5 Reasons Russia Invaded Ukraine
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- The West was blindsided by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which to many seemed impossible. One year into this catastrophic event, what have we learned?
5 reasons for Russia's invasion:
0:00 - Introduction
0:22 - The Fallacy of Great Power Politics
1:11 - The Corruption of the West
2:16 - The Failure of Deterrents
3:51 - Ukrainian Success
4:49 - Russian Imperialism
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The time has come for us in the west to grow some balls and stand up to this bully once, and for all
Paul, what if NATO turns out to be as useless as other modern peace-keeping international organizations?
I have left my BIG comment in the main thread, for which I apologise. But I ask you to read it, because I have tried to explain why I think you are the guy who needs to do that glossy multiple part documentary series, not just explaining the last 30 years and how Putin got us here, but concluding with what is at stake for all of us in the free world. How we’ve been duped and manipulated by Putin’s propaganda and western corruption, but more importantly, what we will lose if we do not learn from that past, but quick! Thank you, Paul. Thank you so much. ✌️🇺🇦
Hi, Paul. I'm from Kharkiv, I wanted to say thank you very much for your work, help and indeed unwavering support. Because of this support, we hold on, because we know that we are not alone in the fight against the temporary misunderstanding of "Russia". Ukraine is already a free and independent state, which will be an honorary member of the European family and an economic partner of the entire civilized world. Slava Ukraine!❤️🇺🇦
Heróiam sláva
You are indeed independent. You are not alone in this fight. You are welcome and will be welcomed into the European family and the European Union as an equal.
We are grateful to you for helping us to wake up. And we can only apologise for not having done so sooner. And the price you have paid for this. And that you're still paying now, of course.
We do have a debt to pay and will pay this through Ukraine's reconstruction and development/integration. Support for Ukraine right now is born out of solidarity, collaboration and mutual self interest. For this Ukraine owes us nothing but continuing to defend itself, its people, its culture and its identity. The reward for us all is a safer continent.
Until Russia changes, it should never again be considered part of this continent. Nor recognised as a normal country or bargained with.
Slava Ukraini
You are not merely a honorary member of Europe, you are a honorable one. And it will be a great honor to welcome you fully into the family.
Great video, thank you for your support of Ukraine, Paul! There was no proactive position on everything that the RF has done in recent decades. Now is the time to be proactive, Ukraine will win with the strong support of our friends and allies! Glory to Ukraine and God bless America! 💛💙
Simple. Short. Truthful. I hope everyone in EU and USA understands this.
Exactly. Love this concise format. And yes, everyone should get this.
More people should find this channel!
Paul, you see in the root of the problem, like always. Thanks for your job 👍
Very well put. Thanks!
Well done! Simple, yet informative. These are all questions I’ve been wondering. If only I could get my family and friends to give a damn so they’d watch videos like this. Maybe then they’d care about Ukraine’s fight against russia’s invasion? 😖🥺
Concise, objective, absolutely on point. This must be shown globally to all "blind" people. Thank You very much for Your ongoing support! Greetings from Kyiv!
That's really shokking! How we did not see that
Thank you for your support of Ukraine and this video!
Thankyou
Thank you, Paul, for your support of Ukraine. Thanks to everyone who helps us. Ukrainians will never forget this.
All Ukrainian people have our solidarity. From a European perspective you have become our brothers and sisters. Not merely our neighbours.
As such, your struggle is painful to witness. It has frequently left many of us unable to sleep. And the help we are giving you is our duty and privilege to offer. Not a gift for which we should expect gratitude.
We will never forget the Ukrainian people. And will be honoured to fully welcome you into our family of EU nations and into NATO as soon as this becomes possible. Ukraine must never be subjected to this again.
Slava Ukraini
Great summary, man! We in Ukraine were so blind to European corruption because of our obsession with our own one.
Thank you Paul for all your work and support to Ukraine! We will never forget it. Slava Ukraini! God bless USA!
Hey Paul, I think it would be nice if you drafted a letter which we could send to our state congressmen and senators. I'm becoming worried with the growing feelings towards Ukraine here in the US, and I want to remind my representatives to do the right thing
Actually started in Rep. Moldova. Ofc the question then comes how russia even got there since Ukraine was in the way.
Extremely well done! I was hoping you would start making content like this
Very succinct and to the point. Spot on! Slava Ukraine!
Very astute and timely. Thank you, Mr. Massarenko! 😁
Thank you!
Exactly! Great content! Short and profound. Thank you
Paul, this is a great video format. Please do more of these.
Magnificently synthesized! Bravo!
Well put summary Paul. Thanks
It's good to see you on this platform
Well put. Thank you.
Top tier content Paul! ❤
Paul, thank you for this analitics !
Excellent Video , Well Done 👍
So accurate, thank you
Excellent article cleverly explained
Great video
Excellent video. Glory to Ukraine! Ukraine will prevail!
Nice video. A lot of people did see it coming... 💔
Good, very good, Thanks!
Great distillation of events. The pattern of russian aggression should have been noticed earlier, or rather, the people of Eastern Europe who recognized the arc of russian imperial ambitions should have been listened to. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
Very good.
Thank you very much for your support and help
Paul, thank you for supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦 !!!
That's a pretty good summary of what russia is and how miserable western response used to be and still partially is. Thanks for the video!
More of this Paul! 🇵🇭♥️🇺🇦
We’ll done! Thank you!
Only seven Finnish MPs opposed joining NATO yesterday. Oddly similar number (six) opposed Finland fighting against Russian invasion in 1939. But Estonians decided to negotiate and got "Russian Word of Honor" that they can keep their sovereignty. Eventually more Estonians died in Russians Gulags than Finns in Winter War.
We definitely need more videos like these, Paul. They compliment your awesome interview videos wonderfully. Thank you. Glory to the heroes. Glory to Ukraine ✌️🇺🇦
More to come!
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2:16 на початку 90х Молдова, в середині 90х двічі Ічкерія(Чечня), початок 2000х політичне поглинання Татарстану, який так і не зміг покинути цю імперію. А Грузія також була атакована двічі крім 2008, ще конфлікт у 1993, де Росія теж взяла участь.
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It's great video! Thanks everyone who supporting Ukraine!
thank you Paul, perfect job to hold accountable everyone who helped russia all these years
Yes, I'd say it's never late to iterate on the historical context to explain why Russia is so aggressive. Though it's a time to think about feature, and how to make Russia (or whatever states will form from it next) docile and never imperial again.
thank you for your work exposing the evils of russia
Thank you, so much, Paul. I know I said I would try to restrain my impulse to go on too long, Paul, but please indulge me one last time? I have a request to make, but I feel it needs context and, as there’s a big ask involved, I feel I ought to explain it fully. I promise to keep my messages of support brief hereafter.
I was literally asked the question by my youngest daughter (an adult now) just recently; How did we end up here, with this war in Ukraine? And I told her I would love to know myself, but I believe it would be a story of corruption at the very top levels of many western governments and one of infiltration by Russia, who have spent money like water on bribery, blackmail and the general tradecraft of spying.
The only comfort we can take from this is that the fever seems to have finally broken, at least for most westerners, now. But I doubt we’ll ever get more than an insightful documentary about the whole thing, rather than an historic investigation which changes the world. Which brings me back to you, sir . . .
After following your recent CZcams career with great interest and even more gratitude (quite genuine) I wonder if you are the right person to explain this to the world? You clearly have access to all of the best people, as your dazzling interviews have so amply demonstrated. And this video shows me that you know how to edit, time and pitch an explanation of complex subject matter, making it easy to digest.
If you were to combine sections from those interviews with the type of footage you used for this video, you would already have a compelling couple of hours in which the narrative of, “now,” could be laid out for all to see. But! And this is where I’m thinking, “If you don’t ask, you don’t get,” what if you were to revisit those guests, and maybe add a few more high profile figures, with the backing of, say, a Netflix producer, or someone from Amazon, or anyone willing to add their prestigious company’s name and weight to the production of a documentary series that lays it ALL out? The past 20 to 30 years or so, since the fall of the Berlin Wall and Putin’s assent to power? A series that explains to everyone, beyond question, how this situation evolved, since the fall of the USSR, to where we are now?
The importance of such a series being that I still see, even among people who fully support Ukraine against Russia’s imperialism, they still don’t get how we got here, but, more importantly, what is actually at stake!
You are aware of how the west has had its vision of Putin distorted through Russia’s lens. And you know that even when we have been willing to openly declare Russia as committing acts of evil, our politicians, historians, news outlets and cultural trend setters have still filtered such responses to these things through a wholly distorted, misguided and incorrect reading of the situation, because Russia’s narrative had far too much traction in the west. There are still so many of us (I would argue the majority of us) who carry in our heads, at least some of these, “received wisdom,” type notions about Russia, Putin and their motives for invading Ukraine. And, in so doing, we are not just being misguided in our thinking now, but STILL playing into Putin’s hands, as we see with the wests hesitation to supply the weapons of war that would give Ukraine a quick and decisive victory.
I don’t think people understand fully that it doesn’t end with Ukraine, and that Russia (if we are to take seriously anything on their state propaganda TV channels, it should be this) openly states Putin’s intention to annex Poland and Germany, along with several other Eastern European powers, to fully restore the borders of the old Soviet Union. Though we don’t take that so seriously now, we can be certain that Putin WILL take anything and everything we allow him to and that FORCE is the only language he understands.
You are actually one of the few people in a position to fully lay out that history, in a compelling, narrative way that would leave the viewers with a clear eyed sense of what is really at stake here. The erosion of western security at the hands of Russia’s, “Asymmetric,” assaults on journalism, information, business magnates, politicians, culture, even fashion and pop culture, has been something that Putin has committed vast resources to since that fall of Soviet domination and I genuinely believe that the right person, with access to the right commentators, from religious spokes people to military generals, from political analysts to media specialists (all of whom you have demonstrated you have great working relationships with), from Zelensky himself (that might be the hard bit?) to the battle hardened soldier on the ground, who can no longer picture a life in which he returns to his old job as a historian, who has seen the fighting in the streets: you sir, are in a unique position to offer the fullest and most complete narrative understanding that would capture the imaginations of the general public and leave us ALL with a comprehensive notion in our hearts as well as our minds of what the world will look like if Russia wins, and if Ukraine wins: seeing the chasm between those two visions and deciding that they must help to influence their representatives in whatever way they can for Ukraine’s victory.
If people understand that it would be a victory for them as much as Ukraine, in their hearts as well as their minds, they will collectively influence that outcome.
I recall how the documentary, Ukraine On Fire, “caught fire,” in the minds of the general public and how Russia so HATED that documentary that their trolls were forced to work around the clock to try to counter its plain message. I don’t know if it’s 100% true to say that Netflix stopped allowing the general public to write their own reviews for their content because of the way the review stream turned into a battleground; something more akin to a massive argument in the CZcams threads than anything that would help a viewer to know if the documentary was any good or not, but they did abandon viewer reviews shortly after that documentary got really popular.
All this to say that I think you have demonstrated the ability and (I hope) the willingness to use your many communication skills to get across what is at stake, which could influence public opinion and therefore create increased pressure on western politicians to do the right thing for Ukraine. You could convey the genuine understanding that Ukraine is fighting a war on all of our behalves and currently standing between us and the abyss.
I would never want you to stop doing your interviews. But there’s no denying that this format, of this video, both conveys more information in a shorter span of time, and is more compelling to watch, probably for some sort of animalistic instincts in the brain and to do with the way we process and retain information. It seems that Netflix will commission just about anything these days, so I cannot imagine them turning down such an approach, were you to make it in such a way that looks appealing to the public? Sadly, I have no idea how any of that works, but they are clearly shorter on good ideas at Netflix than content, so I can’t see it as being too difficult if you were to find out who is who in their commissioning hierarchy?
Of course, that isn’t important, so much as simply doing it. Put the whole thing on CZcams if you have to. But with the name of Netflix or whomever backing you, and their producers and contacts, you could probably make a glossy, eye catching series that would give people something they all seem to want anyway: the answer to that big question: The A to Z of how Putin got us to the war in Ukraine and what is at stake for all of us in the free world: Why we all have a dog in this fight.
If you have been patient enough to get this far, THANK YOU. Regardless, thank you for all that you are doing. It means so much to me and I cannot imagine how much it means to the people in Ukraine but it must be huge. I genuinely think that you are the guy; the one who can pull all of these threads together into that big conclusive narrative answer that shapes the way we understand this whole situation. Please consider it? And, by way of thanks, I PROMISE to keep ‘em BRIEF from now on. ✌️🇺🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧
Thank you, Paul. I'd slightly disagree though: the real one and only reason why russia invaded is the no. 5 you've mentioned here (russian imperialism). The rest are, in my opinion, either useful circumstances, or additional triggers. Anyway, huge thanks again for what you're doing for Ukraine and the free world.
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Should those politician's, now working for Russian companies be tried? And how could that happen?
I still think that this conflict could expand into a world war.
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Maybe this had something to do with it czcams.com/video/fWkfpGCAAuw/video.html
6. Related to what you said in point 3 "Internal russian matter" - The world considered Ukraine to be russia, but that is not the case obviously.
Even just watching an interview with a guy just now who came from Odesa (Ukraine) to the USA and worked in Law Enforcement people there considered him russian, unfortunately from what I understand he did not really comment on that he is not...
Even though I live in a different country atm (Historical home country) and not Birth country, when people from ex-soviet countries hear my name they immediately try to talk to me in russian, though I'm sanctioning the use of russian language at the very least at work and I immediately say that I'm not russian, but still some people still think they can figure out who you are by the name, and unfortunately I don't use my Ukrainian name here as it would be too hard for them to pronounce it, they already call me a different name, Sagi, lol
Failure all around by multiple dupes. Make up for it now by providing Ukraine with weapons, tanks, F-16 fighter jets, and artiliery to support Ukraine to defeat Russia and keep Russia out for good.
There is a simpler answer.Russia invaded Ukraine just because it is Russia. That is... usual behaviour for them. So, if u are close to them or have some relation - be ready. So, 5th - describes everything basically ))) thanks!
I actually don't disagree. But I think that russia can be deterred if we're serious. The first 3 are demonstrations of weakness, basically giving the green light. 4 is viewed by russia as provocation or motivation - russia says, "How dare Ukraine have the gall to pave its own way?" And 5, yes. Russia is russia
@@apmassaro3 I mean, all the points u've determined are 100% true. I ve would dug deeper into the Ukrainian, Polish, Belorussian... so on... history - we wound see absolutely the same picture. And the scary part of it is that most of the people just know nothing about it. That is how problems begin. I do not understand why they keep behaving like that for centuries... for us it is just a fact we need to live with.
@@apmassaro3 another example. Belarus. Just a few hours ago watching the video in Belarusian language, about Belarus russification.. they almost lose their language... guess why)))
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This video contains numerous factual errors surrounding the war in Syria and trivialises the situation to make it seem like Russia invaded Syria with Obama's blessing. This isn't what happened.
At 2:19 the text on the screen says that Russia "interfered" with Syria in 2011. This is false. Russian troops only entered Syria in 2015 at the request of Syria's internationally recognised government. Before that, the extent of Russian support for Syria was political and only included the use of its power to veto resolutions at the United Nations Security Council.
You also neglect to mention that Russia's intervention was to stop terrorists from gaining control in Syria. This is what Secretary Kerry said: "why Russia went in. Because they didn't want an [ISIS] government." at a meeting with leaders of opposition militias in Syria. The full conversation is here: czcams.com/video/e4phB-_pXDM/video.html
You mention that western governments also supported Syrian opposition militias, but this stoked sectarian conflicts within the country. Syria's Christian minorities heavily supported Assad staying in power because they feared discrimination at the hands of terrorists and Islamist militias (as shown in this 2013 report in CNN: czcams.com/video/FQIrSR6tKJg/video.html). Sectarian terror in Syria isn't a joke and there is very good reason to be concerned about this. In November 2012 the 'Free Syrian Army' (FSA), the largest opposition militia in Syria told the State Department that "most of the injured and dead FSA are [al-Qaeda] due to their courage and [the fact that they are] always at the front line". ( www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/al-qaeda-affiliate-playing-larger-role-in-syria-rebellion/2012/11/30/203d06f4-3b2e-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_blog.html ) In the same meeting I mentioned earlier, Secretary Kerry also said that "We saw [ISIS] was growing in strength and we thought assad was threatened. We thought we could probably manage that Assad would negotiate", trying to ouster the Syrian government through taking advantage of sectarian conflicts. Charles Lister, an expert on terrorism, wrote that "the vast majority of the Syrian insurgency has coordinated closely with al-Qaeda since mid-2012". (www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2015/03/23/are-syrian-islamists-moving-to-counterbalance-al-qaeda-will-it-last/ ) In 2014 an FSA leader told "no FSA faction in the North can operate without [al-Qaeda] approval" to the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/world/as-syrias-revolution-sputters-a-chaotic-stalemate.html
At 3:10 you say that Assad and Russia crossed Obama's chemical weapons red line. First of all, it would have been impossible for Russia to cross this line as the chemical attack you are referring to which did not have a US response happened in 2013, not a single Russian troop was fighting for the Assad government until 2015. The US didn't respond to the 2013 Ghouta chemical attack as it was not certain that the evidence that the Syrian government was responsible for the chemical attack, and interrupted President Obama's assertion that it was. (source: apnews.com/article/c2ad647bc3c248f286ad4d186f1ba9d2, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/ ) Both the US and UK believed that the opposition may have been responsible for the attack you mention, and did not take action on Syria because it was not precisely because it was not certain if it was the Syrian government responsible for the attack. (www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n24/seymour-m.-hersh/whose-sarin )
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For crying out loud, Massaro! Do something about the slurping. Jesus Christ.. I know you're overwhelmed of joyful excitement whenever you're about to stroke some ukr...ego, and swallow...whatever SBU is pushing on you. At least get a paper towel or something before drenching the mic...
Thank you!