Yuri Felshtinsky - Russia Went from Red Terror to a Terrorist State led by the Intelligence Services

[@tiitsaul9036]

I wish our politicians would listen to this.

[@terryhand]

If only, and misguided commentators like Mearshiemer and Chomsky. Although I suspect that there worldview is so ingrained they wouldn't hear what Mr Felshtinsky is saying.

[@KOIFishcat]

They know this and are full of envy

[@j.dunlop8295]

Imagine if America's FBI and CIA chose our next president/dictator! It would be all about them, protecting their power and benefits, their children aren't fighting in Ukraine!

[@msimon6808]

Alice Miller is helpful with psychology. Abused Child PTSD. Hitler was an abused child. As is Putin.

[@carolwilliams8511]

Indeed. They would get some education instead of stupidly believing pootin can be dealt with as if he were a normal person with reasonable human values.

[@martavdz4972]

Just a note for those who want to know, "vory v zakonye" mentioned at 21:38 means "thieves within the law", i.e. legalized thieves or thieves with a code

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

On that note I want to recommend the book ''Kolyma Tales'' by Varlam Shalamov.

[@j.dunlop8295]

Imagine if America's FBI and CIA chose our next president/dictator! It would be all about them, protecting their power and benefits, their children aren't fighting in Ukraine!

[@Maelli535]

"Thieves with a thieves' code" I'll admit, but 'legalized thieves' - well only in the sense that Soviet secret policemen were exactly that!

[@terryhand]

Absolutely fascinating interview. "...like trying to reform post WWII Germany and leaving the Gestapo intact". I will definitely be reading Yuri Felshtinsky's book.

[@TheAmericanDreamLives]

Hello Jonathan 👋 Yet another superb interview. It was astonishing to hear Yuri talk about the mentality of russians who, drafted from brutal areas outside the Moscow cities zone, do not differentiate between Civilians and soldiers and have been raised to believe it is glorious and necessary, a duty, to give their lives for the motherland . This explains so much. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇬🇧💙💛

[@gooldii1]

Most States have a Mafia. In RuSSia, a Mafia has a State!

[@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl]

That's called "patriotism" in favor of the ruler (not the country /motherland). People in Russia were always indoctrinated, or better said poisoned, with the idea that "the others" always want to destroy "all Russian". That's why the wars Russia lead in the past are exploited to strengthen this view. Victimizing and celebrating itself as the last bastion of Slavic life is part of this thinking and even the Russian culture. And Russia, that of today, exploits ww2 as an prime example, over and over again (decades long). So merely old Russians feel that way and younger ones are educated to be nationalistic af. That's the soul of the nation. But, we had that in Germany back then, we have huge nationalism in France, in the UK and the US too. It's not specific a Russian thing, but in its extent and outcome much more usable, "exploitable" in Russia than elsewhere. And the apparatus from the tsars, over the Soviet union to today works very well to indoctrinate, propagandize and lie Russians into everything the ruling elite wants.

[@gooldii1]

TerroruSSia! under Putler, a Warcriminal with international Arrest Warrant! and....1,60m "mad" wedew, a Alcoholic! @@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl

[@TheAmericanDreamLives]

@@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl I agree with everything you say except that there is 'huge' nationalism in the UK. I can't speak for France or Germany, I don't live there. But in the UK, there are the 'usual' right wing elements, but politically and in terms of popular support, they are a tiny minority. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇬🇧💛💙

[@MonteRosa849]

Mr. Felshtinsky comments completely destroy anybody’s delusional hope that ruzzia is not a lawless Mafia state. 🇺🇦✌️

[@sammenter1]

Absolutely

[@j.dunlop8295]

Imagine if America's FBI and CIA chose our next president/dictator! It would be all about them, protecting their power and benefits, their children aren't fighting in Ukraine!

[@frankcrozier2592]

I think he meant Israel.

[@r1chardhtube]

Very sobering episode today - thanks for bring us these insights into Russia. Slava Ukraini ❤

[@j.dunlop8295]

Imagine if America's FBI and CIA chose our next president/dictator! It would be all about them, protecting their power and benefits, their children aren't fighting in Ukraine!

[@Maelli535]

Very sobering, but you (and I, and all of us) only needed to think ahead.

[@fourthchute]

Thank you Johnathan- another great talk with Yuri -sobering and informative

[@American-In-Mykolaiv]

Wow! What a great explanation of what kind of an enemy the West faces from a Russia controlled by the FSB, the replacement of the KGB. I thank Yuri for sharing his insights and truths on Silicon Curtain! Keep these interviews coming, we need to hear this! Thanks again! Slava Ukraini!

[@American-In-Mykolaiv]

@@frankrenda2519 You speak like a Russian troll, paid with blood money, educated by Kremlin propaganda. You are clueless!

[@bobjohnbowles]

@@frankrenda2519 Says who? Examples? Nah, that would require you to actually think.

[@sammenter1]

Another Russian bot here!

[@j.dunlop8295]

Imagine if America's FBI and CIA chose our next president/dictator! It would be all about them, protecting their power and benefits, their children aren't fighting in Ukraine!

[@truthseeker6116]

​@@frankrenda2519Bot Alert !!!!

[@AndriyHavryliv]

Brilliant discussion. Thank you Jonathan, Yuri. 😊

[@Viktor-bb]

Юрий беглец😂

[@cindypomerleau950]

Just when you thought you couldn't be any more disgusted by Russia.....

[@Charl-Viljoen]

Incredible insights. At last things make sense within a bigger framework and strategy. Many thanks Yuri.

[@j.dunlop8295]

Imagine if America's FBI and CIA chose our next president/dictator! It would be all about them, protecting their power and benefits, their children aren't fighting in Ukraine!

[@andrewmossop6241]

Excellent content and thanks to Yuri for confirming my basic education on recent Soviet and \Russian governance... by the KGB and FSB!

[@msimon6808]

The missing piece of the puzzle is psychological. Abused Child PTSD. Hitler was an abused child. As is Putin.

[@mikelanglow-bi2sv]

Amazing interview. Mr Felshtinsky widely opened my mind on how the USSR/Federation persist.❤

[@dinkohrvat344]

Any body who has experiences and interaction with Russia knows how incredibly dangerous they are . Katyn massacre , purges , ethnic deportations etc etc Fascinating listening ...thank you JF

[@j.dunlop8295]

Imagine if America's FBI and CIA chose our next president/dictator! It would be all about them, protecting their power and benefits, their children aren't fighting in Ukraine!

[@18_rabbit]

yep. The only potent anachronistic warlord state that is now operating like a modern viking warlord horde, and if we dn't start spending big on defense, we will spend literally 5000X on actual combat with them! Yeah war itself is thousands of times as costly as spending 'huge' on defense budgets! Most ppl don't grasp that and THAT would be our downfall if we don't remember that.

[@Viktor-bb]

Страшен черт если его малюют😂

[@Viktor-bb]

​@@18_rabbitа в Лос Анджеле почему так много живут на улице 😂

[@Heater-v1.0.0]

@@Viktor-bb Этот дьявол рисует себя

[@jiyushugi1085]

This is why the Allies were adamant that only an 'unconditional' surrender would be accepted.

[@lynnwalton814]

Another fantastic guest and discussion

[@andrewfarrington2193]

Very good and very chilling. The talk pulled out into the daylight something that needs to be more widely known and acknowledged. Thanks for all the effort.

[@mariadekelver2240]

Thank you for a great history lesson from Mr Felstinsky. It definitely explains a lot about Russia. More importantly, it answers my niggling gut feeling about “what’s off” about Russian now.

[@madeleinesuzette]

What a great interview!! Im going to have to listen to it again!! 👍

[@joancramer7484]

Wonderful guest. Thank you!

[@mchozen2958]

Fascinating and terrifying.

[@sammenter1]

Yes and sobering

[@Whatshisname346]

I sometimes feel guilty focusing on the Russian state so much when a victorious free and democratic Ukraine should be our goal but I’m very thankful that you help us understand the stakes if Ukraine loses this war and what we’ll be up against. We’re simply not prepared as a society, as a culture for such an extreme threat.

[@shooster5884]

I believe that mentally in Europe many at least have not yet grasped the concept the 'never again' of post WWll is no longer the absolute secure reality for Europe any longer..

[@Viktor-bb]

Ностальгия, понимаю😂

[@normanlaxton]

Thank you!

[@marisabenson1222]

I agree with this man's assessment of how this war is going to play out and I too am nervous. Once I saw the weak response by Europe and the US, their hesitancy , their equivocating, their constant excuses and their language, I sensed that political pragmatism would be the order of the day and that their actions which prevented a decisive and swift victory, would have dire consequences, not just for Europe but fro democracies everywhere. We can no longer clise our eyes to the threat to US democracy and yet many in the US remain incredulous at the idea that America's next president could be an Authoritarian that quashes many civil liberties and denies human rights.

[@GMT_400]

America doesn’t have any authoritarians for president. None that change our US Constitution. Democracy is safe in America.

[@franksims6452]

Get out and vote. Stay informed. Push your friends and family to do the same is the only answer I see. And hope Joe Biden lives a good long time yet to come. Atleast long enough to see the end of this MAGA cult. If you feel the need to go Republican atleast pick someone who has a strong moral compass. And not a Ron DeSantis.

[@sneakerset]

@@franksims6452 MAGA -Making Argentina Great Again. The cult consists of basement babies from the old Newt Gingrich Tea Party gang. Tea Baggers haha

[@MonteRosa849]

@@franksims6452 👏👏👏✌️

[@mebsrea]

Not just an authoritarian, but almost certainly a Russian asset.

[@rianmonnahan]

A very sobering pod cast.

[@Symmetry77]

great guest. very knowledgeable

[@merlingeikie]

The Lenin and Stalin characters, destroyed any hopes of anything but a continuing humanitarian disaster for much of what was formerly europe.

[@Viktor-bb]

А живёт нацист 98 лет в Канаде 😂

[@tolethom]

Europe started 2 world wars. No russians needed for that

[@Wintage1073]

​@@Viktor-bbthe nazis has taken over the terror state of russia and the Middle East.

[@sirrodneyffing1]

Incredible depth of understanding.

[@philipgr100]

Great and informative video.

[@Igel-jo8xv]

This very brave and grave analysis of the Russian situation resonates with my own reflections on the conundrum that isolates and facilitates Putins' position and also that of the Russian people. What will become of Russia when the cultural pride and stubborn ideologies that have tortured Russians for decades have imbued the population for generations. I pray it will be resolved with a loving spell of recognition and redemption.

[@toddbilleci8563]

Hugely enlightening, thank you

[@gyurilajos7220]

Very thought provoking indeed. Facing within faints. Very plausible account. Refreshing change from the usual magical thinking on this channel. I'm glad I kept checking back.

[@hereigoagain5050]

Marx was not specific about the form or nature of the "dictatorship of the proletariat." It turns out to be the FSB. Thanks Yuri and Jonathan. Yuri's perspective explains the inexplicable.

[@hmorison]

THANK YOU FOR THIS ENLIGHTENING INTERVIEW. MY UNDERSTANDING OF THESE ISSUES WAS GREATLY IMPROVED. HM

[@matthewboulden7215]

Fantastic conversation explaining the basis for the current political situation in Muscovy. Excellent questions put to an intellectual giant. Loved it.

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@felipearbustopotd]

If what was said was true, then trying to negotiate is pointless! Actions ( with brute force ) is order of the day? Thank you for uploading and sharing.

[@SiliconCurtain]

Yes, negotiations at the moment are pointless.

[@SiliconCurtain]

Every Ukrainian understands this.

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

Thank you so much, Jonathan. I've ordered a copy.

[@SiliconCurtain]

Awesome, thank you!

[@sumiland6445]

💛💙💜💙💛 thanks, Jonathan. Another informative guest. The Kremlin and CCP integrated so their propaganda is coordinated. How has that effected the Chekists?

[@SiliconCurtain]

No, his argument is that the CCP was eliminated - leaving on the Soviet ‘gestapo’, an amoral, power obsessed organisation without an ideology.

[@sebastianthomsen2225]

SLAVA UKRAINE! 🔱💙💛✌😊

[@njaalsturlasson2351]

Thank you, Jonathan. Another great guest. I have to be honest though, that a lot of what he says seems far-fetched…but if even only 50% of what he says is reality, it makes Russia out as a criminally insane nation.

[@sherrillwhately7586]

The behavior of Russians to Ukrainians and to their own soldiers bears this out.

[@strezztechnoid]

Russia is a mafia organization masquerading as a nation state. Putin is an apex criminal, and their goal(s) are to never be accountable and ownership of as much as they can grab. What is concerning is Putin, when faced with his own mortality becomes a rabid dog and more dangerous then anything we have seen before. I understand his nihilism, along with his paranoia, is conjoined with his malignant narcissism making his behavior unpredictable and without limits. Add to this a form of social dissonance and lack of any empathy, his ability to kill as sport or recreation and all bets are off. He's Hannibal Lector serving at the head of nation state.

[@ldhorricks]

I have spent a great deal of time in the Russia over the past 30 years, I can tell you nothing of what he says is far fetched....why would you say it is far fetched?

[@njaalsturlasson2351]

@@ldhorricks I bow to your (undoubtedly) greater experience, as I have no personal experience from Russia. Specifically, what seemed far-fetched was the conspiracy of the KGB/FSB where he seems to imply that they control ”everything”, including the presidency of Russia. I can easily subscribe to the concept of Putin having an affinity towards the KGB/FSB and places ex KGB/FSB people in top positions. I struggle to believe that Putin is a puppet though.

[@davidelliott5843]

He says it seems far fetched but if it’s 50% true the animal is incredibly dangerous. However, the sad fact is the only real counter to this evil is USA. They went over the top with the McCarthyism purged then backed off and still have not appreciated just what we are facing.

[@LisaNH934]

I'm rewatching this and sharing ✅ thank you...again 👍

[@carolwilliams8511]

In my view our stupidest mistake was not to close Ukrainian skies in Feb 2022. We could have saved a lot of lives. Keeping NATO out of this was a serious error.

[@strezztechnoid]

If the movie from Hollywood, Tombstone, with Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday has a scene where he is deputized and given a badge. Doc's response to the sheriff, "Seems my hypocrisy knows no bounds." The same statement can be made of casting Putin in the role, rewriting the line, "Seems my nihilism knows no bounds."

[@shooster5884]

How would one go about breaking up the FSB.. is it possible.. apart from a people's uprising? Would that even do it.. or just lead to another version of it springing up?

[@paulblack8887]

In the Herzen theory it is the hangman state, the great synthesis of priest and soldier(pillars of the old regimes security). Violence without glory, faith without values.

[@mrbigolnuts3041]

Simply fantastic and enlightening interview, very grateful for Yuri's knowledge

[@christophercole8877]

Powerfully insightful!

[@donmc1950]

Very interesting perspective. The question I have is: what happened to the former KGB officers that were operative in Soviet controlled areas of Europe, eg Poland , Hungary etc

[@Donovanwashere]

Wow. This is absolutely crazy.

[@SiliconCurtain]

Crazy, but possible

[@cyncyn747]

A very potent conversation and amazing guest today

[@bluefunkdawg]

Chilling story, we must pay attention.

[@ananamu2248]

Did Russians flee because of a belief in peace or just to avoid war and continue drinking and being aggressive....

[@davidelliott5843]

KGB/FSB funded European Green politics especially in Germany. It’s largely why nuclear power has been ignore or even dismantled (think the Austrian plant that was built but never switched on). It’s likely the current demand for uneconomic “renewable” power is all part of the same tentacles.

[@carolwilliams8511]

Most people do not seem to understand what a dangerous threat ruzzia is to global security and the rule of law that respects human rights.

[@EEX97623]

Interesting conversation, thanks. @SiliconCurtain - have you covered Izborsk Club before with a guest or on a podcast?

[@SiliconCurtain]

No, what’s that?!

[@SiliconCurtain]

Just looked it up. Dugin, etc. looks pretty nasty. I’ll research some more.

[@lymanjellema6485]

When will the book be readily available here in the United States?

[@SiliconCurtain]

Not sure - isn’t it on Amazon yet?

[@lymanjellema6485]

@@SiliconCurtain hi I checked yesterday and it was only available on the British Amazon site. If you have a moment… is the book’s publisher based in London? I’d like to make sure that my citation is correct. Thanks!

[@traveller43N]

Your interview with Yuri Felshtinsky was thought very very good. It raised this question-if putin is the FSB's presidential representitive it follows that FSB was squarely in on the decision to invade Ukraine. How did they get it so wrong, or am I connecting the wrong dots.

[@SiliconCurtain]

Of course. If the FSB was against it, the war would end tomorrow.

[@customfantasyhotwheels]

@traveller43N - When you ask a question, you need to end it with a "?", NOT with a period. Does that make sense to you *?* Do you see what I did there?

[@APW554]

@@SiliconCurtainWe the free world could end it if we grew a pair. Start with arresting Putin and anyone on the ICC list according to international law . Whilst at the same time supplying everything needed and requested by Ukraine. This is something I would of done when they invaded last year. And I’m not a military person and generally passive but needs must. Wrote to my MP mr Elwood about closing the sky last year no response .Tried again this year no response . Bring back Bo Jo….

[@clueseeker2226]

You need to look at events that were happening in Ukraine. In 2014 the US supported the Kiev "Maidan Revolution" that overthrew democratically elected pro-Russia president Viktor Yanukovych. Following this, pro-Russia supporters of Yanukovych living in Eastern Ukraine, refused to accept the authority of the new regime in Kiev. Crimea voted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. Donetsk and Luhansk set up independent governments and obtained arms from freindly members of the Ukrainian armed forces. For example: Ukrainian Military Give Up Their Weapons April 16, 2014 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jH_MmGNth9mKrqM In response Kiev could have engaged with the newly autonomous regions via peaceful negotiations, but videos show that it instead used violence. For example: Kiev forces bomb Sloviansk forcing residents to flee Jun 19, 2014 kzbin.info/www/bejne/imm2Y3SZh5Kil6M Civilians Suffer from Ukraine Military Campaign Jul 18, 2014 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYiZfa2kfbOSj9U Donetsk Morgue Overrun with Civilian Casualties Sep 5, 2014 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aauvYXd3iMqgjtE Ukraine artillery kills five in Donetsk Jan 31, 2015 kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2HPYqd_obuHY7s Many Homes hit by Ukraine artillery attack in Donetsk Jun 11, 2018 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYWam2d5q9eUosk Ukrainian Artillery Attack injured 4 Civilians in Donetsk Jun 15, 2018 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hICqpIiXl9akiqs Ukraine Fired on Donetsk Suburb Jul 23, 2020 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hH2ZZ62oqth1rac Ukraine Steps Up Attacks. Newly Renovated Apartments Hit By Shelling Nov 3, 2021 kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3e9emNvaNB7m8k Ukraine Fired Western "Lethal aid" on Civilian Infrastructure In DPR 29 Jan, 2022 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpOpdHmGorl5bqM For eight years, Russia refrained from intervening so as to allow peace talks to have a chance of success. The US and its allies could have pressured Kiev to stop these attacks. But they not only failed to do that, but emboldened Kiev to continue attacks by giving it weapons. In this situation the victims in Eastern Ukraine had a natural right to ask for protection from Russia, and on 24 February 2022 in response to such requests, President Putin announced a "Special Military Operation". With respect to legality, this intervention would seem to be as legal as NATO's intervention in Serbia to protect separatists in Kosovo. Moreover, the following videos show that the intervention by Russia did not end the attacks by Kiev. Artillery Hits Apartment Building In Center Donetsk( Ukraine & Russia War) Mar 1, 2022 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmSpZJeebdV2f9U Dozens Killed By Ukrainian Cluster Bomb Attack On Center Donetsk Mar 15, 2022 kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3-xmXeBfM-BgZo Maternity Hospital Hit By Rockets In Donetsk. Jun 15, 2022 Mothers, Nurses & Doctors Blame Ukraine kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5OVeWujmNugma8 Journalists Come Under Ukraine Artillery Fire In Donetsk Suburb Jun 16, 2022 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJ2YiIqjgMx2l7M American Air To Surface Rockets Hit Center Donetsk Aug 31, 2023 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIuYe4iXjcd2sNE In view of the above, there is no moral justification for the US and its allies to provide weapons to Ukraine. Doing so is escalating the conflict and resulting in greater suffering and death. The US and its allies should respect Russia's attempt to protect the pro-Russia people of Eastern Ukraine and encourage peace negotiations.

[@miriamwilson9542]

Very sobering.

[@arwinsculler7198]

Finally a guy which understands Ruzzia. Get him back on this program ASAP pls.

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@asan1050]

Silicon Curtain , Thanks Much !.......

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@TheWildEntrepreneur]

Thanks for this interview 👏🔝

[@edgiles7648]

Very interesting perspective.

[@SupportGoodHumans]

Interesting new information. I am curious as to how and why new documents were revealed. Were these kept in the kremlin? How did Felshtinsky gain access?

[@SupportGoodHumans]

@@AlexIgSmith42 thank you.

[@jimcusack433]

Terrific. Leopard, spots.

[@ST-vx3zn]

Thank you, extremely interesting. And very sad. Ukraine is paying the price. Terror russia must be stopped.

[@brianpreval5602]

what about all the people who have fallen out of windows!

[@SiliconCurtain]

Yup. FSB.

[@ned900]

Yuri is king optimist, i love him. He is awesome. A voice for the times we live in, literally, the way his voice sounds, is ace.

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

Are you getting Yuri back? I just listened to a speak he had in Poland, about a month back. He mentioned how Putin's plan was to intergate the Ukrainian army with the Russian when they invaded, which in retro spectiv is obvious but terrifying.

[@SiliconCurtain]

Of course, definitely!

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

@@SiliconCurtain Thank you, looking forward to it. Hope you'll invite David Satter back too😊 I read "Tortured for Christ" by Richard Wurmbrand a few weeks back, I was reminded of how the communists/soviets infiltrated all the churches, also in the occupied countries like Romania where Richard Wurmbrand was from, when you mentioned how the Russian orthodox church is totally controlled by KGB/FSB. I find that very interesting with things the churches will stand for these days. I also read that the Stasi planned to take power in 1986 (like in "the Perestroika Deception"). Kind of mind blowing that people think that world communism/soviets just disappered over night with the fall of the "Anti-fascist Wall" in 1989, and Soviet Russia in 1991. Where did all the hard line party members, Stasi spies and KGB agents go? It's not like they were persecuted. They simple changed form, outwardly. Now they control Russia and what else. I hope you excuse my yt comment rant. Thank you for everything you do, Jonathan. Gods speed.

[@APW554]

Why not enforce international law and have a NATO plus army go into Moscow and arrest Putin and any others on the ICC list ? What’s the the problem with that idea ? Russia is weak compared to the free world at this point action is needed.

[@DaniRaj666]

Russia has nukes and their policy is to use them when invaded.

[@Angels-3xist]

I think when people hear the term “mafia state” they don’t think of the more military, centralized state he’s explaining here. This is not Pablo Escobar or the Sicilian mafia or the Yakuza fighting against internal forces within the state. It is the state. All it’s branches work hand in hand in a way that is as dogmatic as it is official and banal. At this point it often seems alot more like North Korea than I had thought wherein the citizens seem to be prisoners of it’s war machine. Go willingly or be forced to take part. That’s their choice. Some disturbing black and white lines in their thinking are outlined by Yuri, but it makes sense that they have no distinction between civilians and military in other countries as it’s exactly how they act with their own. Although there are figureheads and operators who prop up every part of a system, sometimes it is the practice of the system itself which perpetuates it. That it does not matter who you remove, but rather the intertwining ideologies and practices themselves that need to change. This makes it a very difficult problem not to mention abhorrently and absently cruel in this case, but justice for the victims as well as internal change is more promising than one might think as it’s practices will expend all of it’s resources to eventually necessitate internal change. The only thing which will stop this necessity is it succeeding in it’s expansion, wherein it’s corrosive practices find more human resources to expend until needing to expand again. Parasitic. Some choose to dangerously or stupidly feed this parasitic nature as they are definitely not alone in their new axis of evil. All the more reason it needs to be met with the unity of it’s opposition.

[@WalterBurton]

Yup. It's a perpetual exercise for me, trying to counter this categorization. Exercise in failure. With no hope in sight. I want to hope that it's down to leadership, but what does that say, after all of this time? Russia is a very sad place.

[@ihw-u7d]

And then there are people who urge Ukraine to “negotiate” with Russia….

[@wendyandrew3707]

Another amazing insight into Russia that I wish I didn't know about. It appears the place is a bottomless nightmare. I don't think people in the west want to go there and constantly repeat their mistake of empathising and identifying with people of different nations, although from some documentaries I have seen foreign secretaries of various countries seem to come to understand Russia can never be trusted but use soft language when stating this. Most ordinary people know so little about Russia including myself until recently, although my father tried to get me to read Gulag Archipeligo, but after some Holocaust books, I couldnt go there. I am now surrounded by people who don't believe me about Russia.

[@anonymous.youtuber]

FSB sounds like a nasty infection by intracellular parasites.

[@davidelliott5843]

Stalin’s Red Army used artillery to flatten every city, town and village on the way to Berlin. Germany got the blame for “scorched earth” tactics but Stalin’s forces did 10x as much damage to ordinary Russians. Ukraine has got the same treatment and (to an extent) so have the towns invaded by Russian partisans.

[@slopedarmor]

Good talk, slava ukraini

[@andrewplowman1002]

Thanks. Wow. Very disturbing about the real state of Russia since the Communist collapse.

[@ljubosvetijeljiski7023]

❤❤❤

[@elspeth8476]

So if the greater free world, US especially, knew this, things would be different in supporting Ukraine consistently and aggressively.

[@CollectiveDefence]

I think they know it more or less. They just don’t want to spend too much money. They are probably also afraid.

[@tolethom]

​@@CollectiveDefenceexactly. Russia has real Power, lets not Kid ourselves.

[@tamarasidlartchouk3138]

Incredible guest! I’m fond of the stories of perebezhchiki, it’s the word that means communist officers, or KGB officers that fled to the West. Alexandr Litvinenko, Yurij Bezmenov, etc.

[@shadowgamer3100]

OK, very interesting. One question I would die to know the answer to is your interviewee said Putin knows now how to win a nuclear war. How?

[@SiliconCurtain]

He thinks he knows how… the answer is not great. The Russian elite has more bunkers…

[@franksims6452]

Ya and Putin knows they'd take Kiev in 3 days too but him and his clown shoe'd army couldn't even pull that off. Oh Putin could launch a first strike but he better have a very very deep hole to hide in for the next 100 years or so. But don't think he's going to live that long. And the world will have a piano wire neck tie waiting for him when he does dig his butt out of his grubby hole. Don't really know you'd call that Winning.

[@bethanyrae001]

To die in service of the State... Is that comparable to appeals to die for "The Motherland? "

[@paulbrouyere1735]

The more I know about Russia the less respect I keep.

[@rafaelsanz3441]

Excellent content. Russian has always been a terrorist state, even in Csarist era. That Crown Council of February 1914th, when Nicholas II informed their uncles and ministers that WWI should outbreak in the summer. It´s a long tradition rooted in the Mongol era.

[@WalterBurton]

👍👍👍

[@davidgleinbach7316]

PUTIN LOOKS LIKE GRANPA MUNSTER MORE EVERY DAY, I THINK I SAW HIM SLEEPING HANGING UPSIDE DOWN....*_° SOUTH PHILADELPHIA, LOVE YOU BRO.🔱✡️⭐

[@stevenjohns-savage7024]

Thanks Jonathan 😊. Is this where the ze patriots are running around in 😊

[@jimjohnson3609]

This explains why some moderates now are now seem as they are very hardcore.

[@nolongerlistless]

'The only mafia state...?' 😮 Discuss.

[@franksims6452]

Ya we seem to have a bumper crop...

[@MyrtleChisholm-x7z]

The closest they got was Glastock why give it up

[@SonShines1]

Funny how Russia. Turns to N Korea for help. Kinship?

[@akbarshoed]

I believe every Russian dissident you interview. And I'm not just saying that as a CIA bot.

[@SiliconCurtain]

🤣

[@barryshaw5660]

Cut the crap 💩 we aren’t just a bunch of six year olds.

[@mryouben]

Greetings to putlers trollbotboys

[@objectiveobserver-yi4by]

Glad to meet a likeminded person.

[@richardamullens]

Juvenile language.

[@concernedrabbit9075]

I call them botfarmers shoveling russian manure.

[@richardamullens]

@@concernedrabbit9075 An unsurprising remark from a coprophage.

[@dorothycolumbare9140]

Russian names are changed to protect the guilty .😂

[@davos1409]

I listen to you along with other pro-Ukraine and a number of anti-USA sites along with mainstream media (NYT’s etc). If I were giving ratings for propaganda you win in a tight race. Still moderately interesting and many of your guests are attractive, well dressed and speak amazing English given the difficulties of the last 40 years. On balance, worth a listen.

[@bigg5582]

The west is a shit show compared to Russia

[@SiliconCurtain]

Yeah, really. Have you lived there?!

[@katarinakrajna4911]

😂😂😂😅😅😅😴😴😴

[@clueseeker2226]

Many decades ago a geopolitically savvy British friend of my mother told my mother and I that Britain had become a police state. When asked why, she explained that the police had dirt files on politicians so any time there was a risk of politicians departing from approved narratives, pressure could be applied to keep them inline. I guess the same applies to journalists, judges and others in sensitive positions. Hence in spite of public protests, Julian Assange remains in prison. In principle, an analogous situation could exist either openly or hidden in any political system. In the US, Donald Trump has talked about the "fake news" industry and "the Washinton swamp" for example.

[@SiliconCurtain]

Assange? Are you kidding? He was definitely selective about what info he leaked - always to weaken the west, never to weaken Russia.

[@zer0homer]

4:39 mostly those people who HAD MONEY AND MARKETABLE SPECIALIZATION moved. It's quite disgusting how this speaker paints all with the broad brush. Granted, the borders are open and people have been leaving for decades, but if you're, say, a doctor, you have to ditch your profession to make a buck abroad and stack shelves.

[@philipmain5701]

The frontiers are not open now What is your point?

[@richardamullens]

Only one border crossing is available to Russians leaving for Finland. If you haven't been drafted then you may leave Russia - but you may find that Western countries aren't issuing visas.

[@franksims6452]

Better to stock shelves in a foreign country than live in a terrorist state.

[@concernedrabbit9075]

Russian doctors can practice medicine in several countries in European union, Saudi arabia, Mauritius. Konstantin speaks of russian doctors and dentists finding work within 24 hours of entering Tashkent.

[@DaniRaj666]

​@@richardamullensMany countries have borders open. EU is very tight, other countries not.