Putin's Dark Ambitions

With the war in Ukraine in its third year, Putin shows no sign of tempering his military ambitions. Though global pressure on Russian investment has so far failed to crush the Russian autocrat, exiled anti-corruption crusaders and supporters of the late opposition leader Aleksei Navalny continue to expose the lies and thievery of the Putin regime.
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[@MarieDavis-xt7er]

Everyone knows more about Vladimir Putin than Vladimir Putin himself

[@apuuvah]

Well, he is very predictable. Like every dictator.

[@dannydetonator]

No, just people who have done their research (or anyone from the region) know orders of magnitude more than you. Meaningless statement.

[@DerAua]

As long as they know more than me, I'm happy.

[@free2dialogue]

Thank you for this enlightening and passionate vote for humanity, your dedication every step of the way to a better future for all of us

[@free2dialogue]

These people are all declared state enemies in Putunist Russia. They have deep insights to share from many years of work. They speak with honesty and clarity. What a gift to have them on one panel together. ❤

[@thinktwice-me7ie]

Exactly. Jake Sullivan is maybe a problem when it comes to a real solution, a hesitant lawyer

[@rn7961]

Wonderful, decent, fearless people.

[@beckyconstantinides2546]

Over a million of their best people fled after the Ukrainian invasion.

[@nigelmorley5414]

@@beckyconstantinides2546 Never to return. Nice one Vlad

[@DerAua]

@@beckyconstantinides2546 It's such a sad event for Russia. Not wanting to diminish what is happening in Ukraine, but a lot of Russians are also just victims. Doesn't diminish their responsibility to step up politically.

[@lovegottaget]

Maria is love of my life 💖

[@bobleblanc2763]

You can call him Bill - Democracy, 1776 + 250; thank you for the info and for talking about Democracy🌍

[@upstartfenix]

Put names in title, would’ve missed Simon!

[@brunoserwaczek5232]

Maria speaks English very well.

[@Andres_1970]

Putin and Peace are words that do not belong in the same phrase, ever !

[@petehowett2854]

I'm always fascinated as to when stupid people make stupid comments,TO MAKE THEMSELVES SOUND RELEVANT. ISTANBUL FEB 2022 I'd seriuosly RESEARCH as to what happened on that date,BEFORE MAKING MORONIC STATEMENTS

[@apuuvah]

We know what happened. Russia invaded Ukraine. Despite promising NOT to invade when Ukraine gave up the nukes. Big mistake. Do your homework.

[@server1ok]

The medium to small businessmen that bought Starbucks and MCD assets for 1 USD are making a ton of money in Moscow and Petersburg, but other than that Bill is mostly correct

[@nadyayurukova]

Messing up Maria's family name was a bit cringy

[@vitiachao9765]

Pevchikh is her family name.

[@skinnyTheCat]

If Bill is on, I am Watching & Listening!

[@user-ek9go3kf2w]

Hi is still hoping to get his money back from Russia.

[@yourfather5093]

pevchikh speaks with very fine british accent

[@chrishooge3442]

Putin has given the West the opportunity to end Russia as a threat by his own mistakes. He's made so many mistakes. The US has made many mistakes but it just results in a peaceful transfer of government (so far.) Putin's mistakes are existential for him personally. So we can't rule out a mistake like going nuclear.

[@MarieDavis-xt7er]

As Vladimir Putins childhood wife we are so far behind in our global construction army plans to pull the world from poverty it is unreal because of the global poverty

[@BallisticEvents]

the whole talking about prigoschin is just naive - he brings that up as an exampe of a potential change supported by the people of russia. well, what would have happened? they would have gotten the next dictator - doese anybody believe, Prigoschin would have done anything different to Putin? LMAO

[@free2dialogue]

Prigoshin and Putin have different vibes, don't you think? Open barbarism vs. hidden barbarism?

[@BallisticEvents]

@@free2dialogue Your totally right! But that's my point: Barbarism.

[@moggadah]

Open barbarism vs shoddily hidden barbarism. The hidden barbarism is hidden just enough not to be plainly visible, but not hidden more than it takes to instill a deep sense of fear. This fear is used to uphold the barbaric system.

[@moggadah]

This is the real fight. Barbarism vs humanism. People hiding evil intentions inside good intentions are a bit of a cancer. I hope humanism has the ability to save both nature and people on earth. Barbarism is promoting the way of the predator by creating and upholding a hierarchy. The top layers are using the lower layers as playing cards in their power struggles. The fight against barbarism is orthogonal - global.

[@moggadah]

It's kind of paradoxical that Prigozjin was perceived as decent by Russians just because he didn't hide his barbarism.

[@tdagkhan]

This is utter poppycock. Thr crackdown on press in Ukraine is absolute. And that same crackdown in the US is increasing, absolutely.

[@ginniemess]

You don't believe the nonsense you spout 🤡

[@petehowett2854]

​@@ginniemessJulian Assange !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@user-mh7vx6wh5u]

Excellent panel! love BILL! However, I don’t share the same optimism for Russian democratic future!

[@sheilawade433]

-Oil/Money 20:22-25:40 -Navalny... 30:17-30:53 -Kremlin-religion 31:03-34:18 -Trump 38:23-42:21 -Putin's Dream: 42:33-45:05

[@apuuvah]

Next on his list are Moldova and Georgia, since they are not yet NATO members. Or he just might skip them and invade the Baltics.

[@wolfbirk8295]

Sorry,...Nonsense...?

[@user-yh2pd6dp9o]

Ďon't speak this nonsense. If you are not a propaganda bot...

[@aleksbakman7562]

Hopeless. A club of smart hopeless people

[@SamB2112]

Ukraine can only be saved at the negotiating table, not on the battlefield. Sadly, this point is not understood by Ukrainian politicians such as Oleg Dunda, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, who recently wrote an oped on this site against my repeated call for negotiations. Dunda believes that the U.S. will save Ukraine from Russia. The opposite is true. Ukraine actually needs to be saved from the U.S. Ukraine epitomizes Henry Kissinger’s famous aphorism, “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” Thirty years ago, Ukraine was embraced by America’s neoconservatives, who believed that it was the perfect instrument for weakening Russia. The neocons are the ideological believers in American hegemony, that is, the right and responsibility of the U.S. to be the world’s sole superpower and global policeman (as described, for example, in the Project for a New American Century’s 2000 report, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses”). The neocons chose three methods to push U.S. power and influence into Ukraine: first, meddle in Ukraine’s internal politics; second, expand NATO to Ukraine, despite Russia’s red line; and third, arm Ukraine and apply economic sanctions to defeat Russia.

[@ginniemess]

What a load of nonsense 😅 There's no worse outcome for any country that is bordering russia, than having to "negotiate" with it

[@philipgates988]

Whatever history you believe, Ukraine is a vastly superior culture to Russia today, fighting for the dignity of its citizens as individuals, and resisting, fiercely, the imprisonment that Russia desires.

[@dannydetonator]

Utter hogwash, Ukrainians chose their own path and friends, only a person with head up own arse can think everything is decided by US. I know because i know both. Nobody is forced to join NATO, and before Russia invaded in 2014 it wasn't even on the table or popular. After it became a necessity for Ukraine, but it was too late. They were denied application in 2010 and every time after that. Gtfo.

[@sheilawade433]

So- US tricked Ukraine into giving up nuclear weapons to trick Putin into attacking Ukraine so US businesses vacate Russia, Gorbachev's hope of a democracy for Russia is replaced by another nuclear cold war? REALLY? 44:17

[@sheilawade433]

​@@ginniemess The Budapest Memorandum shows how well a deal with Russia works out for Ukraine.

[@Nenad-qz7zo]

Pevkovich hahaha 😆 😂

[@casanico2082]

Starbucks belongs to the President of Chechnya? Ikea belongs to who?

[@tredd_dude]

Netherlands=IKEA

[@free2dialogue]

Starbucks left, the venues were rebranded to something that uses all the same concepts and also has a similar name. Same for Ikea They are trying to copycat everything, keeping employees

[@ericlassin953]

Unfortunate, but they were taken over by Russians. So, as opposed to this causing pain, the brands have simply been nationalized and rebranded. Meaning, there was no collaspe or a 'saction'. Just profits that were going to Western companies are now going to Moscow.

[@ginniemess]

​@@ericlassin953sure, so bussinesses should have just stayed in russia and continued to provide services and pay tax to a terrorist regime

[@ArturoFernandezTeruel]

I see too much fear from these guys

[@fronabulax63]

those brave speakers are fighting to the last ucrainien..... Not so brave imo

[@davidbrancaleone3039]

@fronabulax63 TROLL INCOMING They're out there and enjoy the freedom of speech which is forbidden in Russia. And what do they do with this freedom? Waste it talking nonsense, sneering, lying, wasting everyone's time. Why? That's how they make a living.

[@dannydetonator]

You don't know what fighting means. Pomerantsev with over 10K of their associates are doing what you imply, but that is only one domain of fighting. And you're fighting on the wrong side.

[@ericlassin953]

Long on palace intrige, short on fact, a pet peeve of mine.

[@natalieturko4808]

What "facts" are you unable to understand?

[@Bunce157]

pUTIN CRÉTIN IL EST PERDU

[@ScurvyDog807]

Let's cut back on makeup- her chest is red, neck is white, and face is brown.

[@andre8860]

These people are not getting, and make no sense

[@magnacarta-us1zs]

Tasteless propaganda

[@RS-gn4bv]

Ridiculous people. Nonsense conversation and opinions. Somehow this nonsense autoplayed.

[@Mr_Rob_otto]

I reject your premise. Obviously, as a Russian bot, you didn’t even watch the whole video.

[@natalieturko4808]

Russian bot.

[@davidbrancaleone3039]

@RS-gn4bv TROLL INCOMING What this genius fails to understand what it is that happens when qualified people begin to take apart the Kremlin machine to see what makes it tick. Extracting its Bios and taking a good look. This makes Kremlin trolls uneasy. Everything in Russia is normal. The (failed) invasion is normal.

[@frenchboymacho7799]

RUSSIA WILL NOT COLLAPSE

[@beckyconstantinides2546]

But Putin will die at the hands of his billionaires.

[@86Corvus]

Its in the state of collapse and degeneracy since the bolshevik revolution.

[@B.Mann-px5rn]

Russia collapsed a long time ago. If it was such a powerful nation it would have taken Ukraine in a few weeks. We are now three years into part II of the invasion of Ukraine that started with part I in 2014. Russia is a sad joke.

[@SuperTopdog22]

Putin's mafia state has been morally collapsing for a long time

[@free2dialogue]

I like that you put your messages in all caps, as if to suggest stability. In my humble opinion Russia currently is under occupation from a rogue Mafia type of government. Violence based. Telling people that calling a war a war is an offense. It is very absurd and real. I would not call anything built on inner violence stable. It may last for many years, like a nightmare without end. But it will end.

[@ZappyOh]

A panel of CIA operatives ... fascinating.

[@natalieturko4808]

What would you call your sanctioned and war criminals as declared by the ICC leading YOUR Russia?

[@davidbrancaleone3039]

@ZappyOh TROLL INCOMING This one bold enough to accuse people who disagree with Kremlin of being CIA agents. Hey, Ivan, where's your botfarm located? How many operatives? Who is your direct paymaster? What software do you use? Which computer hardware?

[@ZappyOh]

@@davidbrancaleone3039 Not a bot. I'm a Dane living in Denmark, and I have become deeply ashamed of being a westerner. You should be too, if morale and common sense is part of your makeup.

[@davidbrancaleone3039]

@@ZappyOh Oh yes you are botski. Quisling was a traitor. So you could be a Danish quisling. What's that? Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian (18 July 1887-24 October 1945) who became a Nazi collaborator. Let me explain to everyone the reason for this comparison. Anyone who speaks of morals and associates ethics with Putin's regime can only believe that genocide and ethnic cleansing are ethically acceptable, which is what Nazism believed (read Mein Kampf).