
@@jabberwocky9968 And clear to know that neither of you do. . . .
West changed him. He’s not changed. He’s just taking decisions accordingly as per the situation
He only has himself to blame for that.
They are asking the man who thought invading Iraq would solve everything
Tony Blair psychoanalyzing anyone has to be the Greatest Joke since He spoke of IRAQ
Like we have a great guv now .life was a dam sight better under blair and brown .dont get ill you'll find out what your great torys have done .nhs has gone back to how it was under thatcher . Boris and that clown his foreign secretary liz truss throwing insults and sword rattling at puttin .
@@Bertrum123 They aren't sword rattling. They are supporting Ukraine. If Britain got invaded then we would also want support and firm word from other countries. I think History will view us kindly. Not like China who pretends to be "neutral" which is super strange it's a bit like me standing there being neutral watching a cage fighter beat up an old woman.. I'm neutral so I won't get try to help the victim. I'll just stand and watch and provide bandages for the cage fighters fist and talk about keeping calm.
Ye isnt it great now under this bunch we live in a utopian sociaty lol .dont get ill feller you'll have a diffrent opinion especialy when your sat round a candle waiting a year or two for a new hip .the torys have turned food banks into big buisness lol
Don't act like any other prime minister wouldn't have gone to war.
Indeed. No matter you politics this man has no credibility whatsoever.
Didn't that description sound familiar?
"HE is surrounded by people who won't tell him the truth"!
Oh dear
he hasn't changed he just is showing his true self before he can hide it
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Putin or that twunt Blair?
To be fair he should know a war criminal when he sees one, especially if he is shaving.
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I remember there were serious concerns about Putin becoming president back in the day, that he was ex KGB and was at risk of trying to take Russia back to the USSR state...then everything was apparently okay after he took power...until it wasn't
There is no such thing as exKGB
This isn't the Soveit Union
It's Nazi Russia. Forget the Soveit Union.
It's worse
I remember that same thing, Ada Potter. Wasn't it like 35 years ago?? Seems like forever!
@@glenncordova4027 Well there is and Putin had one of them killed in 2006 on British soil. Only six years after he took office. He was *never* a good guy hoping to take Russia toward democracy. It was payback and get back the USSR from day one.
@@glenncordova4027 wasn't that also said by putin himself? I may be wrong, but just double checking
0:19 - "The aging process is a little bit more visible (Blair).....not of Putin btw, more of you (Zakaria)" Tony Blair was like "F. you, Fareed!"
And here we are a year later. An "off ramp" is not discussed any longer and doesn't seem like Putin would take one, even if it was large and clearly marked...
Blaire is not delusional. He knows exactly what he is. He also knows what we have become.
He is a criminal
Blair and bush went to war in Irak for weapons of mass destruction as there where none,now Russia have more weapon of mass destruction but no one is capable of doing anything….
Here it shows where America and Britain only targets poor and easy country’s like Irak Lydia Syria…
North Korea china Russia they been left in peace
Not delusional ? 2 million dead Iraqi & Afghani would disagree with you if they were still alive. Plus he’s a Klaus Schwab muppet.
What have we become?
Why assume he changed? his background and training is KGB. Blair, and most politicians tend to over rate their own opinions. When Putin was dealing with Blair he adopted the strategy he felt was appropriate for Russia at the time. If Blair thought Putin was a trustworthy man I think he was a fool.
So do you think the Israeli Leader is trustworthy who Occupied Palestine Land by force and then Murdering innocent Palestinian people including children on the streets every day for a Century now, No comments there every shuts their shit mouths then and blind eyes too the Criminals they cannot see RACISTS
Hey, our ex-President still thinks he is brilliant, probably because he wants to be a dictator too. But basically what makes these politicians change is once they feel secure, power and greed begin to creep in.
easy there armchair know it all
yeah west and USA only talking about their side, what if Russia build military base on Mexico, will USA just sit and watch or against it ?
@@darmanto1963You need to better your propaganda, ruski bots. "Subsequently, the Soviet navy’s land-based missiles and Il-28 aircraft-none of which had been assembled-were removed from Cuba. But a significant naval presence did continue there. As early as 1962 the Soviets had established a massive, 28-square-mile signals intelligence (SIGINT) facility at Lourdes, near Havana. Manned by more than 2,000 military, naval, and civilian technicians, Lourdes became the largest and most important SIGINT station outside the Soviet Union; when the U.S. government publicly revealed its presence in March 1985, it was called the most sophisticated Soviet “spy base” outside the Eastern Bloc. The facility was credited with being able to monitor telephone conversations in the southeastern United States; space activities at Cape Canaveral, Florida; and transmissions by U.S. commercial and military satellites.
In addition to the Lourdes station, after removal of the strategic (ballistic) missiles and bombers, the Soviets kept a combat brigade of 2,800 troops in Cuba as well as several thousand military and civilian advisers and technicians. Fighter aircraft, antiaircraft guns and missiles, and the 12 Komar missile craft also remained."
How is this man walking free ?
A war criminal criticizing another war criminal
Blair has more blood on his hands than anyone
"...rational within his own terms." Yes, it's always been that, from blowing up apartment buildings to secure his spot in Russian power to now, where he levels an entire country to bring it with him to his grave.
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Monster Blair speaking about Putin like
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What does “rational within his own terms” even mean? Given a different premise an argument may be true or not, but still it doesn’t change the reality that if all your decision making is based on another bad premise, it’s all flawed. It may be “true if”, within a limited context, or part, but that doesn’t mean a complex whole is right. The same is obviously true of NATO. That’s an even more insidious mess, that’s potentially more deceptive to those who want to believe it.
Yes as said , wicked and a miscalculation , no self awareness apparent .
Give it up guys - he was a good man doing his best - he was ultimately provided with wrong information
Why anyone in their right mind would ask former PM Mr Blair about the politics of war is beyond belief.
They just needed the high-profile face who would spew lies in the media to corroborate the agenda they need
One war criminal to another who will understand putins mind better
Indeed.
Yeh that’s right I never heard a good thing from the man.
Takes one war criminal to know another one
“Everyone gets a gold star” = bullocks. Russia should get the heck out of Ukraine, including Crimea, and then Russia should pay for rebuilding Ukraine, and then sanctions can be slowly and incrementally lifted.
Russia needs to be puppeted by the USA for half a century. We puppeted Japan and Germany and they're great allies now. WW1's peace treaty was a disaster, but WW2's peace treaty was great (outside of concessions to the USSR/Russia).
That thought should be for Israeli too who Occupied Palestine's Land by force Century ago they have been Committing Crimes everyday Murdering innocent people but you are selfish you Support so its ok for them to steal and not for Russia how Racist
The United States should rebuild lybia Iraq Syria Yugoslavia Afghanistan....
This is more than a year old.....practically irrelevant now.
What changed Putin was the West insisting on moving a military presence, in the form of NATO, right up to the Russian border.
Yes,Tony, put aside the wickedness of it! You’d just love us to put aside the wickedness you and Bush inflicted on Iraq ,but we won’t. This whole interview is surreal.
No doubt set up by Blair himself as a way of insinuating himself into the situation. There will be a lot of money around for people like him who always profit from war.
Tony and George received false and damaged information.
And this is the guy that Trump looked up to so much.
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It takes a War Criminal to recognise a War Criminal!
Despite the negative comments towards Mr Blair regarding the war in Iraq (let’s remember the other three in that photo in the Azores prior to the conflict: George Bush Jr, Barroso of the EU and José María Aznar of Spain), I thought his take on the Russian dictator was spot on.
Takes a war criminal to know a war criminal.
Rather, it takes a war criminal to accuse the innocent of war crimes. Like the mass murderer and war criminal Biden accusing Putin of being a murderer!
Putin ain’t a war criminal though
Not really but I get what you mean
Yes Tony we really need to listen to what you think, you talk about miscalculation!! Say that to the parents of the soldiers that died on your watch!!!
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Isn't this the same tony blair who invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein government? 🤔
@@bonnie7898 If it was your son, daughter, father or brother who lost his life over the greatest lie of modern times, you wouldn't be saying that. The hindsight on the matter and the absolute impunity those responsible were rewarded with makes it simply IMPOSSIBLE to oversee.
Wha5 a stupid comment. Sad really.
War criminal …
It very disturbing to ask Tony Blair what is his opinion about the war in Ukraine
Has he(Tony) been sentenced before? Why could he still have his freedom 100%?
"The West is going to take its time...rolling this back." NO, the West does NOT "roll this back." The West moves ON, and NEVER goes back to the old, enabling relationship we had with Russia. Blair is absolutely right on that.
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At least he isn’t a clown and didn’t roll over like a little puppy dog for the Americans (WMD). How embarrassing to be played by the Americans and not see it. One of the centuries biggest gaffs.
A great leader , by the state of current politics in Britain he is greatly missed !
Gorbachev was the only leader in Russian history to show an ounce of humanity.
ABSOLUTELY agree. Gorby deserved receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Holy crap... given how many people spam praise to Stalin like he's some sort of God, this is surprising
I was having the same thought's Peter, Gorbachev was a great leader.
@Tagedieb Agreed!
What about Catherine the Great? She only had 500,000 serfs.
Smart questions, he listens and doesn't interrupt. This is how interviews should be done.
This is a well educated man, plus he has respect for others
also this is not "someone" he interviews. makes it easier
Just like frustrated Susanna Reid LOL
Agree. He's a good interviewer and Blair is at his best in these type of interviews.
It's because this guy is a neo con mass murderer who is part of the elitist cabal that have been at war with the eastern world for 20 years.
They have to be quiet while their employer speaks.
a war criminal
The thief calls, "catch the thief"
1:26 "surrounded by people who wont tell him the truth" . May apply to Tony himself, during the Iraq war days when he became a lapdog of Bush. All those wars he has forgotten, but remembers first meeting with Putin very well. Selective Amnesia.
Didn't the Queen of England Knight him and very Sick Way of Honoring the People he was guilty of Sacrificing
Shut up
@@josephsomers2858 Queens have been knighting paedophiles and rapists, so this is a minor blip.
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The knighthood surprised me too.
I think there is a lit to that we might never know.
Maybe Liar Cherie made threats. 😉
He was also a lap dog to Clinton I just guess Birds of a feather Fly together or as George Galloway might infer two cheeks of the same asses
Has Tony Blair ever been right about anything ??
Tony b liar.
Nope
Yes he has here he is total right. Putin is in the corner, He is finished man.
Has he ever been wrong about anything?