I’ve only seen this one and the most recent short one about Iran
My impression is that he is a well-read high school history teacher who likes the game theory school of IR and he’s not indoctrinated by western propaganda
Which means he’s much better than your average talking heads you encounter in Western mainstream media
Not historical materialist it seems like, sadly there are not enough Marxist teachers of current geopolitics
It’s funny how youtube algo sometimes actually boosts pertinent videos, like when the now-famous Mearsheimer lecture got a couple million views at the start of the SMO
On a “grand strategy” level USA is the leader, on the level of individual politicians AIPAC clearly has big influence.
Westerners criticizing their own governments and power structures would be authoritarian actually
A real critical thinking liberal only criticizes their governments’ official enemies
What is astounding is that (if we put Israel to the side for a bit), and consider other Western states, like the EU… well even they don’t seem to respect the fact that Iran could fuck up European economy for several years in a single night of bombing
Here’s a thought
Wouldn’t it be kind of an economic “nuke” to close the strait of Hormuz and bomb every major oil facility in the comprador states in the middle east? The oil price would skyrocket which would be political death sentence to many Western politicians
[probably not a very original thought]
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Because they’ve taken out a large portion of Iran’s launchers. Combine that with much of their leadership being dead or in hiding (including the Supreme Leader), you’re getting very weak responses at this point.
I honestly don’t know what the point is now in launching. If I’m the rocket guy, I’m fucking right off to the house and waiting for the new regime to take over.
That was enough
Don’t you think Russia is stalling because of the confidence it has gained from its territorial gains on the battlefield? They recently advanced in the Sumy region but are also slowly moving forward in the east. Meanwhile, your elite units are forced to operate a separate Spanish-language recruitment platform, presumably targeting Latin American mercenaries rather than Spanish citizens.
You’re painting a generalized picture. It might seem like the end of the world is approaching from here, 10,000 kilometers away… 
… Russia is not gaining territory on the battlefield?
If Ukraine stops resisting, that 10,000 kilometers could shrink considerably, and we would face much greater challenges. As for Western soldiers, the Ukrainian army operates on a contractual basis, supplemented by mobilization and the joining of volunteers. At the beginning of the war, soldiers arrived from several countries to fight for Ukraine, but their numbers are incomparable to the 12,000 North Koreans recruited by Russia, for example. In our country, including Russians and Belarusians fighting for the freedom of their own homeland, we are not talking about thousands.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is struggling with mobilization, and the recruitment of people aged 18–24, which began in February, is not progressing as hoped.
Mobilization is a problem in every war. Ukraine is no exception, as we want the war to end. People are getting tired. We can mobilize 27,000 people a month, while the Russians can mobilize 40,000 to 50,000 because their losses are greater. Mobilization is possible in our country because of the state of war. No one else has any experience in how to stop Putin. We were the ones who stopped him. You are right in that this is a difficult period. We did not mobilize 18- to 24-year-olds, but offered them one-year contracts. I have never spoken about this before, but since you asked, I will tell you what I think, because it is a sensitive issue: I do not believe that we should mobilize people from the age of 18, as the leaders of other countries have thought. Operation Spider Web has shown that it is not the number of people that matters, but weapons and technology. And money and exerting pressure. The sanctions would target the money that the Russians are using to finance the war. However, when it comes to sanctions, as Western partners list the reasons why they did not decide to impose them, they include that Ukraine did not mobilize people aged 18 and above.
To be honest, we gave 18- to 24-year-olds the opportunity to show that they can serve if our partners want them to. We have now given them that opportunity, in accordance with our legislation. But in the meantime, thousands are fighting on the front lines without adequate weapons.
Dems would be much more civil while they were tear-gassing protestors
I just love that the Western liberal media bends over backwards pretending this is completely normal, and Ukraine is not a proxy but an equal.
The whole pretense was that the West is supplying Ukraine because of morality. Now that’s out of the window.
Meanwhile Russia is still winning on the battleground.
This report from PBS is what I’ve seen linked, and this one from Radio Free Europe (
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In the PBS one they say that Russians gave medical treatment to “civilians who didn’t pose a threat”. But why would military age civilian men pose a threat to the Russian Army? Maybe because:
As Russian forces advance on Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, people all over the country are being urged by officials — and sometimes compelled by necessity — to fight back in whatever ways they can. The country’s former president is patrolling the city streets with a civilian defense force, armed with an AK-47. Civilians have been called to find their own weapons and make molotov cocktails — a type of crude, homemade explosive named, mockingly, after a former Soviet foreign minister.
Roughly 18,000 weapons have already been distributed in the Kyiv region, according to the government. At the country’s borders, Ukrainian guards have been stopping vehicles, looking for men between the ages of 18 and 60 who can help in the fight.
Not that you can excuse war crimes, but in the past couple of weeks Bucha is in the news cycle again and shitlibs are literally saying that “denying the Bucha massacre is the same as denying the Holocaust”, which pretty weird considering literal Banderists are fighting for Ukraine, and Bandera is being rehabilitated…
What’s also weird is if the Bucha massacre is the modus operandi of the Russian Army then there should be dozens of Buchas, while most civilian deaths in the war are from artillery and bombing
Is there anything definitive about the Bucha massacre?
Obviously I am very sceptical about atrocity propaganda from the West, but it’s not like Russian soldiers are above killing civilians… (still, the war in Ukraine seems like a different kind of war than Gaza which is purely oppressive ethnic cleansing)
I remember couple months after the news came out Seth Harp said that all the Western journalists reporting on the Bucha massacre got a curated picture of it (as in it was not some kind of investigative journalism that uncovered it, but the Ukrainian National News Agency put them on the bus like a group of tourists and led them to the [purported] scene of the massacre and Azov corralled them around the village.)
There was also this:
and this one:
according to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (Nis)
The right call was to be extremely sceptical
I don’t even know her