The Origins Of The Most DEADLY Ideology On Earth | Prof. David N. Gibbs

[@amenoum7623]

I wish I could give a million "thumbs up" to this. This is something everyone who cares about the truth needs to see.

[@1being]

Gibbs' observations on alleged humanitarian motivations being a disguise for agression, the singularity of neoliberalism and neocon ideologues, the perpetual search for enemies, institutional self-preservation in the face of no necessity, and the betrayal of Russians in 1990's with capitalist predation - all in one interview with supporting quotes and referenced document. Superb guest and interview! Thanks!

[@johnstewart7025]

I was reading about how there were actual differences of opinion about foreign policy in England during 1800s. Disraeli and the French had a financial deal with the ruler of Egypt. His successor Gladstone knocked that over and invaded Egypt, starting the Scramble for Africa.

[@euratunstall3840]

The modus operandi of a rapist works in similar ways...www.noellenelson.com/docs/Prelude_to_Violence.pdf

[@darylwayne5307]

Outstanding observation on your part. "Beware of the Misanthropes that Masquerade as Philanthropists".

[@strongfoot2009]

Russia is a terrible mad dog. Putin HIMSELF asked the US to join NATO and the US flattery refused his proposal and this fact was narrated by Putin HIMSELF!.

[@aliciaczechowski3281]

Professor Gibbs has presented a clear and concentrated overview of how neoconservatism has morphed over the decades. Pascal, thank you for this fascinating interview.

[@passionateprogressive4445]

I worked at the Pentagon/intelligence agencies during the time that your guest discusses and I can say he is spot on. It's important to recognized the effects of Chernobyl on Gorbachev. In his memoirs, he noted that after the Chernobyl disaster, he he realized that nuclear war could not be won.

[@Fredmayve]

He was spooked by concentrated and diverse scare tactics by the West

[@carmenonea3800]

the problem of ze american terrorism is that for way too long there was/ is no accountability for the war crimes commited against humanity by these chozen ones

[@sandybartkus6225]

Agree

[@L98fiero]

What do you mean, was, there still is no accountability!

[@Cloudchopper-x1r]

And it is ongoing. It now depends who will win out in Israel with Trump. The neoconservatives -many of whom he nominated for his cabinet - want Israel adn the US to fight on in Gaza and West bank and enlarge Israel. Trump also supports Israel but for other reasons. He does not really want eternal war there he wants to show his power there by real estate and buildings - like Trump vacation paradise in Gaza.

[@brianwheeldon4643]

It's profoundly disturbing that we never hear anything other than the US was and is the playground bully. We've had the US under a microscope for decades and nothing much good issues from that State onto the condition of the geopolitik. Only war, threat of war and militarism allied with debt and austerity. It was previously Britain another source of canker in the geopolitic. It's little wonder notable science fiction writers got their ideas from watching history unfold. And so it continues, until it doesn't. As Noam Chomsky said it looks as though the human experiment is drawing to a close. We're out of ideas. Too many psychopaths, too much social media, insufficient wisdom to fill a teacup.

[@coldwater5707]

There is growing awareness of the situation. I had a close West Bank Palestinian friend in college so I was brought up to speed on that situation and my dad watched Berlin get obliterated around him in "High School" so I was painfully aware of his immigration story to the United States. You have to approach people from where they are at. After the WMD lies I sussed out the situation more deeply and stumbled across "C*lture of Cr*tique". Good one for the White Gent*le perspective. Unfortunately I have bunch of "School Teachers" on my wife's side of the family and their version of history is so warped I have to sit through the absolute dumbest comments, real Generic 101 stuff also. Decent people but YIKES! Then I just point out some simple verifiable facts and they change the topic QUICKLY!

[@PP-L-24]

I find Mr. Gibbs a wonderfull scholar, the way he asks "do you want me to go on" is refreshing. Thank you Pascal. He helped me also to understand my disdain for a Minney Mouse foreign minister of Germany, Baerbock, who does not understand basic historical interrelations. She is convinced that she is fighting for human rights and freedom, because she is so entrenched in this belief of standing on the good side, that she is unable to understand the world of the grown up men (and women sometimes) who define the Western approach to foreign policy.

[@MaciusSzwed]

Evil is not an ideology its just EVIL

[@tigersilberhannes9153]

I am thinking of the Babylon 5 Shadows ... their ideology is Evolution through conflict. Darvin, Trotzki and Harari have very similar statements in their teachings ... or should we say ideology.

[@MetalNick]

Perpetual primitive violence for domination as an ideology lol smh​@@tigersilberhannes9153

[@ngc-ho1xd]

Ideology is evil

[@barbararouwendal8708]

they will never be happy in life. they fill never fully enjoy the beautiful things in life. they will never know true love, real friendship and have toxic family relations etc. So they are themselves already living in hell. You can see it from their faces, hear it in their voices. You can easily recognise them, it is in their attitude. They are acting all the time, they know it and they like it.

[@qarljohnson4971]

Evil still has to create an ideology, a "worldview" to sell itself, and seduce the ignorant into falling for its lies and manipulations. Using the tactics & strategies that Machiavelli and Edward Bernays outlined, revealing how the ruler class stays atop the social hierarchies. Divide & Conquer.

[@2001abassodyssey]

Love Professor Gibbs - love that he's concerned about concision and timing in the interview; he's very knowledgeable and crystal clear; and he's more sober and calm than other guests while still allowing principles and a moral compass to show a bit

[@Jay...777]

David gives a very clear explanation of the arising of the Neo-cons. Great show.

[@drakethesnek6429]

Did he mention Bill kristols father?

[@Jay...777]

@@drakethesnek6429 He was an assassin - more a foot soldier of the Neocons

[@strongfoot2009]

The neocons are the tails of Israel so call them what they are!.

[@PietroCozziTinin]

I’m very much afraid of people who take a coming war between the US and Russia for granted. The “light” unbothered way people talk about it sickens me.

[@GeistInTheMachine]

Because those people see us as pawns who will fight it for them! While they profit off our 🪦 and misery.

[@PietroCozziTinin]

@@GeistInTheMachine Yes.

[@SuperAstimegoesby]

well the west was very unbothedred, when the west went to war in Afganistan, Irak. Donbass, as long as it is not in your doorstep.

[@MichaelEgan-z7s]

Wow! Loaded with new information and history on neocons. Please do more! Thank you!

[@danbert7634]

Pascal, you are doing a fantastic work and supporting the honour of Switzerland 🇨🇭!

[@musksbumboi]

Here's 50 cents wumao 😂

[@vgstb]

@@musksbumboi ?

[@PeterPotnoodle]

honour of Switzerland?

[@Hands2HealNow]

Refusing negotiations is EVIL!

[@bellakrinkle9381]

Yes, and simultaneously CONTROLLING & manipulative .

[@nataliedoyle4701]

The argument about the Israelization of neoconservatism is intellectually far more satisfying than the standard reference by Mearsheimer and others to the Israel lobby, which is convenient as it lays the blame elsewhere and stresses the corruption of congress.The argument about the israelization argument accounts for the symbiosis between the two countries.It also brings up the question of the European roots of the ideology. Very useful.Thank you.

[@philipambler3825]

Thankyou, Pascal, this is vitally important to all our futures. I cannot thank you enough for having this guest, at this critical time in 2025. May God Bless America. The real Americans have spoken their intent to get their Country back!! 😊 To get their values back To honour their Constitution.

[@РафаэльСаркисянц-ъ2т]

перестаньте совать свой нос по всему миру и возможно Бог вас услышит и вам не оторвут ваш нос, вместе с головой.

[@nk-gp1ml]

Trump will be no saviour. He will be at least as damaging as what preceded him.

[@strongfoot2009]

It is extremely, extremely and extremely disturbing to have Israel control the US presidency, congress and senate plus the US mainstream media....etc!.

[@SRHD123-zt5jz]

Incompetence and brutality, not just in vietnam but every war since.

[@almightyyt2101]

Theres 3 sides to every story -

[@halloola3636]

You forgot profit and money laundering.

[@marcelo55869]

Brutality is the goal on itself. It is to set up an example for the others.

[@thao3456]

I did not realize how Viet Nam affected America so much. Very interesting interview. Thank you.

[@Cloudchopper-x1r]

The worst part was how America in general treated the returning soldiers as if the whole thing was their fault. I have seen it personally a few times. On one side were those who withdrew totally from society and hated everyone - sad to watch - and on the other side where those who armed themselves to the hilt adn actively opposed anything government did. Our family lived next to a bunch of them. They were rally very nice people but extremely suspicious and stand offish in the beginning until we started giving them tomatoes and garden things. Eventually the FBI raided them took all their guns and they were evicted and their sweet child - which we took often to swim spots was shoved into foster care. That's the outcome of America's thirst for world dominance.

[@SEKreiver]

It divided America in ways not seen since 1865. Thanks, LBJ!

[@1being]

For decades, there were warmongers who maintained that the US could have "won" in Vietnam except for politicians who constrained the military. Exactly how none of them ever said. Were they alluding to nuclear weapon use, even more war crimes?

[@fashioncitymetaverse]

Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@marumaru6084]

Vietnam was about the French not granting independence it gets forgotten very quickly.

[@llee4225]

At the beginning but as French was losing, US join in to colonize Vietnam.

[@cart172]

@@llee4225 The USA's playbook. They helped the Philippines fight Spanish colonialism, only to colonize them right afterwards. Why anyone believes the USA is for freedom and human rights is beyond me.

[@robertvanslooten9475]

The massacre on more than 500 innocent inhabitants of the village My Lai, Vietnam, committed in 1968, by soldiers of the American army, has been world news. Only people in Indonesia and the Netherlands have spoken about the massacre of more than 400 innocent inhabitants of the village Rawagede, Java, Indonesia, committed in 1957, by soldiers of the Royal Dutch Indies Army.

[@aromero385]

1970s-1980s Kissinger-Abrams years were terrible violents around latin american countries.

[@mgkos]

💯

[@marcgrant2225]

i remember the nytimes printing of the pentagon papers. i still read the times every morning (on line out of habit along with a cup of coffee and a bagel) but it is definitely not the same nytimes that fought for freedom of the press at the supreme court and printed mcnamara’s notes on vietnam. and now at a time when we need guidance not only in foreign policy but policy within our own society that it becomes a lifestyle rag with the latest recipes for quiche is not only disheartening but frightening.

[@qarljohnson4971]

Many Neocons were former Trotskyists. Who personify a curious psychological phenomenon described by Carl Jung as Enantiodromia. When a person holds an extreme point of view, suddenly flips around to support a polar opposite point of view. Christopher Hitchens is a relatively recent classic example, where he was a controversial former Trot/Left wing advocate, whose inherent contrarianism pivoted around 9/11/2001, to supporting the Cheney/Bush regime coup, cynically attacking liberal progressivism and supporting the Deep State & the military intelligence complex. Another thought is how one might consider, how Neocons might also be seen as curious form of Accelerationism. By supporting the worst aspects of the Anglo American Empire, causing the War Machine to burn itself out, driving the whole Imperialist train off the cliff.

[@sharlagardner]

Fascinating. How do you explain former progressives now embracing neocon policies AND the cia? That behavior totally mystifies me. And, when I ask my former political allies that question, they have no clear answer. Lots of denial, hemming and hawing and some offense taken. I'm considered a rude person for bringing it up.😮

[@philipambler3825]

Thankyou so much for this...😊

[@PeterPotnoodle]

A violent personality will find its outlet in one form or another, it isn't really a matter of opposites. A peaceful tranquil person does not suddenly become violent. As usual, Jung is wrong, he is always wrong about everything, preferring booga booga to common sense.

[@THESPATHARIOS]

I believe thats what at the surface seems to us. But they simply change sides where the money is. They're all bought and sold

[@sutapasbhattacharya9471]

Read Sniegoski's 'The Transparent Cabal' - you are omitting the elephant in the room!

[@meggallucci5300]

Excellent conversation. Neoconservatism cannot relate back to the founding fathers. George Washington in particular would be appalled.

[@macrosense]

Well. The neocon playbook has been more than an open secret for thirty years. It was blatantly published and acted upon. In the mysteries of jargon the terms neoconservative and neoliberal can be used interchangeably. The distinctions are meaningless and cosmetic.

[@Red1555-i6s]

Yes. They are the same.

[@jerryakehurst]

Thank you both; this is really clear, measured and sane exposition of relatively recent and totally relevant history

[@sandybartkus6225]

Biggest lobby in the US, AIPAC

[@aceofswords1725]

Yeah, that's ok to say these days, but when you say that js control the US and the west, which is pretty much the same thing, then suddenly you're right outta Overton window.

[@halloola3636]

Who was behind PNAC?

[@user-xd4rs6vr4n]

Neoconservatism = Jewish Foreign Policy NeoLiberalism = Jewish Economic Policy CALL A SPADE A SPADE

[@synupps877]

According to your bumper sticker analysis, all neoconservatives and neoliberals are Jewish. That's obviously not the case.

[@nahidtaba4527]

Zionists are not jews but jew killers. Their plan is to have isnotreal and Iran destroy each other. Both are being played.

[@Fredmayve]

Zionist. Give the racism a break.

[@jefferyhunziker3123]

Absolutely! ❤

[@sutapasbhattacharya9471]

Yes as Stephen Sniegoski demonstrated years ago.

[@Wxys.500]

Exceptional episode Pascal. And may I add it really helps sharing with uninitiated that it is compact.

[@danpovey]

You cannot talk about Neocons without addressing their ethnicity and religious background.

[@DanaKianfar]

Thank you Pascal. Another great writer about neoconservatives is Jim Lobe.

[@mikekaz8730]

Pascal, your show is so enlightening. You have a talent for discovering talent. Prof. Gibbs is so knowledgeable and humble as well-a pleasure to listen to. I look forward for the next episode.

[@hermitcard4494]

American neocons need your sovereign free country for THEIR safety, economy and freedom. And they dont discard using economic or military force.

[@margyeoman3564]

Yes, I am wondering when they are going to need my sovereign country, Canada, for THEIR safety economy and freedom. As they are suggesting about Greenland.

[@jologo18]

Brilliant! I've always been curious about how the neo-cons took over Washington, and this is the best explanation I've heard to date. Thank you.

[@larryyank3566]

You GUYS TOTALLY NAILED IT❣️. Regards, Viet vet/Ecologist VFP

[@SRHD123-zt5jz]

Israeli prime directive: no friends, just enemies and sycophants.

[@computerking111]

They basically pushed America further into moral depravity. Then they try to convince us that God approves of them.

[@rickcea1017]

Thanks for a quality interview/discussion!!!

[@lizardhunt96]

People who are drawn to politics have psychopathic tendencies. Once in position, they tend to treat people as “statistics” and non-human “things.” There is a complete separation of themselves and humanity so, when it comes to war, they are numb to compassion and grief.

[@sharlagardner]

Not every political person is psychpathic. Those who are not though, quickly see the atmosphere and often leave and find other paths to improving people's lives. The ones who stay often are assassinated, either via character assassination or literal loss of life. Electoral politics is utterly corrupt.

[@aerobique]

wtf?! to politics? lol, in capitalism!? fo real ppl..

[@weijianlu2639]

Thanks

[@pattyhoge1725]

Thank you for another great conversation!

[@tmarinelic]

Educating content

[@susanarupolo2212]

Thank you Pascal and professor Gibbs, great explanation about neocons.

[@garyddlewis3067]

Pascal is easily pleased.

[@kell4674]

I agree with much of his summary of the Neocons, but not with his views on the end of the Soviet Union. He follows the standard Western trope that Soviet economic policies had become unviable by the 70s and eventually led to its 'collapse'. In fact, the entire global economy had become unviable by the 70s, brought on by the OPEC crisis and the end of cheap oil. The SU could have easily weathered the crisis. However, internal and external counter-revolutionary forces had been actively undermining the communist system since 1917. These counter-revolutionary forces peaked in the 30s, then again in the 1950s, and then in the 1980s under Gorbachev. Third time lucky.

[@ahmuqasim7540]

Good point on the fact that growth declined in all countries in the 1970s. But how could have the SU weathered the crisis? In the west a new ideology of neo-liberalism was born a version of which was imposed on developing countries. Did the soviet communists came up with new ideas to save the economy of SU?

[@onlooker774]

You know nothing about ussr collapse...

[@lioneldemun6033]

​@@ahmuqasim7540Yes the famous " glasnost" and " perestroika" of Gorbachev. I do believe that with a drastic liberalisation of the system he could have saved it, there even was a precedent, Lenin's NEP in the 1920's.

[@kell4674]

@@ahmuqasim7540 I can't tell if you're claiming neo-liberalism 'saved' the Western economies. If so, then I couldn't disagree more. Neo-liberalism took opportunistic advantage of the 1970s global economic crisis (the Shock Doctrine) to deregulate and privatise everything state-owned throughout the West. Similar process happened in the SU, where the counter-revolutionaries under Gorbachev used the economic crisis to overthrow the communist system and implement a capitalist agenda (and in the process, make themselves extremely rich). As for 'new ideas', both capitalist and communist systems have plenty of those. It all depends on who funds those 'new ideas' and who benefits from them.

[@scottgraham1143]

There was a BBC documentary some decades ago that explained the Neocons, and I've been trying to find it to rewatch, but this is an excellent summary.

[@mauvegreenwisteria3645]

Was that the documentary which showed common origins between neo cons and Islamic extremists? In that aspect, it was brilliant. Name may have been something like The Power of Dreams. No! It was The Power of Nightmares, by Adam Curtis.

[@scottgraham1143]

That was good, but I think it was another one, specifically about the coup against Allende in Chile.

[@johnlinnemeier9624]

A brilliant and accurate elucidation of how the chance for world peace was scuttled by the neocons. It deserves a wider audience.

[@charleswilkie2097]

Thanks Pascal. Kia ora from Aotearoa. Great stuff from Prof Gibbs. Will have to read his books.

[@Tallorian]

Very nice interview, but I do have a correction for your guest: it was not de Gaulle who said about "we have no permanent allies, but permanent interests", but the British PM Palmerston almost 100 years before de Gaulle. Backstabbing and betraying its yesterday's allies was the core of British geopolitics for centuries, though (you know, like "Operation Unthinkable" was an intrinsically British design). That's just what psychopaths and megalomaniacs set on world domination do. Hence the US, as the successor to the British empire, is virtually the same.

[@L98fiero]

The mafia just changed where the godfather was located and who he was, it was and is still the same organization.

[@ianLord77]

Spot on comment

[@SLF-o2w]

@@L98fiero That’s what Noam Chomsky calls the U.S. Empire - Godfather

[@darylwayne5307]

Much appreciation for your cogent comment, very few people and particularly academics comprehend the scope of British intrigues over the centuries. Perfidious Albion is still with us, regrettably.

[@Tallorian]

@@darylwayne5307 I appreciate the purposeful richness of your vocabulary - despite being a non-native speaker, exploring the depths of English linguistic troves is one of my small joys in life. But in case mockery was implied in your message, in the genuinely subtle manner of British humour, I'm afraid it's just the way I speak, and think, and I'm going to be completely unapologetic about it 😂

[@lovegrenv]

Great interview, Pascal! Enlightening.

[@bunyip5841]

I have heard good interviews about the origins of neoliberalism but this was an excellent concise history of the rise of the neocons.

[@jaswindersian3159]

Unfortunately the US has had no strategic vision for 80 years. You guys to grow up.

[@judithwyer389]

Scoop Jackson was the man from Boeing. There is a very neoconservative tank in London named after Jackson.

[@saladin3273]

I wonder what tribe the neocons all disproportionately come from 🤔

[@sutapasbhattacharya9471]

Read The Transparent Cabal.

[@ojaibill2]

Extremely valuable discussion on origination, continuance , and damaging effects of the Neocon power over US foreign policy. Instead of admitting total failure of US involvement in Vietnamese war, the US doubled down on a foreign policy ruled by military strength and domination over supposed enemies in world affairs. This led to a failed war after war, and down playing of negotiation to settle differences. Both parties embraced Neocon beliefs when in power, most recently Biden.😂😢

[@johnkoester1733]

Thank you for helping me understand a very complex issue in more realistic terms.

[@sarpsomer]

Gibbs is one of the few people knowing these topics detailly. Thanks for the interview.

[@ThvonS]

Clear Minded and to the point. You always pick great guests like Glenn Diesen, Mearsheimer, Ulrike Guérot... Thanks a lot (This was a nice break from watching swiss train journeys on youtube for the sake of a good nights sleep)

[@kennedyjames007]

I fear we are not only sleepwalking into war, we are sleepwalking into war as a racist totalitarian state. We reap what we have sown.

[@cart172]

Someone wise once said, "You deserve the government you get." Americans deserve it because they choose and allow these people to be in power. Too bad the rest of the world has to suffer for it.

[@BestFitSquareChannel]

Superb!

[@jeannovacco5136]

What ABOUT Yugoslavi ?.We know it seemed evident that the "peacemakers" were messing things up as deadly conflicts metastasized, but never understood how... just that combatant groups started pulling the scabs off of old injuries citing lethal cintact up to and beyond the Siege of Vienna (Of course that's Austria but the Austro Hungarian empire had tentacles in the Balkans) -- and now there's new memories of death and destruction that can be passed down and revitalized after dozens or hundreds of thousands of years. People of different faiths had been reportedly sharing apartment houses in some regions there and even intermarrying... but now barely speak in the former Yugoslavia. There had even been a dubious little automobile called the Yugo exported as far as to the United States. Academics prosletizing theories fail to understand that history isn't just written in books but the hearts and minds of the population, and they try to write things off to momentary sentiment captured in some poll or survey or momentary news story of the day. As just one example, the Neo Cons seem to have been successful in convincing people in the west and the USA in particular that there's no difference between the USSR and Russia -- while Americans have to live with the reality that people around the world conflate our population with the actions abroad of our clandestine agencies and regime change policies -- and also take at face value the mischaracterizations by Cultural Marxists peddling victimization and highlighting in mefia reports the rare instances of ill will that do (or did) not prevail in real life (but are in danger of becoming self fulfilling prophecies). It would be great to stick to "what was done and when by whom with which ideas used as justification" -- as is the heart of this interview -- rather than treating identified groups as monolithic "identities" in a kind of historical shorthand. We need more public deconstruction of new conservatism and neo liberalism. Is Victoria Nuland now teaching at Columbia University in NYC, as Zelensky & Putin threaten to set the world beyond their countries on fire? I'd only identified Daniel Patrick Moynihan with his domestic thinking on fatherless urban populations. All I know is that Gorbachev was betrayed By westerners and the united states in particular ignoring the promise to him that NATO would not advance one inch -- And now they've even got Finland Exposing its long border to Russia as a NATO member after maintaining meticulous neutrality since simetime around the end of WW2. People don't seeinto understand the lessons.I learned from childhood board games and from owning farmland -- that the further you extend your borders, the more vulnerable you become to incursions. Right now, the accusations against American populists are of becoming isolationists. There's got to be some better explanation than failure to stick to the Monroe Doctrine (of " new world" hemispheric hegenomony) somehow explains what's happened to the American population other than: At the end of WW2 America was the world's greatest creditor nation -- and now we're the world's greatest debtor nation.

[@silviamartin2823]

Gracias Dr. Gibbs es maravilloso saber que en Arizona contamos con personas tan especiales como usted.🇱🇷❤️

[@tigersilberhannes9153]

A long and sofisticated way to totally not saying "it's the ...".

[@aceofswords1725]

Yupp, they just keep dancing around it. Just like the "donor class" judge Napolitano uses or "the lobby" or.. Just don't say the j-word. The time is still not ripe to call them what they very obviously are and which can be made so obviously apparent just by checking their last names or wikipedia "early life" section.

[@iansmith587]

It would be interesting to count the number of names or euphemisms we use to describe Jews.

[@allencollins6031]

I ​@@aceofswords1725I like Phil Giraldi. He comes right out and says it.

[@leolennox1209]

It is a common interpretation that Europe does what America tells it to do. I know of know evidence for those instructions even though the US often acts first then Europe follows. A more logical explanation is that lobbies operate simultaneously in Europe and America and, if successful, both regions take actions at the same time in solidarity. (I'm cautious about naming the obvious international lobby because of censorship.)

[@mickgee1661]

Same people in control.

[@audibledarkness]

Informative interview. Looking forward to part 2.

[@stuartwray6175]

21:47 energy prices declined due to conservation ? - conservation? Didn't Reagan conspire with Saudi Arabia to boost production in order to weaken the Soviet Union?

[@homelessjesse9453]

Reagan also granted amnesty back in 1986 for the illegals. Something every Republican somehow seems to forget....

[@madeinengland1212]

Energy conservation after the oilshock reduced oil use dramatically. What were you thinking of?

[@dwwolf4636]

Yes. And most are very vocal about that mistake. Because of the other half of that bargain was never upheld.

[@famousutopias]

And opening of the Alaskan Pipeline and North Sea oil extraction coming on line about the same time where both Reagan and Thatcher enjoyed political windfall once energy prices fell in the early 1980s thus ending stagflation

[@jeannovacco5136]

​Thank you. Reagan also presided over the deregulation of the media and requirements for balanced coverage on a granular basis, giving us the one-sided attack-dog legacy media of today which monopolizes network news with one sided presentation of facts that distort the geopolitical landscape , plus irrational partisan jaw-boning on what passes for TV punditry. When Republicans In congress tried to modify mindless deregulation of media, Reagan VETOED it. But Bill Clinton also gets major credit for allowing monopolization -- so now there's a handful of media corporations instead of the dozens or hundreds which existed before. If that's neo liberal economics, then as a by-product it quashed free speech -- by removing platforms of those who dissented on any basis and ultimately interjecting censorship. @@homelessjesse9453

[@toulashouseofclayprins8722]

Great interview

[@КонтсантинЧебыкин]

Thank you

[@logosao88]

Neoconservatism (a.k.a. globally-enforced liberalism) is not an ideology that is consistent with that of a peaceful republic.

[@bestintentions6089]

Any place there is budding strong nation to be disrupted

[@markthomason9723]

The US repeatedly disarmed to far below to level of safety, starting after the Revolution. It did it again in 1945, or it seemed so to those who feared Stalin. Maintaining an adequate defense became a project, the answer to which was to have a suitable enemy. The end of the Cold War threatened the "Peace Dividend" of massive disamament, on the 1945 scale, which was feared. Finding someone to fight was the "answer" to that "danger." It was not merely military industrial greed, it was fear of our own political patterns. The answer became the problem, a not unusual outcome.

[@kamaurahamukti5919]

mind blowingly interesting. Thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@pomegranate6221]

WOW...just from the into, this is going to be good!

[@numbersix8919]

I've been waiting for this specific discussion for a long time. I don't expect a bourgeois intellectual to mention the bourgeoisie, but he may throw some light on their office boys (and girls) . We'll see. OK, I'm satisfied well enough, we have a good historian here. Not a communist, but that's usefully compelling.

[@ricelaker]

AFRICOM is a good example of military power over diplomacy. I told Sen Feingold Democrat WI this years ago at a town meeting. He was a huge fan of AFRICOM.

[@SLF-o2w]

AFRICOM headquarters has to be based in Germany because no African country can host it. Recently, Niger expelled U.S. soldiers ….(and take your drones with you!” Along with Mali, Bourkina Faso, Chad who kicked out French and left ECOWAS to form the new Sahel Federation!

[@johnb4639]

@35m "...they even talked about the need to disrupt European unity in the EU because they fear the European Union could be a challenger..." Such disruption they achieved with the creation of the undemocratic Eurozone and the implementation of the common currency. The financially unfederated architecture of the Eurozone was intentionally designed to be divisive. With fiscal austerity and borderless labour built in it ensured a race to the bottom for wage rates as poorer states lost workers to wealthy industrial states. It was purpose designed by arch neoliberal Robert Mundell - a Milton Friedman acolyte. The full implications of the Euro structure were publicised by the few heterodox economists (Mitchell, Mosler, Hudson, Wray etc) - but they were largely ignored by the propagandised masses. Prof Bill Mitchell wrote a book "Eurozone Dystopia" about it. Robert Mundell wrote an article [2012] on the Guardian titled "Evil genius of the euro" - worth a read.

[@KinChan-p4l]

Amazing and awesome discussion between Professor Gibbs and Pascal, the China threat comes to my mind on the eve of the Trump inauguration, Neoconservative and Neoliberalism are. 2 sides if a coin, the harm and damage are evident ,again thanks for the superb Dialogues

[@ianLord77]

Incredible interview and discussion! A follow up would be greatly appreciated 👍

[@DerekTomlinson-d3z]

How true.

[@sandybartkus6225]

GENERAL PATTON: THE WRONG PEOPLE WON WWII

[@filmbuffo5616]

General Marshall the architect of the Allied victory in World War 2 disagreed with his subordinate - and what was General Patton's record in the Pacific?

[@ldragon8er]

I had not heard the word 'empire' very much, but it was used in this excellent conversation.

[@PLMS99]

This is an amazing channel ❤

[@garyddlewis3067]

I hope you get better soon.

[@joelferguson8714]

Looking over at the clock, it's one forty four in the morning. Great show.

[@merfymac]

Good guest Pascal

[@DavidFiorillo-m3o]

This was a great interview. I love your channel thank you.

[@alexandervostrov5391]

"Russia has only two allies: its Army and Navy" Attributed to Alexander III, circa 1885-1890.

[@TomMcinerney-g9b]

Transition to emphasis on military force, vs diplomacy: "coercive diplomacy" is, I think, the current term of art.

[@MickFutz1]

Thank you gentlemen.

[@garyddlewis3067]

For what.

[@trevorlloydevans]

Hegseth says he wants to rekindle the American warrior spirit. This frightens me as a citizen of the global south.

[@markthomason9723]

Jefferson disposed of the US Navy's ships, and even its stores of timber, building only tiny gunboats for use defending harbors. He also eliminated the Army, and left the frontier to defend itself with militia. He might have been high minded about principles, but he disabled the US from any ability to do anything about that in other countries. It was his opponents (Adams) who wanted and built a Navy, and a tiny Army.

[@dynamike201]

A very accurate interpretation of events by prof. Gibbs that should have led to the breaking up of Nato in the nineties as its basis for existence fell away. While this was discussed at the time distrust among european nations prevented the forming of its own set of security organisations. Nor did the US want to abandon their defacto controll over it.

[@EchosJourneys]

Great discussion. Thank you.

[@outcastoffoolgara]

Thank you for this dialogue. When did the WEF emerge from the swamp and how is it related to the MIC necessity to smother European independent thinking lest it smother NATO?

[@kimeldiin1930]

The obvious lack of deductional capacity of each new end every administration is UTTERLY EMBARRASSING , Particularly for me an European academic.....but then again people seeking power over others .......BRRRRRRRRRR.....

[@aceofswords1725]

They deduce quite proficiently my dear professor. They just want you to think they're dumb because in fact they are hiding their true motives. It is the "I'm well meaning but stupid" defense (aka "It was an honest mistake, gov, It's a pure luck that all my mistakes end up with me profiting.") which seems to be particularly effective against the academia class. They are playing on your ego, a classic conman tactic.

[@DonGonzalito]

It is valuable what he said about "Carter-Reagan" policy. One tends to beatify Carter nowadays.

[@JK-nk6tl]

An empire that is very unhomogenious (internally conflicted) needs an enemy in order to stay together; without this enemy the empire will crumble to internal conflict. I think this is the key to understanding why the US have pushed to re-invented Russia and China as enemies. Whether this is by design or more a unconscious effect is a good question. You could also argue that the US empire is falling, the dollar empire is ending, the economic situation is looking bleak, militarily the US is not the top dog anymore and they are being called on the bluff, and the move towards a "multi polar world" is just inevitable. And if that is the case (I think it is), then those neo-cons will be very very dangerous for the world .. remember they are the only ones in the world who beleive in the concept of a "limited nuclear exchange" and that it is "winnable" - Utterly detached from reality, but ideology does that to you.

[@marcobsomer5574]

merci, mais au Vietnam les us ont perdu 58000 hommes, rien. rapport de 1/100.

[@annmowatt7547]

Yes, especially compared to the Vietnamese who were slaughtered.

[@madeinengland1212]

Is there some connection between all these people?

[@elorateq3672]

Money, and power. The lust for these has ever created evil in this world.

[@saladin3273]

✡️

[@mrwilloughby8684]

After hearing and knowing all this. I just want to ask Pascal again. 《Do you still think "neutrality" in a generalised sense, work as a geopolitcal and foreign diplomacy directive for all countries？》 Western democracy was designed to be authoritarian from the beginning as individual voters are by definition ignorant even without propaganda and neferious influences from "allies". We don't live 1000 years. How many times in the past have you "voted wrong" because you were too naive? Just how much more "aware" are Swiss people about your own foregin policy direction with your precious superior direct case by case democracy compared to the other western countries? Can real neutrality exist in these imperfect systems that are all purposely designed by ALL western democracies?

[@StefanWeber-n6e]

Swiss, Finland, Austria, Sweden. Some of the best examples for neutrality.

[@sandybartkus6225]

NATO MEMBERS?​@@StefanWeber-n6e

[@Tershula]

@@StefanWeber-n6e Sweden and Finland just joined the world's largest military alliance.

[@marie-laure.]

Your sweeping analysis of European constitutions speaks to prejudice more than knowledge

[@StefanWeber-n6e]

@ yes, for no good reason. More of a very sad and stupid thing. Russia loved neutral states, always respected them.

[@lepton561]

Bought immediately the book for the relevant insight.

[@devjoe_]

Excelent!! Great inteview!

[@peterparler3246]

Why are there so many Jews among neocons?

[@halloola3636]

Who owns and runs U$ of AIPAC?

[@jacquelinebm17]

Thank you 🙏