Waking Up To Putin Invading Ukraine - How Did We Get Here?
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- čas přidán 2. 03. 2022
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Recorded the morning of the invasion, 24th Febraury 2022.
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thank you for this i think many of us appreciate it
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Thanks Rich, as you said at start, first major conflict in the spotlight for some of us zoomers and millennials, so I appreciate you laying it all out and guiding us through the bombardment of news coverage and social media
I found this information quite well articulated and useful. Thanks for trying to keep people informed instead of just telling people how they should think
I've been trying to steer clear of everything related to this event since it started because I don't trust news outlets as a whole, left or right, so take the fact that I tuned in to this video as soon as I saw it as a huge sign of how much trust you have earned from me (and many others I'm sure), and it's well deserved. You always do an incredible job diving into things like this.
Already watched your twitch vod on this topic. As always stellar work richard. Really liek the way you shed light on both sides of the conflict. Thy for informing ppl stay sane :)
Thanks for doing this, really appreciate your work
Hey Rich, thanks for the great video. I don't want to come off as a mouth-breathing reply guy, but I notice you still say "the Ukraine". The reason Ukrainians don't like this is because it implies we are still part of Russia. According to Russia, we are "the borderland". But when Ukraine became independent, we dropped the "the" because we are nobody's borderland, we are our own country. And will continue to be.
Yeah, it's just a fucking boomer thing that's there from when I grew up. Don't mean nothing by it obviously, just the change never clicked in my brain. Hell, I called it Czechoslovakia on a stream not that long ago. Will try and phase it out.
@@RLewisReports No offense taken, love your content!
It's a habbit so many have. Just like Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
Idk man, thats basically propaganda. Should that really determine how we speak?
How does that work? I am genuienly curious. You do not have articles in russian/ukrainian so how does this manifest?
Thanks for covering this. I was eagerly awaiting your take 👍
This is really needed. We all appreciate it!
Really the best discussion I've seen on this. Hope you make another video with an update at some point
Fantastic video Richard. Loving your political stuff recently, keep it coming!
Good stuff Rich. Been watching you since trash talk days, love the increased non esports content
Great piece of journalism
Going to be honest. this was one of the first videos I've seen from you in a while. I haven't been watching much CS stuff with you, and Sam. I'm still subbed though, so it wasn't a purge. Keep up the good work.
Really well told, thanks a lot!
Thanks for the vid. That was what I understood of it but misinformation and trolls were making me doubt quite a lot.
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Great work as always richard, i looked into helping out and frankly the schemes here in the uk are pish, me and the missus have a spare room and the hassle trying to get it free for someone from ukraine to stay in is unreal, youd think it would be easier to help out. A free room is all i can do to actually help unfortunately as i can't afford to run off to ukraine to fight lol. But if you know someone or anyone else in Ukraine who needs a bed in the UK get in contact as ive heard its a lot easier if im incontact with someone prior to formal application
Are you going to be adding more content like this? Good stuff always curious to hear your take on stuff
Another great video
Thanks Rich, as a Russian living in Australia this helps to get a clearer image of what's actually happening. Seems like all the info Ive seen is conflicting. The idea of Putin's war vs post-Crimea approval rates and inconsistent casualty reports from both sides.
While you absolutely need to take the official Ukrainean reports in these matters with a grain of salt, you can completely ignore the official Russian ones. They still reported NO casualties several days into the fighting when they had definitely lost hundreds (if not a couple thousand) already.
Was waiting for this. Been keeping up with the metallica musician from Ukraine,... andriy I think.
Thank you for doing this! Social media is really scary right now. It feels like we’re in the “manufacturing consent” phase before shit hits the fan
Pretty complicated issue isn't it. Hate that it's played off as really simple in US / UK and Western media generally.
Lovely video
Thanks for the more objective commentary
Fucking finally, someone that does the investigation and presents the situation as is. I was tired of all the shit takes from people that couldn't even pinpoint Ukraine on the map.
"shit takes from people that couldn't even pinpoint Ukraine on the map"
so true
Thanks Richard really appreciate this video
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"The UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's has announced that it is renaming "Chicken Kiev" as "Chicken Kyiv" - reflecting Ukraine's preferred spelling of its capital city's name, as opposed to the Russian spelling used under Soviet rule. Sainsbury's says: “We stand united with the people of Ukraine." -BBC
Thanks for this, saw it live and really helped me understand the situation. I think now the only was forward is for the Russian people to overthrow Putin, else the war only escalates
When was this recorded?
Morning of the invasion so the 24th.
Thanks dad
Most of this is very familiar to my ears, but thank you for the exposition, it certainly feels like it covers all the bases along the timeline very neatly up to the invasion. Truth be told, if there was one singular person that could have stopped the invasion, it must be Vladimir Putin. Even when compared to that ridiculous affair that was the Iraq war, even then, the casus belli for the invasion of Ukraine is on incredibly shaky ground to the point of being cartoonish. It would be comical, if it wasn't a tragedy of immense proportions. Neither NATO, the EU nor any of their members will be prepared to accept Putin's nuclear gambit. They don't want to fight a war on foreign soil for an outside power (that they've been cozying up to for many years). They don't want the loss of life, equipment, funds, or to risk the delivery of russian gas. And they certainly don't want to fight against an opponent that might just fire a nuke.
While that's all very practical politically, the USA, UK and Russia guaranteed Ukraine's safety when it essentially gave up its nukes. Ukraine is getting a middle finger from that deal, a free supply of easy to use weapons and sadly a guarantee to be defeated by the juggernaut.
I hate every part of this and I really shouldn't go on.
Much appreciated content, Rich.
Also in the news on war: Japan want nuclear base weapon on their territory to defend against China.
This conflict goes all the back to Kievan Rus.
I have been hesitant to read up on this topic because somehow it got wrapped up in the red vs. blue culture war, like everything else. Excited to hear what you have to say, Rich
Thanks for the vid, I trust the info you give unlike politically influenced news corporations
When exactly this was recorded?
I think this one is from the morning of war breaking out
@@Wodingo Thanks. I see Richard has updated the description as well. With so fast-developing events it is good to know from which point of time the situation is presented. And that is a common issue among podcasts or long videos about current events - a lack of recording date.
Something to note if you do more coverage on this. When Russia invaded in 2014 the equipment for the Ukrainian army did not work. They only had old USSR gear that was sitting in a warehouse for decades. This is likely why Putin has aimed for the whole country instead of the just the separatist regions.
Finally, I can watch someone that I trust talk about this topic. Been ignoring most news and especially all news analyses on this.
You would make a Great Political Journalist.
Thanks Rich
For me mh-17 was the trigger
The “acknowledgement of independence” of these “separatist states” was used mainly to disperse responsibility between Putin and his pawns in so-called Duma ("parliament"), as well as the band of his closer friends from "security council", that's dominated by checkists [, without calling it war]
The main pretense for attacking Ukraine, [which is how it is told by propaganda,] is "immense suffering of Russian contingent in Donetsk and Luhansk, approaching genocide" [implying that Putin or anyone of his chronies ever cared about one life]
Are you still skeptical about the notion of full scale invasion?
Zelenskyy has me up in arms to defend Ukraine and I've never even been to Europe.
Also, lets be real, US was calling out Russians because of its allies. In from Lithuania and there are no bigger haters and russia politics formators than us Baltics and Poland. Im tired of this "US painted russians bad" sentiment. It was us, it is us and will be us. Because we have been there in USSR and want the caution
Beautiful, this is what I was waiting for.
Watched most of this vid and it's great, good work from you as always.
Something worth noting is that this isn't the first time Russia has done this under Putin. In Georgia, they did the exact same thing - recognised two states within Georgia as independent and then invaded those states under the guise of protecting the civilians in those regions from the Georgian invaders.
Similar story in the Donbas, and if Putin succeeds, I suspect he'll do the same in Moldova with Transnistria (another breakaway Russian-supported area that has Russian troops stationed there).
Worth noting that in addition to my speculation, Belarus' dictator gave a military briefing to his security council or something, and the map had arrows pointing to Transnistria *on top of* the planned invasion routes in Ukraine.
Difference from georgia here is that donbass was artificially separated by russia. Georgia had conflict of minorities for a long time, while donbass was clearly supported by russian ammunition and "army".
I'll just say that saying 'Ky-ev' is the russian way of the correct Ukrainian pronouncing - = 'Kyiv'
Everything idnicates that Ukraine joining NATO accelerated Russian military action, but it was coming one way or another, Russia needs to bring Ukraine back into it´ s fold, both in the military paranoia sense and economical sense.
Hopefully Ukraine will become denazified soon.
second!
atleast the world remains interesting.
amazing vid. Hard to 'pick a side' for me. Don't want war but kinda want ukraine to let go of the separatist regions!
Why? It's their territory.
@@johnhenry6160That just seems like supporting more war.
@@IndreadColde Should a nation just give up it's territory every time a nuclear power comes knocking?
@@johnhenry6160 no, they should recognise the independence of separatist regions.
@@IndreadColde that's fair, but equally if separatist sentiment is being drummed up by Russia, who you know want to attack and absorb you, based on false lies about genocide for which there is literally zero proof, the situation is not just as simple as the will of a people being respected. There's a big difference between, for example, Scotland voting for independence from the UK vs annexation by a foreign power.
As soon as Trump was out of office, the world gone wild.
Was on the fence of this, but when zelinsky called for celebrities and tiktok influencers to help, I supported putin immideatly
That's pathetic.
Average Putin supporter
@@pizza70123 lol, as opposed to the average news consuming, "influencer" and celebrity worshipping ukraine supporter?
Massive W for Putin in that case
Many such cases.
Ah Yemen, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan.... Those don't matter to Caucasians.
They're literally in a different continent. You mouth breathing race baiter.
Let us know when there's been relative peace, democracy and freedom in any of those places for decades. Then there will be an outcry when they are invaded. The point of news is that it is new or noteworthy.
Objectively not true.
Ah yes. We should just leave it alone and then there would be peace, and all would be well.
Oh wait.
@@nolovedrjones9668 Ukraine is in a different continent than the US you dumb fk, why do Americans care about Ukraine then and not about Yemen for example? It's a legitimate question but you can't answer it so you have to insult him without giving a real answer. Typical angloswine behavior.
If you want good, up to date, information on whats happening, you could do worse than subbing to Adam Something on CZcams. He posts updates every few hours.