WHY DID PUTIN START A WAR? VLADIMIR POZNER 03.2023

Vladimir Pozner is sharing his professional, non-emotional fact view on what has led to the war of Ukraine. This is not a mainstream opinion.
Please share, think wisely, don't believe mass media.

[@shaggybreeks]

In 1987, I worked for a TV station in Hilo, Hawaii that was extremely independent and low budget. We carried "Moscow Meridian", produced in the USSR. It ran for several hours, 2 or 3 nights a week iirc. I remember Vladimir Pozner as host of the program. What a crazy deal! Vlad had hair then! I am so happy to hear an old friend. I support Ukrainian sovereignty, but also agree re: NATO.

[@alexanderpruger5337]

I can listen to him all day every day. It's hard to believe he is almost 90 years old now.

[@h3rtzen]

damn man, I did not believe it and had to check. In Russian he is even better with words

[@alexanderpruger5337]

@@h3rtzen He is amazing! I'm still not sure if he is better at English or Russian.

[@h3rtzen]

@@alexanderpruger5337 yes, agree. I always thought he is somewhere around 70. Having such physical shape and mental acuity at 90 is just unbelievable. Wish him long years

[@user-dc2xg8wp1j]

Thank you so much for this Vladimir. I only discovered you existed a couple of months ago (I was intrigued by a brief mention of you in Sebastian Faulks’s “The Fatal Englishman”). I have just read your book “Eyewitness” and am now reading “Parting with Illusions”. Your life story is absolutely fascinating, growing up as both an American and a Soviet. You have lived, embody and beautifully explain what I have always believed: that if we could fully understand where other people are coming from, and what they are afraid of, then there would never be a need for war. Simplified media messages prevent that understanding. While people who strongly believe in something might think they are helping their cause by simplifying the message, they are in fact doing much more harm than good. If people have all the facts they are capable of judging for themselves. I was delighted and excited to discover you are still alive and kicking! Since the war in Ukraine started - to which my reaction was “Where did THAT come from? That was a bolt from the blue. I seem to have missed out on a whole bunch of background” - I have been trying to find out what the Russian view could possibly be on this. As you say, “Putin’s a nutter” doesn’t even begin to explain the support of a whole country. There have been dribs and drabs of things in the UK media, but just now I thought “maybe Vladimir Pozner has something to say on this”. And you do. Thank you!

[@alinataraskina2650]

Priceless to hear that.

[@freedomwhenneeded]

its crazy how he has such a strong american accent speaking english, and sounds like a russian whilst speaking russian

[@developer3406]

No, it’s not, because he was born into a bilingual family with a Russian KGB father and a French mother. On top of that, he spent his childhood in the USA.

[@1Klooch]

One of the primary reasons the Communist's made him shill #1 during the Cold War. Long time observer of Vlad. Believe him not!

[@olgapatson7345]

and French is his native language

[@jstasiak2262]

In addition to Zbigniew Brezinski‘s book, “The Grand Chessboard“, I strongly recommend reading his 1997 article in Foreign Affairs magazine (“A Geostrategy for Eurasia“) in the September/October issue. Mr. Brzezinski writes about a “post imperial Russia” made up of a “loose confederation” of a “European Russia,” a “Siberian, Russia,“ and a “Far Eastern Russia.“ I direct your attention to the map on page 60 of the article which depicts a politically divided Russia. In other words, Zbigniew Brzezinski was advocating for politically dismembering Russia as far back as 1997. I also recommend that you Google the terms “Decolonizing, Russia“ and “a Morgenthau Plan for Russia.“ These are euphemisms being used throughout Europe to discuss the political dismemberment of Russia . A symposium on this subject was held in the European Parliament building in Brussels last summer. This is precisely what the Biden administration seeks to achieve with its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

[@victorsamsung2921]

And that is why Sleepy Joe was put into place with Harris as a Woke surrogate for the military industrial complex.

[@eclecticmn4838]

Also the 2019 RAND paper on extending Russia. Also 1993 Soros paper on using eastern European manpower against Russia to reduce NATO body bags. It is out in the open.

[@jstasiak2262]

@@eclecticmn4838 I am not and never was a fan of the late John F. Kennedy, but there was a prescient passage from his “Peace speech” at American University on 10 June 1963 that merits reflection: “It is discouraging to read a recent authoritative Soviet text on Military Strategy and find, on page after page, wholly baseless and incredible claims--such as the allegation that "American imperialist circles are preparing to unleash different types of wars . . . that there is a very real threat of a preventive war being unleashed by American imperialists against the Soviet Union . . . [and that] the political aims of the American imperialists are to enslave economically and politically the European and other capitalist countries . . . [and] to achieve world domination . . . by means of aggressive wars." That is precisely what the United States is attempting to do to Russia and Europe via Ukraine.

[@victorsamsung2921]

@@eclecticmn4838 Very true what you all say. The writing was on the wall ... but *not* seen by many American and EU citizens who were busy with and focused on other things, like the war on terror, social media and sports etc.

[@Robert_St-Preux]

Thank you so much for uploading this. I have been waiting to hear from Mr Pozner on this.

[@finik_2386]

Nothing to hear really…

[@shaggybreeks]

@@finik_2386 Don't lie. Pozner is giving the deepest most knowledgeable analysis on the subject you can find. And most honest and plainly sensible.

[@finik_2386]

@@shaggybreeks you sound as if he pays you… say hello to prigozhin.

[@artemastafev6038]

​@@finik_2386 nothing for your agenda, everything for the people who value historical facts and unbiased truth.

[@k0st34ka]

@@finik_2386 аахахахахахахахаххаахах

[@brucelintz7946]

This man speaks with wisdom & insight. When Gorbachev reached out with a peaceful hand to America. Was an opportunity for the east & west to come together & solve most of the worlds problems. It is a sad missed chance to reset the world & restart as a new world ready to help each other work out the middle east problems, and food & water shortages. Also to work on the global environmental problems. The world would be such a wonderful place. If all of the pacts & organizations, that are designed to keep peace & defend each others side from the other. Would just be eliminated. They only came about because of previous world wars 1 & 2. They are not needed & need to be eliminated just in the same way the nuclear arms reductions and eliminations were handled. Both sides know the real truth why these organizations exist. They are barriers to the ways & means to peace

[@ekaterinahag516]

Вау! Finally he spoke out his mind, he is a brilliant man!

[@fokusnikfm]

thank you

[@proba78]

An unprejudiced, wise and honest view on the situation. Thank you

[@finik_2386]

You forgot “paid by kremlin”…

[@kukareku54]

😂😂😂 This master of Russian propaganda would better contribute to some foundation for saving Ukrainian children or thousands of civilians dispersed all aver the world thanks to this bloody monster, V.Putin and his criminal “ government”

[@marvelrog3436]

Totally disagree, Mr. Pozner is very dishonest and highly prejudiced.

[@proba78]

@@marvelrog3436I think he’s too old to say something that he thinks isn’t true

[@severusthegreatest]

Why are you so hostile towards this guy? Dr Mearsheimer, a prominent US IR scholar pretty much says the same thing as Pozner, I don’t see you lining up to critique him lol

[@MrNASKAVETS]

He’s premium Soviet and Russian propaganda. Since like 1980. Russia did not give up nuclear weapons and that’s a threat to the West. Always. And his rhetoric is historically correct but he’s telling only Russian point. Show this video to Clinton and listen what he says.

[@alexj7640]

because this guy has been a propagandist for kremlin since the 80s. And unlike the basic propagandists in Russia and other countries that works on the minds of the simple people that don't really care much for politics. Puzder is getting paid verry well by the Russians state to promote the Russian propaganda to the more lets say "intellectual" part of the society. By pretending to be neutral, but by arguing this "everything is more complicated" narrative. Reality is much more basic, all this NATO stuff that he talks about is may-be true or not true, but facts on the ground is, each sovereign state has a right to join any alliance, treaty or union. its the moral right that we all need to obeyed by, Individuals have rights to join any such thing, and so do the groups of people. and there is absolute NO justification for an aggressive invasion of another country. and further more Pozdner does leave out a lot of information, for instance in this intervew he said "putin tried warning Biden" well.. Putin gave an ultimatum to return NATO borders to 1994, witch is an impossible ask. Or when he subtly hints that the west was poking the bair to lure russia in to a trap, well if that was the case, "the west" would have gave the weapons to Ukraine before the war not after its been occupied already. too many plot holes.

[@andrejgo6644]

under what rock have you been missing all the mearsheimer critiques?

[@user-bu3fm6dm6s]

This guy may depend on the Russian government, probably not in terms of money but due to respect for Putin. He definitely doesn’t want to look like a traitor in Russia saying smth against the war

[@DWandtheenablers]

41:00 i like how he dances around "vassal state" and "colony".....

[@annabreg3479]

Yeah, he is a famous dancer in Russia around concepts, he was Ussr's propaganda master for the Western world.

[@shaggybreeks]

I remember when NATO expansion was proposed back then, and thought it was almost the exact opposite of what should have been going on. It was simply irrational to expand the defense against a threat which no longer existed. It was a time for countries to be fluid in their relationships, and at a later time, perhaps the need for new military alliances would emerge, but instead of burying the hatchet, America handed out more.

[@user-bd3mc7ko8r]

Vladimir Putin didn't all of a sudden turn into an untrustworthy genocidal authoritarian. He's never been trustworthy. NATO has never invaded the Russian Federation and the countries that joined NATO had every right to. Putin had zero factual basis for any claim that any NATO country wanted to take from Russia and the NATO countries have endless proof of the opposite and asside, the nations of the world have every right to join alliances that they choose. Sorry. Your analysis is ... Umm... Let's just say "lacking" to be courteous.

[@realspokengermanwithtomek3441]

The countries had joint the nato freely bc of their concerns with Russia and they are now more happy than ever having done so. Ukraine was denied the membership bc of Russias concerns. Instead they signed the Budapest memorandum wich supposed to guaranty the integrity of their borders. That was signed by Russia as well. Consequently Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons. One might think that was a mistake.

[@Genouine13]

@@realspokengermanwithtomek3441 That was not a mistake back then. Relationship between Russia and Ukraine were like between USA and Mexico or other countries with tight economic and ethnic dependencies. Russia took course to Westernization and nobody could assume Putin will go crazy.

[@user-om4vw5sb7w]

Why you say "It was simply irrational to expand the defense against a threat which no longer existed." As you know Russia is the successor of the USSR with a lot of military power and the willingness to use it. The threat exist until this day and I am happy that we have the NATO to protect us.

[@FIrKEHoo]

Вы дураки которые не могут анализировать информацию. Или еще хуже, вы даже не ищите информацию имея возможность. Значит это вас не заботит. Не мне судить вас. Игра запада с нулевой ставкой - славяне против славян( русских против украинцев) началось задолго до полношмастабного конфликта. Вы на западе не знаете слово "стоп", вы его слышите, но упорно не хотите воспринимать. Проблема Путина в том, что он окружил себя не умными людьми и не успел подстроиться под ситуацию. Запад подчинил себе европу только благодаря несоблюдению устных договоренностей, обещанных ссср(это был нож в спину). Если бы эти старые генеральные секретари могли заключать ПИСЬМЕННЫЕ договоренности, все этого не было. Эти чудесные страны, вступившие в войну против россии на стороне германии вообще не имеют право вступать в нато, после того как погибло 26 миллионов русских. Сейчас население россии было 200млн. Эти страны добровольно вступили против россии во время второй мировой войны и добровольно вступили в нато после распада ссср. Это шутка? Вы серьезно думаете в россии все идиоты? Кто им может позволить такую роскошь после их стараний по истреблению русских? А позволила им - слабость россии. После того как победа состоится, западные украинцы( любители баз нато в черном море) вернуться на их историческую родину( за реку днестр) и война закончится. Если макрон осмелится сделать то, что он задумал, то не сомневайтесь, начнется именно война. И о каких отношениях с россия - сша может идти речь после всего этого? Вы думаете после Путина, у поколения которое сейчас воюет, появится желание с вами дружить?! Не появится.

[@plumitive4105]

Mon Dieu, vous pensiez exactement comme moi! 😱 Mais vous venez de me donner une leçon de modestie et de prudence que je ne possède pas. Merci monsieur Pozner. Vous êtes un vrai journaliste, digne de ce nom. Mais vous savez, je crains que cette noble profession ne tombe malheureusement en désuétude au profit des "influenceurs" car la vérité n'intéresse plus beaucoup de monde. Ce qui importe, c'est le storytelling. Quand aux intellectuels qui "ont le privilège d'avoir la parole", comme le disait Chomsky, il ne faut pas oublier qui les a placé là, dans les académies! Je trouve, malheureusement, que les universités ne sont plus les nobles institutions qu'elles étaient et qu'elles suivent les lobbies. J'ai souvent du me taire en milieu académique. En temps qu'étudiant, il est facile de contrôler votre pensée: c'est l'autorité qui vous sanctionne avec les notes et cela se fait de plus en plus. En temps qu'employé, si vous voulez le rester, vous devez adopter le même avis que tout le monde. Les vrais intellectuels sont de votre génération. Les autres sont des opportunistes. Je ne perds pas espoir, je sais qu'il y a encore des personnes honnêtes et intègres qui se battent pour la vérité et pas uniquement pour le prestige ou l'argent.

[@shenlaoshi7106]

Oh!

[@cougsjohnson1]

Mr Ritchie - Can you please link the original video, so we can watch the Q&A ??

[@JimEdds]

when you deep dive into the topic of US/Russia relations as in this video, the answers are complicated but NATO expansion after the breakup of the CCCP is the main driver IMO. Wise words from someone that lived in the US and CCCP/Russia.

[@lelosya]

Абсолютно согласна с Познером! Спасибо большое за интервью!!!👍

[@depelnik]

Я люблю вас... Слушать и слышать ❤

[@ccjx_space]

Как он красиво говорит, что по-русски, что по-английски. Грамотный, приятный, мудрый человек

[@user-yk2mr9ge7t]

И по-французски он - очень грамотный человек. Родным для него является как раз и французский, русский язык он выучил немного позже

[@wanid1949]

27:55 - answer YES.

[@michaelpovolotskyi3295]

He confused some dates. USSR disappeared in Dec 1991, not in Dec 1990.

[@markward3981]

We are human

[@elizavetakataya91]

He’s almost 90, give him a break !

[@user-ye9tv8lw9w]

Спасибо Владимир Владимирович! Вас так не хватает в информационном пространстве мне лично. Вы говорите простым языком о самом главном. Ваше мнение о состоянии русского общества и причинах происходящего, а главное, что из этого может произрасти при участии современных пропагандистских технологий, полностью созвучно мне. Но как это все остановить?

[@_Name_]

Никак. Сионистам-либероидам - сидеть на жопе ровно! Будем продолжать давить фашиствующих ублюдков везде. Русская нация имеет право жить на своей земле, исповедуя исконные, нормальные, традиционные человеческие ценности, сохраняя духовность, нравственность и независимость. Не согласны - вон отсюда!

[@user-vl8dx3jz3z]

The answer is Greed!

[@lawrence18uk]

Jim Garrison, founder of Ubiquity University, and Gorbachev Foundation

[@user-kw6cy6xn6j]

Thank you mister Pozner!

[@elsabretagne]

This needs to be translated into French and given to Macron asap

[@Bytpovarometohorosho]

He speaks English quite well btw

[@mger1979]

​@@Bytpovarometohorosho Oh man, I would say his Russian is perfect, because English is the first his language. Think about this, he started to learn Russian when he was 17 years old, Russian is not his native language.

[@QuenQuaran]

@@mger1979 he meant that Macron speaks English well, not Pozner himself

[@severusthegreatest]

@@mger1979 his first language/mother tongue is French, English comes second and Russian is his third.

[@everest867]

​@@severusthegreatest Macron perfectly speak and understand english, but you can't understand😂😂😂

[@AS91ist]

Where is your friend Yuri Bezmienow?

[@mouseminer2978]

Great wisdom

[@marvelrog3436]

Nothing wise about it just a pathetic Putin’s apologist.

[@andrzejwojcikiewicz4785]

don't afraid this word, ukrainian its not russian influence bad without ukraine Russian is not imperium, second new nato country because they want people vote democtatic for that, instad russia invaded countries which don't want to be part of russia that's the diference, and new countries want to be nato because in the past russia ivaded them and occupied

[@irmetov]

I'd like to ask Mr Pozner, who is seemingly so upset with the job Russian journalists do and, at the same time, sounds so apologetic about what Putin has been doing in Ukraine the following question: who is responsible for the current state of journalism in Russia? Who controls all main media in Russia? Who is responsible for silencing, imprisoning and even killing journalists and politicians who raised their voices against Putin's regime? Please don't tell me that the US didn't leave Putin a choice but to attac Ukraine. And even if that is so, it only shows how incompetent as a politician Putin is. Maybe he isn't crazy but he isn't smart enought to deal with the West and couldn't care less about his own citizens.

[@MishaShvartsman]

All true, but Biden's incompetence surely contributes to the invasion and to how long this war is going, in that regard Pozner makes important point. Also, in general, mistakes in the Western policy toward Russia helped Putin to stay in power and develop his repressive regime

[@petarmarkovic5685]

Well, as far as i know, all western main stream media, such as BBC, CNBS etc., are still active in Russia, bht russian media is banned in the west. Thoughts on that?

[@winstonthepawsome]

Has anyone thought to ask what Ukrainians want?

[@mariogagliardi8491]

He likes more people to be gay, talking about it on his show. Interesting who has made him a Rissian TV presenter.

[@alenarogalsky9873]

Господин Познер, пожалуйста сделаете все от вас зависещее, быть услышанным Америкой

[@kukareku54]

«Господин Познер» это высоко квалифицированный, высоко оплачиваемый и харизматичный российский пропагандист.

[@developer3406]

гАспадин пропагандист

[@user-lb4ul4hr3b]

Nikto etogo lysogo demencnogo sovkovogo propagandona ne vosprinimaet v serjoz.

[@valery4872]

This is better then Tolstoy, longer, a history of possibly happy marriage, which has turned a disaster, partly because freedom is not part of the tradition in Russia

[@ilgarisrafilbecov9561]

​@M Bell they are so blind with their freedom xD

[@turalgasimov5557]

A lubricant!

[@olegdolgopolov5838]

The most cowardly journalist in russia finally gave his voice, looks like someone allowed him. Thanks Vladimir Pozner for the timely response.

[@kukareku54]

He is a very high quality Russian propagandist.

[@MargaritaKatrenko]

How can a person call himself an intellectual and don't know what Posner very brilliantly exposed in this video. And if you do know this, and still don't support it, then you are gullible.

[@andrejgo6644]

this is a video from before the russian invasion in 2022, you world class intellectual ❤

[@MargaritaKatrenko]

​@@andrejgo6644The date says march 2023.

[@andrejgo6644]

@@MargaritaKatrenko have you never heard that you're not supposed to believe everything you read? the date is a lie from propagandists that you fall for.

[@angyangela07]

I just admire how smart Mr. Pozner is. “I can understand why a person is against the war”… He simply cannot publicly say more than that without being punished for his words by Russian authorities. His message is to Americans. As a citizen of the U.S. he has the right to say what he says. He is also a citizen of Russia. Trust me, he has a different message for Russians. He just can’t publicly voice it due to repressions in Russia. Everyone has to look at themselves first. And in a very complex situations everyone can find something they are guilty of. Having said that, I am a Russian and I am absolutely against the war. Contrary to Mr. Pozner, I am a believer and I pray for God’s mercy, justice, truth, and forgiveness for our (all nations) pride, hatred, and lies. Lord, be merciful and help this horrible war come to an end and help us humbly realize the need to talk and find peace with one another.

[@svetlanapokrovets3954]

I can not agree more…

[@user-vr5js6nd3w]

Pozner made so many speeches advocating for Russian just security concerns, trying to prevent the war. The has full right to remain silent, considering modern West's hostility.

[@realspokengermanwithtomek3441]

The countries had joint the nato freely bc of their concerns with Russia and they are now more happy than ever having done so. Ukraine was denied the membership bc of Russias concerns. Instead they signed the Budapest memorandum wich supposed to guaranty the integrity of their borders. That was signed by Russia as well. Consequently Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons. One might think that was a mistake.

[@banecare1]

you already wrote that 4 months ago

[@tomaszdziecielski2634]

@@banecare1 so what? Obviously I rewatch even all sorts of propaganda bullshit...

[@banecare1]

@@tomaszdziecielski2634 normally you don't copy-paste paragraphs during online discussions

[@realspokengermanwithtomek3441]

@@banecare1 I haven’t done it. I remember having written a comment in a wrong place and than copy pasted it in the main section though. But that was within minutes.

[@realspokengermanwithtomek3441]

@@banecare1 are you the KZbin police btw?

[@wanid1949]

Очень поверхностные мысли. Приравнивать карибский кризис с 24 февраля. Во первых Финляндия в НАТО. Во вторых, только глупец который не знает что происходит в Украине мог поверить что Украину возьмут в НАТО. Третье, если Путин боится НАТО то почему он говорит о нацизме (как будто неонаци есть только в Украине. В России их нету ?). Эти придурки напали ибо тупое старики уже с высохшими мозгами не понимаю что творят, незачем оправдывать действия убийци ссылаясь на «на нас нападут»

[@DHEAS11]

And where exactly are the US divisions in Ukraine? Which he is bringing up as an argument

[@dvushka]

Did you read the news about the leaked Pentagon documents?

[@dianacyber2533]

Before the war, even before Crimea joining Russia, Ukrains wanted to take the Black Sea Russian Navy Bases from Russia and to give them to Americans. There is a long history of Russians in the Black Sea and, surely, those bases were crucial for Russia. So, Ukraine l9st Crimea. Now, there are not only Ukranian soldiers fighting with Russians, but many hired soldiers and war specialists from NATO countries+ Nato weapon. So, don't ask naive questions about Americans in Ukraine.

[@sonia175]

@@dianacyber2533 There was a deal signed that russian Navy bases belong to Russia no matter what. How many presidents had changed in Ukraine since 1991 and they all kept the word (the deal). Russia on the other hand broke all world rules and laws - so no one will ever take russian political promiss seriously ever . And there are no Nato soldiers fighting in the Ukraine. There are weapons and some teachers from western armys but no soldiers. I know some fomer Ukraine citizens from Israel (yes jews support Ukrain on the battlefield) Canada, France that came to fight for their motherland for free. No one is hunting for them. And if you support Russia you better shut your mouth since your people are arrested all over the world for trying to lure into (paid) military service some local poor losers from Nepal to Cuba. That's the real Shame! The old Prostitute: Pozner is hiding behind his old age and so called reputation although there are many videos from early 80s where this "journalist" slames real patriots like Saharov or Solzhenitsyn infront of american audience. Pozner is and always was a political slut - he is hiding abroad and keeps silent but for the real public he is dead for many years. If western studens and journalists couldn't find someone better than That Old Soviet Slut - it's their problem. Not every russian who can speak english really well and knows all the political and social stuff worth of trust and your time.

[@martinsmrek208]

Mr. Pozner: Fact No1 - Terrible influence of the USSR after WWII on Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and other countries of the "Soviet block" (thousands of people were killed, also prisoners, and lost all their possessions. Fact No 2 - The ban on the Marshall Plan for Czechoslovakia, Fact No 3 - Occupation of Czechoslovakia from 1968 for 20 years (because of the risk that the Czechs and Slovaks will find a better way of socialism which was a serious threat to Breznev and company???) I assume that you know these facts very well and of course, I have not mentioned all of them. Where was and is the guarantee that "New Russia" will not do this to us once again??? These facts are also objectively traceable. Mr. Pozner hides so much about the facts. By the way, you also forgot a very important fact - the Budapest Memorandum, which is an international agreement signed on December 5, 1994, in Budapest, by Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, American President Bill Clinton, and British Prime Minister John Major. In the memorandum, the signatories undertook, among other things, to respect Ukraine's independence and sovereignty within the limits of the then-valid state borders, to refrain from the threat of force or the use of force against Ukraine, to refrain from using economic pressure on Ukraine in an attempt to influence its political direction... Mr. Pozner, I read very carefully your book Прощание с иллюзиями // Частный корресподент, 9 февраля 2012 года. I read it in Russian with additional notes against the original that you wrote in 1990 in English. Those notes are very important. You yourself know why, and so did the reader. Yes, we are not infallible, let's try to think about it today. I want to thank you very much for your programme "Pozner", which I watched every Monday night. I learned a lot about today's Russia there. Yes, it was an excellent program. It was... By the way, if I'm not mistaken, in the last broadcast you had Mr. Nabutov as a guest, you didn't deal with anything worldly, but it was, as always, a very pleasant conversation. Mr. Pozner, try to look at his program (on KZbin) at these times (although I believe that you do so on purpose). I wish you good health and family well-being. (And if you ever feel that you need to add some notes again after a while, then do it. I'll be happy to read them...) Many greetings from Slovakia.

[@johnd2574]

Concerning the Budapest memorandum, do you think Victoria Nuland and the US respected Ukraine's independence when they sponsored the coup in 2014? Its all on tape (ref. 'F***k the EU'), so don't even try to pretend it's not true.

[@alexschreier8817]

Concerning the Budapest Memorandum, quoting it, you „forgot“ to quote this part: „none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.“ „Except in self-defense“. Here you go.

[@guillaumelehnert5600]

Your comment is irrelevant, as we are talking about past soviet Union. NATO did not respect their agreement not to expend beyond Germany and they did saying to Yeltsin that the agreement was with the USSR and not Russia. What do you think really ? That USA respected international rights and agreements back in the day. And I did not mention about the nuclear crisis when the us supposed to de established their base in Turkey which they did not unlike the USSR.

[@antonsolovtsovs2717]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@steveknowlton4632]

I've heard many variations on this analysis. Like many clever, but ultimately bogus, arguments, it rests on false equivalences and simplifications. One easy objection to this line of thinking is that the countries joining NATO understood Russia better than the Americans did. They too "slammed the door" on Russia, apparently. Why do you suppose that would be? What about Western Europe? Were they not actors in this drama? And not just *some* countries, but NATO "ran the table" by incorporating EVERY eastern block country including, now, Finland and Sweden (not "eastern block" I realize, but you get the point), and even countries in the Asian block such Armenia and Georgia. Are these not free countries with their own agency? Did the USA force these countries into NATO? Pozner makes an equivalence between Mexico and Turkey, or Cuba and Turkey, during the Cold War missile crisis. The problem here is that Soviet client states were always pure dictatorships. A person might say that the US likewise "controlled" governments such as Turkey and Mexico. On a simplistic level this is true, and a simpleton can then proceed with his syllogism, but ask yourself where you would rather live: Turkey, Mexico, or Communist Cuba? We know that once the USSR set up shop in a country, that was the end of their government. Did the US exert that level of control? Well, you can answer that yourself.

[@motoktm3042]

Yes, we can see how US control Ukraine .

[@Love09081979]

Posner has always been anything but an objective journalist. In Soviet times, he was one of the best propagandists, whose task was to cover the Soviet side, no matter what they did. Now he performs the same role, only in relation to Russia. Geopolitics can justify anything, even fascism. Unfortunately, tens of thousands of tortured and killed civilians old people, kids, women...daily shelling of sleeping people, etc. - this is not geopolitics in my world, this is pure fascism, Mr. Pozner.

[@guillaumelehnert5600]

Like your American friends that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians for peace right ?

[@kalderify]

"Putin's certainly not my hero". Translation from propagandish to english : "Putin is my hero"

[@ashamer7776]

Respect your opinion but don't agree with it. Stop your propaganda

[@kalderify]

@@ashamer7776 Not sure you did understand my message.

[@ashamer7776]

@@kalderify I am sure I understood it. You can be sure as well.

[@kalderify]

@@ashamer7776 You sound a bit robotic and moronic at the same time. Could you please confirm you are not an aliexpress chatbot?

[@kalderify]

​@@ashamer7776you sound a bit robotic and moronic at the same time. Please confirm you are a fully fledged human being

[@vasilevisotchi8153]

Pozner: I'm presenting facts, leaving emotions aside. Facts: Putin feared NATO.

[@willbygosh4887]

Biden needs to go.I'm not a fan of Trump either but he would more than likely to negotiate with Russia.

[@kalderify]

"You can look it up and check that I'm not exaggerating". Translation from propagandish to english: "If you look it up you'll see that I'm lying once again"

[@henu3detb]

Невероятный пропагандист. Просто невероятный.

[@user-bd3mc7ko8r]

I find incredibly deep history here and amazing references and information that I definitely didn't know but at about 30 minutes I would say a deep opinion starts to pervade even though he is objective in - well - up to then. But, what starts to appear is what seems to be a total disregard for the countries that joined NATO to have their own decision making. It is this sort of "The US forced these countries to be part of NATO" and with that it becomes very much the "We are Russia, we deserve to control the decision of our neighbor". Yes, his points and the reference of the guy who he is discussing who was astute to see how Russians would feel about this are fully valid. That person was extremely prescient, was perceptive but it's like saying "There's a guy who broke up with a girl and if that girl gets together with another guy who he knew then he's going to be really angry" and - yeah - of course the guy will. He will be mad at his ex, he will be mad especially if he was friends with the guy....... But he doesn't have the right to murder the couple. And it doesn't matter if one of his other friends said "I promise no one we know is ever going to date your girlfriend" Russia murdered the couple.

[@svetlanapokrovets3954]

With all due respect I guess you’re omitting a very important part of analogy in this argument. Given I chose to follow your invitation to look at this situation as a conflict between former lovers, you’re ignoring one sufficient twist in the plot. The girlfriend (aka Ukraine) found a new boyfriend (US) who is conspiring to pretty much kill the ex, training the girlfriend to use a diverse range of instruments to implement the original plan. What would you do if you were the ex?

[@user-bd3mc7ko8r]

@@svetlanapokrovets3954 actually no, we can follow it on your lines and it's fine. Prior to the attempted murder by the ex- boyfriend (Russia's invasion on the terrain of Ukraine 100% for fully self centered reasons regardless of perhaps "protecting his ex by attacking her" (typical obsessed and dysfunctional absuer language)) the new boyfriend had extremely good reason to provide the girlfriend with a usable self defense system. The reason being that the ex boyfriend had a pattern of physical abuse in the relationship (Crimea for start) as well of a long documented history of violently attacking other women (the list is pretty endless) (and no, it's not important in this analogy even if the new boyfriend also had a past with issues - we are talking about his absolute reasonable impetus for arming his girlfriend) What happened was the ex did exactly what his track record showed. He broke into her house, claimed that parts of it were his, raped her but she brought out the weapon and the training and he got severely pounded on while doing it - regardless of the eventual outcome. So, you brought new pieces to the story but they still don't work. And, now I will add that I really do realize it's a pretty awful analogy that starts on my bad with the utterly minimizing of Ukraine to be an old school helpless girlfriend who can't make decisions on their own and it more should be that a guy has a buddy who is being harrased by a thug next door who he used to be friends with.... I won't bother extending it but the bottom line is that your extension gets pretty shot down if we keep the narrative more simple. The ex has every right to protect herself by calling on friends to try and keep the now psychotic, stalker, would be murderer from those ambitions.

[@cougsjohnson1]

​​@@svetlanapokrovets3954 I like your analysis because I've really thought about this since 2014 a lot. While I would agree that The US did not do the World any favors with the diplomatic negotiations with Russia, neither did Russia. Why is Russia the "Ex-Boyfriend?" Simple, because Russia never did much to keep the relationship going, by keeping Ukraine happy. Ukraine was theirs to lose. No one hardy spoke English. They shared a language & a culture together. But, Russia acted entitled for the past 30 years. Almost like they didn't have to "Win" her over. They never bought her Flowers anymore & didn't even take her on any date nights, to keep the sparks flying!! Fear, abusiveness, possessiveness, wll drive a Woman away ever time eventually. And that's what happened to Ukraine!

[@LionbI4]

What do you think should happen if your ex-wife will start killing your children after they tell her "we want to live with father"? And she is doing it with help of someone who wants to dominate over you? This is what you must add if you want to have fair analogy. But of course its not an excuse for killing if you have not tried all possible peaceful ways to solve the situation.

[@thesummerlinemusic]

@@LionbI4 Umm. No. Russia liar propagandist tool. The Donbas war was started by Russia. The psycho ex boyfriend was already at work in Donbas. Here's how your completely ridiculous and not even close to coherent tail on an actual functioning analogy went. I'm not going to use Analogy because your incoherence can't be modified. 67% of the Ukrainians of Donbas voted in 1991 to be part of the country called Ukraine when the now non-existent country called the USSR imploded and stopped existing. They ratified their constitution which is a world recognized binding document defining their part of a UN recognized member of the world community. This is a contract between the people of geographic areas to be part of an organization by which when your future generations try to attack your own government for whatever reason, you are at civil war against your own leadership. The civil warriors are never the correct parties unless there are egregious reasons for the civil war. At the same time in 1991 another entirely new country which didn't exist before was formed called Russia. It was NOT the Soviet Unión. It wasn't run the same way, by the same people and it had a new constitution and it had also lost a large bunch of citizens who formed other countries that it no longer had any right to control. None. In 2014 this country stole part of Ukraine in an illegal military action. The people of Crimea had also voted to be part of Ukraine. Russia invaded it, installed people there and stole it. Within a year they encouraged people in Donbass to violently attack their own country and sent weapons, advisors and actual soldiers. The rebels in Donbas were illegal warriors who started a war against their own country. In the history of the world, when rebels attack their own country and start a violent killing attack, they are fought against and people, sadly including children, die. The deaths in Donbas were 100% Russia's fault. The deaths were caused by a civil war started by children of people who voted for being part of a country and/or people who changed their mind and then decided to take weapons from another country which wanted to steal their land and attack their own government. So no. Fail. Meanwhile stop babbling about whatever "x" number of children died because the russian terorists have killed and destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in their bloody, raping and kidnapping destructive and horribly executed loser of an anti human terror campaign. However you continue to tell yourself this nonsense is mind boggling.

[@semyonfridman7443]

Intellectual honesty is NOT Mr. Posner’s strong suit. His juggling the facts is mastered so well. What a slimy and deceitful gentleman.

[@elenakotova3506]

Can you prove it?

[@marvelrog3436]

Slimy and deceitful are very accurate description of Mr Pozner.

[@user-lb4ul4hr3b]

He is slippery as a snake

[@dorinrazlog]

This individual appears to be a tool of Russia's propaganda, aiming to justify their actions to a Western audience. Despite his role as a journalist, he has been suspiciously silent until now, which is unacceptable. What emotions do you experience when you look at yourself in the mirror, Mr. Pozner?

[@user-hl2ru2lk8n]

So, if it's propaganda, you can explain the lie or misinterrupting, or it's just his point of view, isn't it? He had this opinion before the war was commenced

[@neptunefog6082]

You are brainwashed by the western propaganda, he cited the documents and you still just keep repeating your mantra

[@dorinrazlog]

@@user-hl2ru2lk8n I'm sorry, I didn't understand the question. Could you please clarify whose lies and misinterpretations you're referring to?

[@neptunefog6082]

@@dorinrazlog western platforms exactly, where all the content is filtered through the convenient agenda, that’s the reason of the fact that you are completely brainwashed. Russian platform are just not good and popular, but it does not mean Russia is wrong, troops crossed the border because Ukraine sellout government refused any reasonable attempts for peace

[@dorinrazlog]

@@neptunefog6082 So, Russia launched an attack on Ukraine with the aim of establishing peace? Even the Indian audience was laughing when they heard this idea from Lavrov. Bearing this idea denotes some sort of sickness, loss of reality. With this being said ​, @NeptuneFog if you are a real person, F..k U

[@David_Liu93]

No matter what ruzzia was concerned about, it will never justify the bombings of the Ukrainian cities, lots of towns and villages literally don't exist anymore, tens of thousands of civilians were killed. This is not how you deter a country from nato, that's how you prove that seeking protection within nato is the ONLY way to protect itself. For some reason Finland and Sweden have no problems joining nato, but only Ukraine has no right to do so? And then pozner says that ruzzia doesn't want to recreate ussr? so far ruzzia annexed Crimea, and created some failed states in donbass, this has nothing to do with Russian security. It's a cruel and aggressive war, no different from Hitler war in Europe or Japanese attack on China and the pacific And pozner is just a useful idiot consciously or unconsciously helping ruzzia justify this war in the west.

[@user-vr5js6nd3w]

Russia does not seek redemption, it was trying to negotiate NATO out of Ukraine for years, but it fell to deaf ears. Funny enough the real enemy of Ukraine is not Russia, but the West. They purchased the elites who raised far-right extremists and went to war in Donbass, sabotaged the Minsk accords. They forbade the Istanbul peace pact which was all but signed. They gave weapons not enough to win and demanded reckless offensive. They promised golden mountains and euro-integration, while in fact dragging Ukraine to war against the strongest army in the world, against the biggest nuke arsenal in the world. Ukraine was fooled into devastation.

[@andrushkaus]

While Pozner's theory about the actual reasons for the war have the right to exist, yet also have the right to be heavily criticized. It is mistake on his part to quote Putin. Putin has, unlike, many respectably leaders lied on numerous occasions and was caught. Instead, we should always look at things that he (Putin) did. While saying that a person who wants to bring back USSR has no brains. Yet Putin has brought back the Soviet hymn, which is now a hymn of modern Russia. As well as the communist flag that is displayed at official parades; the legacy of Soviet Union is still being carried... I mean Lenin is still laying in the middle of Moscow. Pozner is highly intelligent man and a wonderful story teller, but that does not mean that a skillfully crafted story is all there's to it.

[@dianacyber2533]

Surely, there will be red flags on parades. They are part of our history. The Red Army has won Nazis under those flags and we always remember that. About the hymn, the words were changed in some parts. There is no wonder that this hymn was chosen, it very famous and recognizable. Everything is pretty logic. BTW, they have French Revolution song as hymn n France. And their revolution was really bloody, with terror that can surprise Stalin. I wonder, why they used exactly this hymn? It doesn't remind you of rivers of blood in France?

[@marvelrog3436]

Dreaming of an empire.

[@olyavakhniy-rx2wh]

Russia is large and important? Mr. Posner, maybe only in Putin’s dreams. And this is the main problem. Don’t substitute dreams with the reality.

[@elsabretagne]

Да, а что не так? Россия - большая страна. А все что большое географически, важно экономически и геополитически.

[@severusthegreatest]

Girl, you cannot cancel geography 🤪 not can you deny Russian influence in some parts of the world, such as Central Asia and now even Africa with the Wagner Group. So Pozner’s right, and you are not.

[@dorinrazlog]

@@severusthegreatest If you are so big and important, why didn't you attack NATO right away, but like jackals treacherously entered Ukraine at 4 in the morning? There can be a lot of rhetoric, but there is nothing ambiguous here. Russia is absolute evil, period.

[@user-hl2ru2lk8n]

Je didn't substitute, he pointed it out, when he told that Putin think that Russia is in dangerous, and the authority assume that NATO threads Russians borders

[@alexj7640]

@@elsabretagne канада 2ая по размеру страна в мире, она тоже "ОЧЕНь ВАЖНАЯ"? как девушка и сказала, это мечты, реальность россия бедная страна, с экономикой меньше чем италия, какая она "важная"?

[@valeriecoretnic1806]

1 You are speak about interests of USA and Russia, but what about Ukraine?. Ukrainians said boldly and clearly- they wants to be part of EU (that is Why two democratic revolution happened in Ukraine), and, because Russia was against it most of Ukrainians began to think that it is time to join NATO. But after russian attempting to invade Ukraine it is obvious to anybody that the joining NATO was and is right things to do, and as fast as possible. 2) Why's you disregard Ukraine? It's an amazing, nice, big and powerful country. You can't ignore Ukraine when you talk about geopolitical issues. 3) When you made your brief excursion on History, why you forget to mention the Budapest Memorandum of Security Assurances which russia threw away when committed a war . 4) USSR is not a Russia. USSR left in the past Forever. There is not relation between USSR and USA that lead to a war against Ukraine. It's ridiculous. There is wholesome responsibility of russian president and government for this unprovoked, cruel and dangerous war.

[@fromsails2trails]

"It's an amazing, nice, big and powerful country." On a large scale, Ukraine is no different than other countries on many fronts: corruption, money laundering, human including child trafficking, weapons trade, etc. On top of 30% poverty.

[@mariaustedes380]

One hour of pro-Russian propaganda. I don’t buy it.

[@safronio]

Y que no es verdad en lo que dijo?

[@ilgarisrafilbecov9561]

​@@safronio Nothing, they just sit in the tank

[@alexj7640]

yup

[@marvelrog3436]

Mr. Wolfowitz was right after all

[@kukareku54]

@@marvelrog3436 100%

[@JakenFren]

I can't thank Vladimir Pozner enough for his input, ideas, research, and voice.