Why U.S. is Pushing “Long War” Strategy in Ukraine War

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  • čas přidán 20. 02. 2024
  • On the second anniversary of the Russian military intervention into Ukraine and the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup that created a pro-NATO puppet government in Ukraine, Brian and Vijay Prashad discuss U.S. long-term strategy toward Russia, Europe, and the Middle East.
    Brian Becker is joined by Vijay Prashad, the Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Chief Editor of LeftWord Books, and a prolific author, most recently publishing a new book with Noam Chomsky called “The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power.”
    Please make an urgently-needed contribution to The Socialist Program by joining our Patreon community at / thesocialistprogram . We rely on the generous support of our listeners to keep bringing you consistent, high-quality shows. All Patreon donors of $5 a month or more are invited to join the monthly Q&A seminar with Brian.

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  • @Vicky-Blue
    @Vicky-Blue Před 3 měsíci +379

    The West’s double standard is sickening

    • @icecoldyellowredbull
      @icecoldyellowredbull Před 3 měsíci +21

      pure evil nothing else

    • @matthewryan2060
      @matthewryan2060 Před 3 měsíci

      If the west didn’t have double standards it wouldn’t have any standards.

    • @Ultra1036speed
      @Ultra1036speed Před 3 měsíci

      Putins invasion of Ukraine is sickening !

    • @Ultra1036speed
      @Ultra1036speed Před 3 měsíci

      @@icecoldyellowredbull Putin sending his tanks down city streets killing civilians is pure evil !

    • @harrisdupree3323
      @harrisdupree3323 Před 3 měsíci +17

      As an American and former military my stomach turns beyond belief at what the U.S has become.

  • @hilarysanjose2733
    @hilarysanjose2733 Před 3 měsíci +31

    "If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. - Nelson Mandela

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 Před 3 měsíci +386

    “Operation Iraqi freedom” was the saintly title for the brutal invasion of Iraq. “Operation unified protector” was the angelic name for the destruction of Libya.
    “Operation enduring freedom” was the virtuous name given to the unjust invasion of Afghanistan. All in the name of democracy

    • @katong1953
      @katong1953 Před 3 měsíci +23

      When Vijay Prasad mentioned the US' "provisional principles", it immediately reminded me of Condoleeza Rice's convenient justification when asked why the US didn't follow its stated principle. She said, "The equation has changed."
      No wonder Lavrov said the US was agreement incapable, and there's a worldwide stampede to dedollarize.

    • @ReneeGow-ii8lt
      @ReneeGow-ii8lt Před 3 měsíci +30

      I feel like operation "just cause" can be read as "just because."

    • @clement3718
      @clement3718 Před 3 měsíci +8

      Hypocrites and nothing else...

    • @clement3718
      @clement3718 Před 3 měsíci

      Oh...how the rest of world hated these neo-cons and yet tolerated them out of fear!

    • @andrewlim7751
      @andrewlim7751 Před 3 měsíci

      The American's "freedom" are very toxic and deadly, beware. 😁😁

  • @Lacheyenona72
    @Lacheyenona72 Před 3 měsíci +278

    Endless war = Endless Profits

    • @user-js9dq4we4j
      @user-js9dq4we4j Před 3 měsíci +3

      Bullseye award!!!

    • @runswithbears3517
      @runswithbears3517 Před 3 měsíci

      It's not about profits. Yes, the MIC has a powerful lobby, but this is about much more.
      This has to do with American geopolitics. The US fears that when it and China get embroiled into security competition (and possibly war), Europe and/or Russia may become the laughing thirds. This is why it seeks to embroil Europe and Russia into a war with each other. Why else would the US seek to remove the key to eastern European stability: a neutral Ukraine, and do its utmost to boycot any chance of a peaceful or diplomatic solution?
      It's cut in dry, folks. The US has been using these methods for decades, and they're described in detail in works by Mackinder, Wolfowitz, Brzezinski, etc. - divide et impera on the Eurasian continent is the key to US hegemony and with the US global position under pressure, this is what it will aim to do.
      Blaming it on the MIC is easy, and basically turns you into a 'useful idiot' by not recognizing the very real geopolitical struggle that underlies it all.

    • @Kyle_Warweave
      @Kyle_Warweave Před 3 měsíci +2

      You call Deaths "profits?"

    • @rsuriyop
      @rsuriyop Před 3 měsíci +2

      Well, the forecast is looking like there IS going to be an end to this sooner or later, whether anyone likes it or not. This war has already taken too far a toll on Ukraine to keep this up for that much longer.

    • @raevj
      @raevj Před 3 měsíci

      @@Kyle_Warweave no, they care nothing about the deaths but war racket profits. The bankers & military industrial-intelligence complex runs the USA..they control EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE In government by bribes and blackmail. The few who are left have few allies and are pushed out.

  • @mapzilla
    @mapzilla Před 3 měsíci +28

    I am not pro-Marxist or socialist, but I loved this assessment of this situation. Kudos. You speak truth.

  • @jian-pingshen4001
    @jian-pingshen4001 Před 3 měsíci +79

    This is an excellent and independent analyst, far smarter than those in western media, we need more such one and let the world hear this voice

    • @georgezhang5383
      @georgezhang5383 Před 3 měsíci

      All big media firms are controlled by a few.

    • @melvinbarnett1910
      @melvinbarnett1910 Před 3 měsíci

      Western media is a business, and their model for profit is sensationalism. What's more sensational than war?

    • @montrelouisebohon-harris7023
      @montrelouisebohon-harris7023 Před 3 měsíci

      I’m -American and I am eastern orthodox Christian and I don’t watch the media because it’s bullshit and it’s just a bunch of lies and propaganda! We have maybe one Christian news channel and Fox News is more moderate, but they’re not socialist neo-Nazis like CNN and MSNBC, who are just mouth pieces of President Biden and his political party who called them selves Democrats, but there’s socialist in a combination of some cultural Marxists. A bunch of them are neo-Nazis themselves and brainwashing university students so it’s a constant struggle here in America if you’re a Christian and conservative because probably 50 to 60% or moderate or conservative and then the other 40% or 50% all right washed by the media or universities.

  • @avi9857
    @avi9857 Před 3 měsíci +192

    Absolutely brilliant analysis of the facts on the ground and the constant hypocrisy and blatant disregard for those who are not puppets of the US in the media narrative. History and reality are being rewritten in front of our eyes, whitewashing doesn't even begin to describe it adequately. Thank you Brian and Vijay

    • @maryanchabursky9148
      @maryanchabursky9148 Před 3 měsíci

      Indeed you are trying to to rewrite the facts of ruSSias unprovoked invasion to suit your feelings

    • @damer651
      @damer651 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Great comment!!

  • @shaybritting6019
    @shaybritting6019 Před 3 měsíci +223

    EXTREMELY SAD, TOOOO MANY Ukrainians HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES, WHILE TOOOO MANY U.S. TAXPAYERS HAVE PAID THE COST, To Keep Toooo MANY RUTHLESS U.S. POLITICIANS IN OFFICE!!! 😬😭🖤

    • @oh_aces
      @oh_aces Před 3 měsíci

      America in its present form only exists as the nexus of the money laundering operation that is being run through NATO, Ukraine and Israel and AFRICOM. They are starting to run in to the limits of direct imperialism, so they're now draining our taxes and throwing them directly in to the hands of the worst people to ever walk this earth.

    • @Ultra1036speed
      @Ultra1036speed Před 3 měsíci

      It still all comes down to Putin's invasion of Ukraine ! If you cowards find it so much easier to just blame everything on the US Go ahead ! Anyone with a brain in their head knows that this is Putlers war !

    • @Ultra1036speed
      @Ultra1036speed Před 3 měsíci

      When a bully like Putin invaded a little country like Ukraine what do you expect ? It's funny how you people twist it around and blame everything on the US like cowards !

    • @Ultra1036speed
      @Ultra1036speed Před 3 měsíci

      Are you forgetting that Putin attacked Ukraine ? This is Putin's war ! It's his doing !

    • @Ultra1036speed
      @Ultra1036speed Před 3 měsíci

      Another coward channel that keeps removing comments to suit there propaganda !

  • @user-jd4ho5me3s
    @user-jd4ho5me3s Před 3 měsíci +56

    Don't forget that Victoria Newland handed out cookies during the Maidan Square protest.

    • @AnaG-pd3ym
      @AnaG-pd3ym Před 3 měsíci +1

      You mean money?

    • @peterliemareff8894
      @peterliemareff8894 Před 3 měsíci +3

      ​@@AnaG-pd3ym
      NO, cookies!
      Cookies I believe is an American word, so it's cookies.

    • @valuggel8972
      @valuggel8972 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Young Nyland was HOT😘

    • @pauloharo
      @pauloharo Před 3 měsíci +2

      The Real "Cookie Monster"

    • @BobJohnson648
      @BobJohnson648 Před 2 měsíci

      She hooked up with Hillary?

  • @rosevisionmacs
    @rosevisionmacs Před 3 měsíci +22

    Any country that cares about their own citizens is considered to be subhuman by the USA and England.

    • @stevenriften7561
      @stevenriften7561 Před 2 měsíci

      The crazy woke white-liberal thinks they are saviors. That's why they are called GLOBALISTS.

  • @JillianEmerson-me8cx
    @JillianEmerson-me8cx Před 3 měsíci +89

    Blinken's statements are illogical, crazy making and totally unprincipled.

    • @numbersix8919
      @numbersix8919 Před 3 měsíci

      Enslaving every country in Europe might be unprincipled but it isn't irrational.
      Maybe you are irrational, if you can't understand what's happening in your own country.
      Sorry to speak so bluntly. But if you trust capitalists with your country, you'll understand nothing and believe anything.

    • @numbersix8919
      @numbersix8919 Před 3 měsíci

      @@hankookh4750 Blame sexual deviants instead of your ruling class -- they'll love you for it.

    • @samliew6610
      @samliew6610 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Since when those US politicians have principle and moral?

    • @himpim642
      @himpim642 Před 3 měsíci

      yup,just like putin.kettle calleing pot...

  • @patrick818
    @patrick818 Před 3 měsíci +90

    When you think about how far humanity has come, and then see the destruction of a pipeline that supports a fifth (?) of humanity blown up, that should tell you all you need to know about that small group of people.

    • @user-lm9fe4uw3s
      @user-lm9fe4uw3s Před 3 měsíci +16

      Exactly they care only for there pockets, I still don’t understand how relaxed the Germans have been after loosing cheap gas.

    • @patrick818
      @patrick818 Před 3 měsíci

      @@user-lm9fe4uw3s I'm sure they are very unhappy about it, but no msmb news is going to share that with the world.

    • @angusmckenzie9622
      @angusmckenzie9622 Před 3 měsíci

      @@user-lm9fe4uw3s”Exactly…”simplistic slogan. Do you have an original thought ?

    • @pmenchions
      @pmenchions Před 3 měsíci

      Do you?​@@angusmckenzie9622

    • @curtisk2286
      @curtisk2286 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Go Trump Baby

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 Před 3 měsíci +242

    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

    • @user-cc1sz1bb9b
      @user-cc1sz1bb9b Před 3 měsíci +12

      مادا عن الإبادة الجماعية والتطهير العرقي الدي تموله وتدعمه امريكا في فلسطين المحتلة ؟؟؟؟ هل هده هي الديمقراطية

    • @victorcelmare
      @victorcelmare Před 3 měsíci +6

      How can they stay in the way ? It’s a négociation between Ukraine and Russia

    • @andrewlim7751
      @andrewlim7751 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@user-cc1sz1bb9b
      The Americans don't care about Arab's lives, the Jews are more important, it's just a fact.

    • @sumitkumarroy2307
      @sumitkumarroy2307 Před 3 měsíci +43

      ​@@victorcelmare because they put a puppet regime in 2014. How can a puppet disobey his master?

    • @Luke1959
      @Luke1959 Před 3 měsíci

      @@victorcelmare same way as this, if you and someone came to a compromise on a problem, and then I show up and say to you "don't you dare follow through with this agreement, or I will break your legs!" Of course the Ukrainian government is controlled by the US, and the US and UK are allies, they simply sent the clown Boris Johnson to Ukraine to tell Zelensky not to accept the agreement! Now do you understand?

  • @jamesmassey356
    @jamesmassey356 Před 3 měsíci +52

    The bringer of death Anthony blinken

    • @randyindvik1171
      @randyindvik1171 Před 3 měsíci +1

      It's head to head race with cookie Nuland

    • @spudwesth
      @spudwesth Před 3 měsíci

      His Grndpa was born in Russia ... specifically Kyiv.

  • @manflynil9751
    @manflynil9751 Před 3 měsíci +13

    I enjoyed listening to Vijay. Its encouraging to hear people like him soeak up and call out the blatant hypocrisy pushed on us by the MSM and our western governments, which we are supposed to swallow hook, line and sinker.

  • @user-xc6wd3hb4s
    @user-xc6wd3hb4s Před 3 měsíci +15

    Because the "long war strategy" will be the most profitable for the Military Industrial Complex.

  • @bascogolfer5210
    @bascogolfer5210 Před 3 měsíci +14

    Who is as evil as Victoria Nuland on this planet, none.

  • @PerceivedREALITY999
    @PerceivedREALITY999 Před 3 měsíci +255

    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.

    • @bovellois
      @bovellois Před 3 měsíci +29

      A messenger and ally of the US, recognizable by his unkept mop.

    • @Peekaboo-Kitty
      @Peekaboo-Kitty Před 3 měsíci

      They were ALL Liars and Frauds and they call Putin "evil"? What a joke!

    • @TheHuxleyAgnostic
      @TheHuxleyAgnostic Před 3 měsíci +10

      The Minsk Agreement ... that came after Russia had invaded Ukraine, occupied Crimea, and started supplying separatists with money, arms, and manpower? The same Russia that had been violently interfering in former SSR countries since 1991?

    • @captainyak3948
      @captainyak3948 Před 3 měsíci +17

      @@bovellois BTW he wants $1M to be interviewed by Tucker Carlson...

    • @Peekaboo-Kitty
      @Peekaboo-Kitty Před 3 měsíci +5

      @@captainyak3948
      Who? Zelensky?

  • @catherineharris4746
    @catherineharris4746 Před 3 měsíci +28

    100%FACTS are being spoken!💜👏👏👍👍👍🙏

  • @TajNawabKhattak-hs4dp
    @TajNawabKhattak-hs4dp Před 3 měsíci +32

    The two brilliant legends together who have grip on current affairs.My respect salaam tribute Nameste to hosts guests and viewers and see the double standard ugly faces of Yankees.

  • @jason8077
    @jason8077 Před 3 měsíci +42

    "long war" is not even a strategy. Its more like "lack of strategy"

    • @numbersix8919
      @numbersix8919 Před 3 měsíci +7

      "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." George Orwell, _1984_

    • @acidthunder1
      @acidthunder1 Před 3 měsíci +4

      Assange said this too. Its a plan

    • @user-ul9dv2iv9s
      @user-ul9dv2iv9s Před 3 měsíci

      The war was meant to be a Crimea repeat, quick and easy.
      You do remember Putin's role in this?

    • @numbersix8919
      @numbersix8919 Před 3 měsíci

      @user-ul9dv2iv9s Not the way you do, obviously.

    • @mark_2
      @mark_2 Před 3 měsíci

      The Crimea referendum was a direct response to the coup. The US had no business there whatsoever. Crimea was Russian since 1783.

  • @numbersix8919
    @numbersix8919 Před 3 měsíci +23

    I pray that Vijay will be sustained and protected, in health and power, far into our children's future. Hear me God.

    • @peterliemareff8894
      @peterliemareff8894 Před 3 měsíci

      Right now, I couldn't pray a better prayer, after that, God help all of us.

    • @DavidThomas-fb8bq
      @DavidThomas-fb8bq Před 2 měsíci

      As they said in The Prisoner: 'we're all pawns my dear.' like your title.

  • @bradfordmccormick9501
    @bradfordmccormick9501 Před 3 měsíci +84

    When in an interview Mr. Zelensky was asked point-blank if here were neo-Nazis in his government he tried to evade the question. When the interviewer did not let him off he hook he finally said: "It is what it is". When asked about ultra-nationalists in his movement, Mr. Navalny said that he had to start somewhere, i.e., they were he first people he could get to build his base on.

    • @acidthunder1
      @acidthunder1 Před 3 měsíci +14

      is that why he called people "cockroaches". Sounds like he was fully on board with "ultra nationlists" views

    • @bradfordmccormick9501
      @bradfordmccormick9501 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@acidthunder1 Not disagreeing with you, just reporting something I read he said that stuck for me. I may also have read what you write, but I didn't clearly remember that. Do you remember **who** was he talking about as "cockroaches"?

    • @user-ul9dv2iv9s
      @user-ul9dv2iv9s Před 3 měsíci

      So how many were elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2019.
      Names and party affiliations please.

    • @W_Bin
      @W_Bin Před 3 měsíci +4

      Ukraine is about the only country in Europe (and America) with *_no_* neo nazis in government.
      This information is available in public statistics available on the internet for all governments

    • @user-td7js9yk7x
      @user-td7js9yk7x Před 3 měsíci +4

      Zelensky generally freed criminals from prisons -murderers, rapists, and sent them to fight on the front line

  • @maverick-zj3jz
    @maverick-zj3jz Před 3 měsíci +55

    We need our 100 billion taxpayers money back.

  • @michelegosse7116
    @michelegosse7116 Před 3 měsíci +17

    Why a"corrupt government"? a corrupt state, a corrupted country, impoverished and sold out since 2004, that is 20 years ago in fact.... after the (unwanted) fracture in the 90s.
    Corruption cannot be tackled before a normal satisfying socio-economic life is restored, which EU and IMF prevented and Nato undermined.

    • @himpim642
      @himpim642 Před 3 měsíci

      russia is member of imf and net creditor whcih takese itnerests rates.its far lower creditor than usa vbut particpatye in same evil organistion off course failign to mention its member and creditor with voting power.
      joining eu demansds cerain standards about rule of law before membership and demand reforms.you are fre to to show me hw reforms of adminsitrion eu demands are pro corrution.
      russia is also corrupt as ehll and like ukriane beign corrupt as it can influcne it.
      idot in moscow just has to wait some more and ukrien wud collpase on its own but he gave ear to yes man who thgouh ukraine is corrupt to bone and woudl give up in week.

  • @captainyak3948
    @captainyak3948 Před 3 měsíci +23

    Excellent show! the discussion was very informative... I am speechless.

  • @3dEmil
    @3dEmil Před 3 měsíci +28

    The biggest factor for the difference in intensity of civilian casualties and destruction between Ukrainian and Gaza wars is that while Russians will be happy to have the civilians become their citizens, Israeli don't want Palestinian civilians in any way around them.

    • @angusmckenzie9622
      @angusmckenzie9622 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @sidnill. “The biggest factor …”. Who could blame the Israelis if you are right. Israel did handed Gaza to the arabs in 2097. Whilst they continually attacked Israel for 15 years, Israel maintained its patience until 7 October. Enough is enough. However, it’s nonsense. If Hamas came out from behind the civilians, there would be no non-Hamas casualties.

    • @angusmckenzie9622
      @angusmckenzie9622 Před 3 měsíci

      The anti US, anti West apologists are clueless. Not a word justifying their ridiculous claim that the US wants a long war, absolute rubbish, mere parroting of Russian and CCP propaganda.

    • @rogerc6533
      @rogerc6533 Před 3 měsíci

      Very telling that the amount of civilians killed in Gaza has already eclipsed the amount that have died in several years of the Ukraine conflict within these short few months.

  • @victorchew151
    @victorchew151 Před 3 měsíci +51

    What I saw in videos of Gaza is the most atro cities by the IDF in this 20 century. 😢

    • @niarlatotepbasset
      @niarlatotepbasset Před 3 měsíci +4

      21st century.

    • @allah_prays
      @allah_prays Před 3 měsíci +2

      But you didn't see the barbaric acts of the Gazans against Israelis in October 2023?

    • @davidcollin1436
      @davidcollin1436 Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@@allah_praysit wasn't "the Gazans" and such lies will be your demise.

    • @natalijaasbjornsen8827
      @natalijaasbjornsen8827 Před 3 měsíci +1

      It was Hamas.

    • @alanaadams7440
      @alanaadams7440 Před 3 měsíci +2

      War is hell Isreal has the right to defend itself

  • @abdulmajidquazi5498
    @abdulmajidquazi5498 Před 3 měsíci +32

    1. To sell weapons.
    2. To keep food crisis over world.
    3. To sink Ukraine in debt, by obstruction of sales of food products around world.
    4. Continue sanctions on necessary items EU import from Russia using their emotional behavior, and sink all countries economy, to use them as slave when these countries turn poor.

    • @ironmonkey1512
      @ironmonkey1512 Před 3 měsíci +1

      US petro companies making a mint shipping NG to europe

    • @terjeoseberg990
      @terjeoseberg990 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Right. These are Putin’s goals.

    • @devilik3692
      @devilik3692 Před 3 měsíci

      @@terjeoseberg990 🤡🤡

    • @fredrikastlid645
      @fredrikastlid645 Před 3 měsíci

      You talk about russian doctrine yes

    • @himpim642
      @himpim642 Před 3 měsíci

      lol,everythign you siad could be prevented by russia not attacking .you rember time when us epdo presidnet accused russia f planjing to invade and them vehemently denying it than invading.blood on hands is not limited to western ghousl.

  • @user-kp7xg1yi6k
    @user-kp7xg1yi6k Před 3 měsíci +15

    Thank you
    so much for this discussion. You filled in the blanks in so many areas that I had some historical knowledge of with highly articulate details. I am recommending that all my family and friends listen to this very, very important podcast.

  • @miodragracic6993
    @miodragracic6993 Před 3 měsíci +44

    BB and VP are always great to listen to. Thank you for keeping us sane and educated! :)

  • @Wthdude.
    @Wthdude. Před 3 měsíci +16

    You two are Amazing❤ thank you for being so awesome 👏🏼

  • @Shining237
    @Shining237 Před 3 měsíci +24

    The reasons why it continues: Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, BlackRock, Westinghouse, BP, Exxon Mobil, Haliburton, ... just to name a few.

    • @himpim642
      @himpim642 Před 3 měsíci

      spoken like true ignoramus.MiC serve emprie not vice versa-crumbling anglo saon emprie has itnerest in preventing resurgence of russia and to contian china and are working overnigh to foment ciris and coutner rising influnce.

  • @knokkelknekker
    @knokkelknekker Před 3 měsíci +21

    Fun fact: The Nazi who in the clip talks about their enormous influence on the Maidan coup ends by saying that without them (the neo-Nazis) the Maidan protests would turn into a Pride parade.

  • @rosevisionmacs
    @rosevisionmacs Před 3 měsíci +28

    American schools won't include Kurt Vonnegut's books in their literature because Dresden was demolished by the USA. No one talks about it. Their are so many Americans of German ancestry.

    • @Grace-bk4tq
      @Grace-bk4tq Před 3 měsíci +1

      One can read Vonnegut or any other author buying 2nd hand used books if the public school bans books in middle- or high school. Or borrow them from the Public Library, I did. When there's a will, there's a way around banned books by the school district or books your Dad bans due to Catholic censorship, I read them anyway.
      Thought Control should be banned, Everyone has Freedom of Thought.

    • @Grace-bk4tq
      @Grace-bk4tq Před 3 měsíci

      A book called "The Death of Science" by Paul Goddard & Angus Dangleish is not available in the US in print form but available in European countries it's about thel corruption of science & medicine by the evil-1's in order to deceive the general public esp. those non-science majors or non- medical field people.

    • @drakekoefoed1642
      @drakekoefoed1642 Před 3 měsíci

      barbarians hate history

    • @Eli-pe6ku
      @Eli-pe6ku Před 3 měsíci +1

      Is Slaughterhouse-Five banned, then?

    • @jimmykumana8859
      @jimmykumana8859 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Yes, Slaughterhouse 5 is not available through US bookstores

  • @AlekEnpain-fg7wx
    @AlekEnpain-fg7wx Před 3 měsíci +20

    Thanks for this conversation, I just hope that it reaches lots of people, it is refreshing to listen to two men having open conversations about very important issues that most of the media and governments would like to crush.

  • @nancyperreault3732
    @nancyperreault3732 Před 3 měsíci +22

    Excellent exposé pour ceux qui ne sont pas déjà au courant.

    • @lalouloune6156
      @lalouloune6156 Před 3 měsíci

      Vous êtes en France ? Macron vient de déclarer la guerre.

  • @pianoman9685
    @pianoman9685 Před 3 měsíci +66

    Remember Zelensky running around boasting prior to SMO threatening to get Nuclear weapons and joining NATO Russia was provoked

    • @himpim642
      @himpim642 Před 3 měsíci

      rember rusisa saying it wont attack and atrakcing.where are wmdms-they are existitnat as wmds in iraq.Corrupt president of urkaien caleld zelensky said it was mistake to give up nuclear wepaons conidering what russia was and is now doign to them as its only deterance from big bullies like for exampel why some peopel are symphetic to NK tryign to get atomic bomb agains USAl
      Russia didnt cite thret of nuclear wepaon when invading -better inform them and nucelar wepaons cant be buil overnight.
      joinign nato was goal of ukriane in 2003 sa well-kucma who even sent army to hslp mueifcnas in iraaq but still no invasion from russia.
      moscow bots arent much beter than wesotid nad natobots.all lobotmised and decitfull..

    • @et2709
      @et2709 Před 3 měsíci

      Now they want to aid US to fight China in Taiwan. How ironic?! No mistake about the true color of this kiev regime.

    • @MiguelHernandez_2013K
      @MiguelHernandez_2013K Před 3 měsíci

      Who Wants The WILLING SCAPEGOAT??
      First, 2nd, 3rd.
      Scapegoat/s Coup more Proxy wars
      MORE SCAPEGOAT

  • @oahumada2007
    @oahumada2007 Před 3 měsíci +24

    Is all about money 🤑

  • @jeffrey7cp992
    @jeffrey7cp992 Před 3 měsíci +17

    Vj very knowledgeable, nice to listen to 👍👍👍👍

    • @AnaG-pd3ym
      @AnaG-pd3ym Před 3 měsíci

      Good to listen mr.VJ again with new informations.

    • @user-fk8wu8zf6o
      @user-fk8wu8zf6o Před 3 měsíci

      If the mob is behind you, you can do as you will

  • @MrCccppp
    @MrCccppp Před 3 měsíci +54

    If Israel can occupy in Golan for practical reasons, the same applies to Russia too,

    • @numbersix8919
      @numbersix8919 Před 3 měsíci +4

      Bad example but very true.

    • @himpim642
      @himpim642 Před 3 měsíci

      so by our acocutn both acions are wrong.

    • @Waaben21
      @Waaben21 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Keep in mind that the Eastern provinces all voted for Viktor Yanukovych before the coup

    • @margowolfe3857
      @margowolfe3857 Před 3 měsíci

      Syria and Egypt attacked Israel. Israel won that war and took over the Golan heights

    • @RicardoMartinez-oh9sq
      @RicardoMartinez-oh9sq Před 3 měsíci

      But it is hypocritical to call Israel genocidal, what about the bombing of Dresden to rubble, which was not even necessary?

  • @raymore5256
    @raymore5256 Před 3 měsíci +14

    Vj you are really great. 👍👌👌

    • @raymore5256
      @raymore5256 Před 3 měsíci

      It will be great if vj can feature in Duran community. He. Is a man of yesterday today and tomorrow with what is going on in our world of today.

  • @cpc9563
    @cpc9563 Před 3 měsíci +14

    16:39 "The man (Navalny) was a fascist...they (the West) portray this man as a great hero...this really bothers me.."
    Vijay, why should you be bothered? The entire Canadian parliament gave an actual Nahtzee a standing ovation! WW2 basically never ended for the West.

  • @akhalif68
    @akhalif68 Před 3 měsíci +21

    Chalmers Johnson "Sorrow of Empire" a must read...

  • @jimh527
    @jimh527 Před 3 měsíci +6

    "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up."
    -Barack Obama, 2020

  • @christopherzaccheus
    @christopherzaccheus Před 3 měsíci +6

    Twenty years of war in Afghanistan,the mighty armies of the west could defeat the Afgan on the camal.The mighty troops had to tip tow out of Afghanistan in the middle of the night so as to not to wake up the sleeping Taleban.

  • @johnkruk6929
    @johnkruk6929 Před 3 měsíci +15

    What a great presentation by Brian & Vijay thank you .

  • @terrismuhammad9882
    @terrismuhammad9882 Před 3 měsíci +11

    Interesting discussion. Thanks for sharing this.

  • @ewit7768
    @ewit7768 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Its their core business. No war. No dollars.

  • @bilic8094
    @bilic8094 Před 3 měsíci +12

    Sovereignty and territorial integrity doesn't really matter when it comes to the collective west look in the case of Ukraine and so called kosovo very similar but a reverse scenario.

    • @himpim642
      @himpim642 Před 3 měsíci

      BIngo.BUt rusia is laos hiprciritacl here and support seperatitists in georgia na moldov.

  • @astleyreid2459
    @astleyreid2459 Před 3 měsíci +8

    TO EVERY ACTION THERE IS A REACTION WE CANNOT SOW CORN AND REAP PEAS

  • @martinpalmer6203
    @martinpalmer6203 Před 3 měsíci +7

    long war= more profits , if you think they give a damn about more than that (such as the human costs) you are delusional

  • @Cyfix15
    @Cyfix15 Před 3 měsíci +5

    When you take a step back, it’s really interesting and incomprehensible. The fact that when the United States government speaks, they speak, as if people are absolutely ignorant of their own actions.
    The entire world knows what the United States did in Iraq and Afghanistan. They don’t have any moral grounds to lecture anybody specially, not a country that is literally defending its sovereignty from NATO

  • @carltontweedle5724
    @carltontweedle5724 Před 3 měsíci +10

    Money money money who makes the weapons the yanks the more Ukraine use the more take a guess.

  • @richardparker1338
    @richardparker1338 Před 3 měsíci +7

    Vjay always impresses me with his comprehensive knowledge base.

  • @zbigniewdzwonkowski3536
    @zbigniewdzwonkowski3536 Před 3 měsíci +5

    The Days of Zelensky-Nazinsky are over.

  • @lnpsych1
    @lnpsych1 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Well said! hello from Greece ! Γειά σας από Ελλάδα!!

  • @balkanleopard9728
    @balkanleopard9728 Před 3 měsíci +5

    A brilliant discussion. Thank you both.

  • @michael511128
    @michael511128 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Haven’t seen Brian for a while, great to see you again.

  • @newtagwhodis4535
    @newtagwhodis4535 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Thank you Vijay! Much love for your work.

  • @RobinCrusoe1952
    @RobinCrusoe1952 Před 3 měsíci +4

    And I think to myself, what a wonderful world....

  • @choifayue9848
    @choifayue9848 Před 3 měsíci +11

    VN tel call : 'F the EU' is a classic "girls" talk yet up to now the west is still sleeping lol PEACE

  • @deutziana4370
    @deutziana4370 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Thanks for such an informative video that counteracts the mind-numbing propaganda all around us.

  • @WTHH2
    @WTHH2 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Never vote for a comedian to be "your leader"

  • @Lexington125
    @Lexington125 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Thanks for your diligence and honesty. I am so tired of explaining to people in the last 2 years many of these issues , now I can just share a link ! Hats off guys 🙏🏼

  • @vinceneuwirth568
    @vinceneuwirth568 Před 2 měsíci +1

    The BEST information so far. Great job 👍🏻my dear friends.

  • @malaydhar917
    @malaydhar917 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Beautiful discussion and analysis . 👍🌺✍️-bmd

  • @alissonburgers5329
    @alissonburgers5329 Před 3 měsíci +5

    "In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military industrial complex.
    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
    This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

  • @sm8315
    @sm8315 Před 3 měsíci +2

    So educational. Thank you Vijay and Brian

  • @Twindragon-tu1wd
    @Twindragon-tu1wd Před 3 měsíci +2

    Thank you fellow screaming bleeding ❤s . Love and a Peaceful World 🌎.

  • @lks9042
    @lks9042 Před 3 měsíci +4

    They forgot to mention that the “security bill” that passed the senate and has been rejected in the house also included a clause to ban funding to UNRWA and to make aid to Israel unconditional without any approval from congress necessary. I’m sure the house will make a worse bill that includes no funding for Palestine as well as the unconditional aid to Israel, but it buys some time.

  • @pearl4195
    @pearl4195 Před 3 měsíci +12

    Arrogance and ignorance

    • @et2709
      @et2709 Před 3 měsíci

      The collective west

  • @jeffwirick6099
    @jeffwirick6099 Před 3 měsíci +7

    War knows no bounds FYI. 2024

  • @peterarsenault1569
    @peterarsenault1569 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Excellent program providing current and background information about the war in Ukraine. Thank you both!

  • @TeriBrown-li4ge
    @TeriBrown-li4ge Před 3 měsíci +6

    Good analysis

  • @pianoman9685
    @pianoman9685 Před 3 měsíci +6

    Great book by Jacques Baude The Navalny Case, Conspiracy to Serve Foreign Policy

  • @Foma738
    @Foma738 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Such great people and analysis ...Thank you!!!

  • @richardmartin3127
    @richardmartin3127 Před 3 měsíci +1

    "Another A class presentation without prejudice". Thanku both,& development team.

  • @sakai101yahoo9
    @sakai101yahoo9 Před 3 měsíci +3

    US hipocrisy of the highest ORDER! 🎉

  • @StateOfPurgatory
    @StateOfPurgatory Před 3 měsíci +4

    Love your program

  • @jimmykumana8859
    @jimmykumana8859 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Very useful details of recent history. Thanks.

  • @julietaaboka3285
    @julietaaboka3285 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Thank you, Vijay, for pointing out few important details that explain the current situation. Your examples shocked me, like that US build power plant in Indonesia. Some aid, indeed!

  • @deeringkendrick8388
    @deeringkendrick8388 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Damn, this was good. 🔥

  • @rpf100
    @rpf100 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Absolutely true. Rich mens wars. Along with the power politics of a somewhat dubious Ubernensch philosophy.

  • @JC-XL
    @JC-XL Před 3 měsíci +1

    It's great that someone is bringing the truth out, many people, especially younger, have not even heard this side of the story.

  • @Catchaflu
    @Catchaflu Před 3 měsíci +4

    The latest from blinken, if you are not with them, you are on the menu. 🤢

    • @numbersix8919
      @numbersix8919 Před 3 měsíci

      Actually, you and I are also on the menu.

  • @pluto5746
    @pluto5746 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Excellent eye opening discussion .

  • @juliegrimme
    @juliegrimme Před 3 měsíci +3

    ViJay I didn't know about Larry and Zelensky. thank you.

  • @alexkozlow7489
    @alexkozlow7489 Před 2 měsíci

    The TRUTH is slowly coming out. Thank you BT News and Vijay Prashad !!

  • @thetruthoutside8423
    @thetruthoutside8423 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Security of the so-called state of Jacob? What about us?

  • @tuber6382
    @tuber6382 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Longer than Afghanistan? How did that end???

  • @pellenyberg
    @pellenyberg Před 3 měsíci +4

    Blackrock/Vanguard corp. There you have the root evil in all of this madness.

    • @numbersix8919
      @numbersix8919 Před 3 měsíci

      Well, the original capitalist founders sit over them. (I think.)

    • @pellenyberg
      @pellenyberg Před 3 měsíci

      @@numbersix8919 Yes, the "old dollar/Punds, Rödsköld // JPMorgan/.. The usual suspect.

    • @davidcollin1436
      @davidcollin1436 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@numbersix8919Name them, if not, it's your fairytale.

  • @bjornbaron5940
    @bjornbaron5940 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Always great to hear Vijay.

  • @VladimirStevanoviclennon33
    @VladimirStevanoviclennon33 Před 3 měsíci +47

    Long live socialism!

    • @terryhynes6906
      @terryhynes6906 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Can,t think of any succesful socialist country.

    • @flyingtigers3747
      @flyingtigers3747 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@terryhynes6906 Because the predictable leftist response is:
      "Socialism hasn't worked because _the right people_ have never tried to implement Marx's ideas..." Nope, nothing to do with ideas that are foundationally faulty.

  • @sigma_six
    @sigma_six Před 3 měsíci +3

    That's easy, If you could convince people to lend you money to pay them for their goods and services and someone who lives in the neighborhood provides them with a product, that you are not even competing with, but you get jealous anyway, and so you feel "compelled" to bomb their warehouse (oil pipeline) tell your friends to not buy from them (because it's making you look weak and insecure, you're not the center of attention any more...) then you decide that you want to supply your friends what they are selling but you can't do it as cheaply so you have to convince your friends they pay an extra 300-600% higher cost because you are secretly buying it from the very people who were selling it to them directly, but you still manage to convince them anyway... then you pay a local "tough" guy to try and beat up this very source of your product because you're now feeling humiliated and embarrassed (since you can't compete fairly) and if you could do all this by paying money that was loaned to you (treasury bills) the only question would be: Then why wouldn't you? especially if you're used to be the local "big shot" and can't stand to see anyone else get a great deal without your involvement... !!! '; D i.e. the US' personality can be described as sociopathic and criminal... in a nutshell...

  • @samifakhry2002
    @samifakhry2002 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Its always nice to listen to Vijay.

  • @karrode
    @karrode Před 3 měsíci +1

    Congratulations on the excellent interview, very well conducted and extremely enlightening. It is of the utmost importance that there are people like you who are concerned with making known the reality that the mainstream media does not disseminate, since they are subordinated to the will of the dominant interests of the West world.

  • @harolddogbottom2355
    @harolddogbottom2355 Před 3 měsíci +30

    I've posted this elsewhere, but on the topic of Russia's "invasion":
    Let's stop calling Russian movements into Ukraine an "invasion": it was the USA that invaded the Ukraine and violated its sovereignty (after several attempts, finally in 2014, with Victoria Nuland electing her own government for the whole of the country).
    The actual people of Donetsk and Lugansk, after finally having declared sovereignty--and after having merely asked for autonomy--from the Ukrainian government, asked for Russian assistance.
    What Russia is doing now is actual liberation, unlike what the Americans do, as in "Operation Iraqi Freedom."

    • @kathycollett4318
      @kathycollett4318 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Bingo!

    • @TheHuxleyAgnostic
      @TheHuxleyAgnostic Před 3 měsíci

      What nonsense. 😂
      The USSR ethnically cleansed Tartars from Crimea, and colonized it with Russians. The Holdomor hit the Donbas region hard, genociding much of the population, and they brought in Russians to colonize it. Both the Empire and the USSR also pushed Russification in Ukraine. Putin has just come back to finish the job, and you're supporting Russian Imperialism and colonialism.
      Russia has been violently interfering in former SSR countries since 1991. Putin thinks all the former SSRs should belong to Russia. He has been trying to expand Russia's borders back to meet the NATO borders, so his claims about not wanting NATO on his border are ridiculous. He just doesn't want NATO in countries he wants back.
      Ukraine's president had said he would support Ukraine joining the EU. Putin then blockaded trade to Ukraine, until he flipped his position. When he did, people protested. One American diplomat, with a plate of cookies, didn't cause what happened. Putin's blockade did.

    • @Ultra1036speed
      @Ultra1036speed Před 3 měsíci +3

      You must have a good drug dealer !😂😂😂

    • @J.J.J.J.J.J.J
      @J.J.J.J.J.J.J Před 3 měsíci +6

      Exactly. And similarly people continually call Gaza an "open air prison", which gives the implication that people in Gaza are criminals. However they SHOULD be calling Gaza a massive concentration camp.

    • @Luke1959
      @Luke1959 Před 3 měsíci +4

      @@Ultra1036speed Maybe you should try some, it'll open your eyes to some truth for a change 👍🏼

  • @user-db5te2vz2r
    @user-db5te2vz2r Před 3 měsíci +3

    The reason is....$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$€€$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, its not complicated.

  • @zainiabdullah621
    @zainiabdullah621 Před 3 měsíci +2

    A German MP's chilling warning:
    "One has to make it absolutely clear: ten years of the (Ukraine) war teach us (that) those who mess with Russia will end up either as Napoleon in 1812 or, even worse, as Hitler, in 1945."
    ~ MATTHIAS MOOSDORF, Member Of Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee.