The West must be a great disappointment for Snyder. A shining beacon of liberty, progress and freedoms is largerly a figment of the learned caste imagination. An average westerner state of mind in 2024 should kill any hope for the human specie.

Some people will do anything to sell a book.....Embarassing

THANK YOU 💐💐💐

Who is going to bring Prof. Snyder's words to the Trump base? These are absolutely horrifying times.

Jim needs to empty his nostrils so he can speak clearly. Wonderful guest in TS

A right-wing Anglo conservative type of intellectual. Not a fan of her work and not worth listening to for a serious understanding of Russia. A court intellectual.

In the interview I don't remember them saying Biden or Trump's names, yet nobody has any trouble knowing what they're talking about. If this interview was shown on Fox "News" they would say that Biden is the threat to democracy. They've done a great job of brainwashing their habitual viewers. No one can hold a candle to Fox "News" when it comes to propaganda.

Every time I listen to Professor Snyder give an interview or lecture, there's always some brilliant unexpected insights he brings that are really "aha!" moments, where the puzzle pieces come together. I have many of his books. One of my favorite articles he wrote recently was "The Strongman Fantasy" ...and I sent this to all my Trump -loving relatives, in the hopes that they really consider the consequences of their vote this November, even though the article isn't about, specifically, Trump. Thank you for hosting this interview !

I’m amazed that eugenics and its history wasn’t mentioned here! Eugenics was born in Long Island US and ended In Germany! Refer to a book called “The war against the weak”. Eugenics a contributing factor to the examination of Jews among other people! As for Russia elimination of elites in Poland the main factor was to remove cultural and identity of Polish people! Part of the reason why I’m in Australia while most of my family was killed in Siberia! most of our estates was taken never to be returned! Thanks to the western powers for selling us to the Russians communists!!!

He was originally a male nanny in his wife's family, and then cheated his employer's feelings and money. At that time, because no matter how to suppress the financial stability of Hong Kong, China, international capital let him personally participate in and promote the student movement in Hong Kong. He transferred foreign capital and financial money from the grey industry in Hong Kong to Japan, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, etc., through sports fraud, and then harvested financial capital in Wall Street. Police officers guiding Hong Kong were injured while maintaining order empty-handed, resulting in street cleaners being burned to death by firebombs. Many investors lost their money

He was originally a male nanny in his wife's family, and then cheated his employer's feelings and money. At that time, because no matter how to suppress the financial stability of Hong Kong, China, international capital let him personally participate in and promote the student movement in Hong Kong. He transferred foreign capital and financial money from the grey industry in Hong Kong to Japan, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, etc., through sports fraud, and then harvested financial capital in Wall Street. Police officers guiding Hong Kong were injured while maintaining order empty-handed, resulting in street cleaners being burned to death by firebombs. Many investors lost their money

他是个国际婚骗，欺骗感情欺骗钱和权利，他原本是她妻子家的男保姆，然后骗了雇主的感情和钱，当年因为不管怎么打压中国香港的金融都很稳，国际资本让他亲自参与并推动香港的学生运动，他通过运动欺骗让香港的外资和灰色产业的金融钱转移到日本新加坡美国英国瑞士等，然后在联合华尔街的金融资本进行金融收割。导香港的警察空手维护秩序时候受伤，导致路上的清洁工被学生丢的燃烧弹烧死。还有很多投资人失去全部财产。

What's always endlessly annoyed me is the endless nonsense about 'What Germany could've done to win WWII." It's always them, the Nazis. The speculation is never, 'What would an allied war against Germany looked like in 1938? Would it have avoided WWII?' And what are the other junctures in history where we could've avoided wars and mass death? What did we need to know then? And what should we be doing now? Clearly fully supporting the Ukrainians is that moment for this generation. Seems obvious that the cheapest defense spending to maintain a stable, peaceful, democratic world with free trade is for all the countries in NATO to not only fully support the Ukrainians, but to expand factories making artillery shells -- clearly we need to shift from the possibility of fighting a short intense war in central Europe. What would be a better defense for peace than NATO countries stockpiling millions of shells, as well as promising in advance that all phased out military hardware be set aside and pre allocated to however NATO chooses to deploy it. China wants to invade Taiwan? Well, there are 10 million rounds of shells suggesting that's a really bad idea.

moral wimps

Thank you very much Mr President Duda for your support of Ukraine during your last stay in the USA 🇵🇱❤🇺🇦

More lies from Timothy Snyder.

Good god. Snyder has lost the plot. At 8:25 he speaks about global warming, seemingly having never, ever looked at a graph of deaths due to climate-related disasters (down 96% over the last century), or graphs of food productivity (which increases with increased Co2). It's profoundly depressing. He should stay in his lane rather than parroting drivel.

Doctor, I've heard you talk about the US being at the end of the value end of the Ukraine support system. We don't donate as much as the other NATO members. Where do we rank in importance in keeping Ukraine going?

I'm a retired bioscientist, not a historian, a US citizen who has lived in Eastern Europe for more than 30 years. I'm familiar with all of Synder's talking points, and I'm in communication with people from all nthe countries he mentions. Did I miss it, or did he forget to mention or not know about the Victoria Nuland-orchestrated coup in Ukraine in 2014? Synder's analysis sounded a bit too "black and white" to me based on my personal knowledge of players on various sides.

Tim Snyder is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Period.

Gotta give kudos to the hosts. Great deep dive into Tim's work. Well done!

Snyder brings up freight trains of excellent deeply-researched points on authoritarianism. His views on Ukraine and other complex int’l and historic issues are spot on as far as I can presently(or probably ever) tell. However, I missed his mentioning that NO centralized “rules and regs” can ALSO lead to a sort’ah “dictatorship”. And, that our BILLIONAIRES are shaping public policy everywhere through the power of their “nickels” RIGHT NOW; which is also many miles from democratic. Maybe Snyder has mentioned these things in his books and other elaborations? PS) Democracy requires en masse educated informedness of responsible voting citizens with good options to choose from. “Whoops/Sorry”.

Thank you for your support for Ukraine, Mr. Synder. It's in the best interest of all free, independent and democratic countries to support Ukraine. A Ukrainian victory will strengthen all present-day free countries and may even lead to more joining our ranks.

Excellent interview, great points highlighted.! No matter how many times I listen to TS, I always walk away with something new.

Good

Waiting to watch more information about a TV show called indispensable on TYT TV show

@dw please interview

23:15 It's unclear what kind of "Reichstag Fire event, about which he was 100% correct" Snyder was referring to...

Spot on. If we place the holocaust outside of history, then we risk repeating it.

The advantages of democracy over autocracy are taken for an axiom, which is wrong. Autocracy has many advantages , a more efficient decision making process being but one of them.

Snyder is silent on how he has concealed the role of the Ukrainian fascists, like Stepan Bandera and his OUN, who collaborated with the Nazis during 1941 and who are now celebrated as national heroes across Ukraine. Why? QUOTE ... After Hitler came to power in 1933, Bandera “saw the Nazis as the only power that could destroy both of their oppressors, Poland and the Soviet Union. OUN activists were in contact with German military intelligence.” Bandera welcomed Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and the Soviet Union two years later. The OUN and UPA collaborated with the Nazis in the implementation of the Holocaust. Snyder wrote: Some of these Ukrainian nationalists helped the Germans to organize murderous pogroms of Jews. In so doing, they were advancing a German policy, but one that was consistent with their own program of ethnic purity, and their own identification of Jews with Soviet tyranny. The Nazi regime took Bandera into custody, but he was not treated as an enemy of the Third Reich. “Like other east European nationalists of stature,” according to Snyder, “he was being held in reserve for some future contingency when he might be useful to the Nazis.” The UPA did not limit its killings to Jews. In 1943-44, according to Snyder, “UPA partisans murdered tens of thousands of Poles, most of them women and children.” Despite these crimes, the OUN hatred of the Soviet Union and communism made it attractive to the US and Britain. As the Cold War began, some OUN-B members and UPA fighters were recruited by British and American intelligence, and then dropped by parachute in doomed missions across the Soviet border. As for Bandera, Snyder wrote: “He remained faithful to the idea of a fascist Ukraine until assassinated by the KGB in 1959.” Snyder noted in his 2010 essay that Ukraine’s then outgoing pro-US President Yushchenko, “regards as a hero [Bandera] a man whose political program called for ethnic purity and whose followers took part in the ethnic cleansing of Poles and, in some cases, in the Holocaust. … In embracing Bandera as he leaves office, Yushchenko has cast a shadow over his own political legacy. After writing this essay, Snyder dropped from his historical work any reference to Bandera and the OUN. In Bloodlands, published in October 2010 on the subject of genocide in Ukraine and East Europe, there are only two fleeting single-sentence references to the OUN, and none on its role in the Holocaust. Stepan Bandera is referenced once by his last name only, without any identification of his position, ideology or policies. For reasons best known to Snyder himself, he chose to remove from his writing on Ukrainian history any further discussion of the OUN’s central role in the genocidal destruction of Ukrainian Jewry. Snyder’s transformation from historian into a purveyor of Ukrainian nationalist propaganda has earned him the acclaim of the media. But he should ponder the warning of Mark 8:36: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” from WSWS: Historian Timothy Snyder whitewashes the crimes of the Ukrainian far right 26 May 2022 ------------ ON MUNICH AND APPEASEMENT at 17:37 Synder says "... the Germans were really in no position to militarily defeat Czechoslovakia in 1938 ...". This is the standard counter-factual but what it always leave out is that Prime Minister Chamberlain wanted to give Britain more time to rearm to fight the expected war. Germany needed war sooner rather than later and quicker rather than long. Chamberlain’s humiliation was a small price to pay for the interests of British imperialism and fighting a war as the "victim of aggression" has great propaganda value, which was necessary given there were many in the British ruling class who wanted genuine appeasement with the Nazis. The history must be studied. Read the following (available for free on JSTOR): -- Wishful Thinking or Buying Time? The Logic of British Appeasement in the 1930s Norrin M. Ripsman and Jack S. Levy International Security Vol. 33, No. 2 (Fall, 2008), pp. 148-181 (34 pages) ABSTRACT Scholars typically define appeasement as a policy of satisfying grievances through one-sided concessions to avoid war for the foreseeable future and, therefore, as an alternative to balancing. They traditionally interpret British appeasement of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s as a naive attempt to maintain peace with Germany by satisfying his grievances. The standard conceptualization of appeasement and the empirical treatment of the 1930s, however, are theoretically limiting and historically incorrect. Appeasement is a strategy of sustained, asymmetrical concessions with the aim of avoiding war, at least in the short term. There are three distinct variations of appeasement: (1) resolving grievances (to avoid war for the foreseeable future); (2) diffusing secondary threats (to focus on a greater threat); and (3) buying time (to rearm and/or secure allies against the current threat). British appeasement was primarily a strategy of buying time for rearmament against Germany. British leaders understood the Nazi menace and did not expect that appeasement would avoid an eventual war with Germany. They believed that by the time of the Rhineland crisis of 1936 the balance of power had already shifted in Germany's favor, but that British rearmament would work to reverse the balance by the end of the decade. Appeasement was a strategy to delay an expected confrontation with Germany until the military balance was more favorable.

Snyder is a smart intellectual, but fundamentally he is just ANOTHER "ANTI-Trumpist" ... who cannot handle the fact that non-intellectuals can RUN THE WORLD BETTER ! 🙂 ... whereas the "intellectual class" ( i.e. Yale, Harvard, etc. ) - is just PUSHING America to the Marxist/BigStatist America 😞

A.H . DID SAY AFTER 1936 APPEASEMENT GAVE HIM CARTE BLANCHE SIGNIFYING THE END OF INTERNATIONAL MORALITY. TODAY WE CALL IT "INTERNATIOAL RULE OF LAW" I LIKE THE OLD PHRASE INTERNATIONAL MORALITY.🔱⭐

What a clever man.

Why do so many War-Pigs resemble turtles from the looney tunes?

Please have John Mearsheimer on to talk about the Ukraine Russian conflict

Mr. Snyder is always clear and calm even when describing politically contentious issues. Always a pleasure. Разом ми переможемо

Thank you, Prf Snyder, for your choice to be on the right side of history.

AI and its Impact on Society Oct 31, 2023, updated on April 11, 2024 We must ask ourselves, "What will happen when AI has taken 85% of jobs present in 2020? What will we do? How will we eat and survive without incomes from jobs or other means?" What is disturbing is that while AI is taking these jobs, the gov't and the corporations have not done ANYTHING to prepare us for an AI'ed civilization. They have not said anything about major retraining of an entire economy to something else, and they have not followed up on a discussion of universal basic income. This is supposedly supported by a lack of information in the latest government budgets submitted and approved as reported by some KZbin videos. It appears that the US gov't and the corporations intend to kill off the majority of Americans passively, through starvation from lack of income to buy food. (check and see if farming production is declining or will start to decline ahead of the "starvation phase") (also check to see if the "makeup" of robot equipment allocation would change to reflect a trend away from retail and services for the masses, possibly indicating an extinction of the American public - this means taking a robot from Chipotle and repurposing it for some other job not related to the public, or scrapping affected robots to be remade for some other purpose that has nothing to do with the public) It appears that the decline of farming has already started with the state of Maine buying farm land under the pretext that there are "forever chemicals" present at around 20 parts per TRILLION (safe level is said to be only 4 parts per TRILLION), which does not make sense, BUT this would rope in a LOT of land across the US. Other states may follow suit in addition to the ten states that have similar laws in place. This way, there are only enough people alive to get some things done, and the rest is done by AI, and the survivors who planned this can claim the whole country for themselves. Imagine having an estate mansion half the size of a mall on several dozen thousand acres of land, and robots would be used to maintain and clean the estates and do the farming FOR THE ESTATE OWNERS. The White Man's wet dream of civilization. What will the Native Americans south of the US border do when they see this coming, especially when they can buy firearms legally now? Hopi prophecy...

Would like to see a debate between Mearsheimer and Snyder

Snyder has worked for every US national security thinktank there is. He's not an independent scholar, he's a government propagandist.

Outstanding

What about killings in Gaza?

The "Warning"? It is Gaza today.

Grover Furr has unmasked this guy as a scammer.

16:47 I think Putin is such because of his strong tie to Ivan Illin (spelling maybe wrong). He is more fascist German than russian

very interesting...

It's really bizarre that such well known and obvious truths need to be spelled out for these people who are not getting it anyway. And then, it's also so boring, trivial and repetitive, perhaps cos I lived long enough to experience these truths so many times.i lived thru experience of my parents and greate parents, thru so many wars and injustices. It all blends in the color of disgust and sadness. And all these sufferings are useless for more is coming, I can clearly see the signs

Painfully short interview.

Plenty of Putin trolls here with their lies.