Chris Hedges: War profiteers are fueling this crisis

[@standingalone001]

The fact that Chris Hedges hasn't been invited to speak on all MSM channels is a travesty. His analysis is 1000x better then anyone they put on.

[@RichterBelmont2235]

His analysis goes against their narrative.

[@treefrog3349]

That simple truth is one of the most disturbing "reality checks" imagineable. We live in a world of willful illusion and propaganda.

[@janmortimer1758]

Yes,check out which corporations that mainstream media have shares in!Its why the veil cannot be lifted.We are but little ants who won’t have elaborate bunkers to go to one day but we will be left in the sand being consumed by the burning sun.

[@mycount64]

Chris is a prophet of doom he has been preaching this message for more than 20 years and the end has not come yet. The guy that stands on the corner holding up the sign or going door to door shouting "the end is coming". Then 5 years later he is still there and nothing has changed. For Chris the imminent train has not arrived. He is not disprovable in fact yes america as a country will eventually end this next year or a in a thousand years no country in fact I can say nothing not the earth or the sun nor the united states will last forever so he is not wrong. He is just a prophet of doom that is wearing thin.

[@janmortimer1758]

@@mycount64 l take your point but he does speak the truth and perhaps has experienced too much war.John J.Mearsheimer ,political scientist and analyst is worth listening to on this topic.He has been on utube recently however his talk given 6 years ago at The University of Chicago predicted much of what is happening now.

[@pukahuroad3967]

Chris Hedges life experience and his capacity for critical thinking make him an extraordinary commentator on conflict and the dynamics involved. Thank you for the privilege.

[@lodewijklangeweg742]

To see what the MSM have concealed about the genocidal war on the ethnic-Russians in East Ukraine, on KZbin copy/paste: graham phillips donbass

[@mrnameless7637]

Chris Hedges is a left wing conspiracy theorist. He is wrong about most things. The eastern European countries joined NATO voluntarily, and improved relations with NATO countries through diplomacy. This is contrasted with Russia invading counties to get them on their side. Of course countries CHOOSE to join NATO, the Russian government is dangerous. Yet all Chris Hedges can see is somehow Putin's insanity is NATOs fault. Have they even considered that NATO expanded because of how dangerous Putin is. These countries wanted safety, can you blame them? Chris Hedges is a perfect example of how a liberal can became polarized in their world view.

[@angelozachos8777]

@@mrnameless7637 🇷🇺 Russia Bad👎🏽 🇺🇸 America Good👍🏽 Are we seriously going to start playing this game again ? How old are you ? 15 ?

[@mrnameless7637]

@@angelozachos8777 The positive influence of the United States on the well being of the world is greatly underestimated. When a human gains unchecked power it is just a matter of time before they use that power eventually to abuse their citizens and/or the citizens of other countries. And if they don't fully abuse their people, the next leader after them will. Human beings are naturally flawed this way. The human ego puts on a good show of a trustable person, but deep down the id will grow hungry and greedy if it is not countered by limitations. This is why kings and queens of old times almost always grew wasteful and lavish. Human beings shouldn't have the power a dictator has. The United States is not perfect, but it has been a movement to try to get away from this problem of unchecked power, that has always been causing suffering to humanity. The United States does have the superior moral position in this conflict. Also, it doesn't matter how old I am, what matters is the validity of my arguments.

[@johnnymcnoodle27]

Chris is simply the most rational , compassionate , intelligent and vital voice working in US journalism today.

[@pacoimeroxvida4404]

Hes lying. Gorbachev has frequently reiterated NATO expansion was never discussed. NATO has also rejected ukraine as a token of deterrence to appease Putin. Hes making dollars off the skins of dead Ukrainians. He talks about soviets defeating the Nazis but somehow forgets to mention the Molotov Ribbentrop pact which started ww2 with the demarcation of Poland. He somehow forgets to mention the Chechnya wars or the soviet backed Sandinistas genocide of Miskito Indians in Nicaragua or the soviet backed najibullahs atrocities in Afghanistan or al Assad's. Hes got a warm stitch of earth waiting for him after he expires

[@lodewijklangeweg742]

@@pacoimeroxvida4404 To see what the MSM have concealed about the genocidal war on the ethnic-Russians in East Ukraine, on KZbin copy/paste: graham phillips donbass

[@lodewijklangeweg742]

To see what the MSM have concealed about the genocidal war on the ethnic-Russians in East Ukraine, on KZbin copy/paste: graham phillips donbass

[@danielbtwd]

@@pacoimeroxvida4404 you don't seem to understand the point that both sides' establishment profit while the people on both side pay the bill. These conflicts only happen because of money. Driven by those who print and control it. I know that these crooks controlling the narrative care more about their pockets than the welfare of their peoples. Your channel is very suspect just like many pushing a nonsense rhetoric.

[@vv7299]

right, because you say so

[@charleskesner1302]

Thanks for this Marc. Good to hear some critical thinking on the Ukrainian crisis. War is horrible, and the first victim of war is truth. US Corporate media fails us. Thanks for this interview.

[@greedyfirstalgorithmlast26]

The Real News Network? Is you still in USA? Better watch out! Them Shut Down and Banning and Cancellations over DISSENT is Happening, NOW.

[@jowlorenz9555]

Most American corporations are more loyal to the multinational conglomerate globalist secret cult --- and are actively colluding hard to sell US all out --- it can't get much more treasonous than that . . . Check out Project Paperclip --- where after ww2 US brought over hundreds of NAtionalistic ZIonist NAZI scientists, doctors, social-engineers, evil masterminds and such --- to help US establish all our own institutions more diabolically retardedly. Don't be schmuck enough to let them greedy-sadistic deceptacon hex-nut motherfrackers try to blame anyone else but themselves. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnnWZoBppd6XabM Them top secret occult NAZI masterminds don't want to make the same mistake they made last time --- and start goose-stepping out in the streets too early. All traitorous coup attempts start out as infiltraition, subversion, indoctrination, sabotage --- until they own enough of the playing field to really get TYRANNICAL . www.transcend.org/tms/2018/02/wikileaks-exposes-how-council-on-foreign-relations-controls-most-all-mainstream-media/?fbclid=IwAR0IGlwdtxRv4gVEwR9tJMN4ffHLf2N-ZC7lDXNGUtgOVLbu8I59nLFqnPk The reason they call it socialist is because it sounds alot nicer than corporate-fascist multinational conglomerate globalist sponsored TYRANNY. Research the russian Bolshevik revolution --- where the non-russian 'kosher' Bolshevik cult divided and conquered by schmucking half the russian population into helping them holocaust 300 million fellow russians. (The askenazi german holocaust was just 3 million) anyone thats been paying close enough attention realizes these plandemic pandemonium shenanigans are just how them greedy-sadistic deceptacon hex-nut satanic secret-cult cabal motherfrackers hellbent on total world domination roll over every obstacle in their path --- none more obstinate and formidable than the good old Land of the Free Home of the Brave USA . connect all the other hexagrams and the picture is quite clear . deflecting attention from (the jeffry Epstein pedophile preistclass) (trying to blame it all on trump) (the multi trillions going towards bailing out the irresponsible debt-based billionaire banksters AGAIN ) (all the fast-tracked new medical marshal law legislation that got bipartisanly passed to 'bypass' our constitutional rights was ready to go allready first week of shutdowns --- but despite all the hollywood predictive programming about what would happen in a pandemic of epic proportions --- our medical security authorities were still totally unprepared for.) it's a long story --- that sadly way too many folks are too lazy or INCAPACITATED to be able to do their own independent research on these daze --- because dependence on monopolized polluted mainstream media organizations is suicidally retarded ... if you only have time to research one thing --- learn about the science of depopulation a.k.a. EUGENICS . and understand that bill gates the man in the spotlight pretending to be our savior is heavily invested in sterilizing vaccines and genetic-molesting diabolical technology --- and all about depopulation. Top of the list for antichrist of the year award . it's about friggin time to show them greedy-sadistic genetic-molesting genocidal megalomaniac eugenicist cult PRICK motherfrackers where they can stick themselves ! check out these relatively well paid crisis actor websites : crisiscast.com/solutions/ crowdsondemand.com/ deepstate shenanigans for hiring rabblerousers are real and them spooks aint even trying to hide it very well --- since they know most folks are too cognitive-dissonantly impaired to do their own research these daze . well at least it looks they are equal opportunity employers ! there is a video of a bald bloke with a beard explaining why you cannot catch a virus. A virus is a non-living solvent our bodies periodically produce to naturally dissolve toxins in our cells. The only way to catch or spread a virus is by having it injected directly into our bloodstream. You can catch a cold because a cold is a bacterial infection. (Facebook is'nt letting me share the link) Again we the people of the United States and the whole world are under attack and being held hostage by corporate-fascist multinational conglomerate globalist poi-zionist eugenicist secret cult pedophile preistclass deceptacon hex-nut billionaire bankster sponsored BIOTERRORISM SABOTAGE yawl ! Polluted Mainstream Media deceptacon hex-nut cheater-class celebutard not-see flunky schmucks helping to sell us all out --- best realize that at a certain stage of the coup attempt that they will also become expendable loose ends to be used as human-shields and thrown under the bus eventually ... They best use their voice to call out the head rats while they still can or they'll be toast too (or worse). Anyhow --- let's hope we find a proper final solution soon ... Goddesspeed again yawl !

[@TennesseeMethuselah]

I saved that! Thanks for all that work! Excellent effort! 🗽⚖️💪🏽🏁

[@coraltown1]

Those 2 are Putin trolls in the guise of limp wristed intellectualism.

[@robertchen9820]

USA is effectively one dollar one vote!

[@markbowden7238]

War is simply a continuation of business by other means. My dad decided to become a professional soldier. He was sent to fight in Yemen in 1967, and I was conceived there. My mother was traumatised when the block of flats next door was razed to the ground. I have no idea if she insisted on being evacuated following the explosion or if the government decided to get all non-essential personnel out of there. It is a tragedy, attempting to start a family in the middle of a war. I'm 54 and the war in Yemen is still going on. The clowns sitting in our parliament disgust me. They are the appointed representatives of the war machine. Arming Ukraine against Russia. Sickening.

[@AlmaSdance]

It's a three party war. Somehow the west needs to embolden some people with a cause into war so they can dive in afterwards. It doesn't work without its military. Sick! So many people will suffer hell but that is not important as long as the west has its way. Ukrainians have been led to believe they'll be supported more in their cause against Russia. I think there will be no winner here among the three parties. There can't be no dignified victory. Crimea had been annexed already. Those regions declared independent. Ukraine is too much of a loser already. Russia can't win all it wants either. Only the military industrialists unbothered with nationalistic or ideological ideals will win.

[@sf2804]

@Kevin Myers Ukraine has been killing their separatists (Russian-speaking civilians just across the border of Russia) for 8 years. U didn't care much - it's their internal matter, right? Why so compassionate now?

[@FleuveAlphee]

@@sf2804 Do not confuse people and 'their' governments. There is no such thing as 'you Americans', 'you Germans' or whatever. Beware of generalizations.

[@sf2804]

@@FleuveAlphee I was replying to Kevin Myers in the style of his question - "let Russia rape Ukraine?". And when I said "u" I mean the author of the question.

[@randyindvik1171]

@Kevin Myers Who is the everyone that Russia is arming. It seems to me that America has the corner of that market.

[@randallcollura]

Thanks you for this interview - Chris is a rare voice of sanity in these troubled times.

[@Medley3000]

2:55 Mr. Hedges likes to repeat the myth of the alleged promise made to the Soviets but where is the evidence? At the time of German reunification 1989, NATO could not have promised at all that the alliance would expand east of Germany. This is propaganda of the Russians. Because at that time the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact still existed. Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary were still in the alliance with the USSR. So it would have been absurd to make such a promise. Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were still part of the Soviet Union at that time. Nobody forced all these countries into NATO. They wanted to join the alliance voluntarily because they were (rightly) afraid of Russia. Furthermore, it is downright insulting to the Russian intelligentsia to assume that such an important matter would not have been written down and anchored in a treaty. P.S. Ukraine voluntarily handed over to Russia all its nuclear weapons that were on the territory of Ukraine when the Soviet Union broke apart. In return for a promise from Russia that Ukraine would not be threatened or harassed in any way by Russia. Who is talking here about this broken promise?

[@sherronpitts3021]

@@Medley3000 Make google your friend. The evidence? NATO Promises to not move 1 inch eastward.

[@Medley3000]

@@sherronpitts3021 Just because you repeat this statement does not make it any more true.

[@sherronpitts3021]

@@Medley3000 It's true whether you like it or not. Google>> Not one inch eastward.

[@kimshaw-williams]

Hear, hear!

[@eaw6590]

Chris Hedges is a national treasure.

[@chipmunk6386]

Yes.! 👏👍👊✌️

[@kathleencain4727]

A global treasure too.

[@eaw6590]

@@kathleencain4727 True. He's a global citizen whose voice has never been more important.

[@mudslinger888]

And criminal for msm to boycott him for morons like Bolton.

[@mrnameless7637]

Nope, Chris Hedges is overtly paranoid, his options are filled with assumptions about the people he doesn't like, namely the conservatives. I'm politically center, so it's much easier for me to spot this. For the liberals watching this, it will be much harder for them to recognize this. I recommend examining each claim he makes, and really think about them. Is it something that is true, or is it something that sounds true, if you believe conservatives are boogie men, out to get everyone. In political polarization each side wants to see the other as people with malicious intent, this pushes our mind to ignore all the things they say, and accept anything said against them. Yes, people do sometimes lie, but they also sometimes tell the truth. If we want to know the truth about anything, then we have got to do the work necessary to look deeper into the subject and find out how things really are. Beware of provocative speakers, who don't feel a need to try to be unbiased. Western democracies are all good countries that are organized well. Yes, they are not perfect, but they are very good when you consider they are all run by people. And all people have flaws. Chris Hedges makes them into the villain of his ideas. It's a basis that leads to so much error in his conclusions.

[@raveman7]

thank you Chris Hedges for a straight and clear headed analysis of the current situation

[@carpo719]

Whenever a billion people are screaming against something, there are always a dozen who are profiting on it and ignore the rest

[@user-gz4ve8mw9l]

The billion in most instances regarding the west or all sorts of moments throughout human history. Yes these billion or millions or whatever large quantities of people are being deceived. Exploited the larger masses are typically comprised of the majority of mediocre humans. As such very easily brainwashed dumbed down divided and deceived en mass.

[@jowlorenz9555]

@@user-gz4ve8mw9l The establishment deliberately churns out not-sees : the only real rule amongst murderous criminal con's-pirators is to never dare rat out the kingpimp materminds or their nefarious plans ... (Unless they want you to) Most American corporations are more loyal to the multinational conglomerate globalist secret cult --- and are actively colluding hard to sell US all out --- it can't get much more treasonous than that . . . Check out Project Paperclip --- where after ww2 US brought over hundreds of NAtionalistic ZIonist NAZI scientists, doctors, social-engineers, evil masterminds and such --- to help US establish all our own institutions more diabolically retardedly. Don't be schmuck enough to let them greedy-sadistic deceptacon hex-nut motherfrackers try to blame anyone else but themselves. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnnWZoBppd6XabM Them top secret occult NAZI masterminds don't want to make the same mistake they made last time --- and start goose-stepping out in the streets too early. All traitorous coup attempts start out as infiltraition, subversion, indoctrination, sabotage --- until they own enough of the playing field to really get TYRANNICAL . www.transcend.org/tms/2018/02/wikileaks-exposes-how-council-on-foreign-relations-controls-most-all-mainstream-media/?fbclid=IwAR0IGlwdtxRv4gVEwR9tJMN4ffHLf2N-ZC7lDXNGUtgOVLbu8I59nLFqnPk The reason they call it socialist is because it sounds alot nicer than corporate-fascist multinational conglomerate globalist sponsored TYRANNY. Research the russian Bolshevik revolution --- where the non-russian 'kosher' Bolshevik cult divided and conquered by schmucking half the russian population into helping them holocaust 300 million fellow russians. (The askenazi german holocaust was just 3 million) anyone thats been paying close enough attention realizes these plandemic pandemonium shenanigans are just how them greedy-sadistic deceptacon hex-nut satanic secret-cult cabal motherfrackers hellbent on total world domination roll over every obstacle in their path --- none more obstinate and formidable than the good old Land of the Free Home of the Brave USA . connect all the other hexagrams and the picture is quite clear . deflecting attention from (the jeffry Epstein pedophile preistclass) (trying to blame it all on trump) (the multi trillions going towards bailing out the irresponsible debt-based billionaire banksters AGAIN ) (all the fast-tracked new medical marshal law legislation that got bipartisanly passed to 'bypass' our constitutional rights was ready to go allready first week of shutdowns --- but despite all the hollywood predictive programming about what would happen in a pandemic of epic proportions --- our medical security authorities were still totally unprepared for.) it's a long story --- that sadly way too many folks are too lazy or INCAPACITATED to be able to do their own independent research on these daze --- because dependence on monopolized polluted mainstream media organizations is suicidally retarded ... if you only have time to research one thing --- learn about the science of depopulation a.k.a. EUGENICS . and understand that bill gates the man in the spotlight pretending to be our savior is heavily invested in sterilizing vaccines and genetic-molesting diabolical technology --- and all about depopulation. Top of the list for antichrist of the year award . it's about friggin time to show them greedy-sadistic genetic-molesting genocidal megalomaniac eugenicist cult PRICK motherfrackers where they can stick themselves ! check out these relatively well paid crisis actor websites : crisiscast.com/solutions/ crowdsondemand.com/ deepstate shenanigans for hiring rabblerousers are real and them spooks aint even trying to hide it very well --- since they know most folks are too cognitive-dissonantly impaired to do their own research these daze . well at least it looks they are equal opportunity employers ! there is a video of a bald bloke with a beard explaining why you cannot catch a virus. A virus is a non-living solvent our bodies periodically produce to naturally dissolve toxins in our cells. The only way to catch or spread a virus is by having it injected directly into our bloodstream. You can catch a cold because a cold is a bacterial infection. (Facebook is'nt letting me share the link) Again we the people of the United States and the whole world are under attack and being held hostage by corporate-fascist multinational conglomerate globalist poi-zionist eugenicist secret cult pedophile preistclass deceptacon hex-nut billionaire bankster sponsored BIOTERRORISM SABOTAGE yawl ! Polluted Mainstream Media deceptacon hex-nut cheater-class celebutard not-see flunky schmucks helping to sell us all out --- best realize that at a certain stage of the coup attempt that they will also become expendable loose ends to be used as human-shields and thrown under the bus eventually ... They best use their voice to call out the head rats while they still can or they'll be toast too (or worse). Anyhow --- let's hope we find a proper final solution soon ... Goddesspeed again yawl !

[@brendanhoare8042]

Thank you both for creating this interview and providing an easy way for others to get an insight.

[@brianwheeldon4643]

Yes, this interview is by far the most comprehensive, cogent and plain sensible I have seen. All of which make it the most important for publics around the world to see and hear. Thanks to both Marc and Chris

[@oddvardmyrnes9040]

Start looking for Stephen Cohen & John Mearsheimer. They are not as gloomy as Mr Hedges :-)

[@oddvardmyrnes9040]

@JustDev .. For sure.

[@compassioncampaigner728]

@@oddvardmyrnes9040 With all due respect, ostrich like observation. Got any sand?

[@oddvardmyrnes9040]

@@compassioncampaigner728 .. I don't understand what you mean. Can you please clarify?

[@compassioncampaigner728]

@@oddvardmyrnes9040 Looking for a " happy version" of impending events like the ostrich sticking its head in the sand and is emblematic of Hedges' description of our society's " Culture of Hope."

[@mikefiford578]

Im disappointed that Chris ignores the 14,000 casualties from the Lughansk and Donetsk since the US backed nationalist coup of 2014, which after 7 years of an ongoing war was addressed not by the UN but by Russia taking the actions that it did. Chris is right, a crime to solve a crime is not the solution. But NATO's belligerence to Russia's security concerns was the 'Red Line'. and forms the big picture.

[@MixtrisUFOimages]

agreed. If it wasnt Chris i would have said he;s angling for a new job in MSM, but of course thats not the case.

[@justanothername5199]

People always talk about russian Security concerns as If those were more Importamt than Ukrains, Polands or Estonias. Why is that? How can Russia decide how those countries can form alliances? Russia is Not an Empire, anymore. As they are profing right now. So it is time for them to learn to Stop that imperialist thinking. Just because the world cannot do much about US imperialism that doesnt mean we have to put up with russian imperialism.

[@robertdornan8611]

@@justanothername5199 What would the US do, if China overthrow the Mexican gov't, installed their own puppet communist regime, and started shelling the south of Texas for eight years, and killed 14,000 US citizens

[@justanothername5199]

@@robertdornan8611 do their usual imperialist shit?! Just because we cannot stop us imperialism doesn't mean we have to put up with russian imperialism. Do you support imperialism?

[@sharonrose2751]

But Ukraine’s reason for being is not to give another country a buffer zone! It’s not some play thing for other countries to use!

[@albertodiazsaldana9380]

Finally a sane analysis of what’s truly happening between Russia and Ukraine.

[@kevinlawrence3105]

Hedges reminds us that the Fortune 500 war promoters push wars constantly, not just as isolated events. The rearming of the Germans and Polish desires for new NATO war planes is evidence of the money arms dealers gain from fomenting war.

[@marcietownsend3635]

Also the long term plan to harvest the USA and switch the global Reserve Currency to the Yuan. Of course, US-Russia Military Contractors want their profits, too.

[@truthministries77]

No agreement with that statement on my end

[@Peppinr]

A great interview with two great, knowledgeable experts.

[@joebenson528]

The clown host said Russia invaded Chechnya. How does a country "invade" it's own territory?

[@baalbaal]

I just learnt that the Ukrainian Constitution has a section which obligates Ukraine to join NATO & the EU. This was not just a theoretical threat but a real constitutional obligation. Neutrality was a requirement for the USSR withdrawal from Austria after WW II. Please keep speaking about the real Business & Profit motives behind all this. Even if we can't stop it it is good to speak the truth about it. The military Industrial Complex will eat up all of society's resources and impoverish the public reducing us to a state of re-chatellized labor.

[@dangermouse2977]

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[@SteffiReitsch]

Whatever their constitution said, the fact is Ukraine is NOT a NATO member, there are NO NATO missiles or troops in Ukraine, and Ukraine's request to join NATO was NOT approved(mainly to appease Russia). Former Soviet countries begged to join NATO out of fear Russia would do to them what it's now doing to Ukraine. Putin says Ukraine is not a real country and the "territory" belongs to Russia. Putin grabbed Crimea without much trouble, so he thought he'd help himself to the rest of it. This is just a big LAND GRAB. All that NATO and fake nazi stuff was just an excuse. Anyway, if poor Ukraine had managed to get in NATO they wouldn't be getting beaten to death and then annexed like now, they'd be safe.

[@keladaseges2558]

Yes, this is good .... The Working Class is an environmental expense ( costly zero return on environmental investment budget) . 99% of reports from Ukraine show dustrout Working Class . Let us see the same dustrout , soon, in Texas.

[@BoBo-ti6jh]

@@SteffiReitsch You are hopelessly lost and ignorant of the facts.

[@savagemako17]

Americans look at everything as if it were a football game. Even here in politics, you have 2 teams. The Republican football team and the Democrat team. A very simplistic and dangerous way of looking at things.

[@rodniegsm1575]

It's one party..its 2 partys. They make it look like they are different but they ate not. Behind the scene they are one.

[@Pyasa.shaitan]

But the stadium is owned by AT&T🤣

[@senior_ranger]

And on top of that duality, we are willing victims of the Lombardi Syndrome in everything we do --- "Winning is not the most important thing, it is the ONLY thing!!"

[@michaelhart1597]

Don't forget the the the stock market for these weapons dealers is like gambling in Vegas. And a large part of the military it's a job program for the economically and socially, educationally, as well as, politically underprivileged.

[@joebenson528]

This is why a one party state is superior. As long as that party is constitutional.

[@blogintonblakley2708]

War is all about the interests of rich people. We won't be rid of war, until we stop allowing some few people to control the resources needed by everyone else.

[@leannlim7174]

Totally agreed.

[@NEMO-NEMO]

@blakely, the best way to control the resources, is to run out of them.

[@tedzehnder961]

Tell that to Putin! Who invaded who?Russia is run by a small gang which is extremely rich and they control media/news and has almost total hegemony over the country. How can you be rational and have a dialogue when they have they`re aims and will use useful dupes to reach them.?

[@blogintonblakley2708]

@@tedzehnder961 I don't care if the rich people are from Russia or China or the USA... or anywhere else. Rich people start wars...for greed.

[@rushshukla4636]

@@tedzehnder961 The exact same can be said of the Wild West. The Satanic Oligarchy own and control the entire admin here. From the Central Banks, MIC, the media, education, hospitals, supermarkets and chain stores to the entire govt. That's why they are censoring, banning and deplatforming everyone who challenges their narrative.

[@IAmTheWalrus6700]

I found this video because I expressly sought out Chris Hedges interviews to help me understand this crisis -- "chris hedges ukraine" was literally my search. He is the most knowledgeable and morally clearheaded active public figure I know of. (The only person I can think of to place in the same orbit is Noam Chomsky.) This interview didn't disappoint, thank you.

[@nunyabizness8246]

Thank you Chris for awakening me from my slumber.

[@Pyasa.shaitan]

You are not kant and he’s not hume

[@texajp1946]

this is 100% usa's fault victoria nuland and NED think this is a game, but it is deadly serious, everybody involved with NED should be brought in front of the ICC for interference in dozens of countries resulting in countless death and destruction all of the blame for ukraine is on usa, victoria nuland, NED, and NATO have blood on their hands, usa tried to take over ukraine with a CIA backed fascist coup, hope usa learns lesson, treat other countries with respect and dont support nazis being a usa ally is fatal, never trust united snakes check out these videos on my ukraine debunked playlist The New Atlas Brian Berletic, SHORT: Is Russia "Invading" Ukraine? Or Reacting to an Ongoing Occupation? The New Atlas Brian Berletic, What's Behind the US Conflict with Russia (& also China) check out these videos on my ukraine debunked playlist The New Atlas Brian Berletic, SHORT: Russian Operations Begin in Ukraine - What Led to this Moment? The New Atlas Brian Berletic, Russia isn't Starting a War in Ukraine, It is Ending One check out these videos on my ukraine debunked playlist Democracy Now, Noam Chomsky: After Dangerous Proxy War, Keeping Ukraine Neutral Offers Path to Peace with Russia Empire Files, Ukraine: Questions for the US Anti-War Movement w/ Abby Martin & Brian Becker The New Atlas Brian Berletic, SHORT: Russian Operations Begin in Ukraine - What Led to this Moment? The New Atlas Brian Berletic, Russia isn't Starting a War in Ukraine, It is Ending One Breakthrough News, Ukraine Powder keg: Why NATO Expansion Must End Breakthrough News, The Untold History of NATO and Case for Its Abolition This is a perspective from a russian marxist socialist leftist Breakthrough News, How Russia’s War In Ukraine Is Playing Out Inside Russia, w/ Prof. Boris Kagarlitsky Breakthrough News, Ukraine War: Who’s to Blame and What’s the Solution? A Socialist View check out these videos on my ukraine debunked playlist Breakthrough News, Ukraine War: Who’s to Blame and What’s the Solution? A Socialist View Empire Files, Ukraine: Questions for the US Anti-War Movement w/ Abby Martin & Brian Becker Richard Medhurst, Ukraine Has Exposed Western Hypocrisy The New Atlas Brian Berletic, SHORT: Russian Operations Begin in Ukraine - What Led to this Moment? you are being misled by the western media you can hear the leader of C14 a neo nazi gang in ukraine telling the situation in his own words Jimmy Dore, Ukraine Neo-Nazis Infiltrate EVERY LEVEL Of Military & Government

[@treefrog3349]

Ultimately the cause of all wars is unmitigated blind greed. At the same time the source of all resource extraction (oil, iron, gold, etc.,etc.) is also blind greed. It is not a coincidence.

[@shakuntalalivneh8742]

And naked greed seems to dominate all of mankind, the lust for the more.

[@laxtose]

is it Greed or Envy ?

[@pktdbgnzwl]

yep. Power & extractable resources.

[@namasi7070]

"Greed is good" Gordon Gecko, American

[@sophosanthropos868]

As usual, Chris Hedges brings great insights to the issues

[@adamwilder2943]

I really liked this interview, as well Mr. Hedges always clearly illustrates things in a non biased manner..

[@900bcy6]

I was waiting for a Chris Hedges discussion of the Ukrainian crisis. His use of history to support his argument is brilliant. We will never see him invited on mainstream because the truths he vocalizes are dangerous to the present world order.

[@Medley3000]

2:55 Mr. Hedges likes to repeat the myth of the alleged promise made to the Soviets but where is the evidence? At the time of German reunification 1989, NATO could not have promised at all that the alliance would expand east of Germany. This is propaganda of the Russians. Because at that time the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact still existed. Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary were still in the alliance with the USSR. So it would have been absurd to make such a promise. Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were still part of the Soviet Union at that time. Nobody forced all these countries into NATO. They wanted to join the alliance voluntarily because they were (rightly) afraid of Russia. Furthermore, it is downright insulting to the Russian intelligentsia to assume that such an important matter would not have been written down and anchored in a treaty. P.S. Ukraine voluntarily handed over to Russia all its nuclear weapons that were on the territory of Ukraine when the Soviet Union broke apart. In return for a promise from Russia that Ukraine would not be threatened or harassed in any way by Russia. Who is talking here about this broken promise?

[@Nigerianreaction]

@@Medley3000 lies

[@Medley3000]

@@Nigerianreaction troll

[@MrNova39X]

@@Medley3000 your theory of never having that promise of non-expansion is still not good enough. It is still a provocation towards Russia, and I am speaking from a logical point of view, not an emotional one. In a very weird way this war could have some positive outcomes. This shit happened because the EU and the USA thought Russia is not a threat, hence they can be ignored and strongarmed. That lead to the Nato expansion and the ignoring of all Russian positions regarding it. Russia still being Russia made a point with this war, a very ugly and vicious point. I sincerely hope this has repercussions in the way countries treat nuclear powers, because if this thing where to happen again with any other nuclear power, it could end in our complete destruction as a species. This could have and should have been avoided by the west.

[@Medley3000]

@@MrNova39X What does that mean? That Russia should always be granted? When human rights were trampled in Russia, the West tolerated it. When Russia led an uprising in Chechnya, the West tolerated it. When Russia helped Assad, the West tolerated it. When Russia conquered Crimea, the West tolerated it. When Russia started a rebellion in eastern Ukraine, the West tolerated it. When Russia murdered exiled Russians, the West tolerated it. No wonder the small neighboring countries fear Russia. I repeat: NATO did not force anyone to join. Russia's behavior alone made the Eastern European countries want to join NATO.

[@gpmom1614]

Great interview! Chris Hedges is a national treasure. Thank you for having him on!

[@julieannmyers8714]

Thank you both!

[@duinay3]

These war profiteers are the true evil in the world

[@claudeabraham2347]

Rubbish. They don't make policy. They can't declare war.

[@allcatall3931]

@@claudeabraham2347 they influence those who can.

[@claudeabraham2347]

@@allcatall3931 most defense contractors are hand to mouth operations that struggle to stay open. They just don't have the resources to have Congress in their pocket. War has gone on thousands of years. A society that develops no weapons & as a result no companies produce weapons, gets attacked, & decides "we better design & build battleships, submarines, jet fighters, attack helicopters, grenade launchers, missiles, etc", will lose before weapons are ready to be deployed. Defense contractors are not evil necessarily, some can be, but they provide needed security. As long as they do not make policy or declare war, they are fine.

[@allcatall3931]

@@claudeabraham2347 what are u talking of, ever heard of raytheon, boeing, etc? those, and many others eat large sums of the budget, and don't struggle 1 iota, never mind active 'defense' lobbying groups in congress.

[@claudeabraham2347]

@@allcatall3931 yes, I worked for large defense contractors, Westinghouse, Goodyear, Lucas, & Parker, the first 2 being fortune 100 companies. They are still powerless to make policy or declare war. Also, defense contractors, DC, do not want world War, since they have much to lose. Their families would be vulnerable. DC want to emphasize the threat of war, but do not want actual war. DC sell hardware that deters actual war. Some are war profiteers. But having worked over a decade in defense field, I met very few colleagues who wanted war. Those who did love war never saw it first hand. They watched too many Hollywood movies glorifying war, but if they saw war & death first hand they would hate it like I do.

[@michaelh2034]

Well perhaps it's because I am nearly 60 but " War profiteers are fueling this crisis" is obvious and old news. Back in the 60's LBJ escalated the Vietnam war to the delight of his cronies in Texas who made money supplying the government with weapons of war. I remember my parents saying if you want the economy to prosper, have a war. In general, wars are at least partially about profiteering and always have been. All one needs to do is study history.

[@savagemako17]

Many think it's why Kennedy was assassinated, because he wanted to end the involvement in the Vietnam war.

[@brucehitchcock3869]

@@savagemako17 Definitely one reason no doubt.

[@zacharymcmillan2788]

There's no profit in peace;JFK was about to withdraw troops and US involvement in Vietnam,which was one(but not the only)reason he was taken out,after LBJ was sworn in as president he rescinded the withdrawal orders and committed 250,000 troops to the war.

[@coding7196]

Chris Hedges is a truly great guy.

[@joeows6537]

This war has been brought to you by Raytheon, the official sponsor of the United States Secretary of Defense.

[@janelliot5643]

Exactly. This is NOT complex

[@eileenmc4746]

Yes former Raytheon CEO. Ten years should be time before revolving door military/contractors/ mercenary

[@thedolphin5428]

Yep, all brought to you via Presidents Rumsfeld and Cheney.

[@truthministries77]

@@thedolphin5428 Cheney is an evil bastard indeed

[@RedBaronlives]

and Lockheed also! javelin, f16,f35

[@jbon123]

Chris' voice and perspective are needed more than ever before. Thank you.

[@johnf4279]

Chris Hedges speaks the truth, despite the lies you can listen to, & be diverted by. Much respect to CH.

[@mikeabc5355]

Truly evil, war profiteers (handful of psychopaths) profit from every war without any regard for pain and suffering they cause with their endless and completely unnecessary wars.

[@lorenzoblanco9069]

Excellent show and I just shared it. We need more lucid voices like Chris Hedges.

[@mikem820]

The minute I hear of any foreign coup, military action, assassination, or arms deals I tune in to the YT truth tellers like Chris to find out just how much culpability the U.S. has in the incident..... and he’s been right every time

[@BM-is5ei]

I love how you just know the US is involved in some way. The only question is "To what degree?".

[@saraivatoledo1842]

@@BM-is5ei Also George Galloway ... you always get some unbiased view , invariably .

[@BM-is5ei]

@@chrisj984 Name me one major conflict in any region where the US was not involved.

[@avibhagan]

@@chrisj984 brainwashed by the facts ? it's not like they believe this because they believe lies This "brainwashed" belief , is as a result of a mountain of evidence from past events. Your statement is akin to suggesting that the world is "brainwashed" into thinking the sky is blue !

[@avibhagan]

@@chrisj984 you'd be correct at that, NATO, and France are heavily involved. The EU is littered with white supremacist governments and leaders. They are slipping and showing their true colours as they mistreat non-white refugees. It wouldn't be a far flung theory that these European leaders are actually happy to be able to have an excuse to financially support far right extremists in Ukraine.

[@yesterdaysfool3948]

Terrific objective discussion. It's sad how blatantly materialistically motivated most such coverage is

[@kuanged]

Chris, now that RT is gone, start your own news channel with likeminded individuals. You don't need a studio. Thanks to the pandemic, everyone is now used to reporting done through remote video. We need real news!

[@lisalove8526]

💯 Agreed. Chris, It would be amazing to see you join forces with the other last remaining True Journalists to create a site/channel to keep us all up to date on the latest world happenings. I would pay for such a service.

[@texajp1946]

this is 100% usa's fault victoria nuland and NED think this is a game, but it is deadly serious, everybody involved with NED should be brought in front of the ICC for interference in dozens of countries resulting in countless death and destruction all of the blame for ukraine is on usa, victoria nuland, NED, and NATO have blood on their hands, usa tried to take over ukraine with a CIA backed fascist coup, hope usa learns lesson, treat other countries with respect and dont support nazis being a usa ally is fatal, never trust united snakes check out these videos on my ukraine debunked playlist The New Atlas Brian Berletic, SHORT: Is Russia "Invading" Ukraine? Or Reacting to an Ongoing Occupation? The New Atlas Brian Berletic, What's Behind the US Conflict with Russia (& also China) check out these videos on my ukraine debunked playlist The New Atlas Brian Berletic, SHORT: Russian Operations Begin in Ukraine - What Led to this Moment? The New Atlas Brian Berletic, Russia isn't Starting a War in Ukraine, It is Ending One check out these videos on my ukraine debunked playlist Democracy Now, Noam Chomsky: After Dangerous Proxy War, Keeping Ukraine Neutral Offers Path to Peace with Russia Empire Files, Ukraine: Questions for the US Anti-War Movement w/ Abby Martin & Brian Becker The New Atlas Brian Berletic, SHORT: Russian Operations Begin in Ukraine - What Led to this Moment? The New Atlas Brian Berletic, Russia isn't Starting a War in Ukraine, It is Ending One Breakthrough News, Ukraine Powder keg: Why NATO Expansion Must End Breakthrough News, The Untold History of NATO and Case for Its Abolition This is a perspective from a russian marxist socialist leftist Breakthrough News, How Russia’s War In Ukraine Is Playing Out Inside Russia, w/ Prof. Boris Kagarlitsky Breakthrough News, Ukraine War: Who’s to Blame and What’s the Solution? A Socialist View check out these videos on my ukraine debunked playlist Breakthrough News, Ukraine War: Who’s to Blame and What’s the Solution? A Socialist View Empire Files, Ukraine: Questions for the US Anti-War Movement w/ Abby Martin & Brian Becker Richard Medhurst, Ukraine Has Exposed Western Hypocrisy The New Atlas Brian Berletic, SHORT: Russian Operations Begin in Ukraine - What Led to this Moment? you are being misled by the western media you can hear the leader of C14 a neo nazi gang in ukraine telling the situation in his own words Jimmy Dore, Ukraine Neo-Nazis Infiltrate EVERY LEVEL Of Military & Government

[@tmsphere]

Who will tell you what to say without RT? If RT was doing the thinking for you who's gonna do the thinking now?

[@markp6621]

Says the person who obviously bases what she thinks not on principles, but on which team says it (and Hedges has already proved he'll sacrifice a good job to say what he believes).

[@aby110]

Yesss start a KZbin or Twitch channel, just be careful with TOS because you know for a fact that soon they're gonna be cracking down on "pro-Russian propaganda" like the Mccarthyist bullies they are.

[@GrandmaCathy]

I absolutely LOVE the interviewer's office. And Chris Hedges' every word.

[@michael511128]

Way to go Hedges. Don’t let the voices get muffled.

[@alanhehe4508]

Thanks for having Chris Hedges on!!

[@tonybenn1000]

IT's All about the Money. The Greed of uncontrolled Capitalism. IF Man doesn't put an End to War, War will put an End to Mankind. Martin L King

[@pinkmoon831]

Best interviewer so far, been watching others interview Chris about this and Marc is by far the best I've seen, he's very professional and to the point and lets Chris speak so kudos on that 👏

[@MundaSquire]

Agree. Marc is smart and always prepared. He has a deep history.

[@texajp1946]

this is 100% usa's fault victoria nuland and NED think this is a game, but it is deadly serious, everybody involved with NED should be brought in front of the ICC for interference in dozens of countries resulting in countless death and destruction all of the blame for ukraine is on usa, victoria nuland, NED, and NATO have blood on their hands, usa tried to take over ukraine with a CIA backed fascist coup, hope usa learns lesson, treat other countries with respect and dont support nazis being a usa ally is fatal, never trust united snakes check out these videos on my ukraine debunked playlist The New Atlas Brian Berletic, SHORT: Is Russia "Invading" Ukraine? Or Reacting to an Ongoing Occupation? The New Atlas Brian Berletic, What's Behind the US Conflict with Russia (& also China) check out these videos on my ukraine debunked playlist The New Atlas Brian Berletic, SHORT: Russian Operations Begin in Ukraine - What Led to this Moment? The New Atlas Brian Berletic, Russia isn't Starting a War in Ukraine, It is Ending One check out these videos on my ukraine debunked playlist Democracy Now, Noam Chomsky: After Dangerous Proxy War, Keeping Ukraine Neutral Offers Path to Peace with Russia Empire Files, Ukraine: Questions for the US Anti-War Movement w/ Abby Martin & Brian Becker The New Atlas Brian Berletic, SHORT: Russian Operations Begin in Ukraine - What Led to this Moment? The New Atlas Brian Berletic, Russia isn't Starting a War in Ukraine, It is Ending One Breakthrough News, Ukraine Powder keg: Why NATO Expansion Must End Breakthrough News, The Untold History of NATO and Case for Its Abolition This is a perspective from a russian marxist socialist leftist Breakthrough News, How Russia’s War In Ukraine Is Playing Out Inside Russia, w/ Prof. Boris Kagarlitsky Breakthrough News, Ukraine War: Who’s to Blame and What’s the Solution? A Socialist View check out these videos on my ukraine debunked playlist Breakthrough News, Ukraine War: Who’s to Blame and What’s the Solution? A Socialist View Empire Files, Ukraine: Questions for the US Anti-War Movement w/ Abby Martin & Brian Becker Richard Medhurst, Ukraine Has Exposed Western Hypocrisy The New Atlas Brian Berletic, SHORT: Russian Operations Begin in Ukraine - What Led to this Moment? you are being misled by the western media you can hear the leader of C14 a neo nazi gang in ukraine telling the situation in his own words Jimmy Dore, Ukraine Neo-Nazis Infiltrate EVERY LEVEL Of Military & Government

[@mudslinger888]

Marc needs vocal coaching bigly, he is horribly runonslurrydrunk sounding, and looks the part too… Chris is the real pro here.

[@bigdaz7272]

If our Mainstream Papers had journalists like Chris Hedges writing for them what a far far far far better World we all would be living in.

[@75ajw]

Hedges' presence on RT America with his excellent show 'On Contact' certainly wasn't without controversy, but, as he said when people challenged him on it: "no one else will air what I have to say".

[@GrandmaCathy]

We used to before that guy from Australia bought them all.

[@GrandmaCathy]

@@75ajw 🤯❤❤❤❤❤

[@bigdaz7272]

@@GrandmaCathy Yes don't the real evil ones seem to live forever :(

[@karlmuud]

Please share everywhere on social media. People must know what's happening. Help save lives. Don't create billionaire share holders.

[@michaelh2034]

Do you really think people don't know this? Ok, perhaps millenials don't.

[@joyduncan9434]

Would live to see people like Chris Hedges, Glenn Greenwald or John Mearsheimer invited on CNN, BBC or any MSM to share their thoughts on this unfolding humanitarian disaster. Thank you for some sanity during these dark days.

[@oddvardmyrnes9040]

That will never happen. The media is the propaganda arm of the military/industrial complex. Their financiers (Carlyle Group, Rothschild & Wall Street). The 'North Alliance Council (NATO)' is its lobby that controls funding to the DNC & the RNC, that again controls who get elected. You have NO idea what you are up against.

[@smith6752]

greenwald is on fox all the time tbf

[@oddvardmyrnes9040]

@@smith6752 .. And that is a good thing. Watch Tucker. He understands where the American people are. And as soon as GOP candidates see that, they will poor in with all kind of political gymnastics. Beware Tulsi Gabbard. She can become a real independent candidate in two years. CNN is dead, MSNBC the same. NBC has lied so much to people that they have NO cred. There is still hope.

[@oddvardmyrnes9040]

If you did not believe that CIA is really at the heart of this, see this video of CSIS (Center for strategical & international studies) planning for prolonged war in Ukraine, kzbin.info/www/bejne/pn26ioFnn9CgjsU . This is serious. These people are planning a war in Europe, against the largest nuclear power in the world. No time to lose. Raise up!

[@smith6752]

@@oddvardmyrnes9040 ok?

[@countryrds1]

Opposing voices are being shut down and hysteria is taking over. Thanks to both Chris and Rod for saying this, information and understanding are our only hope.

[@keyboarddancers7751]

John Mearsheimer and Vladimir Pozner have for several years also been warning about the post USSR non expansion promise and about Russia's rejected request to reach out to the West. Chris extends that history to include the arms manufacturers' complicity in that rejection and in NATO's expansion.

[@treefrog3349]

Well said, so poignant and mostly ignored by most Americans.

[@keyboarddancers7751]

@@treefrog3349 I think it was *Sun Tzu* who, some two and a half thousand years ago, said something like "enter the mind of thine enemy that he may not chance upon thee unawares". A simple interpretation of that ancient advice would be "don't prod the bear with a sharp stick". The lack of strategic thinking on NATO's part has been embarrassing.

[@Babydux]

@Aditya Chavarkar lied about NOT expanding into Eastern Europe and poking them to rile them up.

[@pmenchions]

@Aditya Chavarkar Systematically encroaching on it's sphere of influence. It's a threat in much the same manner has nukes in Cuba.

[@patm6704]

All of this human suffering on both sides could have been avoided if the US, Ukraine etc., had abided by the Minsk agreements they signed. The Minsk agreements were designed to stop the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine and retain the territorial integrity of Ukraine while granting a measure of autonomy to Luhansk and Donetsk. A very reasonable compromise but Ukraine and the US refused to implement it.

[@modemmann303]

So strange. Selenskyi says he wants it. Putin says he can have it. Kuleba and Lawrow can't pull it off. Who plays what?

[@AO-ow6tt]

Correct ! Instead of opting to implement the Minsk Agreement, the stupid clown Zelenski chose to antagonize Russia as planned by the US which was waiting to unleash an economic war against to weaken Russia once the latter started the attack on Ukraine. Everything was already precalculated to tighten its grip on the EU which was becoming increasingly uncontrollable for the US due the mounting influence of Russia with its cheap gas sale to the EU.

[@patm6704]

@@AO-ow6tt Zelensky was told by the neo-Nazis, "If you sign Minsk we will hang you by the neck until you are dead." Zelensky and Hunter Biden are bankrolled by Ukranian / Israeli / Cypriot oligarch Kolomoisky. Watch the You Tube video 'The CIA - 70 years in Ukraine'. "For 70 years the CIA has been working to undermine and occupy Ukraine to bring down Russia using such things as paramilitaries, right wing Nazi groups, corrupt politicians and businessmen, coups, and warfare in the eastern Ukraine region of the Donbass. As soon as the US-funded coup took over Ukraine, Joe Biden's son became head of the oil company"

[@patm6704]

@@AO-ow6tt Watch the You Tube video 'The CIA - 70 years in Ukraine'. "For 70 years the CIA has been working to undermine and occupy Ukraine to bring down Russia using such things as paramilitaries, right wing Nazi groups, corrupt politicians and businessmen, coups, and warfare in the eastern Ukraine region of the Donbass. As soon as the US-funded coup took over Ukraine, Joe Biden's son became head of the oil company"

[@dermotmeuchner2416]

@@robinbreeds9217 An empire? It must be wonderful living in a fact free world.

[@dkyinn]

Thanks Chris for your experiences and expertise about war, every one who are concern about war should view this program.

[@JCPJCPJCP]

If there's anyone better qualified than Chris Hedges to analyze this tragedy, I don't know who it is.

[@cmossman6580]

Mr. Eduard 'billy' Meier has excellent analysis as well.

[@cooldudecs]

This is not a tragedy... its s pattern

[@aby110]

@@cooldudecs it's both tbh

[@billyrayvalentine8471]

Donald Rumsfeld

[@zantecarroll4448]

Love chris hedges! A thoughtful principled man with compassion for the vulnerable. A rare thing these days! And he's vegan! He applies his principles consistently! Love him!

[@frogface66]

Excellent discussion on this sad complex issue. Dylan wrote masters of war almost 60 years ago and nothing has changed.

[@kimwalter8753]

Yep, absolutely nothing ! Evil people and corrupt governing cartels make billions and probably trillions off of war and violence. Then they put the public in jail and prison for committing violence and crimes. All the suffering on earth is man made. It can all be eliminated. There aren't 7 or 8 billion people on earth either, that's another cartel lie. The dark, intergalactic and twisted , warped human servants who chOse to be, cartels have turned this planet into the devil, Satan, and lucifers playground. The earth used to be 20% evil and 80% good, now it's 90% evil and 10% good. The masses have to wake up or the planet will go down and all life on it. Nuclear war is on the shoreline of every land right now and the radiation will reach ever part of this globe.

[@wnklee6878]

@@kimwalter8753 And Phil Ochs wrote 'Cops of the World' kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpK3k3xte6h_opI

[@Tupelo927]

@@kimwalter8753 I was in agreement with your comment until intergalactic cartels lying about world population figures. Perhaps I'm not clever enough to follow your metaphors; elaborate, please.

[@williamswill4972]

There's no benefit to Russia and the USA coming into conflict with one another. The oil produce states in the Middle East work together to set prices because competition with each other is bad for everybody. So there must be some outside force driving America and Russia apart. I think we know what that outside force is.

[@kimwalter8753]

@@Tupelo927 I study metaphysical, esoteric, and higher consciousness, and spirituality and ancient cultures. I wouldn't know where to begin to tell you, I've been studying for years dear. It started with the intuitive arts when I was a teenager. People criticize Sylvia Brown but I love her books, and 20 years ago she paved the way for these off world teachings and authors. You can check out Matthew Lacroix Y T, Billy Carson, Galighticus, The Leak Project, Elizabeth April, Gerald Clark, who has passed, Zachari Stitchin, Jordan Maxwell, David Wilcox, Jim Moore, David Icke, . All ancient cultures reference intergalactic origins including Egypt/Kemet, the Dogon, Sumeria, Greece, the Mayan, Inca, Aztec, all native Americans, indigenous, and amerindians, India, ancient Asia, Celtics, vikings, the Australian aboriginals, Polynesians, ancient lemuria, ancient atlantis, . The governments around the world have secret space programs. In ancient Rome they censored the Bible and took out many books, then King George made it worse. They took out all the esoteric and metaphysical books of the Bible. That should be enough for now. Namaste.

[@donbenoit2072]

Thank you for this you tube video. I hope that Chris has opened many eyes as to the reality of the causes of the conflict.

[@CarolPrice4p]

Thank you Real News Network. Chris Hedges, as always, makes sense, because he knows what war really is. I really appreciate your sharing this analysis, disturbing as it is.

[@raquelbrac8497]

What is not mentioned by Mark Steiner, although it was by Chris Hedges is that the US also has a long history of annexing or purchasing countries around it: Texas, CA, Hawaii, Louisiana, Alaska, for starters, not to mention the 13 colonies. And then there are all the other countries it has effectively and successfully colonized: Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Also, colonies in effect, whose governments they almost totally control by might and power: Haiti, Columbia in South America, Costa Rica, Panama, etc., and all of western Europe, starting with the UK, the most subservient with Germany a close second. Unfortunately, it did not go well with the US in the Middle East but they tried there too and are still trying to take over and control it, as they do in Western Europe. The US wants the world to be subservient to its capitalism, the military/industrial complex/, its Agribusiness, its Big Pharma and the medical/industrial complex, etc.

[@johnkneeland5547]

Sure. Looks like you forgot that states in the U.S. are democracies. Not exactly like Soviet satellites. The U.S. colonized Europe, did it? It's funny how often people like you support fascism while pretending to be concerned about all the U.S. "conquests," virtually all of which are independent nations. Big pharma, huh? The "medical/industrial complex"? You mean the system that gives people longer life spans and good health? The free market? Yeah, pretty totalitarian.

[@tonym842]

@@johnkneeland5547 The US isn't a democracy, it's a Oligarchy with a Military Industrial Complex that run the Empire. The frequency of the elect and regret system doesn't convey any will of the populace at all. The "richest country in the world" has destitute on streets, crumbling infrastructure, dysfunctional government, unsafe streets, parks and public transport, especially at night in many urban centres. It's a failure papered over by a few functional bits and an outsized idealistic Hollywood image.

[@beyondaboundary6034]

@@johnkneeland5547 Longer lifespans? THE US ranks 26th in the OECD for life expectancy. Countries with single payer healthcare systems have higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality, but politicians funded by the insurance companies and drug companies won't allow it in the U.S.

[@monchichis333]

Don't forget the Philippines in that list

[@johnkneeland5547]

@@tonym842 You're joking right? Vast stretches of the U.S. are perfectly safe and do not have "crumbling infrastructure and dysfunctional government." The bulk of the country is middle class. Yeah, there's too many poor and not enough social support, but it's not even remotely comparable to poor countries.

[@monkeybongos]

War and military spending, energy, and climate chaos are 3 of the most important issues of the time. And you cannot have Chris Hedges on too much.

[@marlbankian]

Truth of the matter

[@jonathantoymaker]

Chris is great

[@GermanMic]

Mark is too

[@CB-dr1jm]

Great piece. Thanks for the truth Chris Hedges.

[@TheCyberMantis]

"War is a racket." --- Gen. Smedley Butler

[@KiwiIyer]

Thank you very much, Marc!

[@stl1321]

Remember how many lives the US took before they gave up in Vietnam.

[@nancybacheldar7933]

Thank you so much for keeping us informed.

[@pascalsoucy8896]

Amen for Chris, we are certainly millions behind you, all these year.... luckily you are still young, healthy, vibrant.

[@Peekaboo-Kitty]

"War is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." - George Orwell.

[@sideshowbobrobert]

i never tire o' listening to Chris Hedges' take on anything. i always learn something, without all the bloviating self-promotion which has infected 'news' in the u.s. his books are great reads - but not if you want to relax. thank you for this post...

[@taraguiness6874]

Thanks to both of you.

[@obeahman6286]

Chris always puts things into perspective. One of the great unheralded journalist of our time. Too good to be constrained by the system.

[@GrandmaCathy]

1000%

[@melindawhite8251]

A superb voice of wisdom and sensibility! Please help the rest of mankind to think. Chris is the first person on all the channels I have been watching, who asks" Can Ukraine win this war?".

[@Supernautiloid]

So sad I'll never get to watch On Contact ever again. It's a crime. The world is crumbling around us.

[@myleshagar9722]

Maybe our North American world is gone, but not all other places are dystopian nightmares like the one we have succumbed to.

[@theswiftschoolofselfhealing]

Thank you for the truth. Chris Hedges is the man to listen to; heart, mind and soul.

[@elysium619]

Hedges and Chomsky. The most important public intellectuals in America, perhaps even globally.

[@romesking4204]

Chomsky the man who said we should starve people if they don't get the vaccine please don't compare him to Chris hedges

[@TheGiantRobot]

@@romesking4204 Yep. Chomsky professes one set of values than always says we must support the establishment. He's a madman or a liar.

[@elysium619]

As NYT noted in 2021, "Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive today." The breadth and scope of his work is astonishing, far outweighing Hedges. I do, though embrace Hedges' critiques with as much enthusiasm as Chomsky. Yes, those remarks were regrettable. Perhaps he is slipping in his advanced age. But be careful to not trivialize or dismiss Chomsky's towering life's work and contributions as a far left public intellectual, based on an end-of-life faux pas. The Left is in much debt to him for his brilliant articulation and analysis all these many years.

[@elysium619]

Hmmm. Sounds like you've read little if any of his corpus. If you have, then his arguments have been entirely lost on you. If you haven't, it explains your misunderstanding. Either way, your intellectual instincts do not inspire confidence.

[@markharris2912]

@@elysium619 yes but chomsky is losing it, becoming a spokesman for the establishment and advocating censorship. He is slipping away.

[@franksgattolin8904]

Excellent presentation. Thank you.

[@doomsday5286]

Basically: "What does this war needs ?" - "More deadly weapons." Nobel Peace Nomination.

[@meggallucci5300]

Thank you for interviewing Chris Hedges.

[@dj4monie]

Chris is 💯% right.

[@suzanneharris8339]

Since I got rid of my TV years ago & have not missed it. Independent voices like Chris Hedges are where it's at. The truth matters.

[@helloitsme98]

not independent - hedges is a communist with an agenda of destroying our government by constant criticism

[@zantecarroll4448]

Since i was a child war has always seemed to me a psychotic solution to a disagreement.

[@donnaclement3228]

Thank you for this interview.

[@ja9795]

The arms manufacturers and the pharmaceutical manufacturers both are affecting of us as a human species in similar manners.

[@theartofancientegyptianmet1747]

This is a great analysis of the situation. Thanks for the perspective.

[@annoloki]

I keep hearing this question about sending weapons. The answer is simple: negotiate. This has happened due to The West(tm)'s refusal to negotiate. We won't give up the right to have Ukraine as an exclusive NATO weapons systems customer. The weapons profits are just too high. We could priorities life over profit, live and let live, but we'd rather Ukrainians die for their right to buy NATO weapons.

[@DubG9]

Ukraine is a pawn for the West and Ukraine's president isn't wise enough to tone down his rhetoric. Shame.

[@phillyyardyvibes808]

@@DubG9 he is Eu and Biden

[@ciaranryan5265]

@@DubG9 The question is why has he persued this policy. Is he in trall to the Far right in his own country. The suffering that will result from this is shocking. He is not a hero. He has led the Ukrainian people into a nightmarish cul de sac.

[@Tupelo927]

@@phillyyardyvibes808 Could you elaborate, please?

[@hazelwray4184]

@@JM-zg2jg The West is belligerent. The US encouraged and orchestrated the overthrow of the elected government despite agreed early elections in a country split down the middle, politically and culturally.

[@lauriereid4531]

Best interview so far with Chris.. asking the questions I had.. thank you

[@keenanbob9254]

I wish that Chris Hedges could come on our major media networks - in my case Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CNN, BBC ,German and French networks.

[@mattj8799]

I don't think the truth is allowed on any major media outlets.

[@vajrasattva1]

The last time I saw him on CBC was a few years ago on CBC News Network, the business show with Kevin Whasisname from Dragons Den, and that woman who was a rising star business reporter at the time, Whatwashername. Kevin Whasisname called Hedges a leftwing loony on air. The proof for me of who is more important is that I can't remember the names of those two hosts anymore, but I'll never forget Chris Hedges.

[@clairetimberlake5892]

I am very grateful for this analysis. Thank you!!!

[@37Dionysos]

Will never forget Poppy Bush's fascist declaration, with a sweep of his little hand: "There will be no peace dividend."

[@auntiekaren4692]

The Bush family war profiteers from way back

[@Babydux]

@@auntiekaren4692 They still are.

[@karinamadeus6418]

thanks for that interview. This analysis makes so much sense to me.

[@thump8897]

Hedges is the first person I've heard to question the morality of weapons shipments just dragging this out and perpetuating suffering, if Ukraine can't win. Thanks for the perspective that we don't get elsewhere.

[@tedzehnder961]

Not once did he call Putin a criminal. He said it was a crime to invade just one time.Mostly he said it was all NATO`s fault. Like we put a gun to the heads of 13 countries to join NATO? These people in those countries had a close up view of Soviet style control and wanted the EU democracy.Russia couldn`t join because it refused to follow laws of governance that were compatible.I think Russia wanted into the EU to end up in control through the back door and it blew up in their faces.

[@nonianonesuch9375]

Chris is a brilliant man and someone I have respected deeply over the years, and he gets the big picture of war exactly right but time will tell if continued resistance is a truly unwinnable for Ukraine. From the less maximalist ultimatums Russia is proposing, it now appears that Putin may find an occupation of a country ready to fight to the death untenable even if he "wins" by bombing everything and everyone to smithereens and taking a really hard hit on his personal pocket for doing it. That greedy sociopath might just find it necessary to propose peace terms Ukraine can reasonably accept and diplomacy can start for real. A critical mass of Ukrainians have chosen to fight to the last drop of blood or flee the country if possible or resist occupation any way they can rather than capitulate to Russia and we have to respect their choice. That kind of resolve was not manufactured by the weapons peddlers. This is a unique dynamic and Putin in his current state doesn't represent rational Russian security interests the way Gorbachev and Yeltsin had when they wanted to integrate. Then Russia ceased its attacks on neighboring countries, seemingly, for good. When Ukraine ceded its nukes to Russia, Russia made a formal treaty to recognize Ukraine,s independence and never invade its territory. Not conditioned on NATO expansion or EU membership. Putin makes it clear in his rambling invasion day speech and pre invasion and "post victory" articles that it's an imperialist dogmatic war for him and he feels entitled to absorb Ukraine into Russian rule like it had been back in the 19th century. That would be an act of obliteration and that,s exactly what he,s trying to accomplish now. If the West baited Putin with anything, it was with an ineffectual response to his other war crimes in Chechnia and Syria and Crimea. He should've been severely sanctioned then, instead he kept amassing his billions. My other journalistic hero, Masha Gessen has a great insight into Putin and recent Russian social history, so I have to side with her there. NATO expansion was just a pretext, like the "Russian genocide by Nazi Kiev" or "gay pride parades" or any other bullshit excuse.

[@Romana6794]

I wouldn't have a problem with that necessarily, if it was not coupled with complete denial of any moral or legal for the crime of a war of aggression at the Kremlin doorstep

[@mcelena]

Yes moratorium on weapons.

[@matthewkahl145]

Chris Hedges... POWERFUL!

[@daveomacron4301]

Five words into Chris's comments and I'm already in the dictionary. "Facile." Great word. Thanks Chris.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

Ha ha ha I knew that word I'll take my nerd cred now tyvm

[@peterthegreat996]

He used the word “ risible ,” in another recent interview.

[@eileenmc4746]

Will have to look up risible now

[@daveomacron4301]

@@peterthegreat996 another great word...and yes, I had to look it up.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

@@peterthegreat996 very fancy word, a bit obscure. Well Hedges is a journalist. No doubt a serious threat in Scrabble. Lmao

[@seankerr9158]

Thank you, Chris Hedges 🙏

[@nataliewilliams9741]

Thanks for coming on, Mr. Hedges. Much respect to you and your ability to explain a complicated situation in a way folks can understand. Will you be going to PanQuake since RT has shut down here in the US?

[@eileenmc4746]

Yeah, where will he do On Contact show!

[@theresabarzee1463]

Panquake! Yes, Let's do tell Lee Camp and Ashfin Rattansi, and Renegade Inc.'s Ross Ashcroft & anyone else we love to work from Panquake! Thank you for re-minding us all; there already are alternative resources!

[@karensummers761]

Chris Hedges is extraordinary as a journalist. He's the person whom I get my news truth about America and the wars. He is honest, frank, intelligent and has the utmost integrity, and he cares deeply for all people.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

War profiteers, esp US war profiteers, never sleep. Any potential exploitable opportunity left on the table is money lost, and that doesn't please investors very much.

[@user-gz4ve8mw9l]

The industrial military complex and it's 'friendly' merchants of death. Corporate oligarchs, globalist elites, banksters fueled by infinite greed/profits.

[@brucehitchcock3869]

@@user-gz4ve8mw9l Dont forget the war loving press . I saw them raise hell on Biden for pulling out.

[@Only60GamesPlayed]

Thank You! Finally someone with some real sense! This is a part of the world stage!

[@katherinenichols4831]

When I see Chris Hedges' name, I click on

[@terrystraker2459]

All praise to Almighty God amen.

[@Kianquenseda]

It is sickening to realize the truth about about what my government's goals are and what they are capable of doing to realize it

[@analyticalmindset]

Welcome to the other side

[@LouisFoussard]

Chris Hedges - Another one of the very few true Rock Star Journalists!! 👍

[@uradragon]

Coincidental ain't it that just as we get out of Afghanistan and end a useless 20 year war there, corporate America finds a place for all those unused weapons to go.