Interesting detail about russia losing wars and changing. The question is after russia loses this one, will its culture change for the better?
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I think this guy is missing the importance of Bretton Wood. To a large degree, the US subsidized the peace of Europe by defending the sea lanes, guaranteeing the peace, and opening itself up as the only standing market after 1945. America is done with that, so the peace Europe has maintained is no longer buttressed by US might. Europe will go back to its historic behavior because they’ll have to secure their own resources.
Whatever it looks like, it won’t look like now. But let that weighty ship of fate be guided into a port of the global community’s choosing, not Moscow’s. From there, let the ruination Putin and the Kremlin unleashed be deservedly returned to its foul source never, from within their own borders, to never trouble its neighbors or the World again.
Very well said and I’m in full agreement. I lived in Russia for several years in the 90s. It’s hard to explain the spirit of optimism and transformation that was going on. But as thesaying goes, culture eats strategy for breakfast and the deep rooted Russian cultural mindset around authority and the rule of law never fundamentally changed.
Great talk.
What intrigues me as a non-native English speaker, prof. Snyder has a clear British accent, right? Why so?
Watched the whole thing. Amazing talk. I wish, everyone could hear this.
Amen
We need to put Marge Taylor Green in a seat in front of him and make her listen.
The Whitest third world country.
as dutch with indonesian heritage i can say it was waaaaay more nuanced than he portrays in his shallow explanation.
matter of fact, it was america that was the big instigator in that conflict. as they had assurance that they could have acces to indonesian oil……below the, then, current dutch rates offcourse. 😉
so again it was america that proxied a conflict on both sides, that would in the end benefit america. like what it in a way does with ukraine.
since this US aid debacle, there is with me a big loss of trust in what is said by them and what they really want to achieve. just like this man. just another form of propaganda light.
people that want to black/white history are dangerous.
Russia had been changing after losing wars indeed, but never in a good way for its neighbours: it simply adapted better military and economical policies, but aggressive imperial mindset has never changed.
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The entire lecture is here, and I can only recommend it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVs2y-YeiFM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVs2y-YeiFM)
Snyder is one of the best voices on this subject
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Interesting detail about russia losing wars and changing. The question is after russia loses this one, will its culture change for the better?
💯
I think this guy is missing the importance of Bretton Wood. To a large degree, the US subsidized the peace of Europe by defending the sea lanes, guaranteeing the peace, and opening itself up as the only standing market after 1945. America is done with that, so the peace Europe has maintained is no longer buttressed by US might. Europe will go back to its historic behavior because they’ll have to secure their own resources.
Whatever it looks like, it won’t look like now. But let that weighty ship of fate be guided into a port of the global community’s choosing, not Moscow’s. From there, let the ruination Putin and the Kremlin unleashed be deservedly returned to its foul source never, from within their own borders, to never trouble its neighbors or the World again.
Very well said and I’m in full agreement. I lived in Russia for several years in the 90s. It’s hard to explain the spirit of optimism and transformation that was going on. But as thesaying goes, culture eats strategy for breakfast and the deep rooted Russian cultural mindset around authority and the rule of law never fundamentally changed.
Great talk.
What intrigues me as a non-native English speaker, prof. Snyder has a clear British accent, right? Why so?
Watched the whole thing. Amazing talk. I wish, everyone could hear this.
Amen
We need to put Marge Taylor Green in a seat in front of him and make her listen.
The Whitest third world country.
as dutch with indonesian heritage i can say it was waaaaay more nuanced than he portrays in his shallow explanation.
matter of fact, it was america that was the big instigator in that conflict. as they had assurance that they could have acces to indonesian oil……below the, then, current dutch rates offcourse. 😉
so again it was america that proxied a conflict on both sides, that would in the end benefit america. like what it in a way does with ukraine.
since this US aid debacle, there is with me a big loss of trust in what is said by them and what they really want to achieve. just like this man. just another form of propaganda light.
people that want to black/white history are dangerous.
Russia had been changing after losing wars indeed, but never in a good way for its neighbours: it simply adapted better military and economical policies, but aggressive imperial mindset has never changed.
Professor Snyder has compromised himself as an academic getting some basic things wrong in his own field of study. [https://rusynsociety.com/2023/04/03/where-timothy-snyder-falls-pitifully-short/](https://rusynsociety.com/2023/04/03/where-timothy-snyder-falls-pitifully-short/)
Interesting as fuck
His voice somehow does not match his look
That Window is waaay too close for my liking.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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Joe Rogan! Book this guy on your show. Your audience will benefit immensely.
Transcript?