'Like Thatcher with the miners, Putin prepared for this war', says David Starkey

[@juliefaulkner5497]

Good to see Starkey in his element, after being treated so unfairly and cancelled, he is so full of knowledge he amazes me.

[@Double_Vision]

Mr. Starkey has a fantastic youtube channel of his own. His daily lectures are excellent, and are interspersed with his own anecdotes. I highly recommend subscribing to him. He has also managed to create the classiest "Like & Subscribe" of all time.

[@annharding9634]

He's a classically educated thinker. Proper education is so lacking in politics.

[@dominiclane8538]

@@annharding9634 it's so lacking in education it seems has well

[@pmkeith]

Mr. Starkey - a competent historian of many years standing. Which is precisely why people try to “cancel” him. How else are we going to install a myopic ideological eugenic dystopia - if people have access to real information and informed opinion?

[@SK-ei4cm]

Starkey wasn’t cancelled 😂

[@paulineclark2743]

Mark Steyn and Dr David Starkey together. We are spoilt. Two excellent brains and not a whiff of woke in the conversation. GB News more like this please.

[@craigking7429]

Starkey is our modern day Casandra. He knows the truth but no one wants to listen.

[@enlightened4382]

Western countries have gone woke, gone green, and painted their police cars and pedestrian crossings in rainbow colours. Whilst the west was worrying about using the correct gender pronouns Russia and China were aggressively expanding they stranglehold on the world.

[@sbor2020]

You KGB News climate change deniers are dependent on fossil fuels that prop up the Russian economy. You foolishly fall for the Russian led conspiracy to make you dependent on Russian gas and oil, whilst blabbing about pronouns and woke nonsense on stilts. The sanctions by the western countries do not include Russia's main export. Whilst war was breaking out, the EU, US, and UK bought 3.5 million barrels of oil to the sum of $350 million, and on top of that spend $250 million on gas and altogether goods to the sum of $700 million. Johnson says that the UK "is doing everything in its power" to stop this humanitarian disaster by sanctioning several individuals all the while making deals to keep the oil and gas flowing. It is the you appeasers, the Quislings that embolden Russian power!

[@hankmobley]

Exactly

[@briancox8518]

No that was covid and lockdowns

[@macca9770]

@@sbor2020 yep. US is still buying 800,000 barrels of Russian oil EVERY DAY.

[@stumccabe]

The image that sums up what an utter mess the USA is in was the picture of the US Embassy in Kabul flying the Stars and Stripes, a Rainbow flag and a BLM flag !

[@mangiagatti85]

David was my tutor in Modern History (at my interview, he let me explain myself in my own words!...I got in with a modest array of 'A' levels but talked sense!)...at L.S.E. in the mid-70s...he helpled me to see history as a lesson for the present & the future...& think for myself! He still believes in the truth not the fiction! I was always uncomfortable with left-wing propagandists...& once started a row with them by calling Stalin a ******! Good to hear David still firing on all cylinders at mindlessness!

[@paulineclark2743]

How lucky you were taught by a great historian. I love the guy.

[@kevh7941]

Wow well said Starkey. We are weak and pathetic now. We spend more on scroungers than defending ourselves

[@lumpyfishgravy]

We made the mistake of letting the Utopians have power.

[@DS9TREK]

But we don't. The vast majority of welfare spending is on the state pension. Workers have earnt that pension. We should privatise the state pension to save money for the military.

[@jeffreypetchharrison4363]

like the disabled just let them starve as a 100.000 have in the last 10 years keep you mouth shut and say nothing if that is not to hard for you .. jeff

[@kevh7941]

@@jeffreypetchharrison4363 5 million quid a day to house illegal immigrants in 4* hotels. That's my point. Obviously I'm not on about disabled folk who have contributed durrr

[@garrydean8670]

Knobhead...

[@sandraspadina8883]

This guy should be prime minister or at least a adviser.

[@daviddean6079]

Indeed! When you see who some of the government’s advisors have been, recently, e.g. Neil Ferguson, the exaggerating computer modeller and Suzanne Michie, the Communist behavioural scientist, It is little wonder, that the pandemic was handled in the way it was. Be careful, whose ‘science’ we follow! Speak softly, but carry a big stick……

[@70AD-user45]

#Sandra Spadina Totally agree. Instead we have listen to demented Biden and that Buffoon in No.10.

[@just4laughs142]

Didn’t Jeremy Corbyn want to get rid of our nuclear deterrent 🤔

[@nightowl7459]

Nottslad2021: All the virtue signaling white flag waving leftards do.

[@CH-qw8gb]

almost... he wanted to be rid of the weapons but was happy to pay for the nuclear subs so to keep the workers and unions happy in Faslane. Made me think of a rottweiler without teeth

[@CreatingChaos]

@@nightowl7459 they will have a fucking big "woke up" call if this continues as its looking

[@nightowl7459]

@@CreatingChaos It would be no more than the woketards deserve.

[@dukemartin1]

It will be fine they can light candles to provide a nuclear shield

[@CreatingChaos]

A friend of mine, who escaped from Iran says exactly the same.. But about 'radical islam'. The west is seen as a weak soft touch. We do not understand their thinking.. Just as we don't with Russia

[@davidjma7226]

Yep. The only thing Iran understand is strength. They play hardball at the first sign of weakness. Biden's major foreign policy achievement will be a nuclear armed Iran and the establishment of the Islamic caliphate.

[@bighands69]

I think there is also a mistake that people make is they assume the East's only agenda is local and regional. The only thing the west has going for it is the fact it has the US military which is more powerful than China and Russia combined.

[@bugattieb110ss]

His point about the shameful U.S withdrawal from Afghanistan is absolutely true. In most people's minds, that was the end of America as a Global Superpower. The Idiot in the Whitehouse is merely a continuous sad, pathetic reminder of this.

[@cuckoospider111]

What is the difference between Putin invading Ukraine which is at his doorstep and US & UK invading Iraq which is 10s of 1000s of miles way from both countries? I am all ears

[@James-sk4db]

NATO in Yugoslavia is a better example. With Croatia and Slovenia being the equivalent of the Donbas. And Bosnia being the equivalent or everything else that has been taken. Also Chechens are a solid stand in for alquaeda in Bosnia.

[@onastick2411]

@@cuckoospider111 No difference.

[@rewdwarf123]

@@cuckoospider111 I would say Putin would like to incorporate Ukraine into Russia. If not all of it - some of it. Iraq was never going to be part of the USA or the UK, but access to their oil was useful.

[@steventhomas231]

@@cuckoospider111 the little talked about hypocrisy of the west.

[@kirstenneil7067]

Starkey is a brilliant man.

[@MannBazza]

In equal measure, I found myself listening to David Starkey in both awe and horror.

[@bighands69]

The East is not as militarily powerful as people are making out but the problem is that the West is weak in the head but actually has the ability destroy the East in warfare. The problem is that America is only 1 year into a devastatingly bad presidency. We can only hope that Russia and China have longer term goals and are not willing to rush over the horizon anytime soon.

[@stconstable]

Get ready to find yourself in a malaria-ridden village.

[@ultrademigod]

@@bighands69 We are soft, but at the same time strong. We have the power to stop Putin tomorrow if we had the will to, but we want a peaceful(soft) solution.

[@domzbu]

@@bighands69 only in conventional terms and only today. It would still be a world war of horrific proportions. And why would it stop at conventional arms. It would likely involve cyber warfare, possibly germ warfare, and quickly escalate to tactical battlefield nuclear weapons, and from there who knows when someone fires the first ICBM, OF which Russia and the US have 7000 each. That’s why the Cold War stayed cold and via proxies, because a hot war meant mutually assured destruction.

[@frankezane583]

@@bighands69 they’ve got more nukes so really not that weak…..plus a maniac who may use them

[@loreto761]

Just shows you the importance of understanding history and mr starkey is an expert

[@margie6262]

Lighting a few candles and singing " Don't look back in Anger" should sort it out.

[@eleveneleven572]

It helped in Manchester 😨

[@SK-ei4cm]

You’d have torn up churchills “fight on the beaches “ speech wouldnt you ?

[@geoffowens9770]

Ha ha dead right we are a waste of space

[@margie6262]

@@SK-ei4cm I'm being sarcastic hon. I know it's hard to tell these days lol

[@SK-ei4cm]

@@margie6262 😂

[@stconstable]

Brilliant analysis, as always, from Dr. David. History repeats. And we never learn.

[@mariogmajner6549]

He's talking tosh

[@KateBates22zabu]

USA is no democracy & truth is no defense in 2022.

[@charlieb6001]

@@mariogmajner6549 Perhaps you'd be better off watching CBeebies.

[@patpalloon]

This is chilling because every word of it is true.

[@stephenhaywood5672]

Well said David . Straight to the point and informative. Couldn’t be more spot on. We have done this to ourselves. We’ll see how many people are in favour of saving the planet and using the correct pronoun this time next year.

[@eunanmcg1983]

The sanctions wont Bite - is that right ???

[@privatesmith1560]

Maybe, but the globalist billionaires like Zuckerberg, Soros, Gates etc. who place electable "sexy thirty something" puppets like Renzo, Macron and Zhelynsky in power and their feminist and SJW stormtroopers continue controlling the media, universities and most of the administration. Why would I fight and possibly die for their business, benefit and regime? Current Russian social norms are the social norms of Europw of 1967 mixed with the UK power structure of 1923. See the dilemma? 😫

[@wojciechkopec9728]

I love this old gentleman he’s so right he supposed to be government advisor

[@banjo1434]

He's been cancelled. The first person since Clark gable for using the D word.

[@bieituns]

Losing Trump was the best Christmas present Putin could have asked for.

[@andydouglas2108]

Yes it was! Bringing him back will quickly reverse the crap and get stability back.

[@KateBates22zabu]

This guy is pushing the old Vietnam domino theory🙉🤭🥀

[@derf9465]

Trump was another idiot. They are just puppets to congress

[@chris-mg5ui]

Followed closely by the wests hatred of masculinity - an essential element in keeping countries safe

[@bieituns]

@@derf9465 nonesense. Trump has been proven right about nearly everything. His judgement and instincts are second to none.

[@maryclynch9356]

Our forefathers would be turning in their graves, when they see what a mess, we've made. They died for our freedom. Did we ever see this mess coming ?

[@darrenkenton5364]

Those of us with a sense of history did!

[@andrewoliver8930]

They would see Russians owning the Conservatives. Sad times for the 'party of the patriotic'.

[@darrenkenton5364]

@@andrewoliver8930 No its Davos who own the Conservatives!

[@andrewoliver8930]

@@darrenkenton5364 via Russian cash?

[@elkpaz560]

@@darrenkenton5364 Davos own the West and China is invited to Davos.

[@Stockportloyal]

Starkey is a national treasure

[@joefoley1480]

with a rainbow

[@just4laughs142]

I Blame the lefty’s

[@CreatingChaos]

Well meaning fools, following Marxist values in order to manipulate a position of power

[@bighands69]

No I am afraid to burst your bubble on this but the right is as much to blame for the current order of the world as the left. Look at how Boris Johnson tries to appease the left wing media.

[@AnobleEnglishman]

@@bighands69 Boris is a leftie, as is the conservative party

[@elkpaz560]

@@bighands69 What is right? The team that wear blue?

[@parmafoi4066]

The "natural goodness" of the western governments we've just seen a week before in Canada.

[@TheSecurdisc]

Well said Mr Starkey.

[@twistedbuddhaha]

Wouldn't you prepare for war , when USA wants to arm your border countries. 2014 was the fall of ukraine when the democratically elected leader chose Russia over the west.and was driven out. But the bidens made millions, so all ok

[@ninosnineveh4512]

Wow that was Awsome. Very educational. That man is brilliant.

[@braveheart4603]

damn that was brilliant insight, think i'll go back and watch some of starky's history documentaries that put me right in the mood.

[@tommoncrieff1154]

He has his own KZbin channel David Starkey Talks where he switches between history and current affairs.

[@kenhuntley0707]

Putin is the vaccine for the virus manifesting itself as Globalism, Wokism, Neutral Genderism,Climate changeism and Boris!

[@Happyheretic2308]

I’m going to his lecture for the New Culture Forum on Tuesday. Looking forward to it.

[@rossmackenzie7158]

The West tried to play Ukraine against Russia and this is the appalling result, imagine the SNP taking power in Scotland and forming an alliance with Russia, would the England and NATO tolerate that?

[@belfasta]

Absolutely correct

[@stephenandrews2660]

spot on matey

[@braveheart4603]

ukraine was basically a puppet regime installed by the nato countries, i'm surprised russia stood for it for this long cause we in the west can't do shit about it, militarily they're in full control. we drive them closer to china who sees the opportunity to move on tiawan while we're occupied.

[@ninosnineveh4512]

Or imagine Mexico joining with China and allowing China to bring its armies to Mexico on the border with America lol Russia feels that Ukraine is a treacherous neighbor who betrayed them.

[@bighands69]

@Ross Mackenzie You are full of crap. The west did nothing of the sort. The west was so timid on this that they would not even allow the Ukraine into NATO out of fear of offending Russia all while the Ukraine has been mad to join NATO. I wish people would stop with all the crap.

[@SpookyFox1000]

Luckily we have 50,000 illegal immigrants who have come here in the last 2 years who will no doubt rise up to meet the challenge !(If they wish to leave their 4* hotels !)

[@ballerblocks]

You are worried about 40000 illegals, wait till the Ukrainian refugees arrive

[@leonarddavies288]

They aren't primitive Islamic men though

[@anth5122]

This is what happens when a country goes woke

[@NigelJackson]

There's a price to be paid for collective delusion and lunacy...

[@stephenmurray2851]

Two absolute legends.

[@keithbessant8346]

'Trustifarian children' LOL. The biting realism of this wise historian is just great to hear.

[@alexraw2707]

The amazing knowledge and analysis of Starkey.

[@liamh9814]

Starkey, one of the few real thinkers.

[@andyxox4168]

It’s only a few weeks ago that the head of the US military was whining about diversity and inclusivity … 🤔

[@elkpaz560]

They've also mandated the jab to physically weaken their fighting force.

[@andyxox4168]

@@elkpaz560 … well if they march on their stomachs it looks like many of them are preparing for a long siege 🤔

[@elkpaz560]

@@andyxox4168 The mass industrial diet does that. The poor are obese in 21st century US and UK.

[@andyxox4168]

@@elkpaz560 .. nah, overeating and lack of exercise does that. Obesity is a choice. (Looking at food prices it’s hard to argue that convenience food and fast food is an economic choice and not a lifestyle choice)

[@elkpaz560]

@@andyxox4168 Poverty has many aspects, not having playing fields or parents who are too tired from shift work at odd times of day, living next door to a crack addict, hyper vigilance about violence in the neighbourhood, poor examples of food lifestyle etc. Its easier for the affluent to be slim and real quality food is one aspect of that.

[@David-rg9dt]

David Starkey should be on every day, brilliant!

[@andyxox4168]

He is … if you look!

[@nicksmith3245]

Starkey is brilliant.

[@johnkline1790]

Ukraine is now experiencing a militarized resurgence of Nazism. In 2014, a Ukrainian neo-Nazi militia called Azov Battalion was formed to combat Russian separatism. It was then incorporated into the national guard, making it an official part of the Ukrainian military. There is no secrecy about the unit’s ideological commitments. Azov members wear uniforms adorned with SS symbols, swastikas, and patches celebrating Nazism. Its leader once stated that “The historic mission of our nation in this critical moment is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival.” Azov Battalion has not only been legitimized by the Ukrainian government but has received support and training from both Canada and the United States. The unit’s officers have spoken publicly about the training they have received from Western military powers and the support that they have in Ukraine’s diaspora communities in North America. In 2018, Canadian military officials specifically met with the battalion. They expressed concern only that their meeting might be exposed by the media, not because of the unit’s ideological commitments. As Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s grandfather was a Nazi collaborator in Ukraine during the Holocaust, there is absolutely no excuse for ignorance on this front. American officials have also been photographed meeting with Azov members. The United States has supplied the unit and, in 2015, a bill was even modified by the Pentagon specifically to remove a clause that intended to prevent military funding and supplies from reaching Azov.

[@pablocortando1]

What a man Dr Starkey is,easily explained how we have screwed up our country.

[@Yonder792]

Absolutely let’s see how personal pronouns protect you from an army of tanks.

[@bighands69]

By a very large army in return. Russia will be successful as long as it does not try to enter Europe greater.

[@James-sk4db]

He has no reason to, from the get go he has said he will be returning the ‘rightfully elected’ puppet to control Ukraine. The Russian areas may be ceded to Russia but if that was done the pro west Ukrainians would massively outnumber them in Ukraine.

[@David-uf8ex]

David spot on 👏👏👏

[@jamesjarrett52]

His response to the crisis has been intellectually lacking. Please see my rebuttal of him at the top of the page.

[@ThePierre58]

A Roman general once said, " if you want peace, you must be prepared for war" Ukraine gave up their Nuclear capability.

[@colinelliott5629]

Si Vis pacem para bellum.

[@ThePierre58]

@@colinelliott5629 Thank you, I spent ages on google trying to find that quote

[@GGora]

America is safe. Corporal EMMA w two moms is keeping the world safe.

[@curlyjim2550]

Thank you GB NEWS. You would never see such an in depth and informative interview on the rest of our shameful media outlets. This great man speaks fact and uncomfortable truth, not whims, fantasy and denial. Great interview.

[@roygardiner2229]

I am half way through and need a stiff drink..... The end of Rome resulting from the cutting of the aqueducts seems so apt.

[@tjmac7]

David Starkey, this is your moment. Take it back!

[@running-man9138]

you wont hear this stuff on main stream media ,well done GB news & mr starkey

[@nickpapa1721]

human rights went out the window with lockdowns

[@fredjones7307]

The Russians ran away in Afghanistan..Some of what he says is true but a lot of it is isn't.. every country in the world is more or less run by the same type of people as Putin, they just have different parameters. Just look at what is happening it Canada, is that democracy. Democracy is just a convenient label to stick on their own particularly hegemony.

[@Double_Vision]

The WEF isn't a democracy. Good thing only half the ruling ministers are Young Global Leaders or have appeared on stage with with their real leader.

[@bighands69]

@Fred Jones That was over 30 years ago and they pulled out because they were weak. Russia today is not the same weak place that it was at the end of the 1980s. Russians military force in the 1980s was aging, tired and not committed. Today Russia is staffed by young forces that are hungry and will follow orders no matter what those orders are.

[@fredjones7307]

@@bighands69 I'm not going back to the video, but I believe the statement was something like, the Russians don't back away from a fight, I merely pointed out that they had in Afghanistan. It may have been thirty years ago but Dear old Ras was a officer in the KGB at the time..

[@ielegaldebtrecovery3415]

Re:- Russia in Afghanistan. Bad luck, difficult conditions, and history coincidence can happen to anyone. Russia's war in Afghanistan happened at the end of the 1970s oil crisis, and a period when political change was happening in the USSR. Had they been there 10 years earlier or 10 years later, perhaps things would have ended up differently. They'd probably still have left (as indeed did the USA as we saw last year). But perhaps not "ran away". And had USSR not invaded Afghanistan when it did, had Gorbochev shown more resolve, chances are the USSR would be here today albeit run along the same lines as China rather than a full Communist state like North Korea. I wouldn't read too much into one historical blip.

[@woofwoof9647]

A Democracy is Two Wolves and a Lamb deciding whats for Dinner !! 🐑 🐺 🐺

[@lauriedocherty2078]

David Starkey has just nailed the truth once again , why don't we have guys like him sorting this country out 👍👍👍👏👏👏

[@wag0NE]

Thank you, why is no one else explaining these basic yet critical points of modern history.

[@eulertoiler9774]

David Starkey is delightfully sane! (Rome, aqueduct,Destruction) -> (NATO, energy, Dissolution), it's at least a rational, precedented road map for a possible (likely?) future.

[@RR-mt2wp]

David's great insight on what's going on, his great youtude channel on history. My heart is with the Ukrainian people.

[@bighands69]

It Your heart should be with yourself. This has the potential to come right into the heart of Europe.

[@briancox8518]

And the majority of Russian people who do not support putin

[@niguel4438]

Thank you David for, as always, speaking the truth. The world has surely changed forever. It puts all the woke nonsense into perspective when the western world is threatened in this way.

[@niguel4438]

@@nickright7747 I bow to your inside knowledge. You obviously don’t think the negative economic effects on the west are a threat to our way of life. Be in no doubt this is a global game changer. Nationalism will trump globalisation for the for seeable future.

[@rickyj5547]

@@nickright7747 way has he a base in Syria.

[@jbwentworthe6082]

Why did NATO not honor their Minsk Agreement? Putin has repeatedly raised that question over past months ?

[@MrJohnnyseven]

Don't ask awkward question away from the narrative.

[@internetenjoyer1044]

becuase russia made it impossible. minsk require peace to start to implement, but russia wouldnt stop waging the proxy war

[@rossmackenzie7158]

The question you should be asking is why didn’t Ukraine honour the Minsk agreement

[@Lyvasiliy]

@@internetenjoyer1044 total bs!

[@lumpyfishgravy]

Invalid question. NATO were not signatories.

[@lesleydonnelly2622]

Brilliant analysis by David

[@peteworthy8322]

The Roman Empire failed because of its own decadence. Navel gazing.

[@LiftOffLife]

Feminism had its role too.

[@davidjma7226]

Churchill was right about Welfare spending and the NHS - that the UK will live to regret it. Smart man.

[@bighands69]

Nothing wrong with welfare when it is employment insurance, public health insurance and so on. There is plenty wrong with it when it cost 75% of the government budget and there whole estates of welfare queens and slobs sitting around watching Jeremy Kyle before that was considered to offensive for Guardian readers.

[@derf9465]

Bring back 1950's means testing. Problem solved.

[@davidjma7226]

@@derf9465 or copy and paste the NZ model. The FCA was a copy and paste from Australia. This is not hard stuff. Just politically sensitive - and a politicians first duty is to get re elected not fix things. So they just chuck money and bureaucracy at it. Bureaucrats take an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

[@doravernon1511]

@@bighands69 pay it to the ones who have paid in.

[@frankdooley6451]

Mark has seems to be concerned by the harsh reality laid out by Starkey.

[@dominiclane8538]

This might actually wake up our dopey politicians

[@barbaradoughty1526]

I wouldn’t hold your breath there Dominic.

[@thegeneralmitch]

You can't fix stupid. D:

[@ericrawson2909]

In your dreams.

[@rayb2542]

Starkey’s got it bang on. Again. Not PC but speaks fluent common sense.

[@barbaradoughty1526]

He ALWAYS said he’s taking Ukraine back, for 30 yrs he’s been saying this, it’s Ezekiel 38 in operation folks.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

We have emasculated our armed forces. Our senior officers are Woke. The British Army just had a day of reflection on how we treat each other. My entire career was manpower reductions, and cuts to terms of service. Pay cuts (by simplifying our pay to the point that the Pay Clerks couldn't tell you what you got paid when they could before). Pensions swapped from RPI to CPI & paid later in life. The Army is heavily manned by foreign soldiers & we have raised a 3rd Bn of Gurkhas. I don't know what they were in the past but they were very poor troops when I served with them. I listen to BFBS SITREP every week & at least 1 of the 3 articles is woke. Sometimes 2.

[@bighands69]

The forces are still tough.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

@@bighands69 I served 23 years. Like all old soldiers, when I was a boy, me seniors said how soft we were and said what they went through and it continues. We never stopped the slide. The UK has elected to find it's armed forces in Nepal, Fiji, Jamaica, Australia, South Africa etc. The armed forces can only be as tough as the rougher end of the general population and the general population has been wrapped in cotton wool for several decades. Discipline has long since been scrubbed from our schools. That is the recruitment pool.

[@bighands69]

@@williamvorkosigan5151 UK defence forces are full of fighting men. People are confusing the politics of the nation with its fighting force.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

@@bighands69 You are welcome to your opinion and I am welcome to mine. Mine is based on 23 years of service & remaining in touch through British Force Broadcasting Service weekly news podcast, SITREP. I also have contact with the armed forces at Remembrance Day after functions. There are fine people in the armed forces. I am talking in generalities. The fighting force is drawn from the public. Decades ago our officers started talking about how we needed to reflect the population we served. That was woke representation before those words were in use. I wondered how we could be both exceptional and representative at the same time. Rome fell when nobody wanted to serve in the legion and the legion became manned by non Romans. Now, despite continued cuts to our numbers and extensive recruitment from abroad, we are permanently undermanned. UK people don't want to serve. The terms and conditions are not improved to attract more/better people, they are steadily eroded to benefit the treasury and recruitment standards decline. If you have a pulse, we'll take you.

[@grahamarnhem8659]

@@williamvorkosigan5151 absolutely correct I was an eighties soldier and the training then was completely different. None of it would be allowed now.

[@johnhenry7309]

Looking at the map of Europe over the last 30 years, the expansion eastwards of the NATO countries is very significant. NATO has simply followed the eastwards expansion of the EU. In that view the Ukraine stands out like a sore thumb. In a Geopolitical view Ukraine was very likely to be the straw that would break the camel's back. The camel being Russia. The coup that removed President Yanukovych was the trigger that has led to the push for Ukraine to join NATO even before it could join the EU. In strategy terms Russia needed to go on the offensive if it was to stop the eastwards march of NATO. It now has and there is now very little chance that Ukraine will be able to join NATO. Biden and Zelenskyy have misjudged the determination of Putin.

[@hachwarwickshire1718]

Absolutely correct. Well said.

[@bridgetcooney234]

Well said 👏 but was it deliberately done by nato and usa to load up more money into nato , and get rid of nord stream 2 , ?? Because this could of been resolved easily !!

[@chrisreid3122]

Putin has said all along, that he'll never accept NATO forces on his doorstep - baltic states are geographically out on a limb, militarily speaking - so why are we so surprised. It's only like the US determination over the Cubans and their missiles. Eastward expansion is their line in the sand.

[@michaelwhite8031]

They certainly don't spend money on working class pensions.

[@eppiehemsley6556]

You're bloody right there Michael!

[@peteworthy8322]

I have got a working class pension. Where does it come from? Mars?

[@michaelwhite8031]

@@peteworthy8322 it should have said they not we

[@leonarddavies288]

Nope £150-£170 a night for illegal middle eastern men to stay in the Radison and then complain they were given bruised fruit and its top news in the guardian who call it irregular immigration 😒

[@sebastianmelmoth7331]

Historians need to look at this interview in years to come to understand what has happened in Europe this year.

[@suds2808]

Refreshing conversation, love David Starkey

[@kobathedread9649]

Brilliant analysis and commentary!

[@thepenguin2043]

I totally agree with David Starkey on everything, except on the fact that Putin is Peter the Great or an old Fashioned Tsar. But Putin is very smart.

[@mabelheinzle2275]

Brilliant interview with a brilliant man

[@jefflehoux9619]

I hope all the woke recruiting efforts will pay off now….

[@MrJohnnyseven]

I hear the "queen's own queens" are ready and the 101st frock brigade is ready to move any time now.

[@khchoi2012]

Bring back the good old British Empire. That's what all the OBE, MBE should be knighted for. We need another Queen Victoria!

[@elkpaz560]

Presumably you're being sarcastic. There are new empires now and we can only resist.

[@igorbogdanoff4517]

Starkey knows more than he says. If he spoke what he really knew, even GB News wouldn't touch him.

[@ostevoostevo1592]

I've long said that there is no such thing as "international law".

[@harryfloros8796]

Where’s Antifa when you need them?

[@galinor7]

Lol.

[@doosra95]

I love his animated analysis 🤣🤣

[@sepgorut2492]

*Unicorn prancing landscape of Western Prime Ministers* 🤣🤣🤣

[@grayarcana]

My Little Unicorn: we are getting the full episodes!

[@ggravett]

The game has always been EMPIRE.

[@lauralutz4538]

Gen, Patton should have been allowed to take care of Russia but no, Eisenhower hadn’t the balls!

[@desolateones]

Sorry, you would have been flattened... Stop deluding yourself thinking America is all that, it's embarrassing

[@joshwenn989]

With nuclear superiority, Russia experiencing a massive manpower crisis at the time and being all but entirely reliant on lend-lease for its entire transportation network? Oh, yes, so capable of flattening anyone.

[@owen368]

Would have needed ww2 to be conducted differently for that to work simple as that.

[@mikespearwood3914]

That wasn't Russia, that was the USSR!

[@owen368]

@@mikespearwood3914 and effectivly the fifference is?

[@karlmarxx6228]

when we attacked sovereign country of Iraq with the US we weren't covering it so well! were we?!

[@andyxox4168]

Yes, that war was very well covered in the media!

[@derf9465]

But the definatly had WMD'S!!!! Spent 20 years poking around trying to find them.

[@mikespearwood3914]

@@derf9465 Then we copped a condescending hand wave away and told: "Oh well. But at least we got rid of Saddam Hussein!"

[@Elintasokas]

Prepared, and yet it's still going horribly.

[@chriscorben-green2640]

Any update on how Putin's grand plans are going?

[@j.t.5876]

This was excellent.

[@keyboarddancers7751]

Starkey makes some good points especially regarding the West's various weaknesses (including Afghanistan) and the rather alarming Roman aqueduct analogy. However he's overlooked a significant factor of which he, as an expert historian, will definitely be fully aware. Not long after the Soviet regime ended in the early ‘90s, there was a widely recognised promise that NATO would not allow expansion of its membership towards the then new Russian borders. That promise has been broken on 14 (fourteen) separate occasions. Does anybody remember America’s response to the USSR’s attempt to develop a nuclear missile site on Cuba or America’s responses to any “perceived” flirtation with Communism by any South or Central American state? Vladimir Pozner and John Mearsheimer amongst other very knowledgeable commentators have been delivering widely viewable/available public lectures for AT LEAST 6 years providing a broad historical context to their very explicit and very specific warnings about EXACTLY what is now happening in Ukraine. Now suddenly world leaders and all their advisers whose very business it is to maintain an informed global strategic awareness are all breaking out with Pikachu faces. If you keep poking a wasp nest, the inevitable will (has) happen(ed).

[@onastick2411]

Don't prod the bear. We've brought this on ourselves.

[@PaulGreenwald]

Just remembering Iraq and the ' Shock and awe ' and Iraqis on the ground and MSM cheering US and UK troops

[@mikespearwood3914]

Don't you understand Paul? We're (the "west") supposed to be the good guys. But those Russians are always the bad guys!

[@alj521]

is he auditioning for CNN?

[@kimwiser445]

Putin even warned us about how being woke is destroying the West.

[@aspenaz]

"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths" .Isaiah 3:12

[@susangemmell9401]

??????

[@zoeen5650]

@@susangemmell9401 effeminate rulers who don't understand controlled aggression or think masculinity is toxic and kids getting teachers fired because they used the wrong pronoun.

[@stmatthewsisland5134]

The difference between the governance of 1989 and now is that now Boombers are in charge, spoilt brats who have never known fear or hunger or having to work hard for anything in their sorry long lives.

[@daisyroots8926]

With those woke greens trying to run things also

[@oliveoil7642]

Quite simplistic to blame one generation for all the woes of the world.

[@MyPaddy2011]

'We thought that war was so last century'. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 You must have passed away last century.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@louisebrown4622]

He is right

[@radamrussell]

To throw in some American perspective to Mr. Starkey's point about spending - the U.S. has done the opposite, though we do spend big pie slices on those other things, and spent trillions of dollars on adventurism, world policing and regime changes and most importantly frittered away our credibility both domestically and internationally and abused the willingness to commit troops and defend righteous causes because we're so tired of war. Walk softly and carry a big stick should've been the mantra - maybe then we would've been willing to annihilate terrorist groups who propagandized cutting Americans heads off or to bloody the nose of a bully as soon as they push us or a friend. But all the political and emotional capital had already been spent on sham invasions.

[@Eliofrancesco]

Great interview

[@therainbowgulag.]

Send in the Trans Marines

[@henryviii6341]

So where is the Russian AirForce ? Where are the 300,000 troops Kiev 186 miles from Russia. 5 days after ‘invasion’. Still no Russian troops in Kiev. Kharkiv 19miles from Russia. Still not captured. This doesn’t ring true.

[@Chris_Sheridan]

Kiev is 380km from the Russian border (236 miles) and Kharkiv is 40km (25 miles) Russia has some 900,000 active military personnel with 2,000,000 in reserve.

[@TheJimtodd]

David Starkey for king, long live king David.

[@fourdoorsmorewhores8114]

I love this guest!🤣

[@rodneycroft5889]

SPOT ON.

[@ricardosalasdezayas5143]

genial thinking,the analogy with the decadence of the Roman Empire and the West societies is the saddest but absolutely true

[@schrire39]

“The sanctions won’t bite” says Starkey. Meanwhile Putin has responded to the sanctions by activating the nukes.

[@marcellodelira5601]

Not to sanctions but to any possible attempts of meddling with Russia's operation by NATO

[@jonathanrandall4140]

Maybe the USA sabotaging the Nordstream pipeline had something to do with it?

[@justinlaporte9414]

Very good reality check here...

[@ljn874]

On the German Army - “They’ve been doing drills with Broomsticks” 🤣🤣