Can The Russians Be Trusted?

[@unclerukmer]

President Nixon's last point in this video is worth remembering. Many in the West believe that everyone, deep within themselves, really wants to be like us and would become like us if given the chance to come here or dialogue with us. But this is not true and in many cases that openness and naiveté just makes us look like marks to be exploited. And well, you can see the result of that.

[@jaybee9269]

Yeah, that’s “mirror bias.” The West makes that mistake with Muslims. Someone who has an honor/shame moral paradigm doesn’t think like someone with a right/wrong moral paradigm.

[@Divelexic]

Totally, completely, right

[@e.michael3922]

Great wisdom

[@arseface2k934]

"As far as the Russians are concerned, we caused them to become as aggressive and adventureous as they are. They didn't need any help, that's how they are." Russia's entire justification for Ukraine hinges on being "forced" to attack as a form of self-defense, incredible to see Nixon call it out decades in advance.

[@thomaspeterson9505]

Nearly half a decade, which again, is insane.

[@arseface2k934]

@russianscapegoat I probably know the events there better than you do. The West isn't completely blame-free but Russia is the primary cause and instigator.

[@LordVader1094]

@russianscapegoat Name checks out

[@BlackPill-pu4vi]

All you know is what our medya and Feds tell us. Consider the ruling parties involved and that's all you need to know to not trust a word from them. Putin's side of the story is highly distorted, if we get to hear it at all, and the evidence is against us. We are not the U.S.A. when Nixon was in office and Russia is no longer the bolshevik-ctrl'd state that it used to be.

[@Nixon_Now]

Short answer: Not fully

[@peterfighter]

Not at all

[@williet.3058]

Name one country in the world that can be trusted 100%

[@Lrx111]

Eisenhower and Nixon would be shocked if they saw today’s Republican Party. No longer the Grand Old Party.

[@mohdamiruddinsulaiman1383]

The same goes to the Democrats

[@ville7762]

Exactly. No way would Truman or Kennedy agree at all with the modern day democrats​@@mohdamiruddinsulaiman1383

[@nealdaleyjr7625]

What rock have you been living under?

[@victorocallaghan6791]

Eisenhower he was probably one of the greatest presidents. Definitely one of the most underrated

[@davidstegne3036]

​@@victorocallaghan6791Yet Eisenhower was just as bad as Nixon is saying what the Soviets were. CIA regime changes in Guatemala and Iran. Open skies policy. LMAO what a joke. Easy way to spy on the Soviets. Kruschev was no dummy. Francais Gary Powers proved that. One worse than the other. The only difference was America wasn't physically destroyed like Russia was after WW2 and could put resources into those operations.

[@charliefischer1553]

A great President Nixon

[@НикЗолотарев]

He must be turning in his grave because of how untrustworthy the US has become as an international actor.

[@WingkKong]

Actually American is always acting like a imperial Empire

[@chrissorrels6178]

I'd forgotten what it was like to hear a politician directly answer a question.

[@thomaskalbfus2005]

Post Cold War, we didn't do anything with the atomic bomb towards the Soviet Union, we had a four-year window of opportunity between when we invented the atomic bomb and they got their own atomic bomb and we did nothing! So, it's hard to say the US started the Cold War, its more accurate to say we let it happen by doing nothing to prevent it, we just let the Soviet Union sit there occupying Eastern Europe and we did nothing to kick them out and then they got the atomic bomb themselves!

[@Selfawarerarity]

So trust but verify. I can live with that.

[@TheBoomtown4]

No, rewatch video.

[@csg-cutesmilegooner1690]

I could listen to him talk all day.

[@mohdamiruddinsulaiman1383]

Trust no one but understand and respect each other Red line

[@toronto_fox]

Red lines don’t exist, your attempt to spread Russian propaganda is pathetic. Brown lines are excessively brown these days…

[@DM-eo6zw]

Nixon is accurately describing the Soviet Union AND US Statecraft. "I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It’s - it was like - we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.” Fmr CIA Director + Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

[@cyclone8974]

Learned from the Russians

[@DM-eo6zw]

@@cyclone8974And from the Nazi’s; Operation Paperclip.

[@DM-eo6zw]

@@cyclone8974And from a 1930’s German group; Operation Paperclip.

[@cyclone8974]

@@DM-eo6zw Paperclip was 1945 after we helped our "allies" the Russians. After they committed genocide against their own people in Ukraine etc.

[@louvendran7273]

​@@cyclone8974😂 Say that to the dead natives & slaves. The shit you have done to the planet makes the Poms look like amateurs.

[@albanui6354]

This video is more about Communists than Russians

[@crazikat_1]

They're still the same.

[@arqueliossantiago7791]

How do you know because the US isn't the same anymore. I am not saying I do trust them either, but we have changed a lot compared to the Russian.

[@albanui6354]

@@crazikat_1 Communists? Yeah

[@semyaza555]

@@crazikat_1 Have you ever even been to Russia?

[@helloitsmehb]

They sure have alot of KFC, burger kings and Dominos in Russian. Supermarkets with BS sugar laden foods Etc What a bunch of commies

[@keithvizzini234]

Americans have never had any Illusions about Russia ,communism didn't slow down the Russian Empire at all. Russia has always had to been tough because of their borders after World War II they expanded those borders to make sure they had a buffer zone and we agreed.. Not everyone agreed like General Patton, who wanted to go right to Moscow and get rid of what they considered Godless communism. America could have had an Empire and after a World War we had a chance but did not want it. An American citizen would have been like the old Roman Empire citizen, everyone pays tribute until you turn your back. I don't know if it's the right or wrong decision I just know what happens to Empires.

[@gilianrampart8514]

You thinking that America is not an empire is hilarious!

[@keithvizzini234]

Yeah we are and what's wrong with that

[@None-ss1zi]

​@@keithvizzini234hypocrisy

[@brianrunyon266]

This should be shared with any Americans who believe Putin's nationalism is a good idea.

[@Amsterdampardoc1]

We should be focusing on China, Russia isn’t the main adversary anymore.

[@Gabriel2oh6]

@@Amsterdampardoc1Russia and China are part of the same axis. China is watching how the United States handles Russia’s aggression with Ukraine very closely.

[@TheBoomtown4]

The Soviets in the Cold War called those people “useful idiots.”

[@TheBoomtown4]

@@Gabriel2oh6I don’t think Xi Jinping really trusts Putin, he’s not that dumb; plus Russia is small potatoes to him. Chinas gdp is 17T to Russias 2T for example. I think he’s using Putin and his aggression as leverage to bargain with the United States.

[@MarcPagan]

Nixon's assessment of Russians .... sounds like much of the Democratic Party today.

[@alenas3741]

Bravo ! 👏

[@SempreGumby]

Probably should show this to Tucker Carlson

[@Gris00]

When Nixon was talking about Russia it was during the years of Communism and early years of Yeltsin, now it is different and not so simple yet easy to understand. Today's Russia is closer to the former traditions and culture before the USSR, Imperial Russia which was very Christian. Except most people don't like it when Christian values are enforced and would rather have what Harris/Biden stood for until they realize that Christian values are better, hence Trump being elected

[@SempreGumby]

@@Gris00 I disagree. Putin was a KGB person first. I believe he still is. The FSB displays all the qualities of its KGB elders. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4G4aGOCmMd8fcU caveat emptor sir

[@Gris00]

@SempreGumby Of course the FSB are going to be using tactics from the KGB. The CIA do it too, MI6 do it too. Almost every 1st world nation in the West has employed KGB and Stazi tactics especially in the last couple years. Putins ex-KGB career gives him wisdom in intelligence which, depending on what isle we stand on. Is either good or bad

[@SempreGumby]

@@Gris00 I disagree. Putin was a KGB person first. I believe he still is. Todays FSB is pretty much the same as its KGB elder. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4G4aGOCmMd8fcU Caveat Emptor sir.

[@arseface2k934]

​@@Gris00 As I said in another comment: today's Russian leadership were born and raised Soviets. Putin was a KGB agent already in his 30s when the Soviet system collapsed.

[@biglouie9547]

Sound like he's talking about a Democrat politician

[@snakejuice4300]

Nope, most Democrats would agree with this. Not your “evil” libs that Fox News cherry picks to show you. Or for that matter, fascist evil Republicans that CNN cherry picks for the Dems.

[@KevinNolanRealEstate]

Nixon would be aghast that the producers of this video couldn’t spell “foundation” correctly.

[@markcreamer6179]

President Nixon was brilliant.

[@jacobyahiayan9039]

Yep such caliber does not exist today.

[@nealdaleyjr7625]

I thought he was talking about democrats for a moment.

[@EmilinkoHoward]

No.

[@MooseOsauras]

I didn't know Nixon died so i legit thought this channel was being run by a 112 year old Nixon.

[@mank89]

He's totally just talking about the Soviet government, not modern day Russian leadership and people.

[@iippo06]

Putin the former KGB spy isn't a materialist? He volunteers at the local soup kitchen? He believes that he can take his billions & palaces to heaven with him? What planet do you live on?

[@RyebertandWhiskey0726]

Russia: Great country governed by the wrong government

[@thomaskalbfus2005]

So should we feel sorry for what the Nazis did to Russians when they invaded the Soviet Union? You know the Jews, and Gypsies were victims of the Holocaust, but what about the Russians who weren't Jews, you feel sorry for them when they were put in concentration camps or simply murdered by the SS or Gestapo for example, but if you put those guns in the hands of Russians would they do the same thing to other people? I have trouble differentiating between Russians and Germans, the main difference between them seems to be they speak different languages!

[@MyLateralThawts]

The Soviets murdered twenty million of their own citizens before World War Two even happened. They then joined the Nazis in invading Poland and murdered tens of thousands of Poles. Then, on their own initiative, they invaded Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and, you guessed it, murdered tens of thousands more. Finally they invaded Finland and would have loved to have done the same, except the Finns stopped them, probably saving Sweden in the process. Then when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, suddenly the Soviet Union became the champions of freedom, except their murders of Poles and other nationalities, not just the Germans, didn’t stop then either. When in doubt, the Soviets committed mass murder. At least they weren’t antisemitic…unless you count Stalin’s “Doctors Plot” and his instructions to his minions to support the Arabs in their genocidal attempts to wipe Israel off the map.

[@MagicNash89]

4:24 - Whats the name of this plan? The Brooke(?) plan? Can't make it out and google doesn't give much

[@01splitpea]

That was my personal experience with a Russian 8 years ago. Untrustworthy.

[@Gris00]

Same can be said about Americans

[@freakingabagool3510]

@@Gris00”butwhataboutAMERICA!” Just stop already, your shit is played out.

[@Gris00]

@@freakingabagool3510 lul, nobody can do it except America because... It's America

[@CaptainHarris-ip2kg]

Simple answer; No.

[@paulcastillo1310]

No not We're Putin is still in office

[@bijoylaha7245]

India main trust partners russia

[@williet.3058]

Lol .. can politicians of any country be fully trusted? The answer is painfully obvious

[@hannathabet6891]

I would rather ask can American be trusted ?

[@snakejuice4300]

Our institutions, however deeply flawed, are the best in the world. Therefore, you can trust a well meaning American. We are free to be as good or as un-trustworthy as we want. Many choose one path or the other. In other countries, you are forced by the government to be good (Europe) or forced to be evil (Russia).

[@Eridelm]

Russia le bad, Mutts le good, truth is both sucked and neocons and old-commie apparatus is the reason.

[@populustremula7496]

I’d trust a Russian head of state about as much as I trusted Richard Nixon. Which is to say, not at all.

[@TheBoomtown4]

Can someone please forward this to President Musk?

[@BlackPill-pu4vi]

If President Nixon were alive today, I'd wager that his opinion would change 180 degrees and the question would be: Can we trust our own government and institutions? Answer: No. Is Putin and his government more trustworthy than our own? Answer: Yes. The bolshevik Js left Moscow during the Yeltsin era, came here, and we're now the Eivl Empire.

[@abrahamrobles4280]

WHO IS ASKING!?

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

nO, NO, NO,

[@maryhill3366]

Penny Grant Can't be trusted either

[@spikedpsycho2383]

Now play what nixon said about Israel

[@angelmist4253]

In a word, no.

[@gianfrancoselvaggi1796]

Could there be truth in this person words. Recalling he tried to lie about taxes ?

[@TinValent]

Can US be trusted?

[@artielukas888]

explain this to biden administration.

[@JohnAsmith-f2t]

Does a chicken have lips.

[@JohnDoe-eo8ux]

lol anyone trusting this guy on “Russians cheat and lie” I feel sad for. The president of watergate lmaooo

[@BlancoIncognito]

Short answer yes, long answer, no

[@kingsleyperera9655]

CAN WE TRUST YOU & OURSELVES ? === There is no art to find the mind's construction in Face === (SHAKESPEARE).

[@francoluissotomayor3123]

Rrrrrr Nixon

[@TheStockwell]

It's good to see Kremlin trolls are working during the holiday season. 🥰

[@davidovics92]

foudnation lol

[@2H2521]

Russia is not an enemy with a smart president in office.

[@DavidRobertson-c2q]

In , nut shell . We should not help them in WW2 .. Germany would have had the upper hand . Russia sells this stroy that it defeated the Germans on there own .😂 Seriously!

[@jimmyclay9316]

Yesterday's Russians are today's Democrats