Ukraine Is Putin's Afghanistan - Amb. Michael McFaul On The Russian Leaders Overreach
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2022
- In part two of Stephen's interview with former Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, they discuss how the domestic audience in Russia is perceiving Putin's war against Ukraine, and similarities between this military endeavor and the U.S.S.R.'s disastrous war against Afghanistan decades ago. Stick around for more from Amb. Michael McFaul. #Colbert #Ukraine #MichaelMcFaul
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Let that be a lesson to you, America: Public education is vital to democracy. Why do you think certain political groups are forever trying to cut its funding, and advocating for private schools? In order for democracy to work, in order for one person's vote to equal another person's vote, one person's basic education level needs to equal another person's basic education level. It's no good having the right to vote, if you don't have the mental apparatus to make an informed decision about who and what you're voting on.
Don't forget the lessons from your own past. Remember your Thomas Paine: "Reason obeys itself, and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
Amen! Turns out this is very true.
Unfortunately funding does not necessarily corelate into positive results in education. Much is lost in bureaucracy and many teachers should not be teachers. They did not become teachers for the passion dedication but for employment
@@jgaffney567 I went to school with some of the STUPIDEST PPL. I was in education. I PRAYED that some of those teachers would be just kindergarten teachers, bc JFC!
Also, construction workers are some of the stupidest drunkest ppl ever. I worked with them. dangerous.
@@jgaffney567 you drive cars and fly planes build by people just doing it for employment. The dream of the dedicated teacher is nice and every school should have some (50%?) but it is also a reason for a lot of problems because we expect them to go that extra mile. How many good ones have been lost to the profession because they couldn’t deal anymore due to factors outside of teaching. We need to fund first and let the education system evolve from that
@@jgaffney567 i come from Denmark, the goverment gives you the choice, 3 passes or you have to pay yourself. and then you also get payed by the goverment to attend in school. this also learns young people about saving money and know stuff so they are prepared when they move out in a house or apartment. wich you also can get by the goverment as long as you're in school. And we a thriving. if you want to educate all people you should also help them do it, there is a lot of maybe construction workers who wanted to become a history teacher or selling jeans. The world should see how Denmark does it. sweden is about to do it and germany. you just get way more Educated people if you give them some motivation and we all know everybody loves some money.
First time hear Michael McFaul speaking English😃 Before I watched him on Russian and Ukrainian news where he speaks Russian very well.
How’s his russian accent? Americans aren’t always great at speaking with a native accent to a native speaker.
Why are we so afraid how Putin understands something we eventually do, how he interprets our steps so that we don't accidentally offend him? To the hell with Putin's opinions. Kremlin has only one policy. To LIE. Kremlin power comes from lying. Lying big, and getting the whole damn world to play along with them. Once they got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, they've got us by the neck.
Putin is liar and faker, who rules trough fear. Atomics? Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. Putin can not launch them by himself, he needs both Shoygu and Gerasimov to do so and they are not mad.
In these very moments there are children in Mariupol who dies from dehydration, there is NO water now, no supplies. Russians not let anyone in or out. All ways from the city are mined and shelled. Hospitals in numerous cities are now deliberately shelled and bombed. It is russian pattern. Encircle the city and shell it with Grad and Smerch rocket artilery, conventional artilery, airstrikes... salvo after salvo. You saw it in Grozny, you saw it in Syria, now you can see this in Mariupol and Khariv. Purpose is one and only - to inflict TERROR, to break morale, by ruthless killing of women and children alike. The most barbaric way to wage a war. It is genocide. Another of long line of war crimes made by Putin. Recent reckless attacks on nuclear energy power plants and blatant cynical violations of the Geneva Conventions show us clearly, that Putin's Russia is terrorist state, unpredictable, lying, deceptive and dangerous to humankind. It is war against western world.
How long will be just keep watching. Must Chornobyl, where russians now cut of power for cooling, again leak radiation. Must the biggest european nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhia became another Chornobyl dissaster? Must we see radioactive cloud overe Europe again, and only then we maybe seriously assist Ukraine or what? Do you know that russians also there allowed only skeleton crew to hold them as hostages and that russians mined this facality with explosives? This is nuclear terrorism. Pure and simple.
Putin is and always has been killer (rememeber Litvinenko, Politkovskaya, Nemcov and many others), and now we already know his recent stunt - he send "Wagner group" neo-nazi murderers and assassins to Kyiv to kill Zelenskyy, his cabinet members, and even their families. I reckon he is trully mentally ill.
After all "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" as Lord Acton said already in 19th century. Quite accurate description of tsar Putin the Bloody .
"Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject."
- John Stuart Mill, 1867
"Appeasement policy, the policy of appeasing Hitler and Mussolini, operating jointly at that time, during 1937 and 1938 by continuous concessions granted in the hope of reaching a point of saturation when the dictators would be willing to accede to international collaboration. ... It came to an end when Hitler seized Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939, in defiance of his promises given at Munich, and Prime Minister Chamberlain, who had championed appeasement before,
decided on a policy of resistance to further German aggression."
- Walter Theimer (ed.), The Penguin Political Dictionary, 1939
Putin understands only power and determination. Everything else is sign of weakness for him. Do everything what is in your power to drive Putin's kleptocracy to the end. I wish there were influential politicians who could see things clearly. Those who would not be frightened, weak, shaky and corrupt through money from the oligarchs of East and West alike. Those who had the determination of real leaders capable of taking responsibility. Maybe they still exist somewhere and maybe their voice will get to the right ears before is too late, I still believe it, I have to. Talk to your representatives. God bless you...
@@NotEnoughBooks He has a VERY noticeable American accent, but his vocabulary is strong. Many native Russian speakers can't build a sentence as he does
What did you hear when you spoke... That he's full of horse shit...
@@pavelhajko9354... How do you know,,, a word from a diplomat.. I was born in Russia... Most are extremely educated... Thats why they head to head with US.
Could listen to this guy for a long time.
That man's pronunciation of "babushka" is a thing a of beauty. Молодец!
It's just sad, that one man again, can destroy his whole country and blame the rest of the world for it.
Just like Hitler whose hatred for the defeat of Germany in the First World War fueled his megalomania and started the Second... Putin's resentment of the collapse of the Soviet Union fueled his own....
Yes, Trump did that and then he emboldened Putin.
@@alexeimscruz2893 A weak character in my eyes or just a thing that happen to men, who only hear "yes" all the time. I blame his advisors too.
@@mithlenfinlass2040 its also just power. this is the reason democracies switch out their leaders. if youre at the wheel too long, you will go insane. if putin had stuck to his already pretty autocratic constitution instead of changing it so he could remain in power indefinitley, we wouldnt be having this war.
@@jenshep1720 true
As a child of the 80's, this hit me the hardest is: he lived there under the Soviet Union, but he's scared to go back today.
He is also older and likely a family man now, when he likely wasn't in the 80's.
Do the Russians who support Putin really believe there are huge numbers of Nazis in Ukraine
@@barbarawilson958 I don't understand how President Zelensky who is Jewish can be a Nazi.
Does Putin really think some Russians are that dumb?
@@barbarawilson958
Unfofortunately, there is a grain of truth to this. Google the Azov battalion.
Putin' propaganda machine has been repeating this and exaggerating the severity and impact for decades.
@@barbarawilson958 I didn't believe it despite the amount of far-right militias joining the battle. I just figured they were desperate for help. I was worried about the whole thing going the same way the US arming the Taliban in Afghanistan did, though. I didn't like the way it was being ignored or obscured by media, too.
Then I was watching PBS and they interviewed a Ukrainian Mayor who was fighting Russia, and the background was blurred out
So I googled him and he's a hardcore neo-nazi. The background was blurred to hide the portrait of a nazi collaborator that he keeps in his office. And PBS was actively trying to promote this man while hiding his beliefs.
So now? I have no idea who is right anymore. That's what happens when you're fed lies and propaganda.
They should start putting part #s on these broken up interviews so we can watch them in order.
Free isn't enough for you? You think you can dictate how it is provided to you, personally. Get over yourself!
AGREED
Relax, @@paintedpony2935, eat a snickers.
The first is the longer,and so on based on the time they last😁
@@paintedpony2935 not sure why you'd be so hostile over constructive criticism (perhaps there is an unwelcome object up your ass?) but nothing is free - segments uploaded to CZcams help publicize the Late Show.
Anyway, agreed Amanda, that'd be helpful!
Sounds like Putin’s base in Russia is a lot like Trump’s base in US
I was looking for a comment saying exactly that 👏👏👏
Cult of personality
It's exactly the same base, and they watch exactly the same type of nationalist xenophobic garbage on TV and Online.
that is NOT a coincidence
Duuuuuhhh
Don't even bother comparing Afghanistan to Ukraine. Ukraine gained more support and attention in the first day of its invasion than Afghanistan did in the past 40+ years.
That is simply not true. Afghanistan has cost billions and billions of dollars over that periode. The trouble is that it is waisted on internal confilcts besides the war with the Russians. It was helped after that, but they chose a represive regime which aided Al Quaeda to become a terrorist organisation. After the Afghan war with the Americans they still got billions and billions of dollars which again was totally waisted money. And they've got the same old backward repressive corrupt regime back now. Unless the Afghans learn to unite by themselves, which they were able to do under the Shah, they will remain like this. It's up to them.
@@telebubba5527 and that is because Afghans prefered the backward Taliban over a bunch of criminal Yankees who invaded Afghanistan illegally (just like Putin did in Ukraine) and installed the most corrupt people like Ashraf Ghani in Afghan government and parliament in the name of Democracy and looted Afghanistan's minerals for their silicon valley for 20 years and not even being able to do what they came for; demolishing Alqaeda. And thanks to Hillary and Barack, now we have ISIS-k joining the club too!
@@cedar9607 you're nearly there. Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was the primary opposing leader orchestrating the resistance against the Taliban was assassinated September 9th. The people of Afghanistan, who despised the Taliban with every fibre of their being were grief stricken and lost all hope. Two days later 9/11 happened, which apparently gave the US an excuse to invade Afghanistan. Every terrorist that carried out the act of 9/11 was an arab and Bin Laden (also an arab) the mastermind behind the attack ended up being found in Pakistan, in a condo provided to him by the Pakistani government. But they still invaded Afghanistan?????? Anyway, the US provided only air support as requested by the northern alliance (made up mainly of ethnically Tajiks and then also Uzbeks and Hazaras). The Taliban (who are ethnically Pashtoon) were defeated in months!!!! 9/11 happened September and the Taliban were defeated in December. That's when the 'Yankees' and the the other piece of Sh*t Nato countries put together a corrupt, fascist, Talib sympathising government that allowed the the Taliban resurgence to take place. I should also add that even though the Taliban were Pashtoon (and still are) and defeated by Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras, they made the President a pashtoon (Karzai then followed by Ghani). I am aware that there are twats in every ethnic group, however, pashtoons are a whole other breed backward animals. Obviously having them in power was better because it was easier to drive corruptness in the country and maintain instability to as you said loot the country's natural resources, precious stones...... There so much to say, too much really - but it's like talking to a brick wall. The people of the west won't accept the truth, or how evil their governments are. That country needs to be split because Pashtoons are not capable to live in peace and will continue to ethnically cleanse and commit genocide on every other ethnic group that resides in that country.
@@telebubba5527 Read my reply to Cedar. but here is the thing - either the US wasted all that money only to withdraw all troops 20 years later having achieved nothing. Imagine, that country with all its might couldn't defeat some backwards thinking barbaric animals. and it wasn't even like it was just the US trying to 'defeat' the terrorist organisations active in Afghanistan, NATO was. That's humiliating, and lets not forget all the soldiers who gave their life in vain 'protecting their country'. Or what has happened in Afghanistan for the past 40+ years has gone to plan for the West (and this is the truth. these terrorist groups are a creation of the west), which just shows how evil the West is. The US may have spent 3 trillion (i think), but I'm sure they benefited much more in terms of having bases active in that geographic location, all those natural resources, precious stones..... Mate just open your eyes. do you not see the hypocrisy of it all. It;s honestly cringe worthy to see how the west is outraged by what Russia has done to Ukraine, when their own governments have done it to Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the list goes on. Why is the west not sanctioning isreal for what it is doing to Palestine??? ir sanctioning Pakistan for what it has done to Afghanistan???? It's actually exhausting to deal with a war and then also with the racism and judgement and ignorance of the Western people.
@Sanctus Paulus 1962 read my replies to other people on this chain. any way they didn;t do that out of the pureness of their heart. They didn;t want soviets to have influence over the country and therefore for the USSR to grow stronger. to add, the west saw it as an opportunity to fund extremists. The mujahideen were not all one group. there were different parties. this was completely done intentionally, but most of the US's funding went towards the part of the Mujahideen that became the Taliban. There is a video of Hilary Clinton saying this. THEY FUNDED THE TALIBAN. they used the soviet invasion as an excuse to fund terrorism and extremists in that country to corrupt and destabilise it.
Such a great guy, always admire him when he was an ambassador here, in Russia. And he's absolutely right about everything.
Gee, I always thought this was Biden's Afghanistan...USA has very little credibility on the world stage
How do you figure that Putin's invasion of Ukraine is Biden's war?
@@lenawagenfuehr53 USA has very little credibility on the world stage NOW, because Trump made the USA a laughing stock! Don't believe me? Google: "Was President Trump a laughing stock around the world?"
@@TigDegner Look into it. It's been in the works for years. Why were we involved with Ukraine for years? Why are there biolabs in Ukraine? Do we have huge influence on NATO? Why did NATO park shit on Russia's porch?
@@notreally2406 Biolabs in Ukraine?
Russian propaganda for another false flag campaign. Within a week Russia will release chemical weapons in Ukraine and blame Ukraine. It's Russia's playbook.
"Leaders Matter!" Indeed!
If you listen to any one "expert" on topics about Russia, Putin, and geopolitics in Europe, listen to Michael McFaul. Possibly the most informed, intelligent, and humble American to speak and teach on these matters.
Experts are like Salesman... And there is a saying Salesman use... "Every second an idiot is born"🦧... I can Guarantee you 1000%👈... If you truly believe that... You are a Certified born IDIOT... 👈
NOW EDUCATE YOUR ASS... BEFORE IT'S TO LATE
It is disturbing to me that educated, young, open minded (personally developed?) people are classified as “elite”. I saw it in the US during the election cycle as well. “When stupidity is considered patriotism it is unsafe to be intelligent “. Asimov
"Damn 'rural, uneducated, old' people! Why can't the world be full of 'urban, rich, young' people for the New World Order!"
They are not part of the elite but they agree with the elite on many issues such as being against political extremism, xenophobia, racism, nationalism, etc.
@@adarkimpurity "Dumb, rural, uneducated, old" will be part of every country and society. That is the way of life.
@@zakariafarah1101 I'm not the one rallying against them like horrid fascists!
Yeah, seems almost anti-elitarien. Just say what it is, the non-stupid.
Very interesting to heat the ambassador's perspective.
Thank you. 🇨🇦
Michael McFaul extraordinary guest! Thank you Stephan Colbert!
Yes,,, he is a typical Politician... And they are indeed extraordinary..
czcams.com/video/ry6ANbNT1iA/video.html
Stephen has a good guest tonight!
Thank youj, Colbert, for bringing these good people on your show.
Love how he low key threw shade at the uneducated lol
@Sanctus Paulus 1962.. Yes,, for example YOU 🇺🇸🦧👈
US Propaganda...
Believe my horse shit, it's all Putins fault... Do you believe..?
Another Question... Do you have a brain to 🕵️♀️🤔
Love how you came out and openly boasted of your snobby-ass derision of those less fortunate than you ("the uneducated"). Not everyone can afford to--or WANTS to (nor should they, ofttimes)--go to some Ivory-towered twit tutelage forge like your "I'm-better-than-the-rest-of-you" self. Your type become tiresome more quickly than a Trump tweet. And will be what gets him elected again. (Oh, and "low-key" is, as you can see here, Aristotle, hyphenated.)
Informative interview!
Great interview! Thank you.
Why are we so afraid how Putin understands something we eventually do, how he interprets our steps so that we don't accidentally offend him? To the hell with Putin's opinions. Kremlin has only one policy. To LIE. Kremlin power comes from lying. Lying big, and getting the whole damn world to play along with them. Once they got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, they've got us by the neck.
Putin is liar and faker, who rules trough fear. Atomics? Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. Putin can not launch them by himself, he needs both Shoygu and Gerasimov to do so and they are not mad.
In these very moments there are children in Mariupol who dies from dehydration, there is NO water now, no supplies. Russians not let anyone in or out. All ways from the city are mined and shelled. Hospitals in numerous cities are now deliberately shelled and bombed. It is russian pattern. Encircle the city and shell it with Grad and Smerch rocket artilery, conventional artilery, airstrikes... salvo after salvo. You saw it in Grozny, you saw it in Syria, now you can see this in Mariupol and Khariv. Purpose is one and only - to inflict TERROR, to break morale, by ruthless killing of women and children alike. The most barbaric way to wage a war. It is genocide. Another of long line of war crimes made by Putin. Recent reckless attacks on nuclear energy power plants and blatant cynical violations of the Geneva Conventions show us clearly, that Putin's Russia is terrorist state, unpredictable, lying, deceptive and dangerous to humankind. It is war against western world.
How long will be just keep watching. Must Chornobyl, where russians now cut of power for cooling, again leak radiation. Must the biggest european nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhia became another Chornobyl dissaster? Must we see radioactive cloud overe Europe again, and only then we maybe seriously assist Ukraine or what? Do you know that russians also there allowed only skeleton crew to hold them as hostages and that russians mined this facality with explosives? This is nuclear terrorism. Pure and simple.
Putin is and always has been killer (rememeber Litvinenko, Politkovskaya, Nemcov and many others), and now we already know his recent stunt - he send "Wagner group" neo-nazi murderers and assassins to Kyiv to kill Zelenskyy, his cabinet members, and even their families. I reckon he is trully mentally ill.
After all "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" as Lord Acton said already in 19th century. Quite accurate description of tsar Putin the Bloody .
"Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject."
- John Stuart Mill, 1867
"Appeasement policy, the policy of appeasing Hitler and Mussolini, operating jointly at that time, during 1937 and 1938 by continuous concessions granted in the hope of reaching a point of saturation when the dictators would be willing to accede to international collaboration. ... It came to an end when Hitler seized Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939, in defiance of his promises given at Munich, and Prime Minister Chamberlain, who had championed appeasement before,
decided on a policy of resistance to further German aggression."
- Walter Theimer (ed.), The Penguin Political Dictionary, 1939
Putin understands only power and determination. Everything else is sign of weakness for him. Do everything what is in your power to drive Putin's kleptocracy to the end. I wish there were influential politicians who could see things clearly. Those who would not be frightened, weak, shaky and corrupt through money from the oligarchs of East and West alike. Those who had the determination of real leaders capable of taking responsibility. Maybe they still exist somewhere and maybe their voice will get to the right ears before is too late, I still believe it, I have to. Talk to your representatives. God bless you...
This was a MUCH better interview with Amb. McFaul than one I just watch a little earlier today on one of the news stations. He was much better able to explain the situation and his positions/recommendations.
Your name sounds,, intelligent..
As if you are a educated academic... do you comprehend, understand what he's saying 🦧👈🤔...
Believe everything, to be the absolute truth, without reasonable doubt...??? 🙈🙊🙉
He was a Diplomat in Ukraine.
Can you varify everything he says...???
@@genyagalak9407 I would never "believe" nor "disbelieve" someone based solely on an interview. It's just information that goes in the mix to be compared and contrasted with other information. "Beliefs" are for things like religion. Everything else we have to look at evidence and even then it has to be evidence that reliable, verifiable, and has redundant backup to determine how much weight it gets. All I said was that this interview with the former Ambassador was better and more in depth than one I saw on a regular news channel. ...And I did mention in my post his former job... so obviously I'm aware of his background.
Please label these interview segments #1, #2, #3 etc - it's so confusing when they're uploaded out of sequence. Thank you
They are in order in the playlist.
@@gustavofigueiredo1798 thank you, hadn't spotted that.
@@TheRealSoosh You're welcome. Side note: the playlists take a little while to be available after all the videos are up.
I'm only 34, can we stop having once in a lifetime events every single year now?
I'm 66. I clearly remember the assassinations of the 1960s, the Vietnam War and the Cold War, the many protests, civil unrest, and riots in the US and around the world. But I really did think back then that people would wise up and the world situation would improve by now. Silly me!
I'm 62. Get used to it lol.
Can you please number the videos of interrupted interviews?
Would help tremendously. Thanks.
Free isn't enough for you? You think you can dictate how it is provided to you, personally. Get over yourself!
@@paintedpony2935 I've never been able to see that it made a difference in which order they were watched, anyway. What if SC had asked the questions in a different order? Would these fussbudgets still be confused?
Bless your heart ♥️.
Michael McFaul. And I mean that for real. Not in the bad way. 🌺.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
I don't. And do. Warmongers need to STFU before they get us all killed.
Yup, Putin's emotions made him miscalculate an unwinnable war.
Prayers.
Well said... 👍
Thank you Michael McFaul ))
Putin & trump alliance, reminds me of that old cartoon. "PINKY & THE BRAIN". LOL!! 🇺🇸👹🤣
What a pleasure to listen to someone who actually knows what he is talking about.
And selectively discusses simple facts whilst ignoring difficult realities that could make a difference (Polish jets given to the Ukrainian air force). So typical of political appointments.
@@okhayyam516 He has less than 10 minutes to answer the questions given to him while also having to simplify since this is a late night prime time TV show. Subtle, complicated details are lost on people, which means it's a waste of the show's and people's time to go deep. This isn't a podcast or a long-style interview. You hit quick talking points and move on.
He may have very well gone over the 'difficult realities' but was edited out for time sake. Again, this is prime time TV. Every second counts.
Afghanistan was Russia's Afghanistan - 115,000 soviet troops v 65,000 Afghan regulars and 250,000 Mujahideen. Russia took 68,206 casualties in 9 years of fighting.
Ukraine is going worse for Russia than Afghanistan: 12,000 casualties in under 2 weeks and it has already lost more tanks / APCs and guns than it did in Afghanistan.
believe this propaganda , believe anything
Putin didn't invade Afghanistan, that was before his time, thus the reason this is "Putin's" Afghanistan.
@@asifjavid9346 I believe the Ukrainians are lining up with flowers in their hands to greet the Russian liberators.
Vodka for everyone!
because afghanistan ddn't have the support.
@@susivarga7303 Old babushka giving them sunflowers.
Most marketing experts know that when one person complains about a restaurant or some other business, there are typically 1,000 more that won't complain, but still feel the same way!
This ratio coincides with how many Russian people may feel strongly against the war, even though only a few actively protest. The ratio, in this case, could even be much greater.
There is a Ukrainian restaurateur with a Russian father who has started a network to talk to Russian relatives and friends and tell them the truth of what is happening. He estimates they could reach 30illion people with the truth.
@@elenachristian9860 30illion, really??
@@elenachristian9860 I hope this us true. I saw a report on the BBC. A Ukrainian woman told her Russian mother of the deaths, shelling and destruction she was witnessing in Ukraine. Her mother said that she didn't believe Russia would behave that way.
You can lead the horse to water, but you cannot make it drink, unfortunately.
You are obviously a statistical scientist... Now you should use your genius looking at US. To figure out who is right... Obviously, you failed to see Mcfaul is full of horseshit... See if you can work out the rest...
I Watch your show. I am thankful, that you pay a lot of attention to Ukraine. It is Very important to spread information about what is going on. By the way
Now,,, remember what he said about education...
Do it,, educate yourself about what is really happening...
Maybe you will eventually comprehend why Putin is acting this way...
That final statement is pretty bone chilling.
Thank you Mr. Montana ambassador dude!!
Michael is spot on!
The tagline is what I said as soon as news broke about Putin invading Ukraine. I'm glad to have at least a little company in this regard.
There's a CZcams channel I randomly discovered the other day called 1420 where a guy interviews Russians about what they think about the war/Putin, etc. Interesting stuff.
He is so right!!
So like 99 percent...... if there is one percent there is hope to stop this madness.
Goodness, I see now why our crazy was so fascinated by Putin.
Yup, Putin is everything the orange monster aspires to be. Ditto Kim Jong Un. If Trump could have got away with banning the media outlets that spoke against him you can bet your mortgage that he would have. His (unfortunately highly successful) ‘fake news’ shtick was the best he could do.
Fortunately Trump is as thick as shit, unlike his Russian idol.
Reminds of the FORMER president's followers - uneducated and gullible.
Yeah, this whole interview needed to be longer. One hour special?
Anyone else see the captions got messed up at right at 2:38, when McFaul stumbles a little on "I've" the captions read ivermectin? lol wtaf
Afghanistan is also Soviet Union’s Afghanistan 😆
@@edbarnes I think the Chinese are not that dumb
That is what the expression refers to. The US didn't collapse after an invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviet Union did. So when you say it is something's Afghanistan, you are refering to the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan.
Rule #1: Always bet on rural, uneducated, elderly people being easily misled, no matter which country.
I'm actually kind of surprised the older people are falling for Putin's propaganda. You'd think they would remember the good ol' days of the USSR, when everybody knew you couldn't believe a damn thing the government said. The official line would be that the stores were full and everything was fine, but people spent hours in line trying to get essential goods.
Ambassador McFaul explains it with such clarity and insight. And Stephen, you really could/should be an investigative journalist! Hats off to you both! 🙌🏼
Wow i didn’t know this about yeltsin and nemstov and putin and i did some research about it.
Putin is a legend in his own mind. Ego maniac.
Hmmmm, possibly psychopathic? It's far more than narcissism. He seems to have no problem killing anyone. That's why his yes men he has surrounded himself with are scared to death of him. They've apparently lied to him to protect themselves. Yeah, he's much more than just a narcissist. If you don't know the difference, perhaps look it up.
@@DH-gk8vh I know the difference. Either way there's something going on with this guy that doesn't seem right.
@@DH-gk8vh , reminds me of someone else.
@Amy Reynolds I have met a psychopath. There was no uncertainty about it. I made no doubt that I was certain he was lying at the time to my husband and I during a conversation. I didn't say anything, but I gave him a look. I got a nasty glare I have never seen before. Threatening and very intense. Simply because he was caught in a lie. A few months later I learned he had been murdered in jail. A doctor did a documentary a few years back on the study of the brain in psychopaths. Apparently the brain is actually structured differently. He had an fMRI done on his own brain and discovered he's a psychopath. Difference is he was raised in a loving family. We will never know for sure about Putin, or anyone else for that matter. Something certainly is not right, that's for sure.
I'd say this is going to be a heckuva lot worse than Afghanistan. Just to list a few reasons, not every single Afghan had a thirst for American blood, in fact most didn't. For another, the Taliban didn't have ATGMs.
He's talking about the USSR in Afghanistan, not the US in Afghanistan.
Which is clear if you watch the video.
@@joshuaevans6295 he's not talking about the US in Afghanistan because he's a hypocrite
That's a genuine comparison that makes a lot of sense. God please end this war
It would be nice if these interview clips where numbered so we dont have to guess what order to watch these. Especially when they aren’t released in order🤦♂️ come on #CBS
Wow…he pronounced Babushka correctly
What a fine gentleman of a guest
So, you're saying that Boris Yeltsin made bad decisions? Was this when he was merely drunk, or actually comatose?
Surprised that the featured band wasn't Tool.
Bravo
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But when he realizes he can't win, does he make sure no one does..? That's my question.
Exactly. When he faces the reality that he can't have Ukraine, and the world's telling him to leave, what will he do? It will be a blow to his perception to the people of Russia.
We all wonder if he will start a nuclear war.
But he can not be allowed to take what he wants by force or else he will not stop.
Appeasement doesn't work.
The formality of an Arrest Warrant should be issued to Putin so he and the entire world know of his accused war crimes. Its time for Psychological War Fare and Change the NARRATIVE!!!! .Please help spread the narrative for this type of dialog!!!!!!!. Any court can issue an arrest warrant when they have enough evidence that a crime has been committed....Enforcing the warrant is not the main mission for this tactic. Its simply to begin a dialog that could begin a process for some type of justice....
Colbert is doing some amazing serious work.
The captions need to be better -__-
Why do I get the feeling, none of this is true.
14 years jail sentence ??? Wtf
NO FUTURE
I mean with the wrong cell mate 15 minutes of jail time can be intimidating 🤣
The Trump- Putin connection couldn't be stronger than it's being described here, and if we don't overcome our own internal fascist Trumpanzees, we'll be heading towards a Putin quality future of our own.
Lol. Pop another estrogen pill.
Yes, Trump claims the Ukraine invasion wouldn't be happening under his watch, and that's because Trump would have handed Ukraine to Putin and then asked for his cut.
Ur stating the obvious, but the problem is that 30-40% of our country don't have critical thinking skills. It's probably higher if u include a portion of democrats too. Both repubs and dems do it!!!
@@MandoMTL - pull Trumps tiny little pecker out of your ear and listen, beta boy.
"Damn 'rural, uneducated, old' people! Why can't the world be full of 'urban, rich, young' people for the New World Order!"
He described trump's followers... (at the insurection ) " they look so low class".
McFaul literally describing the difference between Repubes and Dems, but in terms that simple minded Qpots can understand; those for propoganda and those who see right through it, guess which ones are the educated 😜😝😂
can we just put the gop and the russian gop all in one country? they seem to like each other!
what is a repube
@Scotch Barrel. When I read the post that said all this because of one man, Putin, my mind immediately jumped to, hhmmm~our Country faces the same problem. We have ONE MAN, Senator Joe Manchin, holding up all our possible progress. He also has his prom queen sidekick, Sinema with him, but despite mounds of evidence, and opinions by decorated, highly intelligent people in their fields, praising the benefits for the bottom 95%, he will not support BBB???? And VOTING RIGHTS!!! I wanted to cry~how do you not want our Nation to have voting rights. Oh, I know, (r's) can't win if people are allowed to vote unencumbered. So yes, I absolutely agree with your remarks, and cry at Manchin's designated traitor. And of course, Sinema who thinks she is so cute by tying up the country's progress. They are both deplorable. I'm not letting the band of criminals off the hook, but they said right away they would never let anything Biden pass, just as in the Obama era, so we all saw this coming.
Unconscionable.
No time for gloating
Public and private universities and political leaders of our nation 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😎😎😎😎😎
Listen 👂 With their mouth 👄 and their bad information skills
You do more damage with your mouth … every time you talk is a fake personal information of himself
We need to take away license from professional people like this one ☝️
They are the one saying everything is fake …. Why I have to believe this person ?
I will track all this fake professionals… license shall take away for good
That will be my home work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎😎😎😎😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This professionals shall learn how to respect their profession 🙏
That is Amy mission of life zzz respect ✊ or nothing
Real stories or you out of the game for good 👍🏻 with their family to get food stamps and public assistance all of them 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯😎😎😎😎😎😎☝️☝️☝️☝️ doing your them as they do with good genius families in our USA 🇺🇸 community respect
Shall learn how to respect Women’s and kids
They all need and deserves a permanent pusshy face
All this fake news 🗞 shall be one ☝️ of the first ones that need to pay for damages and suffering
That didn't age too well did it!!!?
Russia already had their Afghanistan.
McFaul speaks Russian, thus I'm 100% in love with him, 🤍💙💝
I thought this title said ukraine is americas afghanistan
According to one estimate by a Russian economist, as many as 200,000 Russians have left their country since the start of the war in Ukraine, with more than 25,000 alone arriving in Georgia since Russia's invasion began.
what an echo chamber to prevent us from doing the right thing..
he is being optimistically honest...which is fair enough ..i hope he is right
This guy needs to write a book
I think he has several
your video title is missing an apostrophe, i.e., "leader's," not "leaders."
Actually Boris Yeltsin, before he died, said ‘electing putin as his successor was the biggest mistake’.
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I thought Afghanistan was Russia's Afghanistan..... Does America have a long term memory problem? Also from same man. "Putin is turning Russia into North Korea". Or just turning back the clock 150 years to its earlier Tsar form..
Oh, THAT Afghanistan! That makes a lot more sense than America's Afghanistan.
Yeah, the Afghanistan that collapsed the Soviet Union. The same one that repelled Alexander the Great, the Egyptians, the Persians, the Romans, the British and now the US. Unfortunately Bush/Cheney were too stupid to read history books.
How many wars can you remember ?
he warned us about this war long time ago. and he was right, in the 80s the USSR was nicer than Russia now.
He needs to avoid run-on sentences.
yes. I know so fucked up.
No, we are Ukraine's Ukraine, not anyone's anything. We are a great nation fighting with a terrorist on a global scale.
Yes
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TY to the Russian people that are standing up to Putler.
Zelenskiy on Cocaine czcams.com/video/y16o2agow5Q/video.html
You misunderstand Sofia, the guy is saying that Putin will have the same failure in Ukraine that Brezhnev had in Afghanistan. Ukraine will be Putin's nemesis, he is saying.
@ Sofia Abdurakhmanova
We see that the Ukranian people are incredibly brave and have taken up arms to fight back against the aggressor. Hoping for peace to be restored in Ukraine as soon as possible.
I hope your family are safe.
Did you catch how he said same applies to America on demographics?
I very much think the average person of Ukraine doesn’t feel the same way as the average Afghan when their countries were invaded. No, I think this is much worse than Russia’s Afghanistan.
Michael McFaul is so smart. Looked him up and he went to Stanford and Oxford. No freaking wonder and no surprise there.
Edit: In another interview MM said that Hitler didn't kill ethnic Germans. - I take it all back.
Well, he's actually saying the same thing that the European experts have been saying. After all, it all happens here with us.
Technically, Afghanistan is Russia's Afghanistan.... or are we just ignoring history?....
failure of all in Afghanistan was due to the terrain not overreach ( by that logic USA also overreached there ) Ukraine's. terrain doesn't pose that problem
Russia: Afghanistan? We've already 'been there, done that'...
He is on the sanctions list that means the government literally told Russia there are no longer allowed to use this man's skill
He is right about what he said but the us really shouldnt judge anyone on war ^^ they are not better.
It's been 2 weeks.. hardly an Afghanistan situation.
The Russians are on track to lose more men in a month than the Soviets lost in nine years of Afghanistan. They are taking mind boggling casualties right now.
@@wannabecriminalman This ^^^. 6000 dead in 2 weeks.
@@wannabecriminalman i guess they really can't call Afghanistan a war then. I mean, you accidentally lose 6k soldiers in 9 years of a WAR.
I think NATO and the US overreached in Ukraine. And this isn't Afghanistan for Russia.
so distracting to see the mess of McFaul’s shirt that the sound guy made w mic cord.
Brezhnev collapsed under the weight of his own eyebrows.
So the divide is the same as Dems vs Reps.
Hahaha I love how they act as if this was so new to them. Puppets!
Wow... Im never second.
I swear to God, if you're Gina's boyfriend...
They get what they deserve
Emory parnell talk about sir Alfred Hitchcock