Ukraine War EXPOSES 30 Years Of Western Double Standards | Prof. Dr. Alfred de Zayas
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- [Part 2 of 2]. In this second part Professor Alfred de Zayas talks about all the mistakes that were made in the 30 year lead-up to the war in Ukraine and how little the international community and the Europeans cared about the Russian Speaking minorities in the eastern regions as well as the failures to hold Ukraine responsible for implementing the Minsk-Agreements. The most striking failure is of course the double-standards that the Europeans are setting when it comes to Kosovo and the way they handled the wars in Yugoslavia. Rules for thee, but not for me. In conjunction with the decline of US hegemony and the utter depravity of the mass-murder in Gaza, the moral bankruptcy of the West is as glaringly obvious as it has never been before or after the Cold War.
First part: • USA and EU Are DESTROY...
Dr. Dr. Alfred de Zayas is a Professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy, who used to work as a senior lawyer in the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and later became the first UN Independent Expert on International Order, serving in that capacity from 2012 to 2018.
Born in Cuba, Dr. de Zayas holds a Doctorate in Jurisprudence from Harvard Law School and a PhD in modern history from the German University of Göttingen.
Dr. de Zayas is also a member of the Geneva International Peace Research Institute where he and his team are currently working on a legal case against Ursula v.d.L., Charles Michel, and Josep Borrell.
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Territorial Integrity of Ukraine and the NATO-Russia conflict
00:05:29 - Provocations and Conflict with Russia
00:10:15 - The Autonomous Republic of Crimea
00:15:40 - The Legitimacy of the Crimean Referendum
00:20:49 - The Legality of Crimea's Reincorporation into Russia
00:25:28 - The Intellectual Dishonesty in Academia
00:30:10 - The Psychological Need for Self-Censorship
00:35:13 - The Hijacking of the Human Rights System
00:40:07 - Remembering Aaron Bushnell and the Genocide in Palestine
00:45:03 - Interview with Alfred Desas
The problem is that any narrative that favours Russia in any way is dismissed as Russian propaganda by Western media.
Not just any narrative, but any fact that does not fit with the Western narrative is dismissed as “Putin’s talking points” by so-called “disinformation experts” whose real job is to censor inconvenient views and facts from the western media.
Read between the lines of the narrative: nada mas guerra de la elite Judias.😂
The world is completely upside down. Just recently a German court ruled, that the "Verfassungsschutzbehörde" (more or less equivalent to US FBI or RU FSB) does not have to provide any evidence in order to publicly declare an entity (the political party AfD in particular) as endangering the principles of democracy and conduct investigations and surveillance against them.
Those are the same guys who call Orbán an authoritarian, when the Hungarian "Állambiztonság" (again equivalent institution) conducted investigations and surveillance against merely two opposition politicians, who were suspected of espionage, without making any public accusations or declarations.
These people follow the same old logic of "pure democracy", pure in the sense that it is free of what some call amoral opinions and misinformation. You can read about the idea in "The Doctrine of Fascism" by Benito Mussolini.
Yes, these days truth is propaganda, fascism is democracy, war is peace and the list is getting longer every day.
Not just narratives, even facts are censored by “disinformation experts” as “propaganda” when they don’t fit the western narrative.
western media needs to start being honest about western propaganda. the nyt and wapo put pravda to shame.
Russian Speaking peoples in Ukraine are not minority. Majority of Ukrainians know Russian language. Persecution against them is the root cause of all evils in Ukraine today.
by russian speaking ppl, they mean the ethnic russians. who are a minority in ukraine... what used to be urkaine, sorry
Yep, we collapse three different meanings of "Russian" into the single English word "Russian"... linguistic Russian (of the Russian language), ethnically Russian (a person self identifies as Russian), and civically Russian (being a national of the Russian Federation)... this is where translation problems coming into English cause this misunderstanding. You see a similar thing translating the Hamas charter, resulting in people thinking they want to kill all the J's (avoiding writing the full due to CZcams filtering).
“The West” allied with the Galician Nazis around Lvov.
No only do they know, it's their mother tongue!70% of population
@@jakepistoleroИзвините, не только этнически русские, есть румыны, болгары, которые русскоязычные.
The intellectual dishonesty of academics such as Norways Cecilie Hellestveit. Thanks Pascal! This was gold!
Yes, I just rewatched some of the 2023 Holberg debate between John Mearsheimer and Carl Bildt (also on CZcams) on the Ukraine conflict, where she was the moderator; she did an appalling job on that one.
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There is no evidence that the Russian invasion was illegal. In fact, there is at least some evidence that it was preemptive. I never understand why people ignore that evidence. To my knowledge no one has even investigated claimed increase in shelling on the border and build up in NATO troops. It’s the same with self-determination. Referendums, the will of the people in Eastern Ukraine, no one cares about the right to self determination under the UN Charter. In fact, people are most often the forgotten element in all this intrigue. Putin should have gone in much sooner than he did. That would have saved many lives.
They're from the so called free world so they have to add that bs talking point at a minimum!!
Donbass won the first war against naasis in 2015. In panic Merkel begged Putin to stop and Minsk degotiantions followed. Putin trusted Merker but she betrayed people of Donbass and Russia. Fact.
We don't call it an invasion, but an intervention. Russia went in to protect the civilian population in an already ongoing brutal civil war, following an illegal coup d'etat.
.. USA owned the media.
You are right
This is all we - Ukrainians need to know about this proxy NATO vs Russia war:
“Being an enemy of America is dangerous, being a friend of America is fatal.” - Henry Kissinger
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>>>I guess it was the 12th or 13th time to Kiev, and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. I got a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against a state prosecutor, and they didn’t.
“So as they were walking out to the press conference, I said, nah, we aren’t going to give you the billion dollars. They said you have no authority, you are not the President. I said call him. I’m telling you, you are not getting the billion dollars.
“You are not getting the billion; I am leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you are not getting the money.
“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired.>If you put aside the immense human suffering and look at Ukraine’s war through the cold lens of international power politics, a clear picture emerges: the West is having a good war against Russia.
All NATO has to do is send Kyiv munitions, equipment and money, which, as any general knows, is the c h e a p e s t way to wage war.
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The lives are being given by the Ukrainians. They’re defending their nation but also, inadvertently, helping decide the Cold War.
For 70 years, NATO deterred a Moscow attack westwards. The Russians eventually invaded, last February, what they assumed would be a conquerable target on their south-western border.
The war that NATO long prepared for is finally being fought.
Thank you for all this 🙏🏼
I copy these quotes and put them on my facebook page.
You’re right, that’s all you need to know. Sums it up perfectly, and straight from the horse’s mouth.
Tim Scott is one of the signatories of the threatening letter to the ICC from the US Senate on the behest of Netanyahu (see AfrisynergyNews).
🤡👈🫵🤣
Those were not errors in Serbia yugoslavia, bosnia etc..they were deliberate divide and rule principles
The Russian invasion was not illegal. War is legal under two cases: 1) Self defence, 2) A country requests military assistance. That is the reason Russia recognised the DPR and LPR as independant. It made it formally possible for military assistance to be requested and granted. Of course, in practice, it is the law of the jungle which applies, as it always has been.
Very well said 👏
You don't have to make the case that Russia's invasion was legal or not. The USA didn't accept the missiles in Cuba in 1962, why should Russia acceot missiles in Kiev ? That's it. SInce the US refused diplomacy about this problem they created (Nato troops on Russia's border), Russia had no other choice than to start this war.
"That is the reason Russia recognised the DPR and LPR as independant." They did so shortly before the SMO (I am not contradicting you, just clarifying for others.) For internal and external legal reasons. When they did I felt something was going to happen. Well...
When US backed or fought wars, US was always the illegals, full stop.
The actual illegal invasion is that of Iraq by the US regime. Even the UN stated as such. Bush jr is a legal war criminal.
Professor De Zayas is a very well informed man 📚 I will be listening to this one again for sure.
For sure, same for me, ❤❤
The whole channel is excellent!
@@zetristan4525 very true
Excellent guest Pascal!
The EU and NATO keep shouting like the events of Crimea in 2014 were the worst affront to "the principle of territorial integrity" in Europe since Hitler butchered Czechoslovakia in 1938-39 - but just compare with how the EU is walking on eggshells around the Turkish presence on northern Cyprus. Turkey has been semi-occupying the area (backing it with their own troops) for half a century, and Cyprus is an EU member state for Christ's sake! - but the EU are very careful not to cause any major stir about it. The reason, of course, is that Turkey is a key member of NATO.
These days, the EU doesn't seem to have much guiding lines to its foreign policy and diplomacy except this one: don't step in the way of Uncle Sam, our Lord Protector. And Ukraine has made this more painfully obvious than ever before.
Jugoslavia, Kosovo.
@@YG-qn3xr Yes, sure. Kosovo is an anomaly if people are claiming (as the EU always does) that new states or border changes can only happen by strictly adhering to the protocol rules of the UN, and without war of aggression.
Northern Ireland is a kind of exception too - for thirty years Britain (an EU member for most of that time) effectively treated Ni as an occupied province. Lots of cops and soldiers, military rules etc. The EU was carefully silent about it.
How many in Europe would love to see Turkey leave the EU?
@@republica7337 They're a member of NATO since a few years after it began; not of the EU. I know many people who see NATO as a club of defence for democratic countries are feeling quite frustrated about Turkey and its wayward style, but in military terms Turkey is invaluable to NATO and especially to the US, and there is no way the US would ever tell Ankara: "Listen kid, leave my friends /within the EU/ alone and don't quarrel with them, or you'll get spanked in the principal's office!" 😀
@@louise_rose thanks for that correction. Why is it so important for the US? The straits? I think her importance isn't that high. if anything Turkey needs Europe more than the other way around.
Two intellectuals, well explained recent Europea history in a larger scale. Learned a lot. Brilliant.
Thank you gentlemen.
If Ukraine let Donbas go independent, many Ukrainian lives could have been saved.
They were not supposed to. Ukarine is a puppet nazist state- the second iteration, like Germany once was. There only purpose is to damage Russia.
14,000 civilians before SMO and counting since
People in the donbas see themselves as more Russian than Ukrainian, and the unkraine don't see them as Ukrainian, so problems solved if they want to leave ukraine a d become part of Russia. The thong is. The West saw an opportunity to use them to destry the Russian economy. Put Russia was a few stap ahead and used the years before that to get their wealth out of the hands of the West and the United states so they are less dependent on the west. Russia has a healthy economy compared to the United States. The United States has more debt than the nation in the world.
@@heimomoilanen9654 most of the victims- people of Donbas region. Murdered by Ukraine regime with western approvement
But they wouldn't because they wanted the territory to stay and the people to go somewhere else or die.
Hard not to cry listening to Mr. de Zayas' description of Aaron Bushnell's death. So much horror to cry about these days.
This podcast is akin to a geopolitical analysis of the "gold standard". Pascal and Professor Alfred de Zaya, well done! I salute you both!
Fascinating guest!
I cried hearing the story, free humans, stop wars!
It's not that easy dude... Humans believe in things that separates them! Imagine being in a country that didn't even had a native language.... All of the sudden you want to have a "root system" that defines you. Because a country is your home, your people, your family.... You want a native language and you want to have YOUR people around... Because things are toooo strange and unfamiliar to you. But you also have a population that doesn't belong and in fact had some aggressive past with you (investigate "Holodomor", which was what Stalin/Russia did to Ukraine). Soooo this is complicated.... Ukrainians wanted to wipe out Russians from their country... And yeah, that's practically INSANE and mostly IMPOSSIBLE.
Haben Sie je daran gedacht, aus den Gesprächen ein Buch zu machen? Dies ist inhaltlich ein sehr wichtiges Interview und es verflüchtigt sich viel zu schnell in der digitalen Welt. Gerade für die Lehre könnten wir, wenn sich die Erde ein wenig weiter gedreht hat, diese Informationen gut brauchen.
There are already books on this subject, especially by Jacques Baud. I suggest them to anyone willing to learn about the Ukranian conflict.
I totally agree.
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Спасибо Вам за профессора который не боится говорить своё мнение по факту 🙏🙏🙏
You should have Col Jaques Baud, Swiss army on here to talk about his work during the Maidan, Crimean and Donbass wars. He was on a TOD to NATO, his teams work during the 2014-2017 Donbass war was to identify Russian direct military support to the Donbass Republic over that time. He says that the Crimean break away from Ukraine was due to the Ukrainian local forces (20k out of 22k soldiers) defected to the side of the "Patriots? (or rebels?)", they threw away their unit patches hence the "Little Green men", and not the Russian troops that were based there. Like the Soviet days, troops were drawn from local peoples, so the majority dropped their Ukrainian insignia's and joined their families! Similar to the Donbass, there were no Russian troops there, he and his team found that whole Regiments and Brigades defected taking all their weapons and stores with them. Apart from "safari" Russian locals popping across the border to help out family members (normally over a weekend etc), they found no evidence that there was a full on logistical support from Russia to the Donbass Republics. This changed later when the NATO trained Ukrainian troops put their full weight of the state onto the Donbass that President Putin created Wagner to support them.
I forgot to say, the reason why everything turned to custard in Crimea, was Ukrainian 'militia' were doing a tour of the south and east, fighting against the Russian speaking Ukrainians. These groups had just been in Odessa and it seemed they wanted to do the same thing in Crimea, the ethnic Russian Ukrainians (and troops so it turns out) were not going to let that happen ... and they didn't.
This channel is a breeze of fresh air in this period.
Dr Zayas, Hawaii was annexed by the “good?” United States and it fits your definition of annexation. 🙁
Yes, Hawaii was annexed in that the locals did not want to join the US. It was American businesses that forced the annexation.
@@gelinrefira The "good" American Western Christianity Imperialists and colonialists propaganda.
I'm an outsider to this war, completely sucked in by propaganda, this podcast is an incredible education to truth. Thank you, brilliant podcast. I'll have to go over this a few times to take it in.
According to Matt Ehret and Cynthia Chung of Canadian Patriot Press, NATO was started by the same cast of characters who were part of Hitler’s Third Reich. They do excellent research based on original documents and have written several books as well as creating documentaries in attempt to set the record straight. It is my sincere desire, that others will explore their work and consider the historic significance of this perspective. The actions of NATO certainly does not refute what they are saying and could make sense of what seems incongruent with a defensive alliance.
Good point. Although the USA eventually joined WW2 against Germany, the net effect of WW2 was to leave the US as the undisputed largest economic power in the World. What it has now achieved with NATO is the subservience, and relinquishment of sovereignty, of every Western nation. It remains only for it to capture Russia for it to achieve the world domination that Germany came so close to in WW2.
@@reasontruthandlogic They now also have China standing in their way.
Correct about the NATO chiefs, and apparently not just the founders but even into the 1970s and beyond.
True I've got a whole list of NATO chiefs The majority of them are actually Adolf H. Marshalls.
War is suicide, and fascism is a suicidal ideology. It's a deadly spiritual and political disease, the last outbreak of which left 80 million dead. Security, to work, has to be mutual: We don't achieve security for ourselves by deriving others of security, yet this is exactly what fascism attempts. It repudiates the Golden Rule, fosters mindless faith in war -- in death and destruction -- and idolizes tribe and state. Idolatry is fatal. Now we have a new outbreak of this deadly disease. "World War III" is driven by the same idiocy that gave us "World War II". It's actually a resumption of the war of the 1940s.
I can’t believe how people can’t see what the NATO is doing? What is happening in Ukraine I was thinking that’s going to happen in Poland in1981 .
And it almost did. Jaruzelski (for those who don’t know, he was a general and Polands last socialist leader) even said, after his visit to NY and a talk with Rockefeller, that „there are powerful forces wanting to destroy our country”. This is why he declared martial law. Todays extreme right wing compradore elite destroyed our industrial base, so we would have to rebuild everything from scratch, sold our precious resources like copper (telling the public that copper HAS NO FUTURE) to Canada and as always, they sold it for 0,5% of its actual worth, so they clearly did so ONLY to fill their pockets. They also sold our petroleum to Saudis. Saudi Aramco was actually given our Gdansk refinery in exchange for that tragic Bidens visit to Saudi Prince. Our clean WATER SUPPLIES belong to.. Isntreal.
We have nothing, the only companies in Poland belong to foreign countries, if there’s a Polish businessman with its own company, they still work for the big boss. The rest was systematically crushed. Media are completely owned by the US, propaganda machine has been on 24/7 since I remember! (I was born in 1996 and from the very early days I’ve been hearing this ridiculous, intrusive and aggressive pro western and „you should be ashamed for being a Slav, you should be ashamed of being close relatives with Russians and Siamese twins with Belarus, they are dumb, they are dumber than you, you DESTROYED COMMUNISM because you’re better and you simply knew what’s better but at the same time you should be ashamed of being Polish, look how peasant-like you dress, you speak, you have to strive to become like US, you need to stop learning Russian and switch to civilized English, you should look deeply into your history and how you were manipulated into everything, it was all Russias fault and we always knew it, we knew you were special”), our history has been revisioned by pre WWII elites who stole everything and left us dying under German fire, then when they knew they couldn’t return and that they lost all the influence, except for gorilla armies, who fought us, communists and targeted our families, usually at night. They slaughtered several thousands of women, children and elderly just because they were family members of the communist party members. Today, because our history has been altered, we destroy monuments of the Red Army AND Polska Armia Ludowa (who was the only foreign army allowed to liberate.. Germany. We fought together in Berlin, for gods sake- POLISH FLAG WAS HUNG ON TOP OF REICHSTAG.. yet.. they didn’t tell me about it in school 🥲 it was a symbolic gesture from Stalin himself, calling Poland „the First Nation that stood up against and fought the n@zis”. Today, the victory day is being called „beginning of the new occupation” and Americans AND the Brits do everything to paint it as our DEFEAT. you can’t make this sh*t up, but maybe that’s going to explain people why poles seem to be so anti-Russia. They are being conditioned to believe all these lies and here comes the identity crisis.) and we build monuments of those anti-Polish, f@scist foreign agents. They name schools and streets after them. There’s a lot of efforts to make us prone to fight our blood brothers. It’s extremely anti-Polish intelligence operation that literally destroys the country.
There’s less people in Poland than it actually was in 1989, which in no way shape or form resembles „progress”. Then add to it that within the official number of „Poles” they include MILLIONS of Ukrainians who have been coming to Poland after 2014 coup. Then we have also lots of Lithuanians, lots of Belarusian dissidents working for C1A, we have Slovaks, Latvians etc. Yet still our numbers haven’t improved which tells us how many Poles just simply left (or died). This is how we were colonized, our industry was always supposed to be looted and destroyed since our job was to be cheap labor force dependent in every single way on the United States. Poland exists only on the map. S0r0S foundations deeply divided our nation making it impossible to get together and change anything in our country. Now all the western corporations are moving out of Poland to countries with even cheaper labor and cheaper natural resources. Thousands of people were laid off and over 70% of Poles barely make ends meet. We were promised so much, we’ve been told over and over that it was temporary and that we were going to „catch up to the west”.. the only thing we seem to catch up on is DEBT. Compradores put us in so much debt while giving us, the people, less than nothing. Country didn’t benefit from it either. We’ve been a tool to extract worlds wealth and to fight Americans imperial wars.
I wish Jaruzelski had stayed this strong throughout his governance. At the same time he knew that USSR’s elites have already decided to betray their citizens and join in with the west. He knew that Poland wouldn’t be able to protect itself on their own. Jugosławia is a perfect example of what could’ve happened to us.
For the EU and NATO this is very much about defending a self-proclaimed moral prerogative that the EU (which has assembled practically the same member list as NATO in Europe, esp. if we count in states that are closely associated with one bloc and full members of the other) is the sacred arbiter siting on the rule-books of International Law, Human Rights and Democracy - and that these values are implicitly and justly defended with American weapons if needed. This is the perspective that people like Bildt and Stoltenberg are defending - and it is allowed to hide the many deeply problematic aspects of American, British and EU activities ("projection of power" for the US) around the world. And in eastern Europe too, specifically.
This was amazing. Professor de Zayas, you’re a man of conscience.
Individualized greed, perfidy and power now rules the human enterprise. Wisdom, compassion and all of those other beautiful ideas we were taught about in sunday school have been usurped by our "lesser angels". It is an unexpected blessing to be old.
Great Interview. Prof de Zayas is an amazing man and an inspiration.
What a wonderful program, I am speechless, Alfred de Zayas tells it better than all the rest or at least as good as Jeffrey Sachs and John Mersheimer. Please give us more of him!!!!! Thank you Pascal!!!
Outstanding!
Albanians in Kosovo did not have right for 'self determination', as they were minority in Jugoslavia. If that would be the case, any group, anywhere in the world could form their country just like that. Many principles were broken in Jugoslavia.
Very moving discourse on Mr. Bushnell. We share your feelings
Ein groesses Lob an Pascal und Herr Professor de Zayas.
Generally, the public relies on headlines and finely crafted sound bytes. The public asks no questions beyond that. Inconsistencies and contradictions are explained away on TV talk show paneled by experts.
Agree, also the last 30-40 years have seen a huge advance in the role of think-tank people (sponsored pundits) in public debate. Not just in the US but also in Europe. Public debate on politics, policy-making and long-term trends used to have a high presence of independent academics, historians and activists who, if they were politically engaged, at least made their allegiances clear. But much of this has been taken over by the political think-tanks and their people, who often pose as academic researchers but really are political PR makers. In toady's world, the mid-level manager of a think-tank has both better pay and mich better access to the news media than most senior faculty professors: this would have been unthinkable forty years ago (at least in Europe, where the debate here took place).
@@louise_rose Largely due to the 1999 media consolidation act that consolidated not only focused on TV media but newspapers and print journalism giving them a unified voice of government or corporate control...
@@Larkinchance Yes, I can figure the impact that would have had in the USA. I'm from Scandinavia, but here in Europe too there's been a growing "concentration of ownership" of media outlets on a limited number of hands (media houses/empires) and a thinnng out of the free spaces in the old-school media where public debate traditionally took place. Media owners and publishers, TV managers etc have become more and more controlling about who gets to talk on their pages, about the outcome of debates and so on.
Long, untrammeled debates that could go on for several weeks with high-calibre input from a dozen people or more, freelance writers and academics, in the same morning paper, those simply aren't happening anymore - that kind of thing was still frequent when I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and it had real influence, because it went further and deeper than what politicians and think-tanks could afford to say. I think online debate has only half managed to replace that, the loss in quality debate is real and palpable.
@@louise_rose The original intent for limited media ownership was to allow for a variety of opinion and reasonable dissent.
The consolidation of media destroyed all of that.
The incentive for owners was to cut costs and expand profits. The price was subservience to government less they threaten their monopoly share. Who is running the place, government or corporate.. I live in the US where our vote doesn't mean shit... thank you for the response. Many Americans are so poorly educated that they cannot find Russia on a map...
So called experts are more like propagandists
Admirable man. Thanks Pascal, fo letting Zayas speak.
Outstanding , essential guest and interview. To be shared (also with my ph.d in contemporary history husband !) and listened to again. You are doing a wonderful job Pascal. I hope and assume you have good IT backup for the important body of interviews you have been building up here. Long life to this channel
What an incredible intellectual human he is❣️ How many languages does he understand? Spanish, English, French, German, Russian, Italian,… Definitely hope to see more, Pascal.
What a wonderful man, his humanity shines so brightly. Thank you both for such a great discussion.💟
When we talk about Ukraine to the west. As are talking to empty heads.
This needs a clarification regarding those "unmarked Russian troops" Pascal refered to. Those were not members of the contingent manning the Sevastopol naval base. They were members of the Ukranian army that was at the time organized regionally (i.e. troops from Crimea were stationed in Crimea) that removed their Ukranian insignia and proceeded to secure the secession of Crimea from Ukraine.
First thing first- during Maidan at West Ukraine paramilitaries were assaulting police stations and apprehending weapon from weapon rooms. Also they stated that the West Ukraine will cecede if Yanukovich will not sign agreement with EU.
Thanks to Alfred Zayas for telling the truth.
Thank you, great interview! Dr. Alfred De Zayas is a moral and intellectual giant!
How very true is your statement: it takes courage to break from indoctrination.
I am so glad there are people like Professor de Zayas giving the chronological truth and talk about the terrible brainwashing that exists on an international level today.
jake sullivan has recently said, "their is no genocide" happening in gaza, folks.
Thanks for intelectual honesty, a fantastic guest and brilliant program!
The WARSAW PACT (Treaty of Friendship) CEASED in 1991. Why os NATO still in existence and continues to be expanding? What for?
For empire - the American empire with all its vassal states in Europe and elsewhere.
NATO was not a response to the Warsaw Treaty Organization. The NATO Suicide Pact was founded on 04 Apr 1949; the WTO six years later, on 14 May 1955. NATO's purpose, according to Lord Hastings Ismay, first secretary-general of NATO, quoted in Joseph Nye's The Paradox of American Power, 2002, was to "keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down." Peace? -- not mentioned.
Thank you. I admire Dr. deZayas very much. Please interview him often.
Brilliant discussion...Brilliant guest! Thank you Mr Lottaz😊👍
Ask Col. Jacques Baud, a fellow Swiss, ex-Strategic Intelligence, author of many books published by Editions Max Milo, to explain the so-called "little Green Men" in Crimea, Pascal. 9:56
Thank you, great interview.
And a 'thank you' to Prof. de Zayas for clarifying the meaning of "annexation".
„Psychological need in self-censorship“ - this revolutionized my understanding of the situation!
How is a society supposed to survive with only Yes-Men in every place? Larry Johnson describes the same phenomenon in the US intelligence (CIA etc.) community. We need to at least approximate truth, reality, need to try at least. It's how we survived as a species!
Great information Thanks
A breath of honesty & accuracy.
Truth.
An extraordinary interview - educational, enlightening and moving. Thank you Pascal. Your work is so important.
After observing what is going on in the West, one wonders if a university education is worth the trouble!
Thank you very much! If we only could have this kind of well informed discussions in Scaninavia but it is impossible even to mention this history.
Tnx for one of the best YT channels out there Pascal
This is one of the best interviews I have had for a long time, a brilliant man packed with knowledge and facts.
Good show gentlemen, thank you both,
Thank you both for this excellent conversation!
We need more voices like this.
Necesitamos más voces como esta.
Great interview. It is becoming clear that people do drink their cool-aid and do believe their own lies. It's a house of cards where politicians are only concerned about their own game.
The CIA experiment conducted in Guyana claimed over 900 lives on 18 Nov 1978. Now we have an entire continent drinking the NATO Kool-Aid. Now we have several hundred million who could perish.
Stunning interview, as I've come to expect on this channel. Thank you for the truth telling, the clarity and moral compass shown by the professor. 💖💖💖
Excellent. Merci.
1st time listening, a really great show thank you!! I look forward to you having more discussion with Alfred de Zayas 💯
what an incredible ocean of knowledge you’ve captured in this video, i’m really impressed and thankful to both of you !!😊
Thanks for this. I will subscribe, hoping to listen from Alfred de Zayas again!
So few are people with the knowledge AND the courage to speak the truth.
Brilliant thank you, wise truthful words.
I enjoyed this guest, information not just rhetoric
Fantastic interview Pascal! 👏
Pascal, I am very disappointed that you hijacked this discussion from a very interesting analysis of the origins of the Ukrainian war to a different topic, also interesting but a discussion for another time. Please invite Mr. de Zayas back and ask him to continue his profound analysis of the Ukrainian civil war after 2014. We need to hear it.
In general: agreed.
Only minor issue is that analysts always talk about "US mistakes." (5:00 minutes in)
If you have a geographical advantage, you don't make "mistakes" but use old, proven Roman strategies.
This is divide and rule.
One takes over a sphere of influence one slow step at a time. When there is a response, blame the side being encroached upon, and use any rhetoric from the other side as excuse for further encroachment.
22:38 This is very much parallel to the Texas Revolution of 1835-37. In US historical tradition the people of Texas at the time (it was an ethnically diverse country and part of Mexico) are seen as patriotic heroes who took the destiny of their land into their own hands. asserted their ethnic and cultural identity and broke free. For some mysterious reason, the people of Crimea and the Donbass are not conceded the right to claim the same reasons that the Texans had.
And karine jean-pierre' s statement that during ww2 ukraine and us were fighting against stalin and hitler didn't surprise anyone?
@@ghostwraith119 Did she actually say that? When? I had a similar story declared to me by a Ukrainian guy in a discussion here on CZcams last year: he explained that Ukraine had taken more soldiers fallen for the cause of the allies than the UK;, the US and France together against Hitler and Mussolini. I could easily figure out that he wasn't talking about Ukrainians in the Red Army, so I prompted him a bit and sure, he was convinced that there had existed a big Ukrainian People's Army who had fought both Hitler and Stalin and had been independently linked to the western allies.
That's bollocks, I said: the ONLY regular army of any importance that fought against Hitler within the pre-1939 borders of the Soviet Union was the Red Army. If you were against Hitler on Soviet soil (including Ukraine), then you supported the Red Army because there was nobody else! (the revolt of the "Vlasov army" occurred only in 1944, outside of Soviet territory). - At first I thought the guy was just pulling lies, but then it struck me that he may have been taught this version of events at school in Ukraine.
@@ghostwraith119 The KJP video clip seems to have been a deepfake, but the narrative it ascribes to her is indeed very close to how Ukraine, and some US neo-cons, want the story of WW2 to be told - see my earlier reply.
Offended by everything and ashamed by nothing = IzrL
Really appreciate the choice of guests, Mr Pascal. Invariably interesting and relevant (re the contemporary issues). Mr de Zayas is particularly dynamic.
' Why Is Ukraine the West's War ? ' YT
thank you so much for bringing the voices of reason out to the world, I’m proud of having found and subscribed to your channels!
Tausend Dank für deine stetigen Tropfen die den Stein oder das Brett vor dem Kopf irgendwann auflösen werden. Beste Grüße 🙏🤝
My second or third time watching Prof De Zayas speak and I am very impressed with his stand on human rights. I fully agree with him that the human rights principle as espoused by the west has been hijacked, weaponised, misused, raped, etc. to the extent that this word, together with other words like democracy, freedom, etc. sounded obscene everytime a western nation mention it. Also, I find he is truly compassionate when he suddenly brings up the subject of Aaron Bushnell into the conversation. Aaron's act must have left an indelible mark on him that he took the trouble to look into Aaron 's background and to highlight him in this video. Impressively compassionate and dignified gentleman. Unlike the western politicians he named.
This is a very excellent interview and a very excellent guest! Thanks
Good point. Shouldn't an enemy want to be your enemy?
EU dug a hole in it's principles during dissolution of Yugoslavia.
The principle of self-determination over territorial integrity was completely disregarded in case of Serb minority within Croatia... and since then we've been on a ever steeper slippery slope of legal and moral hypocrisy
Very interesting interview. Thank you.
Brilliant discussion.
Conspiracy theorist is what they call us for speaking the truth. That's the way I understood it.
a superbly interesting discussion. I learned a lot from this. thank you.
SERIOUSLY???? Minute 10: "never Seen unmarked soldiers try take over another territory before? Bay of pigs? Or about 100 other times?
God bless you both. Nothing to say but just that. 🤐😔🙏
It's scary - like living in two different realities, not sure which one to comment on at the moment....
This is a man after my own dezayas.☮️
Western Imperialism shifted to America post 1945 and gained even further strength post 1991
I for one will be glad to see the back of it
That doesn’t mean we should bow to China or anyone else for that matter
Just be strong in ourselves
🌞🫶🏻🙌🏽🖖🏼thank you. Best wishes.
Tack!
Thank you so much!!
The dissolution of the Soviet Union has propelled the US to become the unipolar world power able to control every corner of the world. Architects of US foreign policy then decided they can have unlimited access to the vast resources of the former Soviet territories of Eurasia n Ukraine is the most important piece of their Eurasian chessboard.
You should interview Mike Benz. He has very interesting story to tell.
What a cool guy 👍
The late 90's "Peace Scare".