TIMOTHY SNYDER - THE ROAD TO UNFREEDOM: RUSSIA, EUROPE, AMERICA

In these uncertain times, what can Americans learn and how can we move forward to protect our most precious values? Timothy Snyder discusses his new book, exploring the lessons learned from the rise of the Russian oligarchy which crushed their burgeoning democracy at the end of the Cold War.

[@ludmilaturkova1274]

one of the few now Living intellectuals, WHO is Capable of synthesizing history and present and use it to project it into the future in an understandable way. compared to other highly hyped authors, it's such a pleasure to withess his thinking process and NOT just a marketing material! none of his lectures are Alike apart from the fundemantle concepts he has introducerd and since elaborated on. and it's impressive to experience a person, WHO does NOT promote himself, but the ideas With Intelligence, integrity, both Scientific and moral, and eloquency way beyond the average. I Wish more people listened to him!!!!!!!!!

[@Lippenherz]

Very interesting ideas, I enjoyed listening to him. Actually I love every History Professor who knows how to entertain an audience. So rare (at least here in Europe). ;)

[@t.s.4890]

Watching in 2023. Russia is tearing my Ukraine apart, flooding it with the blood of civilians. Everything Mr Snider was telling was true

[@peterdobos7076]

I would like to know Mr. Snyder´s opinion on Mueller´s report findings.

[@politereminder6284]

A lot of what he says go over my head, and yet I still watch, dunno why. 🤔

[@stevej5185]

I've been following Snyder for a long time, and I enjoy how he's been dropping gems regarding his personal life. He's started to do this in his writings and his lectures. As I keep posting--Snyder's a living legend.

[@paulandrewmonson]

Totally agree. There are so many things that impress me about his work, most of all his commitment to values, his powers of rhetorical analysis, his knowledge of modern history, his philosophical rigor, his ability to synthesize ideas and present them clearly, his stoic clarity in the face of dark times, and his wry sense of humor.

[@mmmuwwwti2]

As a German I think you are definitely right, he is intelligent and a good man and he loves Europe, he loves Eastern Europe esp. Poland and the Russians without their disinformators and Chekist-epigones which pushed the intelligentsia out of the country.

[@TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

He is an absolute embarrassment to serious scholarship, he's found a profitable niche in grifting middle-aged somewhat-liberal anti-Trump Americans who have KZbin profiles with avis of government departments .

[@tisiaan]

@@TheSpiritOfTheTimes what you are saying is het found a public...so?

[@TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

@@tisiaan What I am saying is that he's not a serious scholar anymore but a grifter selling hysteria to traumatized centrist-lib boomer Democrats, selling them that pleasant story of how Trump is an aberration, a Russian plant even, his conduct profoundly un-American and this whole episode is Not Who We Are as there is something profoundly and inherently good about America.

[@michelefitzgerald6603]

T H A N K Y O U F O R Y O U R C O U R A G E ... YOU REALLY ARE THE BEST!!!!!

[@gopeace4797]

Thank you Timothy. Thank you for that nightmare.

[@michaelchevalier8707]

This is very perceptive. However how many countries has the USA interfered with since the 2WW? Hubris ?

[@SilverFrogStudios]

Totally nonresponsive. Snyder absolutely recognizes snd to some extent bases his questions on the fallibility and imperfections of the west. Pearls before swine.

[@ubroc]

While that is true it's still good to know how other countries are interfering with us. Self protection is always a good idea.

[@giselapfeifer4666]

Unfreedom means to be a slave to sin.. and sinfullness

[@leorivers7759]

Professor Timothy Snyder has in his many informed talks identified the features of Facism as a interior scaffolding of states in which facism arises. This is my attempt to present them in summary. The 10 Footsteps to Fascism. Number one, The Cult of the leader Number two, and the one party state. Number three, The creation of or identification of a golden age in the past. This replaces Reality with Mytholgy, Number four, the creation of an enemy who is responsible from the loss of that golden age. This is the creation of a Scapegoat. Number five, the construction of a politics based on having that enemy. For this See points 6 through 10. Number six is seeing that enemy as the roadblock to a future that lives up to the golden past. This is the Road to Auschwitz. Number seven is creating a world in which all things are allocated to the camps of the good or the camps of the evil. These things are ideas, people or social structures around you. This is a Manichean mindset. Number eight is creating a propaganda picture of the world in which there is a war of good versus evil based on the internal drama of members of this Society who see themselves as the heroes of this battle. This is narcissism and megelomania. Number 9 is creating an ethics of absolute amorality in which what is good for your side battle is the only good you can recognize. This is the mindset of a criminal. And number 10 is the undermining of all your social structures around you so they become replaced by social structures that reflect these values. Wecome to 1984.

[@robreich6881]

Basically Carl Schmitt won the argument, liberals just try to use Schmitt to defeat Schmitt, which is basically admitting he was right.

[@BlueWizardsII]

You might want to repackage these into an updated version that mainstream American can understand. This talk was 2018. It is 2022 now. I'll have to listen to your other talks, but someone needs to explain to the World and to the American People why Ukraine is so important. Probably too late actually. Putin was waiting for the best moment, and it unfortunately takes politicians days, weeks or months to act, when the moment calls for immediate action.

[@ubroc]

"The Making of Modern Ukraine"

[@clintmiller2908]

Amazingly prescient.

[@wrecksvid]

💣💣💣 "...not just because they can drop email bombs later..." 💣💣💣

[@WestWind]

Tyler invents a Russian invasion of Ukraine, an event that has no date or place in history. And then builds upon that. How very interesting.

[@Lopersgezwets]

Have you watched television today?

[@WestWind]

Yeah I saw Ukranian vessels allegedly skirting and crossing borders of neighboring Russia as they do. They test Russian responses. Their show of arms is often lethal like it was in the Korsun Massacre, the genocides of Donbass, the May 2nd Odessa 2014 massacre and more. If the audio is correct, the Ukranians yelled 'accident' while not colliding in the video. Was that a cry for attention, or an attempt to raise a false flag crisis? (...) Who benefits? Despised President Proshenko perhaps who depends on continuing Western interference in his divided new colony? Or the inhabitants of Crimea, 97% of whom feel relieved from the (half autonomous) marriage with Ukraine since 1992, and the 2014 violence (a US-lead, Soros-paid, Merkel-initiated, Fascist-delivered Coup d'Etat) that fully unleashed the intolerant people, the supremacist-exclusivists (fascists) with roaming squads, who simply want other people dead. You tell me @Rob Geurtsen

[@WestWind]

www.novini.nl/confrontatie-in-zee-van-azov-heeft-voorgeschiedenis/@@Lopersgezwets

[@SilverFrogStudios]

Tyler??? Someone tell the programmer the bot is malfunctioning!!!

[@ubroc]

@@WestWind Is it so bad for a country to pound a sepratist region that another conuntry can invade it?

[@populistreport4813]

He has a valley girl accent.

[@TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

More obtuse than the average Valley girl though.