What an ‘Unhinged’ Meeting Reveals About ‘Vladimir Putin’s War’ | Putin's Road to War | FRONTLINE

[@frontline]

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[@brandon8900]

"video is not available"

[@guyfawkesuThe1]

READ THIS! President Biden(s!) is asking Congress for $13 billion for Ukraine. Where is the money for securing the US Southern Border? Thousands of people from all over the world, including Russians, invade the USA through the border Democrats are not interested in securing!! Why did not the Obama/Biden give these sanctions when Russia invaded the Ukraine Crimea region in 2014???? The small sanctions implemented gave Putin the green light for his current actions!! Why was Hunter Biden on the Board of Directors of a Ukranian energy company for $50,000 a month?? What about the evidence on Hunter Biden's laptop and his Chinese Communist connections!?!?

[@MikeOxlong-]

March 15th, 9pm eastern... Video not available...

[@nikhilprem7998]

At this point this is just propaganda from your side, Frontline. I like your channel but not this one. Is this the end of American Dollar?$?

[@keithbentley6081]

We want news, not western opinions or propaganda. Maybe you could mention the Russian speaking people of Ukraine and why Russia is there, and that's just for starters. Absolutely disgusted by a channel I once respected!

[@WilliamPitcher]

The body language of his advisors was something else.

[@jaymesnin]

We need to deploy C-RAMs to Ukraines capital. S-300/400 systems. As well as drones, stingers and various weapons/equipment/aid

[@dohc1067]

The woman they kept showing looked completely terrified 😨 😳

[@peculiarlittleman5303]

I'm going to review it again to better learn the body language, and facial expressions of fear and contempt.

[@melinaesposito3434]

If 'please don't kill me' were a person.

[@ThemFuzzyMonsters]

Somebody made the joke “In Russia, the Presidential Advisors don’t advise the President. The President advises the Advisors.” It appears to be true.

[@JBravo69]

“Thank you. I have listened to my opinions” - Vladimir Putin

[@andis9076]

I have listened to what I asked you to say. Thank you !

[@metasaurus3233]

LOL ahhhhh shit

[@Ray-hs2nx]

@@andis9076 u too

[@unfortunateness]

Meanwhile everyone's faces: 3:13

[@kerimoisa8823]

NOT ALL OF US ARE HATERS.

[@SteveBonario]

It was not unhinged at all. It was a perfectly orchestrated and scripted play, with one person who began to flub his lines and needed prompting from the director. The purpose of the play was to give the director a room full of people who could be offered up at any moment the audience (the Russian people) began looking for those responsible for their sons coming back in body bags. If you ever wondered what went on in German government during the late 1930's, you are getting a front row seat to the contemporary version.

[@azieldaly2965]

exactly

[@adambozentko5877]

Well said, Touchė..

[@yourmommashouse]

NAILED IT

[@cindiheaton6469]

@@yourmommashouse Yes he definitely did.

[@roberthansson8222]

I wonder how the conversation went before USA and their allies decided to illegitimatly invade iraq.

[@sakuranippon4434]

This is the real life equivalent to a Bond villain meeting where one of the failed henchmen gets killed in front of the rest of them as a warning to them all.

[@channelingusllcix3512]

reminds me of what you read about Stalin and how people were terrified of him. Stalin unlike Putin had a sadistic sense of humor, during the great terror he said to one gov official ''i thought they shot you''. Then upon meeting him again he said ''I can't believe you haven't been shot'' which terrified the man

[@beautifulcrazy]

That guy should watch his back. It was a warning

[@Belisarius1967]

@@beautifulcrazy If he's ever offered a cup of tea by a stranger he should just say no !

[@kelsogirl562]

It comes out of Putin in a different way. Angela Merkel made the mistake of telling him she was terrified of dogs so, when he next had a meeting with her, he brought with him a massive labrador which kept pestering her. He apparently enjoyed seeing her squirm with fear.

[@channelingusllcix3512]

@@kelsogirl562 yea i never heard that story

[@andriandrason1318]

@@channelingusllcix3512 No story but history, it's on KZbin look it up.

[@kathleenlock8963]

If any one of them had spoken out against invading Ukraine, at the next meeting their chair would be empty.

[@Camquarters]

He will be taken out by his people eventually. The time is coming

[@stupidas9466]

No, the chair would be occupied with someone who wouldn't speak out.

[@drakevevo3710]

they would have sadly passed away from a heart attack or simply just "complications"

[@champion3859]

Kathleen Because he is the new Czar the king of Russia🙂.

[@dalebergman5548]

Scary as HELL !!!! K Bergman

[@w1redonkey]

It's not that Sergey isn't speaking plainly. He is just conducting a "special linguistics operation".

[@Jdonam]

Nice!

[@TheGeeoff]

Versions of this phrase are making into everyday lingo.

[@MrBritishComedy]

@KC Jones I'm fairly confident that it was not that. The FSB has long been rumored to disagree with Putin's plans and to think that the war is a lost cause that will ruin Russia. He may well have been looking for support by his inially careful wording, but he didn't have the courage to follow through when he saw that everyone else was equally scared to do anything.

[@abstract3213]

I cannot stand how Putin tries to humiliate his ability/ intelligence

[@PianistStefanBoetel]

😂

[@ihadtochooseaname8532]

Naryshkin giving his opinion stuttering was scary, but look at the woman from 3:13. Her stare and inconstant breathing, she must have wondered, where is this going to lead and how do we get out of this.

[@TheTomcatish]

She’s freaking out…

[@mangomerkel2005]

Nah, this is Valentina Matviyenko, the chairwoman of the Federation Council, one of the hardest Putin supporters... she might have been sceptical about the war, but surely not afraid.

[@sulla1537]

Narishkin’s fear was unnerving. A grown man, likely strong and intelligent in his own right, quivering like a beaten dog sensing a club to his head. Never mind, it’s not unnerving but nauseating, rather, that a man can be so debased like this and especially from a very real fear looming in the ether.

[@Anonymous-nz4li]

He is on house arrest now I believe

[@sulla1537]

@@Anonymous-nz4li Putin’s going to go all Stalin and start another purge. Just wait. I’m also wondering if he’s sensing his age and/or has a serious illness which is causing him to do all of this.

[@Sevenfold120]

@@Anonymous-nz4li Soon to be the gulag and eventual execution for lying to Putin.

[@mattjacks0n83]

Say the wrong thing and you and your entire family could disappear. I’m not surprised he was shaking like a shitting dog! 🤔

[@twisterwiper]

Yup. That was a man publicly compromising his own principles and values. It’s strange one man can have so much power over an entire group of intelligent men and women.

[@pdtech4524]

This is like a scene out of a Bond movie where the villians henchmen are so frightened of disagreeing with their boss, they'll agree with and say anything in order to avoid certain death!😁😲😳

[@drunkrumjack]

Was there a shark tank under the seats? 😜

[@_Aemse]

this is when the villain's own flaws destroy him - only somehow I doubt putin will be "returning the boon" on his heroes journey. although he has come full circle from when he was shovelling documents into a furnace as the baby KGB jockey.

[@dubbleplusgood]

I think it's more like the parody, Dr. Evil from Austin Powers and everyone there was Number 2 trying not to get thrown into a pit of fire.

[@spoiledme5802]

Remember that meeting when Sadam Husein started pointing people out of the room?

[@DrReginaldFinleySr]

Trump was headed down this same path. 😞 Nothing but yes people surrounded him. Only once released from his grip did they finally speak out.

[@rand49er]

The looks on those people as they sat in front of him. Each had a look of worry. They were frightened. This will be the end of Putin. I don't know how or when, but this war will lead to his demise.

[@chrisperell4590]

Tucker Carlson is over there right now giving Putin a reach around.

[@angelapiliposian7317]

Agreed! This is his end

[@kelsogirl562]

I read that Putin has a horror of dying in the same way as Sadaam Hussein but he has surely brought that possibility a step closer. Someone close to him should take him out.

[@michaeltrumph121]

@@angelapiliposian7317 No it ain't.

[@radjalomas8854]

I think so as well, but how long will it take to play out?

[@pha4614]

Putin: "I have heard your opinions" Nope, you really didn't Putin, you really didn't.

[@Sil-zx]

This video really hasn't shown us the whole politicians speaking only some parts and some of them which were fast little clips talking without no audio didn't seem scared of Putin some of them just we're also very worried because it's a tough decision so they had to make sure they know what they will say for recommendations for Putin to think about .... I'm going to keep it real I probably would've been knowing the plan will be alright be will need to have a 2nd thought in mind always !!! and take this Russians are just direct and serious and try to get things accurately confirm which Putin wanted

[@floraaficianado5050]

In body language alone, the decision was made BEFORE the meeting and then rubber-stamped by his minions who ALL needed an undie check after they all but left their minds on the chopping block! Such a pathetic spectacle!

[@paul1979uk2000]

This wasn't anything about the advisors advising Putin, this was about them telling Putin what he wanted to hear and it was easy to see the fear they showed in their body language and clearly just going on that, this is Putin's war not Russia's war but for this to get resolved, it's going to take these kinds of people that are close to Putin to become brave and do something about it otherwise it could be all their necks on the line if they leave it too late and the Russian people rise up with how bad things are getting in the country. Either way, I think Putin is finished no matter what happens in Ukraine, there are some lines you don't cross and I can't see how he can recover from this.

[@CapsFan]

He’s going to have each and everyone of those individuals in that video publicly executed before he himself goes down.

[@vanbrabant6791]

In 1991, the West's purchasing power was 80% of the world's, nowadays 36%. Driving Russia into the arms of China by trying to grab it through related oligarchs under Jeltsin the Drunk was the biggest diplomatic mistake of the previous millennium. The second was expanding Nato influence eastward, against repeated reassurance of the opposite (I.a. by Nato SecGen Wörner), also by the use of bombs with which we Europeans were "allowed" to disrupt our neighbourhood on the Balkans, in W Asia and N Africa, from where we then had to receive millions of poor refugees. By mistake or design to weaken us, dear US "allies". Greetings from Brabant.

[@kofi3124]

@@vanbrabant6791 now that is one big pile of bullshit, the West still accounts for 75% of the global GDP and no official agreement in written form was made that prohibits NATO from extending eastwards. Now you may wonder why so many post-soviet states suddenly want to join the alliance? Because Russia is threatening them and breacking it's promises (e.g. they traded Ukraine's nukes for a guarantee to never invade the country).

[@vanbrabant6791]

@@kofi3124 If you can't distinguish between GDP and purchasing power, you cannot be helped.

[@arultabitha483]

You have to have an original mind. You don't need glossy telling you this is how it is Why didn't he engage in war when NATO increased its numbers. They don't take you there do they

[@JJMHigner]

"We will always have kings-- we just won't call them that." ---Napoleon

[@pgknippel]

How long until Musk is officially an oligarch?

[@theironknight597]

"Democracy is game used by the strong to conceal their oligarchs rule." -Napoleon

[@itsyooboii1464]

@@Free-Palestine I love that quote 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇸🇲🇽

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. ---Our French Emperor Napoleon

[@theironknight597]

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 Politicians have since strictly adhered to this maxin.

[@MariaML14]

The man's a legend!

[@pamaladalrymple9748]

A legend in his own mind, perhaps. But so was Rasputin

[@samhart4663]

George bush was worse than Rasputin

[@JI7NKJ]

The man who pushes the meat grinder button.

[@deleteme924]

Maybe, but he messed up here by not listening to his own advisors

[@altprsn6929]

“Speak plainly” says that guy who denied invasion of Ukraine in Feb and here we are.

[@gbraal]

Totaly agree!

[@jdocean1]

He’s a lying sack of you know what.

[@a6893_]

Wouldn't it be foolish to anounce invasion 3 months in advance though? I will break into your house after 3 months be ready.XD Simple logic

[@gregoryfuzi4745]

There's your ☢️.

[@gbraal]

@@a6893_ Yeah, like we are stupid. It s like a guy preparing for your house, standing for your windows with a crowlbar, shouting that he will not come into your house

[@archerseo]

This seems like a documentary we would watch many years from now but it was like a week ago. Good doc, horrible times we live in. Prayers and support for Ukraine

[@MikeOxlong-]

You should watch the almost hour long clip that’s a part of this documentary, that’s strictly just talking to Julia... She’s one smart cookie... It’s on this channel.

[@seanbrown9048]

Annihilate these savage Cossack war criminals, then reset Russia with a truly Democratic government.

[@archerseo]

@Tony don’t twist my words, I don’t know you, but I never pray for war or leaders who wish to end the lives of others for personal or political gain. War is horrible all around. Every country has made serious mistakes before. The implications of this one could be global if any NATO country gets involved. Putin could decide to use a nuke which he has mentioned on a few occasions. Then that would be the end of humanity. No one would be praying then. We would all be dead. So I pray for peace. Always for peace and de escalation of conflict

[@archerseo]

@@MikeOxlong- oh cool thank you I will.

[@charlesmaximus9161]

Wasn’t Putin who violated multiple treaties. Wasn’t Putin or Russia who backed out the last Iran deal. Wasn’t Putin who flooded Ukraine with militantly liberal NGOs in the attempts to foment colour revolution. The US did all of the above, and all the ignorant sheep who treat their TV and mainstream news as gospel are too blind and brainwashed to understand any of this. They have absolutely no idea the kind of people and forces they’re ACTUALLY supporting. And their naivety and their blind and shallow ignorance is going to get all the rest of us into serious problems. And all they need to do is exert basic critical thinking skills and do a little bit of homework. And by homework, I don’t mean the news. I don’t mean Vice either. I mean reading the reports of former military consultants like Colonel Douglas MacGregor who was predicting all this for a long time. I mean brilliant academics who understand the East and can speak Russian language like Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson. That is what I mean by homework. Apparently, that’s too exhausting and lacking in depthless sensationalism for all the lemmings.

[@cliffarroyo9554]

A couple of different Russians interpret Naryshkin's behavior not as fear of Putin so much as the sudden and horrible realization that Putin's going to go ahead with this insane plan (N represents a more peaceful faction in the inner circle) and that Putin is going to blame them if it doesn't work out.... he's spreading blame before the invasion.

[@hannahbeanies8855]

A little of column A, a little of column B

[@eljanrimsa5843]

Perhaps he remembered at this point how he exaggerated that the Ukraininans love Putin and hate their government in his latest reports, and how this would end horribly wrong for all.

[@stupidas9466]

@@hannahbeanies8855 and a few more columns that no one but Putin himself is aware of…yet.

[@snoozyq9576]

Wouldn't that mean that they are afraid of him though? Otherwise they wouldn't be supporting something that they find so horrifying

[@MINI-ME666]

golden words - he may have take money fro zelencky

[@nicolasrose3064]

It looked like he had convened a meeting to assess his staff's loyalty to him and their understanding of what he demands of them, "are you with me, are you on the same page, do you put me and my proposal above and before any opinion you might personally have and in regard to your personal opinion, are you prepared to accept that your personal opinions mean nothing to me ?"

[@edgeworldpictures6831]

It's incredible this meeting footage is available. Remarkable. It's like the teacher scolding his class, embarrassing them to say what he wants to hear.

[@thefourthrabbit9516]

School children today: What are you talking about? A teacher can do that???

[@zhouwu]

@@thefourthrabbit9516 Ikr?

[@craigusselman546]

He wanted this to be availiable....all part of his plan he wants people around the world to feel unease.

[@lyannastark3839]

This footage had to be available online and most likely shown on TV.

[@blackout07blue]

Putin looks like someone shot him in the leg. Lol

[@l.d.t.6327]

Putin: Say things as they are and "speak plainly" Putin, one week later about the war: It's a special military operation.

[@BethJehovah]

Putin talks to humans like they are inferiors.

[@blackwhite6391]

@@BethJehovah no Only US warmongers feels that way 🥳😂😇🤣😢

[@LACYJEN1999]

He should call it shock and PILLAGE?

[@meganfedor]

AKA: Gaslighting (the modern day doublespeak).

[@MultiLimpet]

Also 4 weeks later everything going to plan

[@lil----lil]

I will forever be grateful of Bill Gates' Quote: "If you find yourself the smartest guy in a company meeting (as owner) you're in BIG TROUBLE." Not only I'm not offended, I feel LUCKY and GLAD that I hire people that's smarter than me!

[@misino8927]

Smart observation.

[@noteda6361]

high road Andy

[@jowbloe4700]

Bill Gates : let me tell you admit Vaccines. Me : 🤣 go sit down and tell me why Windows sucks

[@itsyooboii1464]

Windows will never be on the level as Apple 😂😂 Bill Gates is a failure . Elon Musk should ship him to the sun & see what that does exactly.

[@jorgegarcia3358]

@@itsyooboii1464 im guessing you dont know what failure means

[@stampsplusltd670]

A chilling insight into the mind of a deranged monster. Subsequent to this, some of these men have already been arrested, 'neutralized' and suffered inexplicable medical events. Is it only a matter of time when they will stand up and have him removed safely to an asylum?

[@chrissynz6974]

Any news about the scared witless spy chief? Felt sorry for him, its a wonder this was even released. 2 oligarchs dead wonder if this guys next or already dead..Putin will have punished him somehow.with so many spies in that country couldn't one of them take Putin down? He's pure evil!

[@healingwithgaia8045]

Its fabrication and dramatisation. Who adds music and crap like this to a bit of footage. Putin speaks straight. He does not suffer idiots. Ukraine are the culprits with allowing NATO bases all along the border of Russia. Ukraine is led by child trafficking NATO bio lab engineering politicians. Wake up!

[@JI7NKJ]

bullets are cheap.

[@pascaloz5284]

Many of us take our democracy for granted not knowing it's a priceless possession.

[@ShannaLaesway]

amen

[@andrewdoctor6584]

Yea that’s why we must never allow the democrats to win any elections.

[@kayzeaza]

Right? As an American I see people shit on democracy all the time. And hey I know america isn’t perfect but hell we’re more free than the Russians at least

[@dayapo5132]

Lots of political fruit cakes want to take our freedom from us and bringing in socialism notzi, putin, Obama style 🤔

[@beister21]

@@andrewdoctor6584 I guess you’d prefer a coup, and no free elections

[@melinaesposito3434]

Amazing how you can control people under the threat of death.

[@garysandiego]

Death? Not so bad. It’s the torture beforehand that focuses the mind.

[@thenoxbox3871]

@@garysandiego Agree!

[@tauceti8060]

I think Putin should be the one afraid because hes there because those people allow him so what if they they decide they have enough of Putin's antics and...

[@SimpleLifeAlways81]

No, I think they’re scared of being tortured or have their family killed.

[@fernandoamy8278]

All dictators rule through fear.

[@AaronS11979]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” -Edmund Burke

[@jeronimotamayolopera4834]

DESTROY DEMOCRACY.

[@REIVAXMEELAS]

@@jeronimotamayolopera4834 long live democracy

[@amazingsupergirl7125]

Um…if good people do good, that’s when the bad people hate them most. They see compassion and kindness as weakness and prey on it. They’ll come at them with ridiculous challenges, such as this, and good people have no choice but to fight back. They have to lower themselves to the bad standards just to survive. I refer to Ukraine but it could apply to any of these people sitting in this room in front of this nutcase.

[@johnlittle3430]

@@amazingsupergirl7125 In this case, one strong person doing good would simply consist of putting a bullet between Putin's eyes. Every second he's alive brings civilization closer to its end.

[@diegodelacruzanaya537]

Too bad all sides are evil

[@jaymac7203]

Plot twist. It was actually Putins pink lipstick 💄 that was making him stammer. Lol

[@adventurek2066]

The scary thing about him is when he smiles. It’s better to see him angry than to see him smile at you.

[@koblongata]

Chinese people worship him though

[@BoomerKeith1]

@@koblongata Is it because of propaganda? I can't imagine how anyone, with the ability to look for themselves, could think he's a good person.

[@koblongata]

@@BoomerKeith1 Yea, the state media, the great firewall and school teachers...

[@Victoria-rl4cu]

I thought that very thing

[@Victoria-rl4cu]

Keng Yuan Chang and what about you? You worship Putin too?

[@webeducation]

You'd be surprised how many bosses at various jobs are like this.

[@josephcernansky1794]

and you'd be surprised at how many of those assholes I put in their place! LOL I was raised by a WW2 Marine...and taught to take no shit from no man....I NEVER feared for a $$....I AM MY OWN MAN.....I learned from the time I walked to pull my own boots on.....NOBODY has ever held a paycheck or sales order or contract over my head. I am NOBODY'S dog!!! Now, those ass kissers put themselves in that position for the benefits of the position. Now they can't walk away for fear of loss. Or else fear of death!!

[@nevinronald5518]

No point in defaming these bosses unless maybe they stand up against “nat0”

[@SuperOldWorld]

What makes you think we are surprised :)

[@JI7NKJ]

Yes surrounded by yes men, thats why I am self employed.

[@sweetandsavoury]

Wow, the looks on Putin's advisors is something to behold they look terrified and these are the people that know what he's capable of......stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦 💪 🇺🇦

[@MichealLee__]

Fake news america lies so munch lol American need a war for insurance we are in debt

[@johnlittle3430]

@@MichealLee__ You can stop talking utter shit any time you like.

[@SuperVoidBoyz]

Yeah this guy is one of the most powerful individuals in the world that can decide to hit the red button at any point. Russia has one of the biggest military arsenal and lots of nuclear warheads.

[@greenman1411]

@@SuperVoidBoyz Goodness - you seem very well informed!

[@Енот-й9ч]

and you don't know that Russia has endured for 8 years and has just now started a military operation, and Putin doesn't want to touch the peaceful people of Ukraine, and if he wanted to, he simply undermined the whole of Ukraineand you don't know that Russia has endured for 8 years and has just now started a military operation, and Putin doesn't want to touch the peaceful people of Ukraine, and if he wanted to, he would simply undermine the whole of Ukraine!

[@w.b.t.127]

Scared or not the whole Security Council also needs to be held accountable for WAR CRIMES. They let it happen even when it was the wrong move. No courage.

[@brettwilson7680]

They have no real power, Putin is a tyrant and has long since surrounded himself with yes men. Anybody that has shown courage has either been killed or imprisoned.

[@LMCSM]

That's cowards for you 😔

[@eaubert1]

That one guy's stuttering and insecurity were a clear sign that he was terrified of the dictator!

[@donrane]

It was punishment because he suspected there where leaks coming from his department.

[@eaubert1]

@@donrane ..... if you have to put on a performance of publicly trusting your staff members, while secretly mistrusting them, then don't even bother!

[@thomastomi8402]

nato probaganda

[@eaubert1]

@@thomastomi8402 .... you don't need to be a psychoanalyst to realize what was going on here! If anything, this meeting was Russian propaganda.

[@thomastomi8402]

@@eaubert1 then all thr nato meeting was a bias probaganda too

[@TOJMNYP]

They all looked like victims of human trafficking. They look scared for their life. And he is a bully. Mocking the guy stammering. What a piece of nothing.

[@FallenRingbearer]

That woman on the right in the green. She looked like that was the last place she wanted to be, ever.

[@wasserman7273]

@@FallenRingbearer you should hear her more speaking. she's very much in it.

[@FallenRingbearer]

@@wasserman7273 ah, I was merely commenting on the video. I wasn't excusing her.

[@chaosXP3RT]

In a modern country, the Cabinet sits around a table and discusses matters with the President. They don't sit in chairs and take turns walking up to a podium to say what the President wants to hear. Russia is living under Fascism

[@danielwymer1580]

And the USA and canada, light fascism

[@MuhammadAli-in1qm]

@@danielwymer1580 The U.S and Canada don't even come close to Putin's Russia.

[@denasharpe2393]

And this is a surprise to ?????

[@lindaj5492]

Except when they sit round a table with Trump demanding their accolades…. Does USA now understand why the rest of the world was so appalled by Trump?

[@stephenwright8824]

@@lindaj5492 Some of us don't, unfortunately. For them, Putin is just another butt they want to kiss, and often.

[@jaymac7203]

Having an unquestionable and feared leader is not the way to run anything smoothly. No one will want to go out of their way for him or even have any sense of genuine loyalty. It's just ridiculous that anyone would think of it as an effective model. Especially in this day and age of information where people can easily see all sides of the dispute and see the lies being used on them which just fosters even more hatred and morale problems. We're seeing the cracks already with everyone blaming each other and the poor training, I'm amazed they function at all.

[@go4it776]

Your probably right but what can you do lol

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

Well it's better to be feared than loved and it worked for Stalin for ALL of his life till his death, it can work for Putin, even within modern times.

[@Gmthekiller]

Putin is a true leader not like sleepy joe

[@feras4594]

Insane how he controlled that advisors answers and just put straight fear into his heart. Disgusting form of politics if you can even call it that. Defy and you get poisoned or shot and left in an alley to rot. This guy is a bigger problem than I would have ever perceived. Always came off as rational and fair in the past but his true colors have shown in this war.

[@zhouwu]

I think this is maybe the most positive outcome of this war: The mask is off. We can all see his true colours now. And it's not looking pretty.

[@stupidas9466]

The only way someone could think of Putin as rational and fair is if they either haven't paid attention to everything he's done both before and after he took power, have believed his propaganda despite the obvious lies, or both. At no point has he done anything remotely in the interest of anyone but himself. For years his "opponents" have gone missing, been poisoned, or taken "accidental" falls from 15 storey balconies. Take a second and look at what he has done in Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea, Syria, etc etc and let me know at what point "fair" was a good adjective/adverb to use for what he's done.

[@mrmockatoo6786]

@@stupidas9466 "Comrades who don't agree with me...wait in next room. I call it Novichok Corner."

[@jacquesb5248]

they just for show not for advise

[@voicelesssoul]

only solution is to take the guy out.

[@lesparton2069]

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely! Never has this statement been more true!!

[@chessman70]

His distance from them shows them how scared he is of them as well. He must be looking over his shoulder constantly.

[@Perfectsolar]

No. They are scared of him.

[@davidsuro986]

He's a germaphobe. COVID scares him. All of his "advisors" are thoroughly searched prior to any meeting.

[@GuyVinmara]

The famed “sword of Damocles” dates back to an ancient moral parable popularized by the Roman philosopher Cicero in his 45 B.C. book “Tusculan Disputations.” Cicero’s version of the tale centers on Dionysius II, a tyrannical king who once ruled over the Sicilian city of Syracuse during the fourth and fifth centuries B.C. Though rich and powerful, Dionysius was supremely unhappy. His iron-fisted rule had made him many enemies, and he was tormented by fears of assassination-so much so that he slept in a bedchamber surrounded by a moat and only trusted his daughters to shave his beard with a razor. As Cicero tells it, the king’s dissatisfaction came to a head one day after a court flatterer named Damocles showered him with compliments and remarked how blissful his life must be. “Since this life delights you,” an annoyed Dionysius replied, “do you wish to taste it yourself and make a trial of my good fortune?” When Damocles agreed, Dionysius seated him on a golden couch and ordered a host of servants wait on him. He was treated to succulent cuts of meat and lavished with scented perfumes and ointments. Damocles couldn’t believe his luck, but just as he was starting to enjoy the life of a king, he noticed that Dionysius had also hung a razor-sharp sword from the ceiling. It was positioned over Damocles’ head, suspended only by a single strand of horsehair. From then on, the courtier’s fear for his life made it impossible for him to savor the opulence of the feast or enjoy the servants.

[@Puertoito]

@@GuyVinmara wtf are talking about. Go to bed.

[@olympia5758]

@@Puertoito That was really interesting and relevant to what was being discussed. If you had an understanding of history then you would know what he was talking about.

[@ifcdirector]

I never thought I would see the day where I felt sorry for a Russian spy chief................

[@Sil-zx]

This video really hasn't shown us the whole politicians speaking only some parts and some of them which were fast little clips talking without no audio didn't seem scared of Putin some of them just we're also very worried because it's a tough decision so they had to make sure they know what they will say for recommendations for Putin to think about .... I'm going to keep it real I probably would've been knowing the plan will be alright be will need to have a 2nd thought in mind always !!! and take this Russians are just direct and serious and try to get things accurately confirm which Putin wanted

[@heinedietiker4943]

A behavioral scientist explained the difference between apes and humans. "In a pack of monkeys, the most aggressive monkey terrorizes everyone else. In a group of people, the group eliminates whoever terrorizes them."

[@AlanSmitheeman]

Apes are not monkeys.

[@pjpredhomme7699]

not so far

[@truthbeknown23]

So what you are saying is that the American gov is a group of monkeys?

[@stillwill2215]

Well they'd better get cracking before we ALL get eliminated .

[@zjpdarkblaze]

Whats funny is that Putin is just a representative. Putin has inner circles. Putin and this inner circle are in charge. They are a group of people. Not just one man.

[@themiddle8979]

He's a weirdo. It reminds me of the old scene when everyone wanted to clap for Stalin and nobody wanted to be the first to stop. He held up his watch to stop them

[@faa1412]

Are you serious?!? 🤣🤣 I gotta look for that clip lol

[@pikantnomie1894]

@@faa1412 The first guy to stop clapping was killed .

[@faa1412]

@@pikantnomie1894 Oh wow!! Wtf?!!

[@itsMe_TheHerpes]

@@faa1412 no he was not killed, lol he's just trolling you. but the clapping story is true, and staling had to literally tell them to stop so that he can give his speech, lol.

[@aggiev8561]

Look at how he talks about "negotiating" as if it were a joke. Yet, the US keeps refusing to call him a war criminal because "we might want to negotiate with him later on and that would jeopardize it" Stop the diplomacy bs, the world is watching, do your jobs and act as world leaders. Seems like too many of them signed on for pocket lining and are now all silent.

[@charliebarton]

Yelenski now says that he's frustrated that the Americans refuse to help him negotiate. It seems that our leaders will fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.

[@ceebee23]

Ukraine may not want to join NATO ...it has shown itself weak and the US just unable and unwilling to face up to the psychopath in the Kremlin...

[@MikeOxlong-]

@@fallingalice2601 100%! Thank-you for spelling it out for the imbeciles...

[@aggiev8561]

@@natoslayer2907 Seems like these Russian trolls are getting more and more lazy with their responses. Guess its harder to be motivated with the ruble plummeting n all

[@mommaseesall4270]

Forget Putin's threats! I agree "Stop the diplomacy bs," NATO and Biden need to declare a No Fly Zone ASAP to stop the ongoing Ruthless killing of Ukrainians. NATO and BIDEN are allowing Putin to dominate the sky and for WHAT?! Bombing from the sky on hospitals, schools, apartments, houses. Surrounding cities then cutting off water, supplies, gas while killing those fleeing Ukraine in cars, buses, and all exit corridors. Now he's bombing subway entries. Putin wants to drastically reduce the Ukrainian population in his insane attempt to control what's left. WTF ! NATO and BIDEN have to stop this Terrorist Now.

[@steelcom5976]

When Putin says "I've heard all your opinions" he means "I've heard my opinion parroted back to me"

[@mtadams2009]

My father who was wounded twice in WW2 used to always say ‘ you better have no other options if you go to war because it’s brutal’ my father hated war and never romanced it. Everyone losing and for what? Power I guess.

[@dixieleflore1409]

My Father fought in WW11 and fought for freedom and I really didn’t have all of him because of the horrific memories 🙏🏽

[@mtadams2009]

@@dixieleflore1409 I am sorry to hear that. For many the war does not end when the war ends. I know many who have been effected negatively by war. I wish you well.

[@clarapvalente]

The Russian army is saving our future

[@bibimir]

@Al My grandfather said the same, that the war was terrible and one should never wish for it. He's not a small minded individual. He was a great man. And he fought against Nazis in WW2. War is started by psychopaths, such as Americans, Nazis, russian Putins, etc.

[@sandramackie8311]

Yes war is about power. It is harrowing to see the cruelty and treachery of one man Mr Putin. The Ukrainian people are suffering dreadful atrocities at present. If he is not stopped this will go on to to take place in other sovereign countries. Do not allow this man to commit any more cruelty genocide and destruction.

[@smithnwesson990]

Seriously Russia has massive potential to be an economic powerhouse and enrich everyday Russians if only there was a real representing government

[@Kid_Naps]

The West isnt a third world

[@krishnastock]

@fomerly patriotic Even if they aren't it doesn't make SmithN' Wesson's statement invalid!

[@larrycampbell5649]

Your right man. We shouldn`t be even talking about the rise of China`s economic power.

[@dolma2897]

They were an economic powerhouse. Unfortunately, the US spent the past 70 years dismantling it. Why do you think he doesn't trust NATO?

[@larrycampbell5649]

@@dolma2897 Well... I understand that but you can't blame every failure on the U.S.

[@pancakeface5717]

Wow. It's "Give me the answer you already know that I want, and nothing else." No equivocating, No questions. No opinions or views. No hesitation. Makes you wonder when some of the more brazen (i.e. foolish) advisors will simply disappear.

[@TheGeeoff]

I heard that the chief of intelligence has been placed under house arrest. Probably because his very public hesitation in agreeing with Putin has now proven to be correct and that makes Putin look like an idiot.

[@brandonvickery5019]

The brazen advisors disappeared a long time ago.

[@kostantinsilko5865]

hello Rick. Ukrainian nationalists have killed 14,000 civilians in Donbas since 2014!!!! western media don’t tell people about all the woman and children even babies the Ukrainian nazis were “exterminating” before Russia intervened.. not a mention of it.. instead the west hides behind refugees to justify there stance against Russia.

[@halfalligator6518]

He has spent the last 20 years removing anyone who challenges him properly. His inner circle has shrunk too. Hmmmmm he almost seems like an idol for someone else I can't quite put my finger on.

[@reginald_1458]

He asked him to expound on it. Your seeing what you want to see.

[@YossiaNorth]

These poor journalists moaning and beetching have no idea what discipline is.

[@ceciliaandersen3849]

Last year, Mikhail Gorbachev said: "I think it is absolutely necessary that Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden meet." He warned of increasing polarization and the risk of nuclear weapons.

[@KirkFickert]

They did meet last year. Putin probably got the impression that Biden isn't all there and thus had the green light to take Ukraine. Hell back in January Biden said it was okay if Russia took just a little bit.

[@peagames2002]

@@KirkFickert Obama same thing with Crimea, I suppose it was alright for him that Russia just "takes" the land from already small and previously oppressed nation of Ukraine. Ukraine has already faced such hell with Holodomor under Stalin, I doubt they want to be first people to witness Putin's "5 year plan".

[@SimpleLifeAlways81]

I miss Gorbachev. He tried everything .. everything to create peace. Wish we had him back.

[@ceciliaandersen3849]

@@SimpleLifeAlways81 I agree with you. He was such a nice person. He got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. I wish he could tell Putin to stop his war crimes.

[@larrycampbell5649]

Yep. He saw this coming.

[@DoomSlayersNephew7270]

That poor guy who was struggling to get “his words” out should probably watch his back

[@wasserman7273]

he is not 'poor guy'. he is head of intelligence. he is just as bad as all of them.

[@HDA_III]

Bad or just a puppet on strings?

[@HDA_III]

How worse is Biden? Another puppet.

[@wasserman7273]

@@HDA_III ah, you're one of conspiracy americabad guys

[@MichealLee__]

Fake news america lies so munch lol American need a war for insurance we are in debt

[@NateWoodbury]

This is just nuts. How does one man get so much power in today's world? I am very very blessed to live in a country that's known freedom and democracy, and individual rights.

[@blackout07blue]

Because voters in US have stood up to fascists like Putin and fascists like Trump and fascists like Republicans.

[@kleinemaus6094]

@scoot you wouldn't know a fascist if one bit you on the ass. Requiring people to get an unproven shot under pain of not being allowed to provide for their family if they don't - that is fascist in nature. But you won't believe me because you mindlessly regurgitate our own Soviet level propaganda the media has been pumping you full of for years.

[@niweshlekhak9646]

@@blackout07blue Ronald Regan and Bush were not fascists.

[@jamescoleman3006]

@@niweshlekhak9646 Ronald Regan and Bush are dead and so is the Republican Party as you know it from yesteryear.

[@sosaaacc]

Democracy is much of the same no matter what the rule of law says

[@tamilgamer78986]

Thank you 👍🏻

[@CZpersi]

Half of the people’s faces are like "how the hell have I ended up here?"

[@ACuriousChild]

By lying to themselves for to long. Once the spider web is spun there is no escape.

[@mohdfadzil5568]

ha..ha .. i love yr comment

[@ACuriousChild]

@@mohdfadzil5568 I hope you did not take it in a partisan way. As my statement applies to every single human being, but especially for those in some kind of position of power, political or economical. Most of them, particularly in the western hemisphere, haven't realized it yet. The BEAST is coming for them as well. As of now they are still licking the honey from the honey trap not realizing they have been caught. No human mind knows when the curtain comes down. Some are aware that eventually it will, so they are getting ready.

[@wasserman7273]

oh, they paved their way all these years, they are not puppets, they are criminals.

[@darylbenson9682]

Reminds me of several high level Trump presidential meetings where everyone around the table took turns praising Trump.

[@mythoughts2649]

Remember when Lavrov was in the Oval Office?

[@edmund6392]

Daryl - Bingo!

[@Dweller415]

Dumb, that happens with every President and even Governors for that matter. Secondly, like Trump or hate him, it’s rather idiotic to compare him to Putin.

[@c.a.t.732]

Exactly.

[@roostersideburns3440]

@@Dweller415 putin isnt as dumb as trump

[@chrissymoss514]

And so he can say .... "we had a democratic meeting, everyone had their say and voiced their opinions. We ALL agree on the final decision/I didn't agree but I was out numbered". That man is pure evil.

[@davidmullen6011]

"We ALL agree on the final decision/I didn't agree but I was out numbered"." It's a very clever tactic, if true. If you think it through though every person in that room knows that apart from not daring to cast any form of disagreement, or invite a discussion to be opened, they are there to be used as Vladimir Putin's scapegoats. He will convene these meetings for the ultimate purpose of reflecting the blame onto them, which from his corrupted perspective makes good political sense yes, but it also broadcasts to everyone who works in his government and various security and financial agencies that this man is not going to take any responsibility for anything that goes wrong - he will blame them. And _his_ sins become theirs to bear, and suffer the consequences. Imagine the depth of the fear, but also the sheer depth of the bottled-up resentment towards this man. It's a clever tactic yes, but still a sight that demonstrates Putin as being the modern equivalent to the Roman Emperor Caligula. A man going slowly mad on absolute power, and enjoying the fact that such power can instill absolute terror on those around him. Here is a man with something approaching a God-Complex...because there is almost nothing and nobody to tell him "No". Ever.

[@Joy-py2cm]

For sure

[@chrissymoss514]

@@davidmullen6011 Yes yes and yes again. Sadly, you're absolutely correct!

[@d00mbag]

An old man with nothing to lose..

[@dabulphilly]

Damn they we’re scared to death 😂😂😂 that 1 guy tried to recognize Ukraine as a sovereign country he was so scared he couldn’t get the words out especially when Putin talking about talk freely that man know his career is over!

[@mattieb7348]

Not only his career, but his life.

[@zezmerelda240]

more than likely, his life.

[@buzzbuoy]

@@mattieb7348 Exactly! What's he gonna do with a career rotting somewhere or dead.

[@ScumfuckMcDoucheface]

pfft, you mean he's hoping that it's only his career that's over =/

[@windymiller3910]

Didn’t he strangely go missing after this?

[@Shymenyou]

Wlad has created a great alibi for himself. When all is done he will push the blame on "advisors", some will get a healthy retirement bonus and resign, others will end up in a prison shoveling snow in Siberia. almost a perfect crime ... not...

[@spacetraveller9399]

Oh please... These Siberia jokes... No wonder Russian people don't take you guys seriously.

[@gustavoritter7321]

The fact that he is sitting so far from them, something that seems to have started happening only really over the last months (he met Biden normally last year for instance, I don't think he is scared of Covid) plus the dress down he is giving them publicly suggests that he is feels under threat from them. There is no reason for him to speak with such hostlity to the intelligence chief like that. I know some Russians and they are very conscious of getting humiliated or shamed, its not something that Russians take lightly. Putin was trying to estabilish his dominance there which might suggest he feels like he is losing it. Just my thoughts.

[@largecarr6185]

Putin is a psychopathic megalomaniac he's evil is nothing more than a terrorist and Joe Biden is owned by Russia and China as is all the Democrats and most of the Republicans they sold their souls what a progressive socialist is that's a neo-marxist communist Einstein said it best evil men will take over if we sit back and do nothing well look what's happening like how much gas is in America Biden is sending billions of United States taxpayers money dollars over to Russia to help his buddy This Is War the Democrats are wanting to give Iran more nuclear freedom renew clear free and they said as soon as they have enough nukes they're going to attack us America has failed itself we the people have failed our self

[@FeatherResonance]

@@largecarr6185 Fuckin libs and their marxist "punctuation", you tell em'.

[@neuroleptika]

Putin fears assassination. Thats why he keeps a long distance now.

[@gustavoritter7321]

@@neuroleptika I think he feels like they are working against him somehow. Let's hope they are.

[@juch3]

@@gustavoritter7321 it's funny, those people in that room are his main enablers, all senior officials that would be responsible for the planning of this war and even Putin doesn't trust them enough.

[@abdulmajidmohamed1068]

Why is America the look at President Putin the way he walks the way he keeps distance with the people of the government that is sick . America will never say anything good about President Putin . President Putin is the boss.

[@jla6558]

Wouldn't it be fitting if the person most responsible for starting a war of many unnecessary deaths against both his own people and a very close brother nation, would himself be swiftly brought to the same fate, removed by his underlings that he coerced into complicity.

[@maria_nz]

That didn't happen to US President Andrew Jackson. His excapades in the south were conveniently forgotten in favour of American white expansion. And Rumsfeld with the weapons of mass destruction dialogue. Meanwhile, it's always interesting to hear American fiction posturing as news. Reporters are supposed to report the news, not invent it.

[@alfredonealii336]

@@maria_nz just stop that's the problem now we can't fix the fu©ked up past by white man as a whole. The only thing we can do at this time is handle what's at hand now and that's Putin. Putin is playing a selfish sick game and he needs to be taken the HELL OUT.

[@Pete9Tails]

@@maria_nz give it a rest

[@lexstockton2451]

Well, everybody has an opinion but I think the key is the guy who said they have no border with Ukraine, it is the US. By that logic we have been invaded. Tell me again, Mr. Carlson, why Americans should support this horrible example of a human being.

[@largecarr6185]

Yeah this mr. Carlson you're replying to is another one of the failings of u.s. colleges they're nothing more than educated idiots lighting and all the Democrats most of the Republicans have been bought out sold their souls to Russia China and all the enemies of the United States a progressive socialist is nothing more than a dirty filthy neo-marxist communist that's all of our Democrats and part of the Republicans get the price of gas Joe Blow Me Biden is funding Putin's War sending him billions of dollars with our gas money and all the high taxes he's raised look at the 26% tax put on plastic, eggs went from a dollar 49 over $4.50 for 18 eggs at Walmart where I live President Joe Blow Me Biden is buying oil from Iran and giving them nuclear help we the people have felled ourself Putin is nothing more than a terrorist funded by Joe Biden and the Democrats it's amazing black people still vote for the Democrats Hillary and Bill Clinton pass the law they put more black men in jail at any other time in the history remember what Hillary Clinton said on CNN black men are super predators and don't deserve to walk the street they pass the law to put all those black men in jail half of them were not guilty but yet people still believe the b******* the Democrats and they still vote vote for the Democrats though their taxes go up their jobs go away a lot of them are homeless they're so stupid they can't figure it out God help us

[@maxk880]

@@largecarr6185 I really don't know how you think people are supposed to read your 0 punctuation wall of text

[@danielchukwuemeka7621]

Putin has to be taught a very big lesson

[@AlexMisas]

And what's the lesson you big chunk? Do things like Uncle Sam?

[@wizkid3295]

Why dont you teach him a lesson by yourself then. If you think you can do it.

[@rogeranderson8763]

Sociopaths are not so big on 'learning lessons'...I offer our own idiot, the Orange Maggot as Exhibit One..-Veteran '66-68

[@jolness1]

@@wizkid3295 I missed where he said that?

[@fenixfp40]

I suspect you are the very person to teach him from your couch.

[@thevoice4758]

No one dared to say what they actually wanted. If counselors are not free to speak then you cannot get good advice either.

[@KushKilla81]

People in government shouldn’t have to be scared of the leader. That’s not a government that works well for its citizens. Never will that work.

[@tscottme]

The purpose of Russian government is not to "work well for its citizens."

[@alwayslernin4400]

It works just fine for the dictator.

[@bryan3dguitar]

Gee, you figure?

[@TeodorAngelov]

It works pretty well. Democratic countries are rare in the world.

[@Libdump]

It’s so fascinating to watch how quickly this world is falling apart in my lifetime.

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

I know right ? I talk about it insesintley lol! it probably bothers people , haha so it's funny that you mention it.

[@SuperVoidBoyz]

I have a theory that I say jokingly to friends of mine. That we all died in 2012 and ever sense that we've been in this purgatory state where after each passing year the difficulty increasing a bit like a video game. 2012 to 2015 we didn't notice much. 2016 to 2017 ok something is up. 2018 to 2019 ok something is definitely wrong. The 2020s hit: holy fucking shit what is this? Get me outta here... is this a backrooms ordeal or what? Raging pandemic with worst economic collapse sense the depression, other strange natural occurrences becoming much more common, now a full in war and on the brink of WW3. It honestly feels biblical at times.

[@Libdump]

@@SuperVoidBoyz great insight 😉 👍🏻

[@sutashiku]

Poroshenko and Zelensky are criminals. They have shed an ocean of blood in the Donbas for eight years. They should not be supported, they should be judged.

[@sutashiku]

@Ethaniel V. Lim why do your media diligently hide the truth about the bombing of Russian-speaking Ukrainians for 8 years by the regime in Kiev? these were not individual volleys, but 50-100 volleys a day. There are OSCE documents. There were arrivals at bus stops, markets, so many civilians died, children. Why does Google diligently clean up searches and delete all reports from RT, ABC, and other agencies? why have you been blind for 8 years? and you continue to be blind.

[@sirave6017]

IF...IF Putin is removed....(PLEASE let it be so), none of these people would be good for their country (that I know of). We want/need someone like Alexei Navalny in office, but that won't happen...

[@ilyaorlovskiy]

Today, the State prosecutor requested 13 years in jail more for Navalny

[@synesthesiafilms]

They need a democracy, not again one schizoid paranoid psychopathological sick person at the top of the pyramid.

[@bernardmauge8613]

Navalny is the Russian version of Juan Guaido CIA asset.

[@sirave6017]

@@ilyaorlovskiy I know, but if Putin is ousted...

[@spacetraveller9399]

Navalny??? Who are you to make decisions like that for the Russian people?? WE need someone??Who is WE?? Of course, YOU need a US puppet in office. But that snake-eyed weasel belongs in prison! And we hope he will rot there for a long long time.

[@IAmNumber4000]

1:44 Naryshkin is sweating bullets because he knows the absolute clusterfuck that Putin’s ego is about to force them all into.

[@swedesam]

Putin is constantly having loud turrets-like fits as he's reminded of this idiotic decision to this day.

[@michaeljohn8691]

That's propaganda, he's pretty composed as all video evidence goes.

[@volkerwestphal3746]

@@michaeljohn8691 If that's 'composed' in your eyes, you're blind.

[@michaeljohn8691]

@@volkerwestphal3746 ' loud turrets like fits' yes he's composed compared to that false characterization of his mannerisms. He is being agressive.

[@nationalsocialist5526]

@@volkerwestphal3746 You the blind one

[@fairlanewhip79]

He literally gave his henchmen the “do you want to die?” Look.

[@אפרתכרמלי-ג2ק]

Exactly 💯 😄👍😫 Putin's Smile was like : Do You Want to die ? 😦😬🤐 So say Yes. Efrat. Israel 🇮🇱

[@jonimcdougall7624]

He didn’t want to say the words but Putin was trying to force him.

[@jossfitzsimons]

Yes he was slippery when this huge decision required directness. The slippery guy wanted to hedge his bets while all the rest were willing to say I'm in.

[@WineScrounger]

He’s in prison now.

[@adventurek2066]

@@WineScrounger for real?

[@Spabsa]

@@WineScrounger nah

[@hristiyanhristov2480]

@@adventurek2066 One of the guys in this meeting is in house arrest. The other's whereabouts are unknown, not indicating arrest or anything bad, but he hasn't made any public appearance.

[@ivan-vi8kg]

This meeting was not to discuss an invasion of Ukraine, but to discuss recognising the seperate states of Luhansk and Donetsk. This is no different from what the US and the rest of the West does other places in the world. Backing separatists and supporting their independence is not new to world politics and it is not just Putins ''evil master plan''

[@walterjunovich6180]

I keep thinking about the "Austin Powers Movie" where his henchman are sitting around the conference table and when they said something Dr. Evil didn't like he would press a button and they would fall into a pit of fire. 😄😄😄

[@Fabian-Wenzel]

I can only agree that this session of the Russian Security Council was marked by fear. People were terrified not to say what he wanted to hear. Such fear among high ranking Russian officials was last seen during Stalin's reign of terror. He employs some of Stalin's methods, in my opinion, but also an opaque web of favours and corruption. He has all his high ranking Russian officials in his hands, with their transgressions on the one hand, but also through fear of how he will punish them. The high ranking Russian officials who stand by Putin no matter what get rich, the others disappear or die.

[@chrisstewart8259]

The biggest punishment is not death. It's the fear of having all your riches, your dachas, your house, your priveleges taken away and your family becomes "personna non grata" in a Russian village in the middle of nowhere.

[@chrisperrins8082]

@@chrisstewart8259 When one sells their soul to the devil for the wealth of the world, it really is a dirty rotten deal.

[@Sil-zx]

This video really hasn't shown us the whole politicians speaking only some parts and some of them which were fast little clips talking without no audio didn't seem scared of Putin some of them just we're also very worried because it's a tough decision so they had to make sure they know what they will say for recommendations for Putin to think about .... I'm going to keep it real I probably would've been knowing the plan will be alright be will need to have a 2nd thought in mind always !!! and take this Russians are just direct and serious and try to get things accurately confirm which Putin wanted

[@robinpage2730]

They cut out the part where the FSB guy gives the game away by saying they're going to support the incorporation of Donetsk and Lugansk into the Russian Federation. Putin rebuked him but it was too late, he'd already said too much

[@alena5484]

This was a pretty significant part!

[@russianshowsanddocumentari2132]

@@alena5484 Exactly - in his extreme nervousness he jumped the gun by saying Russia was going to swallow up those 2 provinces. Officially Russia was still at the stage where it was going to simply recognize the independence of the 2 provinces. Putin became momentarily irritated and impatient with his Intel chief’s blunder. By inadvertently giving away Russia’s intentions the Intel chief got an especially scorching dressing down. The full frontline episode tonight should be fascinating.

[@CATDHD]

I always thought that was part of the act. To hint the enemies that the fsb guy is not in good terms with president and might be open to work with cia , perhaps

[@peagames2002]

Seeing 'attacks on Donetsk by Ukrainians', it really makes lot more sense. Most of military of Ukraine is fortifying in cut places that are still part of Ukraine including their capital Kiev. I could bet you 100 euros that Donetsk clusterbomb was shot by russians to frame the attack on ukrainians and cause diversion. It would simply make no sense that they would attack city of citizens that are part of Ukraine in first place.

[@TomJones-de5zd]

So? Those areas include Russians being persecuted by Ukraine.

[@levandeur3574]

This last female commentator's saying that the war is actually Putin's war, not the Russians' one tells that she knows about Russian society nothing.

[@jennifersmith4611]

The Russian people need not be afraid of that little man. It’s long over due for the Russian people to act!!!!

[@JustMe-nf1mf]

Best hope seems to be the suffering caused by the sanctions will give the russian people the bravery to stand up by the tens of thousands & force an end to Putin's crimes!

[@ghxst2055]

They are afraid of his loyalist.

[@zezmerelda240]

@Haung Jo hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[@channelingusllcix3512]

@Haung Jo Chinese are forbidden to access youtube in china, i have screen shot and reported this to the Chinese Interior Ministry for state security. Get ready for a knock on your door

[@guitarzan2201]

Lol! Typical uneducated, simple solution thinking of Americans. Not easy at all to wrest power from him as he has absolute total command and control of ALL those that are in government and media etc...

[@peewee1308]

The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Putin is Adolf Hitler.

[@wokeaf1337]

yeah? i dont know if hitler or stalin, not settled yet

[@maryfregain4648]

Putin fought against Hitler just like we did

[@melinaesposito3434]

No-one in power took him seriously until it was too late.

[@bryan3dguitar]

@@maryfregain4648 You mean Stalin fought against Hitler, right?

[@Americanoligarchy]

U know US is involved in two separate military conflicts right now, one in Yemen one in Somalia, in which there are Ukraine sized atrocities happening on a near daily basis that few Americans seem to know about. Yes, war with Russia could lead to a nuclear WW3, that's why its imperative that we all push for peace by keeping Ukraine neutral on NATO expansion, stop all these silly proxy wars, comparisons to Hitler aside. Haven't these people suffered enough. War sucks.

[@thunderbolt513]

He's sitting in a 30' distance from his "council advisores" 'cause he knows it would be extremely easy to corrupt one of them to "wipe him out", that's why he takes no chances.

[@אפרתכרמלי-ג2ק]

Putin is afraid of his own advisers and they are also afraid of him. The question is : Who will kill who first before he himself might be killed. Notice there are no women among Putin's Advisors. Maybe only one old woman that survived from the Russian Revolution. Which means Women's Opinions, who are the mothers of his soldiers are not important at all. Putin himself grew up in a Non functional family, which means : his mother's opinion was not so important in his life. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦. Efrat. Israel 🇮🇱

[@ding174]

Julia Ioffe dissected this perfectly. It looks like a Politburo meeting of the 1939. They all new it was a bad idea but nobody wanted to tell him what he didn’t want to hear. And now, here we are….

[@rogerkleemann1691]

From a distant shore. What a charming congregation. Smiles all around. Healthy debate. Informed discussions. Respect for differences of opinion. All the hallmarks of a working democracy. Not really ... just a one man band ... autocratic Vladimir at his dictatorial best.

[@Joy-py2cm]

Well said

[@andremyers5693]

🙏🇺🇦💙💛

[@chrisstewart8259]

I once worked for one! But after two years of seeing staff tremble and females cry when being browbeaten by him, I fronted him. He was a bully and I told him so. I had nothing to lose, I had other jobs to go to. But he backed down and he did change - quite a bit. Oddly enough, last I heard he was working in Russia. However, the point is that unless someone stands up to Putin, really takes him on, he'll do this again and again just as Hitler did in 1938.

[@MrLondonGo]

@@chrisstewart8259 not so easy to stand up to the bully, when your children's lives are on the line.

[@Nonaggress]

I get the impression everyone in that room had exhausted every effort to talk Putin out of this, and Putin was having mixed feelings about the irony of everyone needing to act like they embraced his plans when he knew damn well none of them really supported him.

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

it's obvious that he doesn't care nor does he have "mixed feelings" as he clearly doesn't as using fear tactics to get people on his side is the obvious thing to do. Which Putin and russian kgb operatives are known for.

[@Nonaggress]

@@Gadget-Walkmen oh I meant more mixed feelings like "Fuck y'all for not being excited for me."

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

@@Nonaggress fair enough yeah.

[@RR-et6zp]

He thinks , doesn't feel lol. Start thinking

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

@@RR-et6zp lol what? What are you even saying right now? What?

[@charlessmyth]

Kind of like that cabinet meeting that Trump had early in his term of office, where everyone, in turn, at the table, stated what a genius Trump was :-)

[@Elitecommando501]

@ woah woah woah!! 🤣 I believe that was an alternative timeline where Trump beat Biden and turned himself tyrant.. Probably would have invaded Canada too lol

[@peagames2002]

@ Idk what sort of weeds you were smoking, must've been pretty good origins in Mexico. He never invaded Mexico, he simply put border wall so that illegal drug and immigration wouldn't be so immense. Unless you want people to die on streets for drug overdose, that's on you.

[@wackadakka3134]

yeah but anyone of them could have said he is an idiot ......and what would have happened to them .....not much.....you cretin

[@nisargjoshi4816]

If this was Putin's pre-war attitude then I can't imagine what would have been his reaction when this same people revealed the failure of the war!!!!

[@willowwisp357]

This reminds me of Trumps early sessions where he'd have the top GOP politicians come into a big meeting explicitly to kiss his ass.

[@willowwisp357]

@vaughn I guess I was accustomed to it after the initial shock of realizing we had put a would be tyrant in office. America had an IQ test and failed so epically.

[@pjpredhomme7699]

@vaughn oh it was much worse as it went on - in the beginning -he was a little intimidated - and would ask his advisors what to do because he had no idea - but it didnt take long -and he blew by all of the advisors - the first round didnt make it thru the first year then the next wave - he was more forceful - by the end - obviously he was working to overthrow the government - and they were just cover .

[@stillwill2215]

lol so true.

[@boycottchina7042]

Still better than what we have now. I’d take a tyrant over a bumbling puppet that’s going to get us all killed with his inaction.

[@sebastianhanes9681]

Putin has changed the title of Leo Tolstoy novel "War and Peace". Now it's "Special Operation and Peace".

[@TeslaKuhn8]

"Special Operation and Obedience"

[@thomastomi8402]

nato probaganda

[@TeslaKuhn8]

​@@thomastomi8402 What is going on in that tiny brain of yours? I'm starting to wonder about the clique that prides itself in research. Putin's meat corner is not even two sources. Meanwhile he brags about the dead bodies. What comes out of HIS mouth, not NATO, is what you should be listening to. He sounds criminally insane at best. You guys make Rhinos and Donkeys look intelligent. The only dots here to connect are that Putin willingly started a war because he noticed America was beginning to turn on Biden as a whole. Now all of that will disappear like it did with LBJ and FDR. He's a war president, now. He will be respected. Putin did that. So who is not thinking clearly? No matter what your flavor is, Putin is the enemy. Not even a very good one, apparently. Plain and simple.

[@PeterTheSAGAFan]

Reminds me of the Trump meeting, when he ask for people around the table their opinion and all they said how "blessed" they were to serve him...a total worship fest

[@murjinlating763]

I love haw Putin can spoke them.. They thought the whole world belong to them😆

[@immanny85]

We’re witnessing history, folks. This is the prequel to a violent n catastrophic ending - hopefully just for Putin.

[@dianasmith725]

I agree with u

[@ziggyzugg]

Reminds me of that cabinet meeting with Trump where they all kissed his @ss

[@JustMe-nf1mf]

What 🙄 Look how far he keeps himself from his own advisors! He knows he's in trouble & is afraid one of them will take him out!

[@brianwalsh1401]

And that happened in a US democracy not in N. Korea or Russia or China. Shows we need to not take our democracy for granted, people like Trump only care about their own personal power not the enduring democracy.

[@alwayslernin4400]

@@brianwalsh1401 people like trump and putin only get there by the people willing to sell their souls for them. It's these cowards that enable dictators.

[@waltcs1]

This reminds me of one of Trump’s televised cabinet meetings where each participant was expected to give Trump a glowing performance review. If I’m not mistaken, Mattis was the only one in attendance who did not speak up.

[@mr.horrorchild4094]

That cuz he Merician heeeeroh who fight for Duhmockrucee

[@theguy9067]

Oh ye?

[@motor-head]

I don't care how much you dislike Trump, comparing him to Putin is ridiculous.

[@easternyellowjacket276]

@@motor-head no, it is not. They are very similar.

[@glennchartrand5411]

Im a little more concerned about the current President. You need to get a grip on the TDS.

[@-JA-]

Thank you.

[@garywright8137]

This is very reminiscent of the Trump meeting in which they all took their turn to say how awesome Trump was.

[@SigmundJaehn]

Truth

[@michelep9477]

as bad as trump was he is nothing like this guy come on

[@stupidas9466]

@@michelep9477 the stakes are just higher in this case, where "scared to death" isn't figurative but literal. The similarity is in that both surround themselves with people who will agree with them regardless of how they may really feel, neither will tolerate dissension amongst those close, and decisions aren't made as a group but by one person, with those around tasked to carry out those decisions.

[@wittenberg5]

@@michelep9477 Really? He pressured election officials to "find" him the exact votes he needed to win or else there would be "big problems", and personally summoned his minions to DC on Jan 6th after lying to them for months, then turned them lose on the US Capitol as senators fled for their lives. Read about how Putin got started they are cousins. Thankfully Trump is not nearly as smart and as patient as Putin. If he was, he would've put his electors in place years before 2020 and we'd all be ******!

[@YorktownUSA]

Oh look, I've found a democrat who has no clue about geopolitics, and obviously won't understand this comment.

[@FinalCountDown2.037]

Putin listening to them and making facial expressions like he has a difficult decision to make.

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

OMG yes ! I was just thinking of that lol! cool, funny right ?

[@franswa529]

What a monumental mistake!!!!

[@samarthabs7873]

Say what you want but the man's personality, the way he carries himself - he sort of have an almighty aura. Like him or hate hime but you cannot deny that out of millions of suckers born everyday. This man definitely isn't one

[@jogzyg2036]

The thing a strongman ruler like putin fears most is to be laughed at. So let's laugh at this clown.

[@martinpoole1451]

Nelson Muntz: Ha Ha!

[@patrickdurnion4548]

He is such a little man with no humility kick his funking arsenal.

[@seaoftranquility7228]

“Like a Royal Court” Actually the vibe I got was reality TV. “Who among you will get the rose?” Higher stakes tho. This is one game of survivor you don’t want to get voted off.

[@Soprina61]

(A) Get rid of him. The world doesn't need dictators (including our own wannabe, who licks his boots),

[@zionisimkills1098]

and maybe someone much worse will take Putins place.

[@Soprina61]

@@zionisimkills1098 How much worse could it get? Hannibal Lector was a fictional character (btw, I agree with your screen-name).