Phil Ittner - Support Ukraine to Win the War, not Only to Survive the Genocidal Assault by Russia

[@jameswilliams9655]

I appreciate your support for Ukraine by selecting very knowledgeable individuals to expose the deception of the Russian political system. Phil is one of those people.

[@oldowleye3161]

Thank you to both for another fantastic conversation !… thank you for you fight for freedom and democracy !…

[@W0tn3xt]

Great episode. Kudos and credibility to Phil for coming to Ukraine to see what's happening for himself.

[@Donovanwashere]

Great work, Jonathan!! 🙏💙🇺🇦🇺🇸

[@SteenLarsen]

Very interesting conversation! Thank you! Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦!

[@traceytramble2582]

Phil is an awesome guy

[@graemejones5968]

What a great interview. One of the best I've seen in 2 years. Thank you gentlemen.

[@davidl.7317]

Extraordinary interview.

[@vonries]

Two of my favorites, Jonathan it's great seeing two strong voices together. Thanks. For me it's all about the children. Never forget all of the Russians who abused children and their families in Ukraine. From the mass graves (in Izium) to the stolen children. Now if Ukrainian parents don't become Russian citizens and go to fight against their brothers and cousins Russia will take their newborn children at birth. How many children are now sex slaves? They cannot be allowed to win. Speaking of Izium. What did those 414 people see? The Russians thought it was better to murder them and bury them all in a mass grave instead of letting them testify. Whatever they saw must have been truly horrific. At minimum I'm guessing rape and torture. With an average of 150 war crimes per day who knows what they did. (That is a very old number they are way north of over 137,000 documents war crimes a month ago). If Russia wants to sign a treaty they must first prove they will stand by one. If Russia or Putin wants to negotiate, start with your original written agreement. Putin on January 28, 2003 signed the border agreement. He has since signed several other agreements he doesn't honor. Pull back all of their troops back behind their original border and then you can start negotiations. If they don't show they will honor the original agreement how can anyone expect them to honor any further agreements. It's our war to lose. Russia canNOT win. Unless we choose to not support Ukraine of course. It is on us in the global West to pick the world we want to live in. Choose wisely. Thanks. Glory to Ukraine. God Bless the children, Ukraine, and her people. God bless the heros 🇺🇦🇺🇸

[@TheDog_Chef]

Phillip brings up such interesting points.

[@aaronmlller8150]

Agreed, we're WAYYYY past the point of escalation. It's pitiful us in the US aren't doing more. This was a really great episode also!

[@carolwilliams8511]

Political games 😈

[@aaronmlller8150]

Which is appalling when the Ukrainians are paying for the repercussions with their lives. 🫣🥺😥🫡

[@kellahella5286]

Subscribed to both your channels. Both of you put out excellent content. 🔱Slava🇺🇦Ukraini🔱

[@gerryhouska2859]

Ditto from Australia.

[@davidknapp5403]

"Rights come from our creator" Bravo!! Very Jeffersonian

[@tuomohynninen]

Perfect topic

[@ignaciourena5692]

EU is afraid of Russia and I don't blame them. But as General B Hodges said the price for not action or late support to Ukraine will be high.

[@MariaHlad]

Bravo! Great video. Love both of your work!

[@martinvanoene7192]

Love Phil Ittmer!

[@tamarasidlartchouk3138]

Wonderful conversation, huge gratitude to both of you gentlemen ! Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko used to say that Belarus surrendered and has been totally colonized by russians because they didn't have Taras Shevchenko . The idea of fight for freedom , against injustice, against subjugation of any kind is intrinsic in al his poetry. Long ago, when it was forbidden to keep the Bible in the house, during the communist period, Ukrainian peasants kept in their houses Kobzar, the whole collection of Shevchenko's poems. 🇺🇦🇺🇦👏👏👏✌️✌️✌️♥️♥️♥️

[@FernandoSilva-ye9cj]

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE GUEST SPEAKER

[@DarrenLine-k4j]

Well said...❤

[@sherrillwhately7586]

I think if Biden would be bolder it would benefit Harris politically. I’ve been writing that to them since June.

[@ParentsFloyd]

I recommend Ben Hodges as the USA's National Security Advisor. It should be done now.

[@GrahamCStrouse]

I don’t know who will head up the NSA. I do know it won’t be Jake Sullivan.

[@DickDuck007]

Hodges has consistently proven his lack of Geopolitical comprehension.His perspective is exactly how the West got themselves embroiled in a losing war.The U.S has been effectively demilitarised they have zero weapons left to export.

[@user-fx4xg5np1n]

Thank you. Great discussion. Nice to hear the acknowledgment and awareness that Ukraine has been suffering under Russian oppression for centuries. I don’t know how many people know this but it is so true. Centuries not decades.

[@jasonkay8749]

Amazing episode … as always. Many thanks for the opinions and knowledge being shared with your listeners that desperately want a future for Ukraine that is ‘western’ in values but better for the Ukrainian mindset and wisdom.

[@davidangeron3365]

I REMEMBER "MARINA K". I went to school in New York with Students who identified themselves as Ukrainian!!! Thing is, I met them when neither of Tian An Men Square nor the Fall of the Berlin Wall had yet happened!!! The Soviet Union was still big and menacing!!! Yup!!!

[@GrahamCStrouse]

Huh?

[@maghdean]

"I'm not absolving Ukrainians of their agency - they're responsible for their own corruption..." - brilliant 👏 Thank you for the great guest, Jonathan!

[@moinyp]

Thank you for your dedication. 🇺🇦👍

[@benjohnson1670]

You raise a good point: Crimea is no longer tenable for russia. The Black Sea is a death-trap for them. The land itself is insupportable since they themselves blew the Zaphoriza damn. It's only actual value is as a possible tourist destination. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦✌️🇺🇦

[@williamrizzo8574]

Great interview

[@alexandradekanova771]

Thank you. It seems that we in the West have forgotten what democracy really is and that it is worthy to fight for.

[@randr302]

❤phil!!♥️

[@DarkestAlice]

Thank you, Jonathan and Philip, for a wonderful conversation. I fully agree with Philip that Jonathan's channel is crucial and I thank you so much for all the hard work. Similarly, Philip's work has been amazing and if we wouldn't have had voices like yours, Ukraine would have been buried altogether. You both managed to raise enough heads who have been "awakened" and follow ever since. The pro-Ukrainian community might be small but as a group we are strong. If not for individuals like you two, Ukraine might have far less support. Thank you, for being tired, but nevertheless continue to report on and support Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

[@irongron]

Agree💯, except for the but about being "tired". I love Mr Ittner, but WTF is he so "tired" of ? Tired of losing 2 homes and IDP twice ? Anyway, I am glad he's tired, after 2 years or w/e in Kyiv, with the best air defences (i.e. highest SAM density) since Hanoi in the Vietnam war (going "downtown" - i.e. route pack 6), good for him. I moved here a decade ago (Ukrainian wife), have been displaced twice and about to lose my second home in Pokrovsk, and I don't feel tired yet. I'm pissed off, but I am not tired. Ten years vs his two, go figure + I have never left Ukraine in all those ten years and never will, not even for a day or week, I am here to the end. Man up or go home and remember, the guys fighting in the trenches for our freedom, they are the one's that are "tired". not some American journo in a nice studio in Kyiv. ok ?

[@veronicamifsud9646]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@mike4480]

Thanks Johnathan and Phil for a great conversation … 💙💛💙

[@AlanSari2714]

Great effort

[@deanejoyce5393]

Love it 👏👏👏

[@jaypaige7550]

Amen.

[@Michael57825]

Very good choice

[@vonholdinghausen6886]

Respect.

[@markendicott6874]

Phil is always worth listening to - another excellent episode.

[@BlackEpyon]

Speaking of Jill Stein, you should take a look at the party policy of the Canadian Green party. There's a lot of similarity that makes me wonder whether or not "Green Party" is just codeword for Russian plant.

[@aiden1156]

Like!

[@adaslesniak]

Question to US citizens: how do you feel paying trillions to military that is afraid to send few missiles to Ukraine, while poor Ukraine isn't afraid to invade damn russia?

[@MrBudgiejoe]

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[@RayBrown]

Smart conversation, thank you!

[@amandadonaghey7540]

Excellent interview 👍 🇺🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦

[@carolwilliams8511]

I am subbed to On The Edge since the interview with Jake Broe popped into my suggested videos.

[@royjones1053]

Congrats on many key points! keep up the great work guys

[@hrvojesvetec3058]

Ukrainians are awesome people,welcoming,warm,good,descent,hard working,traditional,smart and inovating..we CANNOT abandon or force them to give in to Russia or something like that..Ukraine must win and we must help them!.if Russia gets away with this they gonna be a complete nightmare to handle in future,make no misstake.🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇲👍

[@randyhergenrether6914]

Great Show Johnathon

[@gerryhouska2859]

The Yanks are doing a great job, defending ruSSian airfields, missile launching pads, arsenals etc.

[@paulknight3209]

Putin....our man in the Whitehouse!?

[@peterfiset4039]

This vlog is award winning, the selfless category; a victory for just selfless society. The Canadian funded ru propaganda film is award winning, the selfish category; a verdict for guilty selfish gang. Slava Ukraini

[@markmongan]

Balin's beard!!! Rivals the Dwarf kings of old!

[@user-nr7ci4vi4c]

There is now a website for expats and overseas US residents to vote from where they are around the world. Check online with your embassy and register to vote in your state of residence.

[@oldowleye3161]

What black sea ?… the black sea is totaly lost by russia !… the black sea will become another nato lake like the baltic sea !… 😂

[@andrewthomson137]

Great Guy Philip. but dont I do "X" Musk yuk and not chasing Apple. Good interview!

[@LR-jk2jk]

I agree. Unfortunately, our Coward in Chief doesn't.

[@user-nr7ci4vi4c]

I would recommend Gen Ben Hodges as Secretary of Defense but he may be more valuable right where he is in Germany, Adam Kissinger as the alternate to the NSA or Pete Buttegieg move over from transportation. They all have military backgrounds and either political or statesmanship qualifications unlike many past appointees.

[@operator9858]

you should have recited the rest of lincolns quote in that letter about moving to russia: 'where despotism can be taken pure and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.' and that hypocrisy he was speaking about? these two epitomize it.

[@cmbergersct3492]

But what is the role of the source of all power - the American electorate -- and Americans who choose to remain outside the electorate i.e. party structures? Defining and teaching activism is priority number one if a democracy is to survive. Defense and Activism laziness pervades Americans due to our geographical safety.

[@MattRios-jn1qx]

Sullivan does what ever Biden says

[@operator9858]

america was created to stand up to globalism. not try and show everyone how its done in passive aggressive fashion.

[@mortenjohansen4120]

Putin is «riding on a tiger»

[@JohannesMondt]

Clearly, the West should have supported Ukraine militarily much more massively and instantly, even before 2022, going back to 2014. The policy of what is referred to as “Incrementalism” is not only a moral mistake: ironically, it also has brought us closer to an all-out military conflict between Russia and NATO.. It should be abandoned at once. To quote Professor John Keegan, “The First World War”, Ch. III, “The Crisis of 1914”, p. 51, regarding Austria’s response to the murder of her Crown Prince and spouse by Pan-Slavic Serbian nationalists: “…in retrospect it is tempting to surmise that, had she [Austria] struck at once in anger, trumpeting dynastic wrath and righteous belief in Serbia’s guilt, Europe might have allowed her to mount positive measures without outside interference”. This is due to inertia, especially important for a country the size of Russia, then and now. That Democracy is being challenged actually may be too optimistic: it already is, not in the least because whether win or lose the electoral college, coming g November in the United States, Trump will give us a choice we never asked for: his Presidency with or his Presidency without the help of AR-15 Militia and the Supreme Court.

[@GrahamCStrouse]

WWI was a catastrophe but I’d like to see the rest of that quote. This is a vast over-simplification of a complicated situation. Austria-Hungary was a failing, flailing, dying Empire in 1914.

[@JohannesMondt]

@@GrahamCStrouse I appreciate that, but the generic aspect in this example is independent of stability of Austria itself and its allies, but instead is about an attack on a vast and and inefficiently managed Empire (Russia), in 2022 and then in 1914, needed to be assessed in its ability and willingness to go to war over territories exterior to its own, for reasons of Empirical Pride, and timely so. For good understanding, I do not think the threat of an all-out war between Russia and the West is great enough to justify the hesitant policies of the Biden Administration. However, the repeated testing, step-by-step, of Russian resolve to react, caused by incrementalism, probably integrates to an overall risk greater than an immediate provision of all weapons Ukraine could have used, back in 2022, at the latest.

[@andrewthomson137]

The American Project regarding the Judicary is flawed. I refer you to SCOTUS decisions and democracy. Look to a British project. ...not quite as bad.

[@nicolaebulgaru]

Thanks both for supporting Ukraine. Unfortunately is almost to late for usa and europe to understand the gravity of the situation. Even if they lose on the battlefield they already won in the minds of millions of people in the west and not only. Brexit, AfD, Orban, Trump are simptoms of a lost battle.

[@GrahamCStrouse]

I understand your concern but I disagree with your doomer assessment.

[@Cecil-r4m]

Its been the Brits going first all the way through with tanks misiles and other bits and Europe aswell.

[@oldowleye3161]

It’s not human rights - it’s the individual first … the state is there to serve the individuals and there progress into a better life !

[@18_rabbit]

semantics. Human rights IS the term used for what most of us mean visavis individual rights of various sorts. U need to learn the basics !!!!!!!!! Those who are pushed back against the term human rights are mostly part of the neo-reactionary new-right-wing which is attempting to reform language in place for 80 years already!!!!!! All the writers on fascism /totalitarianism from Arendt to Orwell to others warned us that those who do this attempt at altering history etc, rewriting, are often attempting the type of gaslighting that only the likes of Third Reich and the Soviets employed.

[@cuffalobill]

the ukrainian beggars stream of free toys is over regardless of who wins in november

[@GrahamCStrouse]

Goodnight forever, little troll.

[@AlanSari2714]

Great interview