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Washington Is Destroying the USA to Rule the World | Dr. Arthur Khachikian

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How come that, as Jimmy Dore says, "there are homeless people under every bridge in America, and they don't even fix the bridges"? How is it possible that in the nominally richest economy in the world there is so much poverty, drugs, and despair and why did that problem grow over the unipolar moment when the USA was the unquestioned sole superpower on this planet? Well, turns out,  …
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Thank you thank you from an 85 year old woman who's been trying to figure out how and who it all went south so badly during my lifetime ❤ Pippa, South Africa
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Mr Khachikian, Your modesty enhances your distinction as a scholar
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Pascal, this has been my favorite podcast I've heard in a year. Extremely inciteful and Arthur has a brilliant understanding and humbleness in his anaylses. Your comments were so complimentary that I give you both 5-stars!! I really hope you have him back. Absolutely fantastic show
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I do not have Stanford PhD in international relations. I have a degree from Belgrade University in economics, international relations major, graduated in1980. All that was said here was obvious to me in 1993, even before USA blunder in Iraq and Afganistan. What was done to Yugoslavia was probably the first of so many blunders to come.
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Was such a let down realizing that the media was not being honest. That was the start of my journey to look for journalists with integrity. BBC and CNN was my biggest disappointment. This is a great podcast. Informative.
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I don’t understand why Americans are so determined to remain the sole superpower in the world. They’re trying to bring back manufacturing after decades of deindustrialization, but it seems impossible given the exorbitant costs involved. It feels delusional. I live in the Midwest—junkies everywhere, homeless camps off the highways in the woods, people living under bridges, and meaningless jobs. At some point, all of this is bound to implode. Everyone seems stressed out and standoffish. Meanwhile, America runs around the world bombing any country that opposes them and their version of democracy, labeling them as "third-world countries." Yet here we are, living under an oligarchy that has fully manifested itself. At the same time, the average American seems oblivious to these issues. Weird times, y'all.
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What a wonderful discussion- thank you Pascal for having Dr Khachikian on your channel. I was very impressed by the way he spoke and how he carried himself during the discussion.
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As a central European I can tell now that we should have cultivated cooperation with Russia after 1989. We should have taken relations to a new level. Instead, hatred against the socialist era and the new Russia was stirred up. Today we have to start here. Taking up this hatred and building it into friendship and understanding and respect.
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I was in Moscow in September of ‘91, and the look of uncertainty on these sweet people was disarming. I’m so glad President Putin was able to shepherd his beleaguered country into a healthy, robust nation. 🇷🇺
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I have been subscribed for a while and there will often be one guest, once in a while who will just rapid fire truth bombs, I sort of know subconsciously but could never vocalize. Dr Khachikian is one such guest. Please bring him back again.
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What an amazing man. I'm so pleased you're going to have him back on your show again, hopefully very soon.
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The comparison with the Soviet Union doesn't fit - either the good or the bad aspects. The Soviets made sure everyone had a job and a roof over their head. The Soviets were also in constant threat of Western imperialism. America is the leader of that imperialism.
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Great guest and discussion! thank you for having Dr. Khachikian!
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Hello everyone from Russia! Thank you for the video, Pascal. It's always fun watching your videos.
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It's so enlightening to listen to this conversation by Arthur and Pascal about American hegemony, arrogance, and bullying countries that do not practise the failed US-styled democracy. Thank you for your truthful, unbiased and interesting discussion on the various topics. 👍
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Each and every episode keeps on getting BETTER AND BETTER!!! I appreciate the work you do and the varied guests you bring on Pascal. That bit where you came to the self realization of you and your guest´s discussion actually being an "echo chamber" was indeed profound. Keep these coming please.
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For me, empathy is the most important building block of humanity. To say that it is understandable that one group of people is good and the rest is evil/bad/uncivilised and etc is absolutely empty of any empathy.
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I really enjoyed this conversation. What a fantastic wise, calm approach your guest has!! Thank you for inviting people from so many cultures and exposing us all to these different cosmologies of thinking.
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Interestingly Eric Li had an annual speech in China two or three years ago when he compared today’s US to USSR. It amazed me how similar they were. Pitifully it was in mandarin so not many foreigners have watched that spectacular speech.
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Reagan and Thatcher were this guy's "heroes"?? That tells me all I need to know about him.
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What a great guest and what an incredible conversation. Really pleased that this one integrated a lot more the traits of human behaviour and human psychology onto the world views and geo politics and strategic foreign affairs which is not that mentioned when trying to understand historical events. Thank you!
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Couldn’t listen after he said Thatcher was his hero. The woman who said there is no such thing as society. She was stupid.
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Highly intelligent,illuminating conversation.Listening to this guest is a great pleasure.
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“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State"
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"If you want to make God laugh tell him about your plans for tomorrow" 😅 - this and so many other gems and insightful observations made this a rivetting conversation to listen to. Thank you both for it!
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I have to question anyone who admires Thatcher & Reagan but it is interesting Khachikian does it from an upbeat perspective. Both those politicians cast the Middle Class to the wolves of capitalism while emptying the public till for the goods of war and directing all the gains of capitalism to the very few ultra rich. Thatcher is reviled across the British middle & lower classes for decimating whole regions with unemployment. Ron Reagan took his fundamentally simplistic Red Scare pov and was then led by the nose by the corporate finance class to destroy American progress toward a more egalitarian society while rallying the jingoists against imaginary bogeymen. He initiated the idea that your could get the Middle Class to vote against it's own interests if you could focus their negative emotions toward bogeymen and "others." The Neocon American Exceptionalist ideology loosely held as patriotism in the minds of so many average Americans, that allowed the US Intelligence State to carry on the work of the Dulles Brothers, is a child of Reagan's rhetoric. After Reagan a pointless new bomber program was more valuable to the American Middle Class than a healthcare safety net. He made Americans proud of every thing they were doing, whether it was right or wrong and no matter how it harmed people overseas. Thatcher & Reagan used by the monied powers for it's own ends is only half the story of the wrecking of the US Middle Class. In order to compete politically with the Reagan program the US Left, rather than pushing back against it, adopted it. We have never recovered, and the top 0.1% plus the deep state have never seen better times than the last 40 years.
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China didn't adopt the western system, and USA didn't became the Soviet Union, USA became more USA than ever, in the tradition of British empire
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Pascal, your show is unique in that you have so many different and competent people to analyze events on your show. I really enjoyed listening to your guest as well as your excellent grasp of the situation. Your show is at the top of my list now. Thank you 🙏
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"The US is behaving like the USSR." A phrase that infers that they used to behave differently. I understand what they mean, but it is not strictly true, at least not for the behavior of the US with Latin America, for example, where the USA always used absolute force.
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Just letting Arthur know that every single person is as important as every other human in the world. Never ever think that you're less important than even the king of England because you're not.
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"USA becoming USSR" Oh, there will be free education and healthcare for everyone, free hauses and guaranteed working conditions? Hell no. You are scaring people with part of what USSR was, without any glance of other side of the medal.
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Stunning interview - you two got on like a house on fire! I really appreciated this academic's knowledge, charisma and humbleness too. Please Pascal, invite him again! 💛💛
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The thing that he couldnt see when he saw that western life was better than soviet life is how difficult it was for homegrown Americans.
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His “heroes” are Reagan and Thatcher. Wow! Can’t say I’m impressed with his role models.
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Thanks, Pascal, for hosting such a brilliant, humanistic spirit on your program. Absolutely outstanding!
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I don’t hate Russia, admire even, which is almost dangerous to say in the US today as anti-Russian sentiment is so high.
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Arthur Khachikian. An Excellent thinker.
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What a jewel of a man! My path was similar. By the time I reached the West I was sick of politics and wanted to embrace capitalism only to quickly realize that politics caught up with me. The poison of political correctness was present in Canada already in the early 90s. Niall Ferguson, even though he is mostly wrong, got one thing right: the West has become the new Soviet Union. What an irony of fate for all of us who seeked freedom of thought and expression but instead found maniacal wokism, racism, and androphobia. We don't live in a society here, we live in cultural and income-based ghettos. The dried up leaf on our flag is a symbol of our strength and unity: until the wind blows... 🇨🇦
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Are you still a liberal, Arthur? Do you cry when watching "Mimino"? Say what you want, the Soviet Union created a unique place for the people, where they could truly fulfill themselves. This is why millions of ex-soviets still long for it. And liberalism kills everything eventually because of greed.
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Fantastic guest. Thank you
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We lost the peace to the Military Industrial Complex and Lobbying Money. Not so much money in peace.
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In the USA we talked about spending the Peace Dividend, we were children then.
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Wonderful discussion. Thank you pascal.
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"EUROPE WILL NEVER FORGIVE RUSSIA FOR ITS VICTORY OVER FASCISM." ~ Admiral Georgy Zhukov Admiral Georgy Zhukov was a renowned Soviet military leader who played a crucial role in the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II. His statement highlights the significance of the Soviet Union's contribution to the Allied victory and the enduring impact it had on European politics. Admiral Zhukov's quote suggests that Europe, particularly Western Europe, would never forgive Russia for: • Defeating Fascism : The Soviet Union bore the brunt of the war against Nazi Germany, suffering the highest number of casualties and losses - 27 millions Russsian soldiers died. Zhukov's statement implies that Europe's gratitude for this sacrifice is tempered by a lingering resentment. • Challenging European Dominance : The Soviet Union's emergence as a superpower after World War II challenged the traditional dominance of Western European powers. This shift in the global balance of power created tensions that persist to this day. Admiral Georgy Zhukov's quote remains relevant in today's context, as tensions between Russia and Europe continue to simmer. The legacy of World War II and the emerging Russian Federation's role in shaping European history remain contentious issues. za
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This was the first time that I actually enjoyed listening to - and agreed with - someone whose heroes include Ronald Reagen and Margaret Thatcher! Great interview.
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Its always bizzare when someone talks about listening to the BBC, Voice of America, Radio liberty as if these are not just state propaganda media 😂😂😂. No different to the BS being peddled in the USSR. Margaret Thatcher was his hero 🤦🤦🤦. That just says it all ....
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1. Listens to CIA propaganda "radio free europe" 2. Fan of Reagan 3. Fan of Thatcher What a guy!
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One of the only sane sources of info and discussion online. many thanks.
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Professors are usually my best educators, but some didn't teach publicly, such as retired government So many reasons I am grateful for this talk
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The Japanese still hasn't admitted their war crimes against China, nor had them apologied, therefore I seriously doubt the Chinese will "understand" when Japan wants to arm themselves with weapons capable of offensive.😅
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Thank you, Pascal, for introducing your viewers to Prof. Khachikian. We all can benefit from some words of wisdom.
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Thank you for sharing 🙏 informative 😊 free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Two wise men, in the 1840s, predicted that, because of this system, "All that is sacred shall be profaned, and all that appears solid, shall wither into dust." I'd say we're there.
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It's much worse. At least in the USSR food and housing were guaranteed.
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Dr. Kachikian is so humble and well educated. He has a such diverse background which fruit into an unique perspective of looking at things. I born in 90s and grew up in China, then educated in US, and worked in Swiss and Africa. I have the same feeling as Dr. Kachikian that there was a period of time that youth like me worship the libra and freedom of western world. However, after I moved into US, I saw the flaws of this system and realized there are so many things I took for granted when I was in China are actually not inherent. Then when I was in South Sudan, I saw the result of regime change and so call "democracy" which result in endless arguments without any action on real development to improve the life of people there. Oh, South Sudan has a such fertile land, but it's one of the worst suffering from hunger. In the end, I got confused, by things I heard and learnt and things I witnessed. I agree with Dr. Kachikian's view that the true world is far too complicated to ne explained by one or two theories. If you take a closer look at the raising paths of developed countries, they are not the same. I do wish there will be more space for those developing countries to find their own way to thrive with fewer impact and import of arms. Thank Pascal for keep doing this to share more wise thoughts!
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I appreciate his opening statements... it lets us know how deeply snookered he was by Capitalists... 🤷🏽‍♂️
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I knew that one reason the Ukraine-Russia war started was because he didn’t want NATO’s borders to encroach towards Russia, which the US ignored and pushed on but I didn’t realize he wanted to be a part of NATO in 2001. Good piece of info! Will have to look more into that history. I love that this channel deep dives into pieces of history you will never hear on mainstream US media
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From Denmark: An exceptionally high content conversation between 2 deep thinking and discerning minds. Thx to both of you for applying cultural, rational, moral and ethics considerations to understanding the human behaviour and pointing out that a solid education/knowledge of historical facts are essential in driving away bias from geopolitical analysis.
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I only made it to the 8-minute mark. Unlike most commenters here, I found him a bit of twit. Maybe he got better as the interview progressed, but I wasn't hanging around. I was living in Australia in 1991 and even I could see that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was going to be a catastrophic disaster. The whole hands-across-the-water, Glasnost-Perestroika thing was a Hollywood-media production to put a glamorous face of one of the most horrific plunders of a nation's wealth (indeed several nations' wealth) in all of history. Maybe at the time he was too young and impressionable to see what was really happening and that young people like him were the proverbial village idiots being played for suckers.
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If anything I have learnt lately is how frighteningly easy it is to move a nations thinking from one pole to the other. Also how fast it can happen. Great conversation, many thanks for doing what you are doing.
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I debate like you guys, wise, stoic, self aware, considerate, perspicacious and intelligent 👌💪
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Maybe Arthur should have spent more time studying Marx and Lenin.
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There are lots of programs describing current geopolitical events and analysing what they portend. But this is exactly the discussion that has been missing. The WHY underlying the waste and stupidity. Thank you, gentlemen.
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This guys says he sees holes in Marxist theory, but he clearly doesn't. That is actually his blind spot. I have also lived in two systems, and growing up under capitalism made me a Marxist. His perspective is not special.
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Every empire eats itself
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Interesting guest but Regan and Thatcher set the ball rolling for the neoliberal catastrophe we are in now ps I loathed Thatcher
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Thank you for inviting Dr. Kachikian. Hope he comes back soon.
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The wall of Athens was seen as offensive because Athens could send the navy to attack other places. Without the wall Athens was strong enough to defend itself but could not afford to send the navy in distant places. Sparta by law did not had a wall and could not afford to attack distant places.
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Comeon now, Trotsky is a very poor example for that claim of megalomaniacal grandeurs. There nearly was a revolution in Germany, and far beyond; he was speaking for millions.
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The reason is that Security advisors are selected by those at the top. When Nixon selected Kissinger to be in security advisor, Rockefeller gave Kissinger a gift of $50,000. Rockefeller was explicit about how he liked Kissinger's work and helped him move from Havard to directing US foreign policy.
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Thank you for inviting me Arthur on your podcast. His views are very interesting and informative .
Saying that Ronald Reagan had a philosophical vision of the world is hilarious 😂. He had never read any document 2 pages long.
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An excellent guest Pascal, please bring Arthur back more times, and especially how we should understand the current regime in Georgia 🙏
Average cost of rent in the entire Soviet block was 5% of wages.
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One of the most intelligent discussion I’ve ever heard.
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This man is a liar!!! I am an Armenian myself and was born in the USSR in 1963. Armenia was the freest republic in the USSR. The Voice of America was turned on freely in the courtyards and no one said anything. I wasn't accepted into the Komsomol at school because I said Lenin was bald and I didn't like him. No one said anything to me or judged me. There was more freedom of speech in the USSR than there is now. Under the USSR, the staff of any factory or enterprise could dismiss the Director and appoint a new one, which is not the case under capitalism. I am disgusted by this man
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Pascal, teaching people how to think not what to think should make them trust you more
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One of your best guests, even more enlightening than the regular big names like Diesen, Sachs, Meisheimer as we already hear so much from these popular names. Please have him back!
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Cognitive Inertia ! These words came to my mind hearing that lots of us have the idea that U.S. today is the U.S. 40 years ago. The glooming U.S. of our early years. Thank you.
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Great interview. Thank you for inviting him.
Taxi drivers were always open source intelligence, but won't weigh in how that affected the mix, dunno Taxi drivers in London know that city better than anyone else
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An interesting "IR philosophy".. 'Our time' is a single tooth circling around on a very large wheel dating back to when our species first appeared here.
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Unhealthy societies are what happens, over time, when political sociopaths are afforded adult authority in a society. Political sociopaths work to normalize the sociopathy. A political sociopath is someone who is willing to do harm to another for the sake of opportunity, social capital, hierarchy, profit and/or pleasure.
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Absolute ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, thank you so much, all the Best to you both...!! 🇨🇭 C. 🦉😇
This guy is a traitor.
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Totally agree with Dr. Khachikian's views! Please have him return for another discussion!
Excellent guest. Much appreciated from here in the UK.
What a refreshing and honest discussion. Needed.
Peace and cooperation are as much in our human psychology as war and conflict. Some of us had to invent war to build up the hierarchy, peace was the default!
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39:00 America did invade the USSR during the Russian Civil War of 1918 - 1922.
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So eye opening and objective interview. Unfortunately such clear headed intelligent people are not running a country.
Your podcast is great! I am from Romania, 70 years old, 34 in USA. How we got here? I have grandchildren, my youngest one 12 years old watching documentaries about WWII! How I can explain him , these times! This is so terrible! I lost my fate on humanity! Only money greed, wars and more wars! You tell me, please!
Oh what a charming gentleman as a guest today! And so knowledgeable too. 👍 Although the subject of your conversation was the exact opposite of such state of mind... Thank you both. 😊
Excellent , the conversation was interesting and enlightening with the insightful perspective from your guest.
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Very vey interesting. My wife is Armenian and this man confirm that Armenians are very intelligent people. It is moving the way this man speaks out: very humble but also very effective.
In 1918/19 the US certainly did invade the USSR. Great exchange.
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Awesome very interesting as it reminds me of meeting my first ever Russian school mate during the mid sixties. I am Maori and he became a family member his mum and dad were prison officers. he taught us Russian traditions and he immersed himself in our Maori traditions and spoke perfect Te Reo Maori better than me. Thanks to you and your guest for this chat.
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One of the wisest talks I have heard for a long time
Pascal. Thank you for such an interesting discussion. One of the strengths of your podcast is that you bring on guests with whom English speaking audiences are not always familiar. This broadens the discussion which is crucial especially in this pivitol time in history.
Arthur and Pascal, thank you very much for an insightful discussion!
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Brilliant…! Thank you so much for you, your channel and guests. 🙏
Thank you for bring Dr. AK on your channel, he discussed issues in a reasonable calm issue and was not as bombastic as some other individuals.
We need "Partnerships" Not Alliances. Regards, Viet vet/Ecologist VFP
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I love this interview. We need less hatred, more love. 让爱充满人间
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What a wonderful historic lesson on current events and human nature, Merci.
It’s exactly what Aldous Huxley wrote about in 1958 and predicted would get worse in his chapter ‘Totalitarianism in a Democracy’ in Brave New World Revisited where opinions are manipulated and manufactured through media and big corporations.
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So is the USA becoming like the USSR? That is, will it nationalize the means of production and in effect create a state of law for the workers? If that's the case, let's all come over there. Ridiculous clown
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At: "Margareth Tatcher, another hero of mine" I stopped listening. I understand that Khachikian is a liberal and refuses to acknowledge the existence of class society in any meaningful way, but the policies of that woman contributed to destroy social democracy in Western Europe massively and he's showing no respect towards that history and no balanced view of Western politics at all. You can expect no sensible political analysis by someone like this.
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People like Arthur should be running countries because he is wise which is different than just intelligent, there are "intelligent" grownup people who say things or behave like small kids
Such a brillent conversation. Pascal, you really help me think about things in a way no one else does. Thank you so much for this.
Excellent episode! Love to tou both, from brazil 🇧🇷! ❤
One of the best interviews I've seen lately
USA becoming like USSR? You wish! 😅 more like USA becoming like North Korea...
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Europe is becoming what the USSR was. Russia has become a Christian nation with traditional values. A new kindred spirit for America. Today is Europe’s Nineveh Bible story moment.
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"A general decline in the quality of leadership" The average population IQ in all industrial countries is continuously falling since the mid 19th century.
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This episode is epic! Thank you. Looking forward to more of this.
Great guest, thank you Pascal. I particularly appreciated the emphasis that there is no difference between defense and offense in great power politics, and your reference to Japan's insistence that their forces are self defense only. As someone who like you lived (and studied) in Japan, this was always a topic of puzzlement for me. This should be required watching for everyone.
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I actually argued with another American on Glenn Diesen's channel I tried to be nice, but sometimes failed I appreciate being able to argue with people I oppose on some points Healthy
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Thank you very good guest u brought in, I learnt a lot in that hour conversation. TOP
The other they I saw a video from a kid explaining how he dealt with bullies, and explained strategies that failed, like just ignoring the bullies, standing up against them or subduing. What worked for him, was to work on himself to be a good person. It feels like politicians are still stuck on the failed strategies, that a kid can find out by himself these days. We are becoming so uneducated it is crazy.
well,I think USA gouvernments are very jealous of Russia now.and other countries as well.they should look after their nation seriously and be humble !
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I think it was Yeltsin that criticized NATOs first expansion post Warsaw pact calling it replacing an unsustainable Cold War with unsustainable cold peace or something like that. Post WW2 the Axis nations were given a path to mending relations. After The Cold War and USSR dissolving the Russians were not with NATO acting like The Cold War never ended. It not only maintained their suspicions of everything preferring isolation, but it also turned them towards China and created the conditions for Putin to get influence. In American politics leftists still can't comprehend they were the ones that worked the hardest to get Trump elected then re-elected with more votes than the first time. Their hatred of him like EU of Russia and refusal to communicate blinds them to reality. You cannot solve problems you refuse to understand.
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The wise doctor outlines very clearly the destructive decisions that brought us to the disastrous place we’re in today.
This was a splendid guest, great analysis.
Important forces in the US never wanted the cold war to end. They were actually right - because they actually understood it held them in restraint. Ending the cold war ended the restraint - it gave them the opportunity to win. Hopefully these hopes are now finally dashed for good.
And the EU is already USSR.2 !
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Wonderful channel, always delighted to see a new video.
39:00 USA persuaded with psy-ops.
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I wish such smart people ruled the world, thank you. war is cruelty
Thank you for having Dr. Khachikian as a guest. Humility and intelligence, when incorporated in one’s being, is such a powerful role model. In my humble opinion, the conflict between capitalism and communism, is a thinly veiled religious war. Neither system works for well, for all levels of society. Both China and Russia seem to have adopted a synthesized version of the two systems. Judging by the success of their individual applications, it is working better than either system on its own. I hear the fervent support of capitalism, by working the class in the west who lost their jobs through de-industrialization. It has lead me to believe there is no opening for modification in the west, by a population that is so thoroughly convinced, as to sing it’s praises religiously in the presence of their own suffering.
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It's not that power corrupts but that power attracts corrupt people, and corrupt people have an advantage in the competition for positions of power. Responsible people act responsibly even in exalted positions of power, but where corruption is tolerated, responsible people are excluded from positions of power.
What the guest says about the BBC and CNN is the sand with Canada's CBC, CTV, and Global. CBC used to do real investigative journalism. Now they just parrot the tropes and talking points.
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Gulf of America ❤️🇺🇸👍
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Brilliant psychological analyses..from a person who has the advantage of being totally international!!
Tremendously useful on a personal level. Power isn't the only thing that corrupts because corruption dwells within us all.
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Excellent, one of the best exchanges.
The guest mentioned there was a distinction made between the Soviet people and the communist regime and he seems welcoming such a distinction. Now the neocons in the West are trying to make the same distinction for China in a clear effort to divide and conquer. But it doesn’t seem to be working. I guess that’s why China is still united and strong while the Soviet Union collapsed. There was a lot of naïveté and false euphoria in the aftermath of disintegration of USSR.
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I have a agenda, can Rednote and other Chinese artistic expressions become the expression of Softpower and prevent a US-China war, considering the relevance of public opinion in the US.
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I think it helps to look at Ivan Svitak who was influential before the Velvet Revolution because he then taught in the West and was able to clarify how intransigent America is towards those it benefits us to use.
When in doubt, follow the money. The expansion of NATO is directly connected to the Military Industrial Complex. Who benefits from the expansion is the question you need to answer. It then identifies who’s actually in charge. Profit and Power rules the world.
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Dr. Arthur Khachikian is a very smart man. What do I mean when I say he is smart? Well, I am saying that he agrees with me.
Spot on. I was born, unknown to me, during the Cuban missile crisis, and watched geopolitics from about 15 years later. What an avoidable mess they have got us into. Most people don’t want war, so why do democracies get involved in so many? . Great podcast, thanks.
What a wonderful thoughtful conversation, THANK YOU!
Extraordinary interview!
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Truth in the light...
comments about history were deleted..as usual
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Excellent guest. And excellent discussion.
@0:50 it is not "wasting money". The US dollar is a fiat currency. The spending goes into the pockets of workers and their bosses. It helps the economy domestically where the war is not. The wastage is on real resources which could be used for more productive peaceful ends, and of course of human lives. Never focus on "the money" in a monopoly currency system. Focus on the real resources. You follow the money to find the corruption, you do not need to worry about "wasting" of government scorepoints.
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С чем-то согласен с ним, с чем-то нет, но одно точно, что самой большой геополитической трагедией был распад СССР. И то, о чем он говорил, как, например, теория о слепоте величия, по сути является следствием этого. Лично мое видение мира отличается тем, что мир — это очень сложная система, практически не просчитываемая математическими формулами, но, как любая сложная система, она может работать только в балансе. Иначе говоря, та самая система сдержек и противовесов, которая удерживает от монопольного положения, а, как известно, любая доминирующая идеология при полной монополии неизбежно скатывается в свои крайние и радикальные формы. Именно поэтому, когда исчез СССР как сдерживающий фактор доминирования США, это нарушило баланс и привело к власти на западе сторонников полного доминирования. То, что НАТО превратили из оборонительного альянса в инструмент проекции силы, является следствием этой идеологии, и, конечно же, все предупреждали о риске конфликта, но важно понимать, что на западе нет прямой демократии, есть ее иллюзия и интересы узкой группы лиц, в руках которых реальные рычаги управления. Так что его возмущение тем, что он понимает проблему, а те, кто у руля, нет, связано не с их пониманием, а с их возможностями это делать. Более того, не просто делать, а безнаказанностью за эти действия, ведь каждый конфликт, развязанный ими, никак не отразился на них самих. Да, спустя какое-то время пришло понимание ошибки содеянного, даже публичное осуждение, но это всего лишь слова. По поводу теории игр. Это и правда интересная концепция — математически считать результаты, но я уже упомянул, что мировая геополитика — это слишком сложные системы для математического просчета, но теория игр хорошо работает в обратную сторону, чтобы из результата действий понять, на что они рассчитывали и где совершили ошибку. Забавно то, что есть разница в подходах между США и Западом, которые последние 30 лет играют в игру с нулевой суммой, а Россия и Китай пытаются перевести мир на игру с положительной суммой. Ну а, например, Зеленский сейчас пытается навязать игру с отрицательной, и я искренне надеюсь, что у него не получится. Так что теория игр не бесполезна, просто она не предсказывает результат. По поводу его странного спича на тему СССР и коммунизма. Я не коммунист, но жил первое время при СССР, и не вижу в коммунизме ничего плохого, кроме того, что современное общество просто не готово к такой системе и именно поэтому является утопией. Также ничего плохого не могу сказать и про СССР, потому что ничего плохого в нем не видел. Но это та же проблема, как и с распадом СССР, где дескридетировали идею и теперь оставили одну доминирующую. Скажу честно, капитализм имеет ряд проблем, которые видны уже сейчас, это расслоение общества по достатку. Проблема, по сути, заложена в капитализм, так как его основной ресурс — деньги, а принцип — деньги делают деньги. Я редко высказываюсь по этому поводу, но раз уж пошел разговор, то деньги в конкретный момент времени — ресурс конечный, соответственно, у кого денег больше, тот зарабатывает их быстрее, в итоге идет перераспределение денег по принципу все той же игры с нулевой суммой, где выигрыш одной стороны означает проигрыш другой, только в этом ключе богатые богатеют, а бедные беднеют. Коммунизм и социализм об этом и говорили, просто если вам они не нравятся, не значит, что они были неправы)) Конечно, в коммунизме и социализме свои минусы и проблемы, но именно противовес этих разных систем ограничивал крайние формы, во всяком случае, в определенных пределах. Китай — хороший пример связки, где они, внедрив капиталистический принцип экономики и оставив социалистическую основу общества, только усилились и уменьшили расслоение, выведя из нищеты сотни миллионов. И знаете, что сделало Китай главным врагом США? Это пример успеха.
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It was a learning experience listening to 2 learned people how we should look at the world
I agree with your guest. The US seems to be lost if it can't be spoiling for war against some enemy... Washington, changed a few things here and there and resurrected the entire Cold War monolith. People do take the time to view the recent history. It would help to know more about Russian history 1990-2000.
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Estonian PM Kaja Kallas declared, "Break Russia into pieces." How come a tiny state gets so arrogant that it has no respect for its larger and powerful neighbor? Yeah, joining NATO emboldens a tiny state to poke the Russian bear with no fear. This is not nature at all—a dynamic some liken to the Chinese proverb, “The fox borrows the tiger’s might,” wherein lesser powers project strength through alliances rather than inherent capability. Now, the world has changed. The United States can't afford to be the world's policeman anymore. It may pull out of NATO, and without US protection, entitled and freeloader Europe would be nothing. Maybe it is more natural in this way. Like it or not, that's how the natural world works. So each nation should behave based on its position in the international hierarchy.
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Very thoughtful and informative. Thanks gentlemen.
The Soviet transition to capitalism was big news in the West in the mid 90s. I recall as a young student then reading the broadsheets on the latest twists and turns. My overall impression was that the West and other countries were putting alot of pressure on Russia to speed up it's transition, desperate to get them to the point of no return. Yet it seemed to me that Russia had no intention to rewind to the past anyway. I remember thinking why aren't they given the time and space themselves to work through and build their new countries. There was little trust from the West. As a catholic from Ireland I was mindful of each national culture having different ways of doing things because there is no human society without first a culture. Under communism of course, the culture takes a big hit, but despite this Russia and it's satellites, notably Romania started to build and open churches, they still had the memory of what is needed for the foundation stones. But what can we say of the West now, I will quote Jeremiah 8:9-12. The wise men shall be put to shame, they shall be dismayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them? Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to the conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest everyone deals falsely. They have healed the wounds of my people lightly, saying 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; I quote the above, not to be self righteous but to suggest a time of serious deep reflection is needed. No offence to your guest Pascal but simply understanding the psychology of cognitive dissonance hardly cuts it, as it's only a high minded way of simply saying what we all know if we are truthful with ourselves. Thank you for this great channel. I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers btw.
Great to see Dr. Arthur Khachikian. Much appreciate his perspective. I really wish all the best to Russia.
Thank you. Amazing guest.
If you believe in capitalism, greed comes easy and compassion hard. If you believed you are right, disrespect for others comes easy and empathy hard. If you believe you "won" the Cold War, arrogance comes easy and reflection hard. All were evident in the west starting in the 1990's and, I believe, tarnished western foreign policy. This excellent discussion reminded me of "...and his will to dominate all life". Does someone in the west have the One Ring to rule them all?
I live in Kalispell Montana, and there's lots of Russians living here. I detect not even dislike, let alone hatred. That's not true at all. We have other problems, but not racism.
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It's time for America and Russia to unite and think about their people and the people are not the important ideology but safety, sovereignty and happy life, because what's the point now that the highest is all the people if the country that is declared the safest is finally visited by all immigrants or whatever it's called, because the people are free to go anywhere, in the end it becomes a country that feels top, yes, its population becomes very high and there will be many problems.. it's suitable for the US to join the USSR, then the world will be safe and calm.
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Great discussion, what a great guest
Thank-you, Dr Khachikian expressed so well my own sentiments, how is it that we find ourselves in a world full of so much hate, when Reagan and Gorbachev created for us the greatest opportunity for world peace ?
Thank you gentlemen! Excellent!!!
My approach to these philosophical/political questions has been to believe that half of what I believe may turn out to be wrong but I don’t know which half is true. The same applies to the arguments of my interlocutor.
The title says it all. Thanks!
Confirmation bias is necessary and healthy. We cannot reconsider everything every time any new information comes in. What is useful is to maintain two things. The first, I call a "I don't understand bin" where you file away things you don't understand in the hope you will someday. Periodically thinking about things you don't understand is a great way to challenge yourself. The second is continually trying to prove yourself wrong.
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Another excellent interview ❤
1970 Germany ? what's the difference between an optimist and a pessimist : an optimist learns Russian a pessimist learns Chinese
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great guest, would love to see him again
A great guest!! Thanks
Nice to "meet" Arthur 👍
an excellent discussion. I enjoyed every minute
Overall very enlightening conversation. The guest mentioned there was a distinction made between the Soviet people and the communist regime and he seems welcoming such a distinction. Now the neocons in the West are trying to make the same distinction for China in a clear effort to divide and conquer. But it doesn’t seem to be working. I guess that’s why China is still united and strong while the Soviet Union collapsed. There was a lot of naïveté and false euphoria in the aftermath of disintegration of USSR.
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Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development are a face of the life cycle or the human development cycle, as is the Maslow hierarchy. Maslow's hierarchy basically says that a person cannot reach a certain level of the pyramid without having fulfilled all the following categories to a sufficient extent. The moral development of a person, as well as of society as a whole, understood with the restriction described in Maslow's hierarchy, remains limited to those categories that are sufficiently fulfilled. This process is dynamic. In the case of existential shock events, existence itself falls into the unsatisfied state, the need is reduced to physiological needs, and the moral orientation is reduced to “obedience and punishment”. The stages of moral development “Social contract orientation” and “Universal ethical principles” can be achieved only by sufficiently fulfilling all categories of a person or society as a whole. We are experiencing a collapse of our moral abilities and orientation after the existential threat of the Sars-CoV-II virus and the interference of the legislative and executive authorities in civil rights and civil liberties.
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Excellent analysis Excellent episode 😊
That was a beautiful interview. Is Arthur half Assyrian and half Armenian? 🙏
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The USA is becoming the USSR! I've been saying this for many years now! Thanks Pascal for this interesting interview with Dr. Khachikian. I liked his mentioning, in a fleeting manner, the Themistoclean wall as a grievance and a reason for war!
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One of the most interesting conversation.
"How did we lose it?" It's human nature, Pascal, in the end humanity will always lose it, from the tower of Babel to a distant interstellar Dune empire in the year 10,000, we will always lose it. But we will try again and again. That's the human experience.
what a brilliant man
"Back in the 1950s and 1960s when Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand were first pitching this ideology (then called neoliberalism and objectivism) as a way to bring "freedom" (economic freedom for big capitalists only) to America, they were broadly ridiculed and ignored. But the libertarian foundations and billionaires got into the act in the 1970s, along with the rightwing media organizations they were then building, putting Ronald Reagan into office and shaping his policies, sending America into a libertarian slide. The Reagan Revolution's libertarian experiment has brought us the predictable results: - the highest rate of child poverty and maternal death in the developed world - one in seven American children going to bed hungry - our schools, roads, bridges and rail systems in shambles - millions without access to healthcare - historically low tax rates on corporations and billionaires - an impoverished middle-class - devastated labor unions
 Libertarianism is a poison that's crept into our society on the backs of rightwing billionaires like Libertarian David Koch, who ran for Vice President in 1980 on a platform of shutting down every government agency except the military, courts, and police.” SUPPORTED BY BOTH PARTIES “In the 1980s, the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), led by the likes of Bill Clinton, aimed to reinvent the Democratic Party for the neoliberal era by purging it of progressive forces left over from the 1960s and 1970s. The goal was to make it friendly to Wall Street and the Pentagon while dropping the civil rights and tree-hugger talk, and it was largely successful, as the party found popular support among professionals in the nicer suburbs.”
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@Arthur and Pascal, when you talk of the US IR wisdom, that was lost after the victories in WW2. An example of this is exemplified in the book "The Best and Brightest" by David Halberstam on the Vietnam War.
Wonderful guest
The first time I heard abou Armenia was in my early teens (a couple of decades before the internet) in the São Paulo subway when the conductor announced "Armenia Station next".
The US 1950s educational reform (including the creation of the PSSC program) was highly inspired by the Soviet educational system.
Terrific interview.
So. He is saying it can never end because of human nature.. Because there are people like that in every country.
Finally someone said it, sainthood - perfect morality - special and Mister RIGHT. That is not how u bring peace
Excellent, very balanced
Brilliant discussion
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I remember the Gorbachev and Reagan era. What killed it was the post HW Bush triumphalism that the US "won" the Cold War and treated Russia like it was defeated in a shooting war.
The conversation was very interesting 🤔.
Asking the wrong questions on a limited scope and timeline will not reveal the divide-and-rule technique. After 1945, the empire set off on the "G-G Line" from Germany to Greece, during the First Cold War after declaring yet another war which would affect the entire world ("cold" war/Truman Doctrine/declared in 1947). THE WONDERFUL 1990's, FILLED WITH PROMISE It advanced onto the "B-B Line" from the Baltics to the Black Sea (see footnote), after the "peace" was declared to the plebs after the 1990s, and a bright new future promised to all the children of history, believers in the promises made of "peace dividends for all". Fools are those who believe a leopard can change its spots. The reality is that "a leopard can't change its spots", and is the colloquial way to explain the idea that most people never change their true nature, and in the big picture/macro-level, empires will ever change their innate nature. A hegemony once "on top" will EVER step down and share "peace dividends" equally for all... The Atlanticists' mentality strategists and world views, far away from the divisions they foster and pay for by proxy, the constant crises they instigate, the cold wars they lay the foundation for, or the hot wars they avoid avoiding (double negative); and whose navies give them access to the world's resources (incl. "human resources") have always wanted long wars, if there was prospect of systemic gains using a geographical advantage (distance from warring states) or if there was any danger of unity formatting in Europe/Eurasia. The current marching route of the empire, which started when the USSR economically faltered in the late-1980s with "carved-up Yugoslavia" being the first victim of divide-and-rule. Systemic/ideological expansion into: - Eastern Europe. - Black Sea/Balkans/Caucasus Region (southern pincer of the marching route) - Scandinavia/Baltic Sea Region (northern pincer of the marching route) Keep on marching, marching, and when there is a reaction or resistance, start "pointing fingers" (narrative control). This type of imperialist behaviour as evident by Washington DC, and their subservient "collective West/NATO", did not only start after WW2. How long do you think it will take for the empire, wriggling and writhing about ("divide-and-rule"), hopping over here and there ("pivoting") before they reach the "A-A Line"? The goals of the "dividers" who wield the power, is simply that their politics is the continuation of war by other means... ‐----------- The "B-B Line". When people start thinking in terms of dichotomies like winning/losing, left/right wing, us/them, right/wrong, unity/division, they are already all "losers." Think in terms of a desirable outcome. If not, lose. Outsiders fabricate the "crescent of crises" around your heartland. "The primordial interest of the United States – over which for a century we have fought wars (the first, second, and Cold War) - has been the relationship between Germany and Russia. Because united they are the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn't happen. … For the United States … the primordial fear is German technology, German capital, and Russian natural resources, Russian manpower as the only combination that has for centuries scared the hell out of the United States. So how does this play out? Well, the US has already put its cards on the table. It is the line from the Baltics to the Black Sea." - George Friedman, Stratfor, Feb 2015 If outsiders come from outside and start drawing lines on the map, through your homelands without asking the people who live there. Today, Eurasian leaders are too weak to unite in order to play their own cards. They allow outsiders to play the cards FOR them. You will lose if outsiders consider you a game of cards, and draw lines right though you and your neighbors. Then they push little minions, ahead of the hegemonic power... Endless wars, constant dissent. Insert "levers" of lies, mistrust using POWER PLAYERS. Create favourites: favouritism for the PROXIES who bow down. Point the finger, everywhere else using the POWER of the MSM. Divide and Rule. Oldest trick in the book... Who wields the POWER? Who has had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to reach all the other little buck catchers (tools, and other Roman-era style instruments of POWER), but could not be reached itself, because of a geographical-, technological-, organisational-, military-, strategic-, political advantage at any given point of a historical timeline? Rome. London. Washington DC. Different Empires. Different eras. Same games.
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Separation of powers, mutual trust and working towards common goals remains a utopia as long as organized crime succeeds in infiltrating the three powers and abusing them for their profit. The functioning of the three pillars legislative, judicial and executive, contradicts the interests of organized crime. The city of Lindon and its offshoots are a good start for an analysis.
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History is way more important to learn that how we think we are making history
America first.
"EUROPE WILL NEVER FORGIVE RUSSIA FOR ITS VICTORY OVER FASCISM." ~ Admiral Georgy Zhukov Admiral Georgy Zhukov was a renowned Soviet military leader who played a crucial role in the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II. His statement highlights the significance of the Soviet Union's contribution to the Allied victory and the enduring impact it had on European politics. Admiral Zhukov's quote suggests that Europe, particularly Western Europe, would never forgive Russia for: • Defeating Fascism : The Soviet Union bore the brunt of the war against Nazi Germany, suffering the highest number of casualties and losses - 27 millions Russsian soldiers died. Zhukov's statement implies that Europe's gratitude for this sacrifice is tempered by a lingering resentment. • Challenging European Dominance : The Soviet Union's emergence as a superpower after World War II challenged the traditional dominance of Western European powers. This shift in the global balance of power created tensions that persist to this day. Admiral Georgy Zhukov's quote remains relevant in today's context, as tensions between Russia and Europe continue to simmer. The legacy of World War II and the emerging Russian Federation's role in shaping European history remain contentious issues. za
When this man was celebrating the end of soviet Russia in the West we were, on the left, gutted by the loss of all the gains made by the Russian working class at so much sacrifice. So dont include us in your fantasies of capitalist utopia.
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very good discussion. Thank you.
10 trillion in ME wars for you know who
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Europeans realised quite reasonably the equality thing . . . Americans realised quite reasonably the Liberty thing . . . The Fraternity thing seems to be lost between the communists and the Muslims the three of them must be balanced
Why do we continue to have poor political leadership which leads to war and societal collapse despite the existence of knowledge amongst wise people ? Our leaders are not answerable to the knowledgeable or the wise as they are a small minority. They are answerable to the masses who do not know the answers. In fact the masses provide the fuel for the politicians. Emotions of fear and victimhood are the fuels for political action. Therefore the answer is for the wise to be teachers to the masses. However that relies on the masses to be good students which relies on humility and respect. In this age of self promotion, post modernism, individualism, and ego that will never happen. We are unfortunately trapped.
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I wonder if you could bring a guest to talk about Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy specially his plans for the post war world. I know about his Four Policemen plan and I believe that it implies he understood the US could not do it alone and after hearing you talk about the Security Dilemma I started to wonder if the Four Policemen was also a way to avoid the security dilemma. Thanks!
Again , I'm going to repeat what I said many times and I'm going to repeat this for as long as needed . The time after the fall of the Berlin wall , during the nineties , in the Russian Federation is largely underexposed .
Great analysis
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Thank you gentlemen for this discussion, Pascal I have loved your work since I found your channel quite by accident a good while ago, I think this is your best interview by far, I admit probably the reason is because I am biased towards this line of thinking, I simply do not understand war; at the end of each one comes discussion and negotiation, it is as inevitable and fixed as day follows night, so why wait until hundreds of thousands have been killed, what is this cyclical ritual all about, it makes no sense, every war dredges up historical animosities and creates new ones, why do we not learn to learn from the past and use these lessons to create a better future? The loss of life on both sides of this war is unbearable, Ukraine is broken and on its knees and there are those who now move in and profit from their despair, I hope they can forgive what the western nations created and have done to them, if they are not aware of it already they will be soon.
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USSR? The former USSR actually achieved something for its people, its many blunders and abuses notwithstanding.
Churchill said that a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can put it's pants on
Indians hugely respect Russia. America is no one’s friend. They only care for themselves and Israel. Trump also has respect for Russia. Don’t agree with him on a lot but I like his view of Russia. I think he values loyalty, like India values loyalty.
I sincerely hope west and Russia will come together for the sake of peace! Building trust will take generation or two if both sides cooperate as neighbors and not enemies! All this needs to be rooted in the education of young and coming up generations! Pray for peace!
Actually it's worse at any given time 63% to around 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck according to various surveys
‘Marx is bad’. My man have you heard of China
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Merit-based democracy is more resistant to organized crime because the event of an election does not provide as much of an attack surface for a takeover of the system.
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'don't they have common interests, if the company makes profit everybody wins' If your teacher couldn't shred that notion in excruciating detail they had no business teaching Marx.
Great Discussion.
NOT USA , NOT WEF , NOT CCP, NOT islam. Nobody country or state or idea should be allowed to rule anything. DECENTRALISE
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Brilliant
I do sometimes call a young musician ambassador, but he's not Jack That's Cody Matlock, and it takes a village to raise him
Allowing racism to continue year after year is why we all will suffer.
Fantastic video.
Because nowadays US, as a country, basically lives on debt. Do you figure out the logic here? US actually gets tangible resources, products and services from other countries with their printed bills, literally no costs!! It's the foundation of the country, very unequal to other countries, but why no country disobeys the system? Because all the countries or leaders dear to challenge the game disappeared, for example,Saddam and Qaddaffi, they tried to trade their oil in gold or Euro. Also, without US global hegemony, noboday is gonna buy US debt, everyone knows US won't be paying the debt back, it will only roll the debt and print more money, of course they might wanna invest their dollars in something more meaningful rather than US debt. A decade ago, China started to invest less its dollar reserves in buying US debt, and as you see US tried whatsoever to create problems to China trying to enforce China back to the previous cycle.
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Your title should read, ‘Washington has been destroying the USA’. A new sheriff in town.
❤❤wow that was so good
A great discussion and a great guest! But I think that Arthur is either not aware or greatly underestimates the American efforts to further destroy Russia by exploiting inter-ethnic and inter-religious issues inside Russia - in particular in 1990-ies when things were so tough! The Globalists obviously try to continue with this covert war on Russia even now (they call it "de-colonization"), but it is obviously so much more difficult since the situation inside Russia literally turned around. I think this Western activities directed on breaking Russia apart and instigate a ethnic-religious strife and eventually a civil war played a significant role in giving Russians a better understanding of "our partners" and the West's hate for Russia and Russians - since the West lost this game and Russians (Putin) defied its "brilliant" plan to destroy Russia once and for all!
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Thank you for this discussion.
Am I right: "After WII, no treaty was signed, only surrender by Germany".
The U.S. invested heavily in indoctrination, not education.
Great argumentation. Unfortunately, you can only go deeper if you dare to delve into the concepts of good and evil, and the role of man between those powers.
Great insights
Brilliant one 👍🏻
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Greetings from Australia
Its not just promoting people to their incompetence, Delusional confidence which was taught in schools from the 1970 to generations Y as an interview tactic i.e. delusional confidence beats real skill every time.
I’m the same in Australia I just can’t watch the ABC our national broadcaster anymore.
Instigated wars started almost after WWII . NATO was the cause. Acknowledging is different from facts and reality. Many can justify anything.
What is he doing in Armenia criticizing Americans?
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The "industrialists " won every single one of those wars, it was only the people and country that lost. This is the problem. I think it comes down to a lack of imagination - the Military Industrial Complex is after all a series of logistic/technology companies - they could all be re-tooled for good and still profit the industrialists.
I am in awe how much these two dont understand U.S. Capitalism actions and effects abroad and at home. It's as if they dont know anything about U.S. military industrial complex.
Reagan Thatcher heroes? Very shallow understanding of geopolitical matters. The internal logic of economic liberalism created the fraught world that we now endure. How is it possible that someone with such feeble analytical abilities graduates with any degree whatsoever?
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So your saying that more people have died in Ukraine than the over million that died in Vietnam? There is so many numbers thrown around about the number in Ukraine, but I think the settled history number in Vietnam was 1.5 million, I haven't heard anyone saying that about Ukraine yet
We went from the biggest creditor nation in the world to being the greatest debtor nation in the world
There are processes in the world. There are lots of bad actors in the world. If there are sufficient bad actors or processes they can coalesce overwhelm the good processes. WE ARE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE ESCAPED HELL in 2025 ! It was our fault for letting so much shit to happen and happen and happen until its too late
Please clip the last 10 minutes. Everyone needs to hear about Manufacturing consent.
I think an interesting debate topic would be: Did the US start the war in Ukraine?
47:54 - It was actually Britain who first began to build Battleships/Dreadnoughts, and then a bit later Germany began to atrite Britain by building them themselves. They needed just build a few fewer than the UK, because England had to patrol its large empire, and Germany did not have too. Therefore the lesser need for German Dreadnoughts. On the question of why hubris set in at the end of the Cold War. The answer is that the West got drunk on a political cocktail consisting of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Reunification of Germany and the collapse of the USSR. Then people in charge and a great sum of the public as well thought that peace would last forever, and it did not as the Balkan wars broke out in 1992.
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As Professor Jeffrey Sachs would say .. " the U.S. couldn't take yes for an answer "
This is the Fall of America 🇺🇸 🔥
What I'm hearing.....best to walk circumspectly
Dude admitted he listened to Radio Free Europe like he was some rebel lol
and they say social security system is a ponzi scheme.. i mean come on man i dont really expect something big from politicians but they gotta do better than that
There is a bias in this discussion. It is not only US + NATO versus Russia. It is US versus Russia, China, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, Afeghanistan, Vietnam, Brazil, etc, with the support of client NATO. A empire trying to subject all other countries.
I just had to go and listen to The Scorpions- "Wind of Change" for the nostalgia buzz!
🤔 so the people that wanted to end wars are now the evil one and the people that wanted wars to constantly keep going is now the angels. What a twisted logic!!!
The hosts disregarding of the propoganda is not a neutrality position... it is further propoganda.
Ozempic has really made a lot of your middle-class dissapear. No joke..that is an impressive drug.
An interesting discussion. That the US didn't used to invade countries to influence them doesn't look like peace though, does it? The US, or the first euros in the America's weren't at all peaceful, they committed genocide. Back in the latter half of the 1800s the US invaded the Phillipines, or do I have that wrong? Didn't the US war with Spain over Cuba? How to Hide an Empire is a good read about this aspect of imperialism. Cheers
Quoting Jimmy the leftist splitter grifter Dore ... ah Pascal, do better than this.
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around 31:00 Some argue that the Red Scare of the 1950s and the Cold War post Stalin, it all happened because because of the influence of nazis and nazi collaborators in the US. When the WWII ended, the US found itself facing a competitor it knew very little about and so they looked for the best specialists in Europe and found that a lot of nazis could help them. (that's the argument made by Christopher Simpson on his 1988 book "Blowback"). I do believe that influence could still be alive but it doesn't explain everything, though.
Yes, every power has these types of people. But not every power allows them into leadership. China, for example, doesn't just accept what comes naturally to the average human personality. It grooms a government meritocracy, and it works.
The powers-that-be seem always to prefer chaos to peace. It's far more profitable.
I think that the more a person go and hang out with University teachers are the best when they talk. Me un-educated person would have been a more shorter respond to all those question and would of mean the same result. I was educated from living a life with parents who was self educated at those time it was going to school grade one sometime two for the men and women grade 8 . And my father and mother were born in the 1906 and 1911 years that have seen two war. They made a point for us to go to school as long as we would be able to go in those years and at home they were teaching us history and respect. But now nothing seem to be interesting for young people but money power and strange morality ! This is all over the world, when they stop educating kids respect at school that is when they loose control on everything. I'm the younger member of the family born in 1953 and I can tell the difference. Does not mean that kids are wrong but you only understand life when you respect everyone around you!
Concentration of media ownership, also known as media consolidation or media convergence, is a process wherein fewer individuals or organizations control shares of the mass media. Initially this was local TV pulled into governmental bias but it was not limited to TV. Print media and even foreign networks like BBC were unified into a propaganda machine. It requires the viewer to exercise a healthy analysis but they don't...
Pascal great video. To fully understand today conflicts you should go back to ex-YU and examine role played by USA almost 34 years ago. Economic part was cover by professor Jeffrey Sachs ( who was young at that time) and war part by Douglas Macgregor . Both of them opposed USA official politics and warned about possible outcome & chaos which you have today.
Military industrial complex always wins
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We are on planet earth…will there always be light and dark, good and evil… can we live and learn and evolve to a kinder level now please?
This guy has horrible heroes . Some of your guests have been pretty bad as of late . This is what an educated fool sounds like . I’m 78 and have no tolerance for kids like this .
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I stopped watching and listening BBC, CBC, CNN and Fox News long time ago.
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Becoming the USSR, United States of the Silly Retrogrades?
Arthur, you're assuming that had the money not gone on wars, it would have been diverted into all the positive social buckets you mentioned. I disaree. In a perfect world, that would be the case. We don't live in a perfect world. Under Trump, this will not be the case, not even close.
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This all would have been so different had Nikolai Volkoff kicked Hulk Hogan's ass in Wrestlemania...
All n all, if I may)). Soviet Union was the best possible structure in human history, as I've seen both ( US and USSR) equally...though also spent much teen time listening those propaganda stations mentioned
This makes me so sad.
For America USA the chief geopolitical prize is Russia
Ganster Capitalism is alive and well here in the USA.
Such an insightful and knowledgeable perspective about humans in the western world, Russia included. This is a very valuable commentary how the current dangers in this world come about with pointers that would contribute to turn the world a better space for all humans. Thank you Dr. Khachikian and Mr. Lottaz.
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he is not slavic
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How come? The answer is - British.
Its true though... The US increasingly resembles the USSR. Including an old ossified leadership/political class that is out of touch with both reality and their populations. The average age of members of the American congress is 65. And all are multi millionaires. The American Congress is the worlds most wealthy retirement home.
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It sounds like Khachikian has a kind of "Golden Age" bias. 1) The West did not persude Soviets because the leader were soooo wise, but because they could not beat the USSR militarily. We all know that after Germany's capitulation the Brits and USA wanted to bomb the USSR, but could not, because they had too few nuclear bombs. 2) In Truman's Memoires he wrote that he could not believe that ASIANS (!), not Communists or Russians, but Asians could have build the nuclear bomb. This shows that it was not about ideology, but about race. The separation between Communists and Russians came in later, after the USSR humilitated the US internationally, because of their domestic racial issues. 3) Persuasion of Soviets to the Liberal way of life is not the right word. Many ordinary Soviets for example took their social security system for granted and therefore thought that they would keep this security in the West AND get more goods. In short: They did not know the fine print. After learning about the fine print the hard way, they quickly changed their mind, but it was too late. That is why I would prefer the word "fooled" instead of persuaded.
Horrible the 🚕 🚖 taxi information..ive been through it. Londdon reporters know and saw the torture happen . Then Photoshopped my face and put me all over the world in bizzare weights and uniform ect.
Maybe it's time for the world to end and have a reset. Humans have created so much turmoil. Earth needs a reset.
Thatcher and Reagan are his heroes?! 😳
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Pascal knows that China didn't attack Japan, but the reverse
It seems Dmitry Orlov's takes on American collapse are coming true.
I grabbed my leash when a sloppy drunk recently tried to kick my ass and didn't let him fall down
Sure, by persuation, but why. Because they could not do it any other way. It was of neccessity and not by choice, because choice did not come into the equation. Perhaps that is why resentment existed after SovietUnion was gone. And then also this with we have to show a better option, which made capitalism in the West put on a more humane face. Well, after Soviet was gone all over West a dismantling of that humane capitalism is going on, and the good life in a capitalist society is evaporating all over. We are heading towards some kind of neofeodalism, or even worse Neoslavery. Its our choice to accept that or work towards other options, whoever one wants to label them.
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Yet another place I see Jeff's fingerprints and voice Our administration listens
Equilibrium is kind of incompatible with US Empire.
U wd do very well to ask Prof Dr Roy Casagranda on for a political history discussion. Check ✅ out his talks online OR utube, AND certainly you'll find his content FROM the Austin School really fascinatingly brilliant, highly informative, and entertaining + not 🚫 stuffy at all.
Cant' find the links to Arthurs site
The End. 🔥
No ! We got allways one aggressor !
57:00 Generally agreed. But "fabricating consensus" is as old as mankind, and it started as soon as human being discovered that language (as it evolved) can become a powerful tool of manipulation. All past empires and states had elements of "fabricated consensus" as top-down state measures, be it organized religion, ideologies, militarism and other "-isms". It is not a modern phenomena, only the technology changed, meaning ideas spread faster. Man did not change.
He spouts on about inequality but can't see it tracing back to neoliberalism.... since he hero worships thatcher and Reagan
I'm sorry but I do need to say that selling pretty ladies is an inappropriate expression for such a great show.
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Goerge Kennan famously changed his opinions many times.
The ussr had one of the best educational systems in the world FOR FREE. so, don't compare the usa with the ussr.
This guy speaks perfect English but he needs to learn that the plural of process, NOT "processeeeez". It's processes, as you would expect.
This guy really drank the American cool aid! 😂
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How to select which lobby to support? ... well, usually it depends what each lobbist offers
38:30 Isaiah Berlim argued that to force Liberalism onto others is a non-liberal attitude.
US is now USUSSR.
Hi. As usual, a wonderful interview, plenty of great insights. Tanks a lot for your work.
Educated people can just think their right because they are educated. I really don't like authurs belief about education leading to being more open minded.
Theory and hypothesis are 2 different things mr. Arthur :-)
Are there really viable career choices after having participated in a failed stinktank?
It still looks carpetbagger if we do a 180
9:38 50 European senators and diplomats? Or American? Or mix?
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Because it's time for the United democratic states of Russia
Arthur is wrong about the educated and humility. Educated people tend to be less humble, leading to utopian ideas.
One World? This man isn't speaking truth about America
Good dialogue, but where is the fact of capitalist warmongering? Too superficially covered.
Arthur saying that we will learn nothing from it was one fat blackpill
So much truth here ... AI didn't generate this I hope.
27:50 another thing that happened was Larry Summers, well-travelled academic.
Blindness He Talks of is Blindfaith transfer from Religious blind faith god to blind faith politics as Albert said, ¨¨Blind faith root of all Evil
Pascal, the thumbnail text ("USA is wasting money on wars") is insulting toward the 100's of millions of victims of US imperial wars, because it reduces these wars to a simple money-management issue. I know it's easy to not see all those victims when we live in the safe and comfortable West, but they nevertheless remain real.
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We can not understand their grievances thats not a logic argument now it was 20 years ago a good argument but not in our days , should Russia keep their grievances about Germany or China about Japan? I think Russia and China overcome their grievances so should others do too, Africa overcome their grievances everyone did apart from the baltics
39:00 That persuasion Arthur, is just TOO SLOW for our times. TOO SSSLLLOOOWWW. We want it now, fast, fast, FAST. Just press a button. it must be here when I awake (overnight). PEOPLE TO PEOPLE is slow. We will accept augmentation of all kinds to be BETTER, STRONGER FASTER and RICHER.
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I lived in USSR.. Biden's policy resembled that a lot more...
perhaps if we didn’t discuss geopolitics as though the world was run by philosopher kings and queens it wouldn’t all be so disappointing. we could just pin it all on us being us making bombs. sorry. but i watched as much as i could of the trump rally last night at the capitol and i’m taking it out on you. i really do appreciate your work.
🤔💪 ...i like logical truth ! --> NOT LYING !!!!!!!!!!! (=eu!)
Washington democracy is the destroyer of all every thing you could possible emigine starting with its own country and citizens 😂😂
England throws 3000 people in jail every month for posting memes.
Why not,Putin as your Car. And now we are learning ruski ! First lection:Njet njet ,blijed ! And now Trump said: you must buy a ruski dudinski,than you can speak now Russki and you can now understand that.Lobby + Trump ,two ways,one pocket. Free speach only 4 all reps. Next day,a other lect.4 other reps., in the slumps from verginia !
Worst guest you’ve ever had Pascal. What a naïve individual.
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6:13 Margaret Thatcher is one of his heroes? The conversation has just ended and he has nothing to say.
USA is becoming more like India
He has weird 'heroes'
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So... are we isolationists or imperialists? Because we're being accused of both.
Abiding to the security dilemma requires that the leaders and people accept some level of insecurity..Courage is necessary. It seems to me that your IR professor lacks courage, so he preaches one thing and practices another.
obviously,american gouvernments learnt nothing since the vietnam war,even before and in europ it is the same,all pretentious people.
54:11 Arthur said it like it is... Respect. xD
Americans didn’t invade the USSR, they invaded Vietnam, Korea, most of Latin America, etc. The reason they didn’t invade the USSR was due to their nuclear weapons and the disastrous threat of possible war, so soft power manipulation, the CIA funding high Art, non Communist NGOs, media entertainment etc in Europe, was the only option the US had. Look at what they did to Yugoslavia as soon as they had the chance. Reached the 40 minute mark and this Armenian guy is a bit too narcissistic and too lovey dovey in his explanations of the US and liberalism - arguably he’s still living in the 90s. He sounds like he thinks neoliberalism was a hippy movement and not an instrument of resource extraction. European are too consumed by social ideals and not the political realities. I don’t feel like I learned anything insightful from this conversation. What about Nagorno-Karabakh?? Speak on Artsakh and Azerbaijan. What a missed opportunity for a guy who could’ve educated us on local regional politics, to just be praising Thatcher and Reagan for an hour
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32:00 Francis Fukuyama is still out there opining.
So far no one talks about Putin influence.
Fear-mongering is what the title of this video is trying to instill
I will repeat it US was recoñquered by Fabiañs añd Chatha* House.
I'm on 2x play speed. How come yall comment so fast?
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You need to be able to differentiate between cognitive psychology and money. Michael McFall isn't stupid but would love to see where his money is stashed.
36:00 also Margaret Thatcher: There Is No Alternative
Fake humility try to hide arrogance.
Where you both converge on the pitfalls of narratives How much are we getting our narratives super-sized?
We try to exit the policing of the world and now we're russia lol.
This is old news from 12 years ago.
Not a fan of Jeffrey Sachs.
pascal keep the good work up, love your channel very much wish your guests were part of the world order ..instead the idiots we have everywhere now from Egypt with love
Balaklaba?
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Occdent begin to be crasy from 1991 till now. Terrible
Arthur, look up old Peanuts cartoons that involved, Charlie Brown, Lucy, a football, and so much bad faith
This guy is crazy.
Complete nonesense!
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You wish that was true.
I should've known this guy was a plant when he praised Reagan and Thatcher 🤦‍♂️
28:25 Perhaps the answer requires stepping outside the ovrton window
Military alliance create enemies. NATO 😂😂
30:15 I believe the word Pascal is looking for is "russomisia"
EUSSR is already there.
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daydreamer Gorbachev, totally out of touch with the/political HISTORICAL REALITIES
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54:54 Just say no.
You guys look alike like brothers
Inverse world
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by usa propaganda-well done!!!
Gee, where you get the idea that the US is supposed to rule the world?😂😂
21:40 I wonder if this is Western reasoning. I don't think that Cina thinks that way?
For Crist sake! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
One more Putin-feuersteiner. Despicable.
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Ultimate technocrats and consummate, narcissistic bourgeois insiders acting un-self critically...
this guy thinks reagan and thatcher were honorable? notimpressed
Anti Marx and Thatcher’s a hero of his. Who is this clown?
Brilliant episode!
Guys, I wish you would quit that 'wet dream' analogy. Ischtachli disgusting
And Europe China 😂 🤔
18:55 ❣️Thank you both for this earnest critique of the IR academic game you hugely well-intentionedly find yourselves in. Many of us have been learning for years and decades, sifting through all sides' propaganda, and loving channels like this one for all observations we can learn from and balance. What I've noticed is that you each (group) tend to form a club, from which other clubs and the rest of us are clearly mostly-excluded, even if we're the ones doing the hard work of keeping considering as objectively as possible, all viewpoints. I'll give a relevant example: your common friend Jeff Sachs just gave the greatest explanatory speech to the EU parliament, a real landmark laying the truth bare️ He exposed the Israeli establishment's malign influence. And wisely ended by expressing that China is not our enemy. I honestly give him 99/100 But why can't such a person cement credibility by also pointing out the worst ills of the Kremlin, like letting hardened criminals loose on society as part of a crooked deal to give them to Prigozhin for 6 months for cannon fodder / grotesque war crimes? Why not discuss what direction China might turn in if Bo Xilai gained power instead of Xi Jinping (close call in 2012!)? Look at the example of John Mearsheimer: he's moral (against gxnxcxdx) and he can still see the strategy and fears through eyes on all sides. So you have his vibrant example to follow: You don't have to agree with him on everything, but utilise the power of his technique. When I hold many many views in superposition, I call that comprehensive commitment to honesty. I love Bhutan but I can also see how they've mistreated the Lhotsampa people, and so push back against a guest who is selling a simple Narrative. I loved this guest, Arthur Khachikiyan - the two of you formed a beautiful team And if you two disagree with each other on anything, it would be an honor&privilege to get to see that too️
Total old time propaganda, damn dude, that best you can do???
I think you make some good points, but you also oversimplify certain aspects and embellish history in ways that don’t always align with the present. You’re correct that there was significant hope for a unified European house or home. The distinction between a nation’s people and its government is important, but the extent of that distinction is debatable. Ultimately, citizens bear responsibility for the government they allow to govern them. I don’t see past leaders as inherently greater than today’s leaders. The West often views the post-WWII era through rose-colored glasses because it was a time of victorious tragedy—one where the U.S., at 50% of the world’s GDP, took on the role of rebuilding and protecting Europe. Half of Germany and all of Japan were reconstructed and became economic successes. However, Western powers were still empires drawing resources from the world, and over time, they have had to relinquish their dominance to emerging nations. The U.S. essentially incentivized European cooperation with favorable trade deals, expecting them to be the first line of defense against the USSR—though war never came. The allure of grandeur was indeed a trap for many, but not for all. The shift from a European economic system to a militarily divisive one was significant. The transition from collective security to bloc security inevitably contributed to the tragedy in Ukraine, though I disagree with the notion that this was entirely avoidable. Economic prosperity and innovation naturally breed competition and conflict. It’s also important to note that after WWII, the USSR expanded its territory significantly—unlike the U.S. or European nations. Geography, demographics, and culture have played major roles in shaping these dynamics. It’s unwise to label the opposing side as losers or to humiliate them. The failure to apply the principles of Helsinki, the security dilemma, and the role of bias are valid concerns. I find it ironic when people criticize Trump for complimenting China or Russia—diplomacy requires negotiation, not relentless antagonism. The rise of gangster capitalism in Russia was heavily influenced by the economic policies advised by Jeffrey Sachs, but Sachs underestimated the necessity of American support, which never fully materialized. Blame can be shared among the Russian government, Western academics, and the U.S. government. A nation’s future shouldn’t be gambled on hope alone but built through consistent, concrete efforts. China and Russia are advancing their global influence not through force but by appealing to the Global South—contrasting with European nations that have largely become vassal states. While an interesting perspective, I’d argue that Europeans willingly outsourced their security to the U.S. due to their own bloody history and security dilemmas. As for China and Russia, I suggest further study on their strategies. The civilian casualties of the Korean War, Vietnam War, and even the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are estimated to surpass those suffered by Ukraine—Ukraine is simply the most recent conflict in public consciousness. You talk about the security dilemma, but the security dilemma is directly tied to economic disparity, the prisoner dilemma, and nation growth/culture have a huge impact. A Self-Reinforcing Cycle When these factors interact, they create a vicious cycle of conflict and instability: Economic disparity drives nations to compete for resources and influence. Growing nations expand their power, triggering a security dilemma with existing powers. (Sout China Sea, Argentina, Australia) Mistrust leads to strategic competition, following the prisoner’s dilemma logic—where cooperation is risky, and defection (conflict) seems safer. Cultural differences make diplomacy harder, reinforcing misunderstandings and deepening hostility. The cycle repeats, preventing long-term cooperation and stability. 6. Breaking the Cycle: How to Overcome These Barriers To escape this cycle, nations must: Promote economic fairness—creating systems where global growth benefits all rather than reinforcing inequality. (That means no tariffs, the U.S. has given the world an unfair advantage since after WWII, of course the U.S. already has an unfair advantage because of it's past) Enhance trust-building mechanisms—using arms control, trade agreements, and diplomatic dialogue to reduce the security dilemma. (How can you trust others when everyone is trying to get ahead and take advantage) Encourage long-term cooperation—shifting focus from short-term self-interest to mutual prosperity. Bridge cultural misunderstandings—through education, diplomacy, and cultural exchange to reduce biases. Conclusion: The Future of Global Stability If nations continue to prioritize self-interest over cooperation, the economic-security-cultural cycle will lead to greater instability, conflict, and inequality. However, by acknowledging these interconnected forces, the world can move toward a more stable and cooperative global system. America is doing fine; America is a young nation just starting its journey when most nations fall in the 240-to-340-year range. We are looking at Europe, China, South America, Africa, and our own mistakes. That doesn't mean a lot needs to change, but life is about the journey. But I ask these continents look at their own mistakes as well. We're all on the same journey.
Bro u mean a barber?
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Absolute stupid click bait title and theory if someone is asinine enough to propose this as a theory. I refuse to watch (reward) stupidity
It is literary true, people adopted more and more socialism it is the same throughout the West, so of course you will become more like the old Soviet Union. But one place where I will strongly disagree is the idea that the intellectuals have these diverse ideas. The intellectuals have been the biggest problem they have indoctrinated generations of young students. Intellectuals are not in touch with the hard realities of the real world, they have beautiful ideas but the practicality of real life is just different. I am not a massive fan of the Chinese model either, they are funneling loads of money out of Africa ahead of the citizens of their own country, I live in Africa and their practice is not improving the general mindset regarding China, and no one wants to live with a social score. Russia understands because they had oppressive government control, it is still a far more recent memory.
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Really idiotic take.
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