Ah yes, the US bears responsibility for all this and China and Russia are only acting in “self defence” 😂

Neither Putin nor Russia started this war. The US did, but Putin and Russia is certainly going to finish it.

don't afraid this word, ukrainian its not russian influence bad without ukraine Russian is not imperium, second new nato country because they want people vote democtatic for that, instad russia invaded countries which don't want to be part of russia that's the diference, and new countries want to be nato because in the past russia ivaded them and occupied

Mon Dieu, vous pensiez exactement comme moi! 😱 Mais vous venez de me donner une leçon de modestie et de prudence que je ne possède pas. Merci monsieur Pozner. Vous êtes un vrai journaliste, digne de ce nom. Mais vous savez, je crains que cette noble profession ne tombe malheureusement en désuétude au profit des "influenceurs" car la vérité n'intéresse plus beaucoup de monde. Ce qui importe, c'est le storytelling. Quand aux intellectuels qui "ont le privilège d'avoir la parole", comme le disait Chomsky, il ne faut pas oublier qui les a placé là, dans les académies! Je trouve, malheureusement, que les universités ne sont plus les nobles institutions qu'elles étaient et qu'elles suivent les lobbies. J'ai souvent du me taire en milieu académique. En temps qu'étudiant, il est facile de contrôler votre pensée: c'est l'autorité qui vous sanctionne avec les notes et cela se fait de plus en plus. En temps qu'employé, si vous voulez le rester, vous devez adopter le même avis que tout le monde. Les vrais intellectuels sont de votre génération. Les autres sont des opportunistes. Je ne perds pas espoir, je sais qu'il y a encore des personnes honnêtes et intègres qui se battent pour la vérité et pas uniquement pour le prestige ou l'argent.

Bringing Putin words for confirmation… Putin is s liar and is moved not by the interest of Russian people but by personal resentment.

Putin didn't start a war he joined the war!!!

Невероятный пропагандист. Просто невероятный.

80% truth, 15% half truth and lie and 5% lie - kremlin manipulations and propaganda

28:18 with all due respect, but Russia lied and misled multiple other countries so now when they were paid with the same coin, it is a big deal. Seriously. NATO expended since everyone knew that as soon as Russia gets some money under their belts, they would start their normal imperial shit. And this is exactly what happened. They have been doing this since Ivan the Terrible

"You can look it up and check that I'm not exaggerating". Translation from propagandish to english: "If you look it up you'll see that I'm lying once again"

"Putin's certainly not my hero". Translation from propagandish to english : "Putin is my hero"

Most people in the United States have no clue about any of this because We are so propagandized and lied to By most of the media. Ukraine good Russia bad is all they want you to believe. I saw this coming years ago and when I would tell people they thought I was crazy. As an American I love my country but I despise my government.

hey idiots, this interview happened years before the invasion in 2022. his actual last interview was days before the start of it for abc news australia (and he hasnt been heard from since) - he said russia would never do it, because basically you‘d have to be crazy and moronic. which is what you people here praising him are.

03.2023? bullshit, liar. this is not an interview about russia’s invasion in 2022, this is clearly from before. come on, idiots.

Вау! Finally he spoke out his mind, he is a brilliant man!

I've heard many variations on this analysis. Like many clever, but ultimately bogus, arguments, it rests on false equivalences and simplifications. One easy objection to this line of thinking is that the countries joining NATO understood Russia better than the Americans did. They too "slammed the door" on Russia, apparently. Why do you suppose that would be? What about Western Europe? Were they not actors in this drama? And not just *some* countries, but NATO "ran the table" by incorporating EVERY eastern block country including, now, Finland and Sweden (not "eastern block" I realize, but you get the point), and even countries in the Asian block such Armenia and Georgia. Are these not free countries with their own agency? Did the USA force these countries into NATO? Pozner makes an equivalence between Mexico and Turkey, or Cuba and Turkey, during the Cold War missile crisis. The problem here is that Soviet client states were always pure dictatorships. A person might say that the US likewise "controlled" governments such as Turkey and Mexico. On a simplistic level this is true, and a simpleton can then proceed with his syllogism, but ask yourself where you would rather live: Turkey, Mexico, or Communist Cuba? We know that once the USSR set up shop in a country, that was the end of their government. Did the US exert that level of control? Well, you can answer that yourself.

Its simple. How would the U.S. react to having Russian military allies on its border? NATO nations can have troops and nuclear weapons placed in them from the military alliance. What would the U.S. do if Mexico or Canada were in a military alliance with Russia? What Putin has done is completely unacceptable! But another way of finding security for all nations must be found. I think the average citizen of the world deserves peace. These corporate-state monsters who lead us on all sides must be stopped.

He confused some dates. USSR disappeared in Dec 1991, not in Dec 1990.

Old fart Russian propagandist

This man speaks with wisdom & insight. When Gorbachev reached out with a peaceful hand to America. Was an opportunity for the east & west to come together & solve most of the worlds problems. It is a sad missed chance to reset the world & restart as a new world ready to help each other work out the middle east problems, and food & water shortages. Also to work on the global environmental problems. The world would be such a wonderful place. If all of the pacts & organizations, that are designed to keep peace & defend each others side from the other. Would just be eliminated. They only came about because of previous world wars 1 & 2. They are not needed & need to be eliminated just in the same way the nuclear arms reductions and eliminations were handled. Both sides know the real truth why these organizations exist. They are barriers to the ways & means to peace

So does russia - want to destroy the west

Как он красиво говорит, что по-русски, что по-английски. Грамотный, приятный, мудрый человек

Biden needs to go.I'm not a fan of Trump either but he would more than likely to negotiate with Russia.

Has anyone thought to ask what Ukrainians want?

Очень поверхностные мысли. Приравнивать карибский кризис с 24 февраля. Во первых Финляндия в НАТО. Во вторых, только глупец который не знает что происходит в Украине мог поверить что Украину возьмут в НАТО. Третье, если Путин боится НАТО то почему он говорит о нацизме (как будто неонаци есть только в Украине. В России их нету ?). Эти придурки напали ибо тупое старики уже с высохшими мозгами не понимаю что творят, незачем оправдывать действия убийци ссылаясь на «на нас нападут»

27:55 - answer YES.

How can a person call himself an intellectual and don't know what Posner very brilliantly exposed in this video. And if you do know this, and still don't support it, then you are gullible.

Its funny that US is hardly able to protect exacly that boder Pozner mentions.

No matter what ruzzia was concerned about, it will never justify the bombings of the Ukrainian cities, lots of towns and villages literally don't exist anymore, tens of thousands of civilians were killed. This is not how you deter a country from nato, that's how you prove that seeking protection within nato is the ONLY way to protect itself. For some reason Finland and Sweden have no problems joining nato, but only Ukraine has no right to do so? And then pozner says that ruzzia doesn't want to recreate ussr? so far ruzzia annexed Crimea, and created some failed states in donbass, this has nothing to do with Russian security. It's a cruel and aggressive war, no different from Hitler war in Europe or Japanese attack on China and the pacific And pozner is just a useful idiot consciously or unconsciously helping ruzzia justify this war in the west.

The war revealed your true nature. You disappeared since Feb 2022. You are not true journalist.

I can listen to him all day every day. It's hard to believe he is almost 90 years old now.

Я люблю вас... Слушать и слышать ❤

One of the facts is - the Russians obviously against fascism and against those numerous fascist durty accomplices, who try to destroy Russian People in their historic Motherland. The ukrainian bandits are simply primitive monsters grown up tens of years ago against Russian Federation, so they should be and obviously- they would be burned. That's also a great lesson for all other fascist accomplices whatsoever they ruled by so-called "exceptional" zionists or anyone else. Vladimir Pozner correctly admits about so-called independent points of view in Russian Federation. We do not need any so-called western "democratic" voices in our Country, we've been full of that garbage for years. We have our own traditional values, our Country - the biggest in the World, and all possibilities to protect that against any enemies. That's the fact.

Thank you so much for this Vladimir. I only discovered you existed a couple of months ago (I was intrigued by a brief mention of you in Sebastian Faulks’s “The Fatal Englishman”). I have just read your book “Eyewitness” and am now reading “Parting with Illusions”. Your life story is absolutely fascinating, growing up as both an American and a Soviet. You have lived, embody and beautifully explain what I have always believed: that if we could fully understand where other people are coming from, and what they are afraid of, then there would never be a need for war. Simplified media messages prevent that understanding. While people who strongly believe in something might think they are helping their cause by simplifying the message, they are in fact doing much more harm than good. If people have all the facts they are capable of judging for themselves. I was delighted and excited to discover you are still alive and kicking! Since the war in Ukraine started - to which my reaction was “Where did THAT come from? That was a bolt from the blue. I seem to have missed out on a whole bunch of background” - I have been trying to find out what the Russian view could possibly be on this. As you say, “Putin’s a nutter” doesn’t even begin to explain the support of a whole country. There have been dribs and drabs of things in the UK media, but just now I thought “maybe Vladimir Pozner has something to say on this”. And you do. Thank you!

The fall of USA is imminent it was a very long run though.

Priceless to hear that.

Pozner is a great speaker and a great liar. Oh poor Russians were lied to. The evil West just took advantage of a naive virtuous girl. What a BS! What he does not say is the fact, that NATO is not a tool for invading Russia but the tool for stopping any Russian agression against a NATO member. And Russians understand it. That's why they weren't mad about the accesion of Finland. They still feel safe, because they don't have plans to use their military power in order to make a pression on Finland. Ukraine in NATO doesn't state a threat for Russia. But it means "no more violent threats against Ukraine", and that means Russian sphere of influence is going to shrink again. The real existential threat for Russia is a sucessfull, democratic Ukraine - Russians will see it and say "We want the same!"

He is full of shit as usually even when he had to say his point of view on “is it right or wrong what putin did” he just skipped that part….. P.S. No one cares or is afraid of corrupt gas station with a nuclear weapon and willing to stay as far as possible from this gas station. That’s the sad fact…

I'm Brazilian. I support Russia on this. I know there are plans out there to divide and invade Brazil. France is behind on such plans. Trouble will begin when the US decides to back such plans. I has happened before in Vietnam when the US backed the French colonization of that country. God bless Mother Russia! And thank you Putin and Russian People for bashing nazis in Ukraine!

its crazy how he has such a strong american accent speaking english, and sounds like a russian whilst speaking russian

LOL, this is the guy who said that he would never be allowed on anti-Russian Western media TV (kzbin.info/www/bejne/bomaf5ptasponbM) and then was somehow allowed on a Western media TV channel (kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKTOdaxnl5tonqc) to claim that Putin won't invade and doesn't want to invade but because the West kept saying he will invade he just had to do it! Bet he believes Putin was tricked to invade Ukraine (just like Oliver Stone: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5ikoox5ba-Ch6s) or NATO might see him as weak.

He likes more people to be gay, talking about it on his show. Interesting who has made him a Rissian TV presenter.

In addition to Zbigniew Brezinski‘s book, “The Grand Chessboard“, I strongly recommend reading his 1997 article in Foreign Affairs magazine (“A Geostrategy for Eurasia“) in the September/October issue. Mr. Brzezinski writes about a “post imperial Russia” made up of a “loose confederation” of a “European Russia,” a “Siberian, Russia,“ and a “Far Eastern Russia.“ I direct your attention to the map on page 60 of the article which depicts a politically divided Russia. In other words, Zbigniew Brzezinski was advocating for politically dismembering Russia as far back as 1997. I also recommend that you Google the terms “Decolonizing, Russia“ and “a Morgenthau Plan for Russia.“ These are euphemisms being used throughout Europe to discuss the political dismemberment of Russia . A symposium on this subject was held in the European Parliament building in Brussels last summer. This is precisely what the Biden administration seeks to achieve with its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

Posner has always been anything but an objective journalist. In Soviet times, he was one of the best propagandists, whose task was to cover the Soviet side, no matter what they did. Now he performs the same role, only in relation to Russia. Geopolitics can justify anything, even fascism. Unfortunately, tens of thousands of tortured and killed civilians old people, kids, women...daily shelling of sleeping people, etc. - this is not geopolitics in my world, this is pure fascism, Mr. Pozner.

I can't thank Vladimir Pozner enough for his input, ideas, research, and voice.

Pozner: I'm presenting facts, leaving emotions aside. Facts: Putin feared NATO.

NATO expansion made no sense and therefore the only explanation is political influence over these countries by the West.

Republicans and Democrat Elites have perpetrated the advancement of destructive pressure against Russia. And now Republicans stand against it, but Democrats have gone full retard and all-in on this war. And quite frankly I understand that feeling, i do root for Ukraine but this was not a surprise and Russia has told us many times to back off and keep a buffer zone, because they have a long history of invasions that run right thru Poland and Ukraine

The countries had joint the nato freely bc of their concerns with Russia and they are now more happy than ever having done so. Ukraine was denied the membership bc of Russias concerns. Instead they signed the Budapest memorandum wich supposed to guaranty the integrity of their borders. That was signed by Russia as well. Consequently Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons. One might think that was a mistake.

Where is your friend Yuri Bezmienow?