Russia-Ukraine two years on: towards an endless and wider war? | UpFront

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  • čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
  • In an UpFront special, we discuss where the war in Ukraine currently stands and where it is heading.
    It’s been two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, causing mass destruction and a mounting civilian death toll.
    Even with support from the West, Ukraine is facing increased weapons and infantry shortages as its fight against Russian forces carries on, seemingly with no end in sight.
    So what future lays ahead for Ukraine and could the war spill over into neighbouring countries? Are peace negotiations even possible or does it run the risk of becoming an endless war?
    In an UpFront Special, Marc Lamont Hill discusses the fallout of Russia’s war on Ukraine with Ukrainian Member of Parliament Lesia Vasylenko, political scientist Ilya Matveev, and journalist Aaron Mate.
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Komentáře • 445

  • @tmz_worldwide
    @tmz_worldwide Před 3 měsíci +102

    Aaron is the only one there not getting a paycheck from the West

    • @ViennaGuy2000
      @ViennaGuy2000 Před 3 měsíci +1

      If you don't include the moderator, I agree. Al Jazeera is based in Qatar. If I'm not mistaken, the voice of the moderator (I was only listening) was Mark Lamont Hill, who lost his CNN contract after speaking just a tiny bit of truth about the situation in Israel in 2018.

    • @waynetables6414
      @waynetables6414 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@ViennaGuy2000 Al Jazeera English is worse than other iterations of Al Jazeera in other languages from my experience.. in general AJ kind of suck, but they are useful on Palestine.. they are a giant corporation with their own biases.. but when compared to western corporate media they look good in contrast.. like you said, they are in Qatar and their corporate interests don't all necessarily align with the narratives of U.S., UK, Germany corporate media.. but they actually do fall in line with other fake western narratives many of which pertaining to Russia and China.. and the reason for that is that Qatars own history is one that is intertwined with the British East India company and the House of Saud.. many of the Gulf states are not organic civilization-states like Persia/Iran or Ottoman/Turkey or other historical civilizations of the Middle East.. modern countries like Saudi Arabia, Israel, Kuwait are fake civilizations for all intents and purposes and their borders were carved out by outside forces and turned into nation-states for colonial considerations.. It's not an accident the poorest places in the world are balkanized into tiny little nation-states at war with each other, it goes back to the British divide and conquer tact.. and those "countries" have been ruled by western puppet monarchs to control resources for centuries. The middle east is populated with people who have governments that don't represent their interests.

    • @tmz_worldwide
      @tmz_worldwide Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@ViennaGuy2000 The moderator has a home in the US, has American Bank accounts. He knows he can't say too much

  • @jameswatson9641
    @jameswatson9641 Před 3 měsíci +55

    That lady is quite the fantasist. I applaud your patience Aaron.

    • @falcatafalcata1617
      @falcatafalcata1617 Před 3 měsíci +10

      Seeing her so manic roaring and repeating old stories, I‘m afraid that she can’t honestly face the strategic goals of Ukraine‘s ability at all.

  • @TharpaRinchen
    @TharpaRinchen Před 3 měsíci +125

    Surprising that Aaron got a platform at Al Jazeera. Great job job Aaron, that wasn't easy 3 against you.

    • @BloatedScrotum
      @BloatedScrotum Před měsícem +1

      That's not even a challenge for the Buzz saw.

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 Před 3 měsíci +32

    Ukraine’s top negotiator, Davyd Arakhamia: Russia was “prepared to end the war if we agreed to... neutrality, and committed that we would not join NATO.”
    But the US and UK stood in the way.

    • @16252
      @16252 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Since the government of Ukraine wanted to join NATO, and the EU, that sentence doesn't amount to very much.

  • @Cratylus1
    @Cratylus1 Před 3 měsíci +157

    Bravo, Aaron. It was 2 against you, and you prevailed! Very good job.

    • @TharpaRinchen
      @TharpaRinchen Před 3 měsíci +12

      it was more like 3 against Aaron

    • @TheRealBillBob
      @TheRealBillBob Před 3 měsíci +3

      Yep, he managed to interrupt their long winter rants...

  • @pjcmjanssen3177
    @pjcmjanssen3177 Před 3 měsíci +170

    Great work by Aaron Maté. Leveling facts against the propaganda from the two guests and the host. Well done

    • @ausername8699
      @ausername8699 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Hi Russian bot

    • @gammasmash1924
      @gammasmash1924 Před 3 měsíci +13

      ​@@ausername8699McCarthyism 2024

    • @falcatafalcata1617
      @falcatafalcata1617 Před 3 měsíci +14

      If these two Ukrainians can represent all Ukrainians’ understanding of the war, Ukraine is slowly committing suicide!

    • @ausername8699
      @ausername8699 Před 3 měsíci

      @@falcatafalcata1617 I guess there's no point in helping Palestinians then, since that would just prolong their inevitable genocide right?

    • @alexandreturgeon9831
      @alexandreturgeon9831 Před 3 měsíci +1

      So many Russians bots 😅

  • @zharkoo
    @zharkoo Před 3 měsíci +23

    She says Ukraine should not adhere to Minsk because they were done forcibly... first of all, Ukraine was defended by Germany and France and nobody even mentioned that Ukraine is being forced on anything, they all said they are looking for meaningful solution to the crisis, and second, you can always claim that any agreement has been done forcibly and nullify it, not very smart excuses.

  • @presidentjesus5061
    @presidentjesus5061 Před 3 měsíci +28

    When does the "visiting" Ukrainian professor sign up to fight on the front lines?

  • @edhenry5915
    @edhenry5915 Před 3 měsíci +21

    Aaron is a true journalist, Respect!!

  • @simonlaonda9697
    @simonlaonda9697 Před 3 měsíci +16

    Aaron Maté is doing great independent digging journalism. Facts and reason will always prevail propaganda.

  • @ChrisAlbertH47
    @ChrisAlbertH47 Před 3 měsíci +85

    Aaron was great at explaining his points. I still have sympathy toward Ukrainians, but what Aaron says makes sense based on some of the things I've read as well. The escalation of the war could've been avoided, but I feel like right now, it's the Ukrainian people fighting on the grounds that are being used as pawns, both by the hardliners in their own government who had refused to make any kind of concession, and as in the case of Boris Johnson, the Ukrainians are also being used by the west as their cannon fodder in the fight against Russia.
    This is a great deal for the west. All they have to do is provide material support in the form of money and weapons (which benefits the west's military industrial complex) and they got themselves a voluntary fighting force in the Ukrainians without having to actually put any boots on the ground to fight Russia.
    The best thing for everyone involved would be to try to seek some kind of peace agreement, because as bad as Putin is, he's not a zealot blinded by hate like some of the leaders we see in Izrael. I think Putin is smart enough to know when to call it quits.

    • @ImperialMJG
      @ImperialMJG Před 3 měsíci

      There was an american politicians that once Said "Its better to fight them (Russians) over there then here (USA). I dont remember Who or when, but just Google the quote or something.
      Also regarding how "Bad" Putin is in relation to Israel look at Who funds the Israelis. I'd say they aint better. They want us to believe Putin kills civilians on purpose. 10k have died in 2 years (and thats by bombings from both sides. And its well documented that UA used Avdiika to bomb Donetsk since 2014). While over 30k have died in almost 5 months in Gaza by Israel.

    • @matthewspears3786
      @matthewspears3786 Před 3 měsíci

      Putin is very smart, unfortunately the West has broken so many promises and chances for peace that the trust level is at zero. So Putin won't accept a cease fire now based on empty promises.

    • @dumat-i-tochka
      @dumat-i-tochka Před 3 měsíci

      If you have sympathy for Ukrainians, then you should support Russia. Millions of Ukrainians have moved to live in Russia. There is a totalitarian regime in Ukraine that forces Ukrainians to fight and forbids them to tell the truth. Most Ukrainians support Russia.

  • @KneelBeforeZod.
    @KneelBeforeZod. Před 3 měsíci +61

    Aaron speaks the truth!! Facts! Truth!

  • @edwardm.9407
    @edwardm.9407 Před 3 měsíci +91

    Aaron Maté excellent as always.

  • @Yesai-cj2mt
    @Yesai-cj2mt Před 3 měsíci +118

    Aaron independent mind hv heard your fair and balanced analysis... You are not Russian but you say things as they are keep it up it's not easy to stand up for the truth these days..

    • @TheRealBillBob
      @TheRealBillBob Před 3 měsíci +1

      Why would you mention he's not Russian?

  • @zharkoo
    @zharkoo Před 3 měsíci +76

    Extremly unfair debate, Aaron was given barely 5min to talk, while these two deluded clowns talked for most of the show... Why Al Jezeera?

    • @patricklarsen8078
      @patricklarsen8078 Před 3 měsíci +7

      Why do you have so high thoughts of Al Jazeera

    • @zharkoo
      @zharkoo Před 3 měsíci

      @@patricklarsen8078 it's not in their interest to defend western puppet Ukraine

    • @elmaestroco
      @elmaestroco Před 26 dny +1

      And he still came on top. I think 5 min was even too long, he needed 3.

  • @BannHammer
    @BannHammer Před 3 měsíci +14

    Aaron did very well! The US/Ukraine talking points are falling flat.

  • @radebatinica5545
    @radebatinica5545 Před 3 měsíci +67

    Lesia dear,
    Your arguments are weak. Best to change the line of work.

  • @messemlali6906
    @messemlali6906 Před 3 měsíci +26

    From the beginning when i saw aaron mate i knew those poor Ukrainian opposition guests don't stand a Chance he knows the facts he defend his opinion with facts not propaganda I feel sorry for the Ukrainians but if this is the way they all feel and believe about the conflict with Russia then they are doomed

  • @she825
    @she825 Před 3 měsíci +55

    Aaron Mate debunked all the fallacies! He was the superstar on the panel!!!

  • @SA-sf2cq
    @SA-sf2cq Před 3 měsíci +16

    I haven’t watched yet, but I know Aaron Mate is going to win this panel easily.

  • @rollingssoni5496
    @rollingssoni5496 Před 3 měsíci +83

    Ukraine could sweet talk the people in eastern Ukraine to remain part of Ukraine rather than bombing them, people hate to be forced

    • @falcatafalcata1617
      @falcatafalcata1617 Před 3 měsíci +10

      So true ❤

    • @TheRealBillBob
      @TheRealBillBob Před 3 měsíci

      That woman represents just how nutty Ukrainians are.🙄🙄

    • @wallenbergphoto
      @wallenbergphoto Před 3 měsíci +1

      It's Russians who have the upper hand, NOT the people in the eastern parts.

    • @andresamplonius315
      @andresamplonius315 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Its way tooo late for that. There's no going back, all russian areas stay with the
      Russian Federation.

  • @maxryker8783
    @maxryker8783 Před 3 měsíci +34

    Great job Aaron

  • @user-lg2cq8jm3b
    @user-lg2cq8jm3b Před 3 měsíci +31

    A proxy war has to be defeated and Mr Uncle Sam has to learn a lesson.

  • @falcatafalcata1617
    @falcatafalcata1617 Před 3 měsíci +107

    If these two Ukrainians can represent all Ukrainians’ understanding of the war, Ukraine is slowly committing suicide! There is no help!😅

    • @-Faze-
      @-Faze- Před 3 měsíci

      If those two arerepresenting Ukraine, Ukraine is doomed of any existance ever

    • @TheRealBillBob
      @TheRealBillBob Před 3 měsíci +7

      Exactly.

  • @Darkmire
    @Darkmire Před 3 měsíci +146

    The only rational, nuanced voice was Aaron Mate. The other 2 guests were sensationalistic and propagandistic, using one-sided, selective or skewed data.

    • @YankeeSkeptic
      @YankeeSkeptic Před 3 měsíci

      Much agreed. The diplomatic hurdle is those 2 guests represent the stubborn perspective that will result in Ukraine completely destroyed and generations of Ukrainians killed. For what? Their unwillingness to declare neutrality and to not join NATO??? Their unwillingness not to recognize that some Ukrainians may want to ally with Russia???
      The US and NATO are exploiting Ukraine's stubborness, not to preserve "democracy", but to degrade the Russian military. (even that is a dubious goal.) But they keep holding the NATO carrot just out of Ukraine's reach.

  • @RaviRathore7
    @RaviRathore7 Před 3 měsíci +66

    Aaron Mate is a genius journalist.

  • @adolf.gas9
    @adolf.gas9 Před 3 měsíci +12

    AARON is spot on❤❤

  • @erichnk
    @erichnk Před 3 měsíci +36

    The shrill jingoism of Lesia, as a member Ukraine's purged parliament was more or less expected, but Ilya's pathetic echoing of it made a mockery of "political science". Only Aaron speaks from real facts and makes logical sense...and actually proposes a rational and humane solution for Ukraine. Let these two champions of endless war go to the front and save a couple of 60 year old conscripts from the meat-grinder this US proxy war has become. Their rhetoric will hardly be missed!

    • @MathUDX
      @MathUDX Před 3 měsíci

      One thing to understand about political "science" is that, much like the profession of economics, it's a massive hodgepodge of "schools of thought" with no real pretensions as a whole towards being a rigorous hypothesis-tested discipline. In any real science all these disparate schools eventually would get debunked as their theories are subjected to falsification, fall out of favor, and there would only be one school left standing with the most accurate predictive power about the world. But that's not how a politically-driven pseudoscience functions. There are some standout figures who try to develop theories that can actually predict the world and be confronted with evidence, but as a whole political science is largely about one group with a political agenda pitting their professors against the professors supported by another group with a political agenda.

  • @kusotarre
    @kusotarre Před 3 měsíci +51

    Aaron probably didn't want to open this bag of worms, but it's almost certain that the protesters gunned down during Maidan were killed by snipers who were part of the fascist groups behind the coup. Ivan Katchanovski has a really great, peer-reviewed paper on this, laying out what seems to be very strong evidence. If you search for 'Ivan Katchanovski maidan sniper', you can find a copy of it.
    As to the rest of the interview, yet another example of Hoo-Rah-Ukraine types being quite deranged. Announcing that Russia is going to march on Berlin a second time is way out in crank territory, and should have been laughed at. Absurd.

    • @luismlmestrado
      @luismlmestrado Před 3 měsíci

      Ivan Katchanovsky's body of work is impressive. Now that's a true Ukrainian political scientist media should regard. That's why Ukrainian and Western propaganda has been trying desperately to cancel him.

    • @simonlaonda9697
      @simonlaonda9697 Před 3 měsíci

      A similar sniper attack were done in Venezuela during the 2002 coup-attempt also backed/orchestrated by Washington. They tried to frame it on the sitting president too, but the evidence pointed to the right-wing coup plotters. Color revolution, so obvious.

    • @taniakrivorot
      @taniakrivorot Před 3 měsíci

      No, russians do not go to Berlin. But they want to make the path from Moscow to Kaliningrad through Lithuania and Poland; they want to take Moldova; they want to take the part of Estonia... way not?

    • @kusotarre
      @kusotarre Před 3 měsíci +11

      No one in the world wants to be stuck governing Poles or Lithuanians. You don't have anything worth the headache.@@taniakrivorot

    • @taniakrivorot
      @taniakrivorot Před 3 měsíci

      @@kusotarre what do You know about the Suwalki gap? I'm from Lithuania with ukrainian roots, but grew up in the russian culture, graduated russian school. I think I know the political issues of the post-sovet region better than that Aaron.

  • @gordonreed9687
    @gordonreed9687 Před 3 měsíci +15

    Nice job Aaron under difficult circumstances, also Good work by Marc Lamont Hill

  • @millermiller4661
    @millermiller4661 Před 3 měsíci +13

    This host is great. Sticks to his questions and does not tolerate guests twisting the questions. Great job.

    • @tgijukebox3401
      @tgijukebox3401 Před 3 měsíci

      Yeah this guy is slick kept it moving the whole time

  • @chriswatchingponies9877
    @chriswatchingponies9877 Před 3 měsíci +32

    You will have to negotiate at one point.
    Until then, tens of thousands more will die.

  • @zharkoo
    @zharkoo Před 3 měsíci +11

    She says "there is robust support for Ukraine", the question is WHERE ? In washington and its stooges, nowhere else.

    • @simonlaonda9697
      @simonlaonda9697 Před 3 měsíci

      unfortunately there are a bunch of propagandized and brainwashed Europeans/Westerners that support that USA/NATO-proxy war.

    • @jennybleasdale1815
      @jennybleasdale1815 Před 3 měsíci

      UK stooges.

  • @nanoo1988
    @nanoo1988 Před 3 měsíci +19

    Why do I trust the observers account (Aron mate) over the opinion of a politician with invested interests/agendas (eg. A Parliament member) 😅😅😅🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

  • @parvizt2937
    @parvizt2937 Před 3 měsíci +30

    I'm wondering is she working for Fox News or CNN same lip service😂.

  • @nikobelic234
    @nikobelic234 Před 3 měsíci +10

    I remember in 2024 then Ukraine banned Russian language….

    • @jennybleasdale1815
      @jennybleasdale1815 Před 3 měsíci

      I have lived in a country that tried to ban a language.........NEVER works. The US knows NOTHING about other countries. Before this war in Ukraine I bet most people in the US didn't know where it was!

  • @MagsN4
    @MagsN4 Před 3 měsíci +12

    if agreements made between countries under force or threat of force are not valid, does this mean that agreements made after Germany's surrender in ww1 and ww2 and Japan's surrender in ww2 didnt count?

  • @bobirnasimov9421
    @bobirnasimov9421 Před 3 měsíci +7

    What an interviewer ! Standing ovation

  • @kayla5381
    @kayla5381 Před 3 měsíci +27

    Aaron carried!!!

  • @gerokeeffe4014
    @gerokeeffe4014 Před 3 měsíci +6

    Excellent contribution from Aaron Maté

  • @Skelf71
    @Skelf71 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Aaron brilliant, calm measured and factual responses.

  • @davidchunkyonion
    @davidchunkyonion Před 3 měsíci +23

    Excellent moderation by Hill. I look forward to CNN inviting Aaron Mate to present his contrarian views (which happen to be correct).

    • @TheRealBillBob
      @TheRealBillBob Před 3 měsíci +3

      If they did invite him, it would only be to try to shut him down.

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 Před 3 měsíci +19

    Zelensky, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande admitted that Ukraine had no intention to honor the Minsk agreements.
    Who didn't want peace? Who advised against the 2022 peace talks in April? Hint: someone visited Zelensky in Kiev at that time.

    • @dvg87
      @dvg87 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Another fact against the Ukrainian counter-narrative is that the Minsk accords where no just rectified by the UN but where also held within the Normandy format, i.e. France and Germany were committed in implementing those accords. There's wasn't any pressure from Russia for them to agree to this.

  • @martinmagnusson1889
    @martinmagnusson1889 Před 3 měsíci +14

    With the mindset of the Ukrainian politican after 1 more year when the war enter its fourth. Ukraine will have lost even more land, and ppl, and the situation being even worse. It will be harder for aid to get pass US, and EU parlaments. This is a non-sustainable strategy. It is hard to watch.

  • @TepurangaHeremaia-ce4qe
    @TepurangaHeremaia-ce4qe Před 3 měsíci +20

    Right on, Aaron.

  • @nickdiochnos3509
    @nickdiochnos3509 Před 3 měsíci +9

    Aaron acknowledges a Ukraine of plurality. One looking to the east and another to the west the other two guests only see Ukraine as a homogenous nation.

    • @nikosvault
      @nikosvault Před 2 měsíci

      Well, Russia is about to chance all that ain't they?

  • @luismlmestrado
    @luismlmestrado Před 3 měsíci +9

    One objective rational and fact-based standpoint versus one member of a parliament that can only be there because her party wasn't banned by Ukraine's "democracy 2014-2024" (19 parties were forbidden) and one political scientist that is a visiting scholar in an American university. I rest my case and so should Al Jazeera on your reporting of the Ukraine-Russia war. You are doing a great work on Gaza, learn from there because the rules of propaganda have been applied just in the same way, with the difference that the western world shut down views coming from the Donbass and Crimean peoples after the inception of Ukraine's "Ministry of Truth" as The Guardian called it in Dec 2014, but they couldn't do the same with Gazans.

  • @benjaminleme2914
    @benjaminleme2914 Před 3 měsíci +26

    Aaron stated more powerfully and clarity.

  • @Amaking10000
    @Amaking10000 Před 3 měsíci +39

    I support any country against Western Imperialists' agenda

  • @shazabrahim5208
    @shazabrahim5208 Před 3 měsíci +19

    The lady talks about a revolution of dignity! Wow! Dignity given to them by Vicky Neuland! That must really by some dignity! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @wealthychef
    @wealthychef Před 3 měsíci +16

    Good highlight discussion. My sympathies are with Aaron Mate as he is a lights out top notch journalist and not partisan in this discussion. I'd like to see a longer version with more attention on the details.

    • @user-uz9ku4ur2q
      @user-uz9ku4ur2q Před 3 měsíci

      with marc as the pro-establishment host "debating" aaron minus the two hysterical propaganda mouthpieces

    • @wealthychef
      @wealthychef Před 3 měsíci

      @@user-uz9ku4ur2q It's tough to find a non-hysterical supporter of the western position. Everything seems hyperbolized and lacking nuance or historical context. It's just "Putin is insane and evil" all day long.

    • @Faceless166
      @Faceless166 Před 2 měsíci

      it's impossible to debate reasonably with the Ukrainian side, they live in some invented reality and speak only the propaganda language.

  • @jennybleasdale1815
    @jennybleasdale1815 Před 3 měsíci +19

    SUUBTITLES for deaf people

    • @user-ft7kg5wz8m
      @user-ft7kg5wz8m Před 3 měsíci +1

      Please click on CC (Closed Captions) for subtitles.

    • @jennybleasdale1815
      @jennybleasdale1815 Před 3 měsíci

      @@user-ft7kg5wz8m I did this. But it didn't work!

  • @billappledorf
    @billappledorf Před 3 měsíci +10

    Ukraine's declaration of independence when the USSR disbanded in 1991 stipulated Ukraine's geopolitically neutrality.
    In 2004, Viktor Yanukovych, who was committed to upholding Ukrainian neutrality, ran for the presidency of Ukraine against Viktor Yushchenko, who favored Ukraine joining NATO. Mr. Yanukovych won the election in the second round of voting, but the U.S. orchestrated an exhaustively documented color revolution known as the Orange Revolution that prevented Mr. Yanukovych from assuming the presidency -- this is in 2004, ten years prior to his being violently overthrow in the U.S.-backed Maidan coup -- and in an illegal third round of voting, Mr. Yushchenko, the pro-NATO candidate, won the presidency.
    In 2010, Mr. Yanukovych won the presidency of Ukraine a second time. After he assumed office, he succeeded in signing into law a bill he submitted to Ukraine's rada reasserting Ukraine's neutrality as originally declared upon Ukraine's independence from the USSR in 1991.

  • @ronskullie9380
    @ronskullie9380 Před 3 měsíci +7

    Russia didn't guarantee or excepted an illegitimate Kiev regime.

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 Před 3 měsíci +7

    Thank you Aaron Maté. Independent journalists with journalistic integrity are the heroes of our time.

  • @brightonboka3013
    @brightonboka3013 Před 3 měsíci +88

    😅😅😅the greatest illusion is to think that the whole world is behind Ukraine, no it's America n Europe behind Ukraine and they're not the whole world madam, put your facts straight

    • @patrickowens8768
      @patrickowens8768 Před 3 měsíci +12

      Adding to that, it’s only the governments of America and Europe that are for Ukraine. The majority of citizens are against continuing war and for negotiation leading to peace.

    • @dvg87
      @dvg87 Před 3 měsíci +7

      And a great bulk of the population in the West doesn't support this war either. Many in Europe want to reach an agreement with Russia and end the war.

    • @Algamishakard1920
      @Algamishakard1920 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Imagine

    • @taniakrivorot
      @taniakrivorot Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@patrickowens8768ukraine should give to Russia cities Odesa, Kharkiv, Kyev, after that the negotiation is possible. Are You agree with Putin? Do You think that after that stratagy Putin will not assault Estonia? or make the path to Kaliningrad?

    • @cherrypoptart2001
      @cherrypoptart2001 Před 3 měsíci +2

      realistically the a lot of countries were pressured into being against russia's war in Ukraine, a lot of countries wanted to remain Neutral or complete abstention . Its a bit ironic now that the majority of the US public are the ones now against supporting Kiev

  • @living_peace
    @living_peace Před 3 měsíci +25

    The Russian and Ukrainian sides should negotiate with each other to establish peace
    I ask the West to support peace

    • @ausername8699
      @ausername8699 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Russia should not get a single piece of land in these negotiations. They should be returned to 1991 borders.

    • @LjubicaServaas
      @LjubicaServaas Před 3 měsíci +3

      Boris Johnson: "Not gonna happen, chief"

    • @psbarrow
      @psbarrow Před 3 měsíci

      Ukraine has nothing to negotiate with. Unconditional surrender now is about their best hope for even remaining as a rump state.

    • @coalescence6133
      @coalescence6133 Před 3 měsíci +4

      ​@@ausername8699I understand many hold this position, but I would suggest setting idealism aside. How likely is it that an eventual negotiated settlement will see a return to 1991 territorial borders, and, if a reasonable observer concludes that it is very unlikely, how many more lives must be sacrificed before more practical negotiation is prioritized?

    • @Universe198025
      @Universe198025 Před 3 měsíci +6

      @ame8699 Mister, why don't you visit, let's say Crimea for yourself, it's quite safe now, and decide for yourself what majority of its population is strongly considering themselves as Russians by blood, by culture, by soul, by language, by conscience and etc. Make your own survey, and I can guarantee you that you'll end up in somewhere 85-90% of people strongly supporting their historical reunification with their lost in 1991 motherland.
      And then ask that question to yourself, who are you to tell those people, that were deprived of their homeland in 1991, how they should live, behave and raise their children ( don't you know that even the military oath's bound servicemen to Ukraine deployed in Crimea didn't make a single shot during that 2014 spring in Ukraine, fully realizing what was the real mood and feeling of local population towards Russia as their real motherland )
      Don't you believe anymore in democratic procedures, or in UN charter that tells you that any people have their right to determine their own future by holding a referendum?

  • @boltedmeal8182
    @boltedmeal8182 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Thank you Aaron for your clarity and sharpness against the Western propaganda!

  • @meshzzizk
    @meshzzizk Před 3 měsíci +6

    5:12 sorry but i suggest people look up the facts about this. ukraine's population was split 50/50 over the maidan protests, which were in response to yanukovych balking at an economically unviable austerity plan that had been offered as a form of economic affiliation by the european union. this was widely distorted by US-funded pro-western organizations as yanukovych refusing to bring the country closer to the eu because he was corrupt and under the thumb of putin (despite putin and yanukovych having had a fairly unpleasant relationship as a result of yanukovych demanding more money from russia for its lease on the sevastopol naval base in crimea). a good source is the chapter on this in adam tooze's book 'crashed'. another is richard sakwa's book 'frontline ukraine'. both are well-credentialed left-leaning western academics.

  • @EngraversNearMe
    @EngraversNearMe Před 3 měsíci +18

    ukraine and democracy lol gimme a break!

  • @patrickmwansa6124
    @patrickmwansa6124 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Aaron is the realistic here.

  • @peterlavelle800
    @peterlavelle800 Před 3 měsíci +3

    3 against 1 and Aaron still won!

  • @G_truPrGrSv
    @G_truPrGrSv Před 3 měsíci +1

    A. Maté = Truth-teller Brigade !

  • @alejandradukrodkin5551
    @alejandradukrodkin5551 Před 3 měsíci +10

    This lady is very misinformed @

    • @sezard252
      @sezard252 Před 3 měsíci +4

      This lady knows the truth, but she is very deceitful

    • @user-uz9ku4ur2q
      @user-uz9ku4ur2q Před 3 měsíci

      @@sezard252 *minsinforming

  • @siriusman6169
    @siriusman6169 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Lesia last arguments is a double edge swords, she saying that " Russia defeating Ukraine would allow it to station Missiles close to NATO boarders" the same can also be said of Ukraine joining NATO,.

  • @mbulelontseke5114
    @mbulelontseke5114 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Thank you Aaron

  • @nabstavus1289
    @nabstavus1289 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Who is this Aaron guy ,wow he just lifted the wool from my eyes so all along we have been misled about the Ukraine war .

  • @greatman5836
    @greatman5836 Před 3 měsíci +10

    Very interesting from Al-Jazeera I like this video, we know how this started 👍🏽

    • @ausername8699
      @ausername8699 Před 3 měsíci

      Most of what he said is a lie or an exaggeration. He's spewing Russian state propaganda.

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 Před 3 měsíci +12

    Russia has a winning military strategy, Ukraine and nato have a PR strategy. The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

    • @16252
      @16252 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Winning strategy, hmmm... 'Russia's four-month offensive on the destroyed Donetsk town of Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine, cost more lives than the 10 years of war Moscow waged under the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, new figures suggest.
      About 17,000 Russian soldiers were killed between October 10, 2023, when Russia launched its assault on the Donetsk city, and February 17, 2024, said Dmytro Lykhovii, spokesperson for Ukraine's Tavria group of forces covering Avdiivka.' Newsweek, Feb 19th.

    • @Faceless166
      @Faceless166 Před 2 měsíci

      @@16252 so your are saying that the heavily marketed Ukrainian summer offensive was the winning strategy?

  • @molkakaminski
    @molkakaminski Před 3 měsíci +9

    the UN dont have refugee camps in Ukraine…why?

  • @criticalcookie2579
    @criticalcookie2579 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Glad to see Aaron on.

  • @zakariyeyahye5566
    @zakariyeyahye5566 Před 3 měsíci +3

    “I said let them think how to do it with dignity. There are options if there is a will. Up until now, there has been the uproar and screaming about inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield. Now, they are apparently coming to realize that it is difficult to achieve it, if possible at all. In my opinion, it is impossible by definition, it is never going to happen. It seems to me that now those who are in power in the West have come to realize this as well. If so, if the realization has set in, they have to think what to do next. We are ready for this dialogue.” - Vladimir Putin

  • @talibali166
    @talibali166 Před 3 měsíci

    Aaron, opened the truth like its supposed to be. Thank you Aaron

  • @ThePolak700
    @ThePolak700 Před 3 měsíci +57

    Which planet is she from? Democratic Ukraine? Whats the opposition? None?.... hmmm. Plus people from EX Ukrainian republics want to be in Ukraine......thats why they seperated in 2014 and got bombed by Ukrainians ever since. Cramia was Ukrainian? since when, it was always Russian, few times in history Turks had it, but not for long. Plus remember that just before 2022 Russian invasion, Ukraiine goverment was deemed as most corrupt goverment in Europe by EU. Maybe thats why EU didn't want to take Ukraine and if they wouldn't sell all the weapons west is giving them, they could stand a litle bit better chance against Russians. Now, war is over, Ukraine is not winning as their propaganda says, they are on the virge of colapse. Its done. Their goverment just wants to get as much cash as they can before they call it quits.

    • @falcatafalcata1617
      @falcatafalcata1617 Před 3 měsíci +1

      In 2024, Zelensky was questioned in Ukraine. In order to preserve his power, he even canceled the presidential election!

    • @NafoDato
      @NafoDato Před 3 měsíci +2

      It is irresponsible and untrue to spread misinformation about the situation in Ukraine. The people of Ukraine have the right to determine their own future without interference or false narratives. The conflict in Ukraine is a result of Russian aggression and illegal occupation, not because of any inherent flaws in the Ukrainian government. The Ukrainian government may have had issues with corruption in the past, but that does not justify or excuse Russian aggression and illegal invasion. The focus should be on finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict and supporting the people of Ukraine in their efforts to rebuild and secure their sovereignty.

    • @psbarrow
      @psbarrow Před 3 měsíci +11

      @@NafoDato You guys really should do stand-up full-time, your comedy is too precious to be wasted on failed propaganda in CZcams posts.

    • @NafoDato
      @NafoDato Před 3 měsíci

      @@psbarrow Thanks for the backhanded compliment! But hey, we like to think of our CZcams posts as our own brand of comedy gold mixed with a healthy dose of truth bombs. Who says we can't do both stand-up and educate the masses at the same time? Plus, we'd miss out on all the fun of triggering all those keyboard warriors if we went full-time stand-up! 😉

    • @psbarrow
      @psbarrow Před 3 měsíci +11

      @@NafoDato LOL, good one, "educate the masses", just like the clowns who educate a circus audience on how to juggle tenpins. Got any more "truth bombs"?

  • @petepictures
    @petepictures Před 3 měsíci +1

    Aron did a very good job, Thank you. Its kinda funny an American Jurnalist speaking on defence of Rusiya, well done.

  • @ZereayM
    @ZereayM Před 3 měsíci +1

    Phenomenal work Aaron Mate, and thank you Marc Lamont-Hill for bringing on at least 1 rational voice. The picture they paint of
    Ukraine is so biased, they’re unable to separate their feelings from fact. You should at least give equal time if two voices are for a position and attacking the third guest he should have more time to respond, but he performed admirably with this handicap.

  • @sarachiba6012
    @sarachiba6012 Před 25 dny

    Aaron Mate is Brilliant !!! ❤ Keep Shining 🌟

  • @borispetrovchich3141
    @borispetrovchich3141 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Bravo Aaron !!

  • @alejandradukrodkin5551
    @alejandradukrodkin5551 Před 3 měsíci +15

    Crimea has always been Russian.

    • @MosmMAli
      @MosmMAli Před 3 měsíci

      No Crimea was khanate of Crimea and previous Soviet leader Klitschko ceded it to Ukraine

    • @alejandradukrodkin5551
      @alejandradukrodkin5551 Před 3 měsíci

      @MosmMAli Yes, sorry. I meant during the Russia reasent history. It was part of the Ottoman Empire before being part of the RUSSIAN Empire (it was the favorite place of the Russian aristocracy vacations). Then, it was part of the Soviet Union within the Russian State. During Nikita Krushev, Crimea was given to Ukraine for administrative reasons (only) in the beginning 1953 (?).

  • @buck13horn
    @buck13horn Před 3 měsíci +4

    Disappointing that Aaron could not bring himself to defend Russia's SMO (Special Military Operation), which was was launched not to start a war with Ukraine but to stop the Ukrainian coup government's 8-year war on the ethnic Russian population of the Donbas. Otherwise, he did a good job of countering the imperial propaganda of not only the other two guests but the host as well.

    • @waynetables6414
      @waynetables6414 Před 3 měsíci

      People get tripped up on the "Is vs Ought" dynamic too much in these type of conversations. Talking about the world as it is Vs. talking about the world as we subjectively wished it could be are two entirely different conversations and only one of those conversations is useful and productive in the context of being asked to diagnose how we got here and where we are going... which is what the prompt of this debate is supposed to be.

  • @Meeko2689
    @Meeko2689 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Aaron spoke great

  • @slobodapp7790
    @slobodapp7790 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Bravo Aaron

  • @RL-pe5cz
    @RL-pe5cz Před 3 měsíci +1

    G-d bless you Aaron - bravo

  • @zakariyeyahye5566
    @zakariyeyahye5566 Před 3 měsíci +2

    “We prepared a huge document in Istanbul, Turkey, that was initialed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation. He affixed his signature to some of the provisions, not to all of it. He put his signature and then he himself said: “We were ready to sign it and the war would have been over long ago, eighteen months ago. However, Prime Minister Boris Johnson came, talked us out of it and we missed that chance.” Well, you missed it, you made a mistake, let them get back to that, that is all. Why do we have to bother ourselves and correct somebody else’s mistakes?.” - Vladimir Putin

  • @thebesttruth4659
    @thebesttruth4659 Před 3 měsíci +4

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    all innocent😔Family😔in Pakistan,,,
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  • @Kamila10ish
    @Kamila10ish Před 2 měsíci

    Aron mate, respect, and love man. True journalist.

  • @jennybleasdale1815
    @jennybleasdale1815 Před 3 měsíci +2

    AAron well done.

  • @rahimamin4967
    @rahimamin4967 Před 3 měsíci +9

    A beggar is not free😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @zharkoo
    @zharkoo Před 3 měsíci +5

    When she said "Ukrain does not obey orders from US and UK" the debate turned into a comedy show.

  • @zakariyeyahye5566
    @zakariyeyahye5566 Před 3 měsíci +2

    “I know one can say it is our mistake, it was us who intensified the situation and decided to put an end to the war that started in 2014 in Donbas, as I have already said, by means of weapons. Let me get back to further in history, I already told you this, we were just discussing it. Let us go back to 1991 when we were promised that NATO would not be expanded, to 2008 when the doors to NATO opened, to the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine declaring Ukraine a neutral state. Let us go back to the fact that NATO and US military bases started to appear on the territory of Ukraine, creating threats for us. Let us go back to coup d'état in Ukraine in 2014. It is pointless though, isn’t it? We may go back and forth endlessly. But they stopped negotiations. Is it a mistake? Yes. Correct it. We are ready. What else is needed?.” - Vladimir Putin

  • @felipe-vibor
    @felipe-vibor Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you for Aaron mate

  • @dixztube
    @dixztube Před 3 měsíci

    Good to see Marc landing well

  • @yeetskeet7234
    @yeetskeet7234 Před 3 měsíci +9

    Every Ukrainian supported the 2014 coup d'eta = every American supported January 6th 💯

  • @Blastsniper
    @Blastsniper Před 3 měsíci +2

    Shouldn't have provoked Russia, now is gg

  • @abrahammibenge3754
    @abrahammibenge3754 Před 3 měsíci

    When you drinking coffee and you are not out in the cold you can say that will fight

  • @morebootylessheadhaches
    @morebootylessheadhaches Před 3 měsíci +2

    Europe and NATO's ambitions in Ukraine have failed catastrophically.. just admit it and give putin a medal.

  • @boubacarbarry224
    @boubacarbarry224 Před 2 měsíci

    Aaron is the goat

  • @tarakadir9259
    @tarakadir9259 Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you 🙏🏻 ❤

  • @Mike-xn8yt
    @Mike-xn8yt Před 3 měsíci +3

    Ukraine took the NATO Pill and lost. US taxpayers pay this woman's salary now but not for long.
    Fighting is as old as human civilization, we need to return to the days of those who wage it must actually fight in it.

  • @stoicagheorghe7300
    @stoicagheorghe7300 Před 3 měsíci

    They are delusional and don't want to see the truth before they eyes. Only the truth will open them the mind. Aaron is the only clear minded man there.