Putin is a "Small Pathetic Man" Who Needs More Wars to Survive

American-born businessman Bill Browder, author of the Magnitsky Act that has been sanctioning Russian officials in 2016, has also authored two best-selling books: Red Notice and Freezing Order.
Pulling no punches, Browder explains the "psychopathy" and "depravity" that make up the character of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. What motivates the Russian autocrat? Browder argues that "Putin is a little man, who has stolen too much money, who is terrified of losing power. If he loses power he will go to jail, lose his money, and die. So you've this little money who is scared of losing his life. So what [does Putin] do?" He creates "a foreign enemy. That is what the Ukrainian invasion is all about."
Browder warns that despite heroic efforts: Ukraine can still lose the war if the West backs away from its commitments to the besieged nation. What would come next? Browder argues that Putin cannot back down or not begin an invasion of Europe: Putin's ability to survive, having stolen hundreds of billions from his own people, depends on him being able to portray himself as a war president keeping his nation safe.
Browder's gripping interview lays bare how sick the Putin Regime really is while highlighting the clear-and-present threat it poses to the collective West.
00:00 Intro
00:08 When did you realize that Putin was dangerous?
09:20 What happens if Putin is stopped in Ukraine?
11:26 What does post-war Russia look like?
13:04 Attacking Russian oil fields: The real effect

[@GrumpyOldMan9]

"Putin has an unlimited capacity for pain ... of other people". Go Bill!!

[@U.H8]

💙👍🏻💛

[@cheblack677]

Really? Don't you know how much pain the US caused last century? And Europeans for the last four centuries?

[@GrumpyOldMan9]

@@cheblack677 I get it. So Russia now has the right to inflict pain for the next century.

[@geoh7777]

14:14 "I don't think that that it's it's right, moral or or logical to be telling Ukraine to restrain themselves (from using their drones to destroy Russian petroleum refining), you know sure there's oil prices are high, but you know that that's that's a pretty small problem compared to the bigger problems if Ukraine loses this war." Please note that it is this "highly moral" democrat administration in Washington D.C. that is voicing this concern about possible problems with gasoline, diesel etc. prices.

[@robst247]

@@cheblack677 How is this relevant to Putin's insane, unjustified and illegal invasion and temporary partial occupation of sovereign Ukraine?

[@cheryldavis7813]

Thank you Bill for standing up against and exposing this evil man. May they listen to you now!

[@davidmiles-hanschell]

Bill Browder continues to put his life and that of his family for continuing his own struggle to defend democracy and the rule of law; it's a pity the financial establishment especially in London/Londongrad ignored his warnings for years until the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 24/02/2022 when they had to protest their complicity in supporting Pootin and his oligarchs.

[@Crispy_pata]

Yeah Slava Ukraine!

[@tatelyle1]

They need the Gem-7 UAV Drone. With 3,500 km range, to go deep into Russia. T

[@hakangustavsson3538]

Bill Browder is admirable.🏆

[@terencegreen3399]

bla bla

[@Cool5380]

Sad imperialistic sadistic dreams of a lowly ex-officer in the former kgb. Thank you for beeing a clear about this narrowminded old man.

[@cheblack677]

All Russia wants is respect. With or without Putin, the objectives are the same. Throwing sh..t around won't change anything.

[@robderich8533]

@@cheblack677 Apparently you don't know that there is a huge difference between respect and fear. To obtain the former requires virtues and it needs efforts to achieve them, for the latter only brutality.

[@shardovl586]

Putin has used war to project strength as he becomes frail with old age, war serves to create an environment where he can purge those he sees as a threat. Hence why so many of the Russian elite have been assassinated since the start of the war.

[@Parvenu90]

I don’t think Ukraine or Poland are scared of Russia. Belarus is for sure.

[@shardovl586]

@@Parvenu90 Belarus is owned by Putin, he failed to install a puppet leader in Ukraine like he did in Belarus

[@nickrider5220]

He thought a quick and successful war in Ukraine would lead to adulation back home, instead he's dragged his country into a dark age - he's a war mongering, old school Soviet has been. ❤🇺🇦🇬🇧❤

[@eveening7401]

Better follow the news, this kievpost is not objective… and Dark ages? What you talking about Russia is outperforming most western economies… 😂

[@davidmorgan2077]

​@@eveening7401He has been The Sun and The Telegraph.

[@davidmorgan2077]

@Polymorphism-fc2eo Take the blinkers off and do some research.

[@bigolboomerbelly4348]

​@Polymorphism-fc2eoOryx is good.

[@davidmorgan2077]

@Polymorphism-fc2eo You want me to do your homework for you? Being eastern European obviously makes you and expert I bow to your greater knowledge.

[@lostlogic6911]

I seem to recall a similar man who also needs more war just to survived. I heard he got rejected from an Art School one time.

[@lostlogic6911]

@@StatetrooperBillyBill cant believe people listened to him just because he told a story of his Kampfing trip. ( It was sarcasm, I know what "Mein Kampf" means)

[@barrybrodin7085]

​@@StatetrooperBillyBill2 weeks comrade,congratulations

[@senquidam6318]

Damn Austrians...even now they are tied to Russia like back then when Russia was part of starting ww2

[@barrylafleur8526]

The rule on the internet is, as soon as you call another person Hitler, you lose the argument.

[@george6252]

Thought I was the only one seeing the parallel. Many still don't.

[@Rob-fx2dw]

Putin has be brought to experience the pain himself either from external force or within his own country.

[@paddy654]

Wishful thinking 😢😢

[@stevenmoore3480]

@@paddy654 no it is the plan son

[@Comm.DavidPorter]

Fix typo: "Putin has TO be brought to experience the pain himself, either from external force or within his own country." (Preferably the latter)

[@Rob-fx2dw]

@@Comm.DavidPorter Yes, Thanks -that clarifies it..

[@moggadah]

​@@stevenmoore3480how much pain must be brought upon others before one man (or the whole elite) actually begins to exhibit some kind of humanity? How many children, how many parents, how much of the creation must be destroyed? What purpose serves our thoughts, emotions and actions when we fail to stop the destruction?

[@kilianrussell9509]

From the outset Bill Browder has always hit the nail on the head and showed the world what Putin was/is really like.... He's so right.

[@stephenlamb9008]

If he told you pigs can fly you would believe him.

[@nozhki-busha]

@@stephenlamb9008 and if Putin told you everything is going to plan, you would probably believe him comrade. How is "Kyiv in 3 days" working out for you?

[@cheblack677]

Pathetic.. western propaganda. When will you get out from this colonial mindset? Your time is over. You can't run the World. It's time to respect other as equal, as partners, as humans.

[@dinahwhite3929]

putin wants to go down fighting like hitler 1939-1945

[@maki3904]

Kyiv in 3 days ment that Ukrainians speak Russian and they accept Russian aid but why have peace talks when theres 5 tons of gold on the other side of the ocean?

[@michelefiorilla9714]

Bill Browder, the voice of wisdom and truth. Thanks as always Bill. Wish you and Gen. Ben Hodges were in charge of this situation!

[@BooleanDisorder]

Very true.

[@lynnfern2116]

Bill Browder seems to be the only person who really understands what is actually going on, & why.

[@davidmiles-hanschell]

Read his books.

[@KEB129]

Ben Hodges, Gary Kasparov and 40 million Ukrainians also understand something!

[@herman5eight]

Browder is a deep state propagandist.

[@user-rs1zl1vt5p]

It's true and objective reality. Great thanks to Mr. Browder.

[@vengefulvegan]

I can sort of understand people swiping a bit of cream, but stealing everything and leaving nothing but dregs for your countrymen is pathetic and evil. As a very wise man once told me - “He who dies with the most model trains still dies”.

[@stevenmoore3480]

Something I take heart in everyday I am more or less forced to be happy for the likes of Musk and Bezoz with the constant trumpeting of their so called successes.

[@brucesmith6007]

That is what browder did to russia.

[@sawtooth808]

@@brucesmith6007 I don’t recall Bill Browder ever being President of Russia, now Putin otoh…

[@concernedrabbit9075]

​@brucesmitnot true.h6007

[@RudolphoAqui]

No wonder trump has a man crush valady daddy

[@JO-mg6xc]

Bill Browder is right, except destroying oil refineries DOES NOT increase the price of oil. To the contrary, more unrefined crude is dumped in the oil markets, Price should go down. Oil going up is price gouging by oil companies. Like consumer goods companies taking advantage of “high inflation “ to rise their prices

[@Comm.DavidPorter]

If "Oil going up is price gouging by oil companies," how is it that the price of crude oil plunged to far below the cost of production in 2020? The "oil companies" have no control over the price of crude as it's basically a free market except for the machinations of OPEC (often in combination with ruzzia), and except for Joe Biden improving election odds by emptying our Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to buy votes.

[@TonyM540]

Even if the oil price at the pump goes up…so what… when russia is defeated or implodes then the west should take control over russian oil as reparations. 30 years of cheap fuel for the west.

[@psaunder1975]

Maybe. This assumes enough tankers to ship the crude oil. Regardless I'm happy to pay more to fill my car at the cost of Russian refineries!

[@dennishyera5448]

Putin is cruel.

[@soniabayer578]

Evil period!!!

[@Niels133]

Insane.

[@johndoherty4976]

Putin is rumoured to be have Billions.

[@18_rabbit]

@@Niels133 the whole point of what his level of cruelty/sadism is is that it only comes from the most psychopathic: thus indifferent and depraved and/or severely machiavellian to an extreme not typically seen in so many decades and quite a throwback into barbarism. Barbarism exists as part of a criminal continuum. To understand that autocratic regimes tend toward various forms of a-moral actions, is the start of seeing how it all works. But he is certainly NOT insane. That is the whole point! He's perfectly sane, just so tawdry & pathetic that this is how this type of human works! Like the dumbest form of animal-kingdom u can ever imagine!?

[@maki3904]

throw any more fancy worda and the whole world will only look at you and start thinking that doesn't work well like it did in Vietnam when the napalm bombs dropped on innocent children and women who had nothing to do with ANYTHING against the U.S.A

[@user-mh7vx6wh5u]

I love Bill! My respect to him! I wish more westerns in leadership roles would have the balls to stand up to Putin like BILL! We wouldn’t have the war now!

[@maki3904]

yeah? maybe there wouldn't be a war if you didn't have an old man who sometimes craps his pants and places nukes near the Russian borders saying they protect them against Iran? What can Iran do to an Island on the other dide of the Globe you sure its in the interests of good men? oh please. but of course "peaceful" reasons am i wrong?

[@thomaspetersen9991]

He Will Stop in Ukraine because he Cant take it😂😂😂

[@concernedrabbit9075]

They will keep meddling in European countries like Moldova.

[@user-ep3ed5jd7q]

Mr. Browder, you are as brave and honest as Abraham Lincoln….a trustworthy, ensouled voice who speaks truth to Putler’s bogus evilness and impotence. I hope the world leaders will listen to your intelligent and humane suggestions.

[@brucesmith6007]

Are you crazy? Browder is nothing more than an arbitrage con man who stole from russia.

[@thomascuvillier7250]

Russia lost that war already. It just doesn't know it yet.

[@guyzichittella8227]

Good joke

[@samsungtap4183]

The Ukraine has unfortunately lost the war. So now they must concentrate on winning the oeace. Maybe they should look at the Austrian model that has worked so well since 1955...oh you didn't know Austria is neutral...rich and neutral ?

[@Axbneht]

@@guyzichittella8227cope harder 😂

[@nozhki-busha]

@@guyzichittella8227 we will see who is laughing in a few weeks time, comrade.

[@nozhki-busha]

@@samsungtap4183 "The Ukraine"? You just gave yourself away Vatnik, only Russians call it such a name.

[@reticulan5]

Well he didn’t stop at Georgia, he didn’t stop at Armenia, he didn’t stop at Chechnia, he didn’t stop at Moldova. He didn’t stop at Crimea. He will only stop if the West stops him, like it did to Saddam and Iraq.

[@barrylafleur8526]

What did the West stop Saddam from doing?

[@foxx2990]

The West cannot stop Putin. Wake up, my friend. Our collective military is in poor shape..just look at the combined troop numbers of all the NATO powers which are clearly insignificant compared to Russia. Ukraine is finished, and we’re responsible because we snubbed Putin when we had a chance very early with the peace talks.

[@dinahwhite3929]

you are forgetting one thing....if he gets invaded by the west hes got his finger on the BIG RED BUTTON and its GAME OVER for america saddam did not only the reckoning and bloodthirsty justice of the people of russia will bring him down another revolution.

[@philipmain5701]

@@barrylafleur8526 murdering his own people

[@maki3904]

Why doesn't the west stop China in democratic means maybe that requires a lot of thinking for the "experties "

[@tracyhunt5284]

EU. needs to defend Ukraine's northern border, they are a peace keeping force. let Ukraine deal with one front at a time.

[@AndyWoohoo666]

EU is not a peace keeping force, that's UN but sadly Russia is in the security council of UN and veto everything concerning this.

[@eveening7401]

The EU needs to push both parties to negotiation, not towards WW3. And why haven’t you registered with the Ukrainian government for you voluntarily contribution at the front, since you want to keep the war going so badly… they need more men!

[@bendikkirkbakk1833]

The west and zelensky regime chose this war. Ther's no question about that. Putin reached out to Nato and the u.s as late as 2 Days before the invasion to sort Things out. They declined and wanted war

[@stevenmoore3480]

@@eveening7401 HOw do you know they haven't? YOU DON"T you are full of it orc lover.

[@MarincaGheorghe]

​​@@eveening7401they need to defeat the evil, we all need it for the sake of us all.

[@garylcampbell9964]

Russia needs to put a stop to Putin. Putin is an ass.

[@ukie5130]

World politicians and others should listen closely to what Bill Browder has to say about Putin. He knows very well about what he is saying.

[@garybrodziak2196]

bullshit....

[@ukie1242]

What's the problem comrade? Don't like the truth about your little dictator?

[@18_rabbit]

@@garybrodziak2196 Browder does NOT know about the russian system?! He sure does bcuz he's the ONLY major foreign investor who was there! Putin's ppl are literally criminals in every way imaginable! They dn';t just steal/pilfer, skim, they murder in cold blood, ie business associates and attorneys they dn't agree with! This started in the 1990's regularly, with businessmen murdering each other every week in Moscow! Are u a youngin who has no idea?! ooooh, poor lil boy/gal! Wake up, before u lose...every...thing...you love!

[@maki3904]

The only thing politicians know about is lying and making blood money, if anyone believes otherwise they don't look at the full picture but instead only on what makes their stomach feel full

[@18_rabbit]

@@garybrodziak2196 for some reason your fellow-travellers who work for KZbin probably, deleted my reply to you that i wrote yesterday. Browder is literally THE expert on invesment and finance in Russia, when it mattered. He was the only foreign hedge fund there and did yeoman's work in making Ru attractive. Ru has had so much opportunity in the past 25 years to become so successful, far far in excess of its econ level as of either '14 or '22. Russia was invited to join Nato long ago! Instead it has such a profound lack of consciouness, self awareness and imagination, ie the elite are such pathetic ppl, that from around '09ish, they started getting very very dark. Solyoev's theater-speech/performance around '08, where he rebuked fellow russians talking with hostility toward former USSR parts such as Ukraine; he said it was psychotic and insane to talk about militarily taking Ukraine. Today Solyoev is the main talk show host with pure psychopathic spewing and nonsense and near-pyschois that he inflicts on the 'russian' ppl daily on TV. Russia is not just a failed state, but a failed society that is about to go thru the darkes period in several hundred years, imho. (and i do know a bit about political economy and a about history, and history of war. Ru took a step too far and it's about to experience excruciating pain lasting likely 30 years minimum).

[@magal55]

Psychopath - is the description of Putin to a T.

[@roymichaeldeanable]

The USA abrogated its responsibilities in 2014 The UK in 1939 stuck to its Agreement with Poland in 1939 despite the fact that Poland was 500 miles away and the UK had no Military means to defend Poland.. That's the difference between the US and the UK, the UK keeps its word, the US makes decisions on its own best interests

[@Comm.DavidPorter]

I agree that the refusal of the Obama/Biden Administration to own up to the duties of the US under the Budapest Memorandum is a stain on the US. However, the UK was ALSO a signatory to the Budapest Memorandum. Pray tell, what did Britain do in 2014 in fulfillment of its solemn promise to "protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine"? That said, Britain does deserve major credit for stepping up immediately and forcefully once Putin launched his full scale invasion. Boris Johnson basically shamed Joe Biden into aiding Ukraine militarily - far beyond blankets and MREs a la 2014, but still not remotely as much as what we should and could have done.

[@paweczosnek8813]

How did the UK help us in 1939? Did you fire a single shot in 1939?

[@richardbrousseau3412]

Not true at the end of WWII, the UK and the West abandon the Poles to the Ruzzian Soviet evil empire. The Ruzzies broke an agreement to allow elections in Poland and no one really did anything about it.

[@maki3904]

The UK helped Poland by giving them mind drugs and when they woke up they realised that they were missing most of their organs but its too late

[@michaelkimber6203]

Thank you for hosting this. Bill Browder tells it like it is. 👌

[@user-ph5ys7ed7i]

TODAY UKRAINE IS IN A MOST DECISIVE POINT OF THE HISTORY.Guerilla war is much harder to win than this one which Ukraine is fighting today.Nowadays 53 countries of the world is helping Ukraine.Ukrainian guerrillas were fighting against Soviets from 1942 until 1960. They were defeated because no one was helping them.Nobody in the world had not even idea that Ukrainians were fighting against USSR till 1960.The majority of Ukrainian guerrillas had fallen in that struggle and few were lucky enough to escape abroad.TODAY in the time of World War 3 Ukraine has a real chance to win her INDEPENDENCE.

[@Comm.DavidPorter]

It's not a "world war" when official troops are fighting only from two countries. Chairman Xi and even the Iranian mullahs are too smart to send any men to the battlefield.

[@jberto8878]

53 countries helping Ukraine and still loosing positions every day? It doesn't look like going very well and the main problem is the number of young ukranians sacrificed in vain.

[@user-ph5ys7ed7i]

@@jberto8878 Poo-tin kills Ukrainians...Poo-tin is murderer...

[@philipmain5701]

@@jberto8878 You cannot even spell

[@jberto8878]

@@philipmain5701 And ? But I can see, read and think, can you?

[@danielrenaud4639]

Thanks for posting. This war is so terrible 😢

[@evanofelipe]

Good point Bill makes is that waiting for Ukraine to stabilise their position before using confiscated Russians funds to rebuild Ukraine, is a crazy strategy, far better using those ill gotten funds to defend Ukraine, that the time deal with rebuilding the country once the Orks have been kicked out.

[@tatjanalengyel3522]

Great interview! Bill Browder😊

[@wealthbuilder59]

And let’s not forget who Donald Trump admires more than anyone else- Vladimir Putin . America needs to reject Trump and his cronies as well .

[@stevenmoore3480]

correct message but I'm not sure 'wealthbuilder' is though, what sort of wealth, like spiritual wealth or do you just want more money than everyone else like Putin?

[@user-kq4hf8se5b]

Trump said Putin was smart for not attacking while he was President. You stupid snowflakes, oh Trump likes Putin.

[@Comm.DavidPorter]

Trump does not "admire Putin" now. He spoke ironically of how clever Putin was to steal Crimea and half of Donbas from under Obama's nose for "a dime's worth of sanctions." Publicly he buttered Putin up, hoping to be able to reach a deal for the US that would improve things for both nations. Trump was not able to match, in ruzzia, his success with the Abraham Accords. But Trump was able to keep Putin at bay for four years by warning Putin privately of severe consequences if he invaded Ukraine. Now that Putin has finally shown his hand, Trump has stoutly denounced the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But you don't know that, because the corporate media refuse to report Trump's denunciation of the invasion.

[@beam3819]

Trump have to have struck a deal with Putin. They are both just psycos wanting power/money. Trumps Russian familie are for sure in the elite stealing Russias resources.

[@toby9999]

Trump only admires Trump.

[@ullo-ragnartelliskivi4639]

Lol, dude is having the Estonian experience. The baltic states have been screaming their heads off since putin came to power that he is an existential threat, we were told " time to let go of your past" and "youre all russophobes".

[@Blanka1100]

We know what you mean. Greetings from Poland. We heard exactly the same lines.

[@kws1957]

Dear Bill, why would Putin not take France, Spain, Italy and Portugal too ? Why should he stop after he took Germany ? Maybe he can take entire Africa too. Of course you are right, may the Lord bless and keep you.

[@Comm.DavidPorter]

For Putler's appointed talking heads on ruzzian state TV, this is not even a question. For them, the reconstituted ruzzian empire could, and should, defeat every nation in Europe, all the way to Lisbon. And then take Alaska and the US West Coast.

[@stevev238]

He spoke of a homeland from Vladivostok to Lisbon in one speech about 2010.

[@FrederickHopkins-xb6me]

Distraction. Take the people's minds off his corruption.

[@stream2watch]

Hard to take our minds off Corruptions Perception Index, that ranks RU higher than all other countries in the Northern hemisphere.

[@teresajohnson5265]

Putin is a sad coward.😅

[@tiradoentertainmentllc.2517]

Absolutely he is showed his back to Prigozhin

[@bluestarfishmurphy6372]

Everything Mr Browder says in this small interview is spot on. But he left out one thing about the way Putin operates because of what shaped him when young. While working In East Germany for the KGB, he saw how controlling the Stasi were and how they operated. After the wall came down, Stasi records were opened up, and revealed that every third person was an informer, neighbours, family members, all were denounced, and that is what Putin has happening now in Russia. Anyone posing any kind of problem faces the full force of State repression. He has forced people like Lavrov who had retired back, to be his international mouthpiece. The west is used to him towing Putin's line, whether he likes it or not.

[@markdeckard7651]

Bill Browder, Timothy Snyder, Gen. Ben Hodges, Gary Kasparov. The big four, all of them extraordinary human beings.

[@robhaythorne4464]

Don't leave Gen. Breedlove or Gen. Keane out.

[@mikejess04]

Lol🤡

[@EricaNernie]

And Jake Broe.

[@Comm.DavidPorter]

Also Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who knows Putler's black heart as well as anyone.

[@sheilawade433]

Michael McFaul

[@Rich5131]

Ukraine was invaded 22 June 1941, and again 24 February 2022. The same arguments were used by both invaders.

[@martijnstam6186]

The issue for Russia is that Ukraine part of the EU and friends with the US is more powerful than Russia will ever be and as Russia considers an existential threat.

[@Rich5131]

@@martijnstam6186 No one is threatening ruzzia, just as no one was threatening Germany before.

[@bencarter1666]

​@Rich5131 13 CIA bases in Russian border regions is a threat to Russia.. The 30 US biolabs are threat to Russia.. The artillery offensive conducted by Ukraine in Dombas starting Feb 8 th 2022 was a threat to the citizen there, Russia was obliged to protect.. So you get what you ask for.... Russia would never allow to exist a hostile Ukraine acting proxy to the US.. Fate sealed

[@gerryhouska2859]

Are you forgetting 2014?

[@Rich5131]

@@gerryhouska2859Another example of a ruzzian invasion of a neighbouring country

[@thanewalton6740]

We must listen to Bill and Jen, they have been rock solid from the start of this war!

[@ethanrichardson126]

Thank you Kyiv post for truthful, honest, transparent dialogue ❤❤

[@shaneamundson1192]

Kyiv Post promotes a false narrative about this.

[@DanSoloha]

Corruption _is_ the system in Russia. The fish rots from the head.

[@ArnoldSebr]

in Ukraina too, the most corrupt Land on earth.

[@666MaRius9991]

@@ArnoldSebr Do you know why? Because it was subjugated by Russia for a long time.

[@DanSoloha]

@@ArnoldSebr Ukraine has its issues with corruption, sure - most ex-Soviet states do, or did. It doesn’t hold a candle to Putin’s Russia, though; not even _close_

[@johnnywalker4490]

Far MORE People Should LISTEN / COMPREHEND Bill Browder's Message !!

[@CollectiveWest1]

Agree with everything Bill said. Great interview!

[@Ineedahandle75]

Putin is finished, he just doesn't know it yet.

[@paulcoverdale8312]

About time someone told the truth.

[@hififlipper]

Honor to listen to the author of the Magnizky act.

[@JuliusFawcett]

Ivanov arrested in Moscow, the Putin regime crumbles

[@taralown7023]

Ive watched a million interviews about Ukraine since 2022. But I've never once seen a video of someone explaining what America and NATOS original plan was just before Feb 2022. American intelligence said Russia was for sure invading, and their intelligence also said Ukraine would fail quickly. So what was the plan then? America and NATO countries were just Ok with Russia enveloping Ukraine- taking its land, it's resrouces and it's people - and moving them to the other side of many NATO countries border. What was the plan? I really don't understand how any country thought it was a reality that Ukraine could fall to Russia, and NATO countries beside them would be OK. Can someone explain America and NATOS thinking back then...

[@juliazhuo1970]

goodquestion

[@catchaser52]

"You must think in Russian, Col Gant !"

[@1000fAttemptsLater]

Many people underestimated Ukraine in the beginning - the West and Russia, too. Many believed Ukraine stood no chance against such an enemy and they underestimated the Ukrainians will and resolve to fight. Hence, many thought that sending aid would be wasted, especially considering what had just happened in Afghanistan.

[@Blanka1100]

Nobody wants to help if you have no will to fight yourself. Ukrainians did fight. Help came later.

[@Comm.DavidPorter]

This did not happen under Bush or Trump - for a reason. It started in 2014, after Obama gave Putler a green light to seize Crimea. "Tell Vlad that I can give him more flexibility after the election," said Obama, when he didn't realize that he was on an open mic. Obama mainly wanted to suck up to Putler so that he could feel grown up like a big boy on the international scene even if he didn't know how to pronounce "corps" or what the "Austrian language" was. As for Biden, he "has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” That's per former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in his book "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War." Had it not been for Boris Johnson shaming Biden into doing SOMETHING (though far too little) for Ukraine, Ukraine would have been crushed.

[@willpercy6760]

Love your work Bill. Thank you.

[@christianevanherck6023]

Putin’s situation resembles Tolstoy's parable titled "How Much Land Does a Man Need." It's the story of the humbling of an ambitious man who wanted land so much he lost his life in the process and ended up with only a grave to show for it.

[@ceceliablair9177]

Russia is the largest country on earth, and with a relatively low population for its size, and the only idea Putin has in his turnip head is to enlarge it?

[@JonCreates]

As much as I agree with this man on many things, he seriously underestimates every NATO member outside the US. Poland would 1v1 shred Russian forces. Greece & Turkey have among the largest tank fleets in the world. France has some of the most advanced hardware in the world, extensive SOF and is nuclear, with an official strike first nuclear policy. There's about 26 other nations left to mention.

[@Comm.DavidPorter]

True, but they all starved their militaries in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. No one European nation is a match for a reconstituted USSR. Only France (and maybe Poland) could really put up a fight

[@aclearlight]

A great American with wisdom and heart. He KNOWS of what he speaks.

[@hugmc]

Just think how great Russian people would be if all that money was spent on their prosperity ❤

[@tabithan2978]

It would be happy and prosperous like The Nordic countries. 🤷‍♀️

[@2fatbunnys]

Just think if Biden and Trudeau weren't laundering our money using Zelenskyy's dictatorship... This war would have never started.....

[@ronmobbs]

Excellent interview!! Thank you 👍🧡

[@Baschn66]

The USA has Ramstein the biggest air force base in Germany. Putin would dare to try this one!

[@cesarclaudiacastillo1690]

Agree one hundred percent, telling Ucrania what to do is no morally wright. They are the ones who are suffering. Meanwhile the weapons are being send late.

[@romellejacinto251]

I love Ukraine.

[@frankshifreen]

Bill Browder great man- brave, honest, modern knight

[@belvacassell7713]

Why would Putin stop, beautiful palace, unlimited funding, fear of the world, expanded war, adoring Russian people!

[@Roger-go6jc]

Thanks Bill. ❤ You not only honour the memory of those who putin cut down, but you honour the wishes and decisions of these nations that choose a path to freedom. Slava Ukraini !

[@deecee1522]

Shame on Putin

[@user-rz4ur2jd5z]

Bill tx for your courage. I read your super amazing bookks!

[@cghn8997]

Well said.

[@marlenfras5490]

Good reporting. Thank you. Strong Ukraine and democracy.

[@malina28202]

Thank you, Mr. Browder for your support of Ukraine

[@bryonyallan2202]

Slava Ukraini.❤️

[@davidalan7815]

Excellent interview, but I wish you had asked him what would happen to the war if Putin were to be eliminated. I think his replacement would be just as evil and ruthless. перемога України slava Ukraini! 💙💛🙏

[@jim2376]

"Little green men" mysteriously appeared in Crimea.

[@josecarapinha3818]

Wake up EU

[@henk6522]

Yea. Stop the proxy war and bring the Zelenskyy regime to justice 🎉

[@Sgt_Bill_T_Co]

I see similarities between this and the Falklands conflict, where Galtierri was losing favor at home and invaded the islands which, his country abandoned many years before.

[@16252]

interesting, thanks

[@ThomasHalways]

The worst news, or rather a recognition of fact is: Putin will not stop _in_ Ukraine. We have to switch to a war economy as well. Together we constitute close to a billion people, and make 70% of world GDP. Russians make maybe 1.5%, but now with loss of gas and oil sales and downfall of their weapons, even less. They will however make their own citizens to make any level of shocking sacrifice, and keep going.

[@maki3904]

Why should he stop in Ukraine? Did you stop in Vietnam? South Korea? Middle East, I remember "Democracy" having a meaning of pride and freedom.

[@Will67267]

Bravo!👏

[@mikelanglow-bi2sv]

What a privilege being enlightened by Mr Bowders experiences. 😮

[@user-gb9jt7mg8l]

Jealousy will get you no where.

[@dissturbbed]

Excellent questions

[@Cabral.A]

Thank you for your independent analyses 😂

[@user-gw2pr7ey4n]

Trickydicky: In a nutshell - well said! Let's hope that those Russians who still have some intellectual and moral depth and empathy, can take control!

[@markbrzezinski8889]

Well summarised. Thankyou

[@vasik9719]

Precise and fair opinion.

[@UnitedUA]

> Trump let Putin down. Aid sent! Putin is so angry! 😂 #PutinWarCriminal

[@rostbif]

And Trump is on the Kremlin's payroll.

[@Jole30]

@@rostbif Yeah, thats the conspiracy theory. Reallity is something different. No one imposed as many sanctions as Trump, he agreed to this package.. Actually Kremlin and Trump had a frosty relationsship but you fantasize about that he is on their payroll.. But thats the spirit from all of you war mongers.. As soon as someone questions your madness he becomes a Putinist.. You know, i am not the brightest but 50% are more stupid than me.. You use infantile arguments.. You fell for the propaganda.. Be proud..

[@AnmolX-jw8jr]

​@@rostbifzelenskyrealwarcrimanal

[@Oneshot8242]

I wonder if his orangeness will be recalled to the throne of the Motherland to kiss the ring. (and pick up his paycheck)

[@VIMANAS_TARTARIA______-wg6sg]

Former State Department official Mike Benz: Mark my words: when the dust settles, we'll find out, that Ukraine was the largest CIA operation in history.

[@pal6636]

This world has Bill Browder an intelligent man. . And Marjorie Taylor Greene. And one of them has a voice , in government, that can affect the outcome of lives . Whats wrong here ?

[@markmcselec]

May i add that he is also a coward using poison?

[@josephblomeister3040]

👍💙❤💛🙏 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🌎

[@tatjanalengyel3522]

👍💥🌍🇺🇦

[@VLujo216]

Thank God that someone says it how it is. More than precise. Bravo Bill!

[@forestturnings5732]

Glad to know of this KZbin channel. Will now follow it daily. Browder's assessment of Putin's thinking is perhaps the most accurate yet. Browder's book: RED NOTICE, is a must read for anyone interested in modern Russia and validates Browder as an authority on Putin. We should listen.

[@TheT1000tony]

Bill Browder is an absolute hero. Must be listened to.

[@coriolan1963]

Thank you for this great interview!

[@michaelmurvihill8813]

Thanks Bill Browder, I had figured out last year that war is Putin's end, not his means.

[@jonaspucko78]

Nice, and I agree with everything he said, but he didn't really answer the last question, and that's too bad. Even a "don't know" would have been fine with me. I've been wanting to know this for quite some time so it would really be interesting to know this from an expert like Browder.

[@KPsTboy]

I honestly do not believe he will attack the ex-soviet countries that have joined NATO, but I do find it plausible he'll try to annex Moldova and Transnistria next.

[@stevev238]

Highly likely if he can find the shells

[@BrokenOAP-pn4dk]

💙💛💪👍👐🙌👏

[@user-du2nz1ru3e]

Great show

[@02markcal]

I always listen when Bill Browder speaks and always learn something.

[@mimoochodom2684]

All those dead are on his soul. And as a "Christian" he should be very nervous.

[@Comm.DavidPorter]

Putin is not really a "Christian." It's an act to con the masses.

[@DiogoJ1]

I doubt he is. He's just pretending to be on Orthodox side.

[@maki3904]

Theres Reasons for everything You must see the whole picture

[@mimoochodom2684]

@@maki3904 The whole picture!!! And what picture would that be that warrants tens of 1000's of peoples' deaths?

[@Gayzenon]

❤Ukrainian ❤

[@johnnywalker4490]

"one Little man, one track mind, covering his Criminal Guilt", and, "The whole world is Expendable" to Legitimise himself. Simple.

[@ceceliablair9177]

And entertainment, never forget that. Psychopaths are among the types who can’t love, so that whole potential is not only out of their range of experience but also belief. So what are they going to do? Try to be powerful and important, and “get kicks”. What is more fun and gratifying than to hurt, humiliate, damage and destroy. Control and cruelty are their stock in trade.

[@thomaslundstrom3052]

Bill really put it simply for everyone to understand that the equation is simple.

[@ipredictariot6371]

Vampire Putin

[@timothypeterson1903]

You meant to say Sleepy Joe and the military industrial complex need wars without end. The US government has been fighting endlessly for decades and not winning very much🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@barrybrodin7085]

Cope ivan😂

[@maki3904]

Damn Right. and I don't remember hearing about American War "crimes" god no! that never happens its always freedom fighters and men who pretend to be women in disguise

[@shanew.williams]

Before i've even watched this vid i had to say the title is worded perfectly. Explains the "small" problem,lol. Well done !