Timothy Snyder ─ Ukraine: Democracy at the Edge

[potter]

Seven years hence this lecture stands up very well.. thank you.

[antarinel_taeryvein]

It's a bit scary to find this video now and see how right Pr. Snyder was with his predictions and interpretation of what was happening. Great talk and great understanding of Ukraine and russia. Thank you.

[Nacnud]

Really good to have become more aware of Prof Snyder. He’s so informed on Ukraine / Russia history. Just listened to him talking with Sam Harris 👍

[ChornyjKit]

Prof. Snyder proved again that he is the best on the subject.

[kazkaskazkas]

This has been around for so long, and people only now noticing it. Snyder is probably the only publicly known Western expert who has realized what's going on so early.

[elizabethmcgauleysarfaty]

Why such poor sound? Please - help Dr. Snyder check out his volume when he speaks - this low is a torture! Glad there is a print out - but then I must stand at my computer to read vs. being able to sit and listen and take notes for myself! Love this man!
Sincerely, ehs

[Rascalndear]

Excellent for history, analysis and Ukraine as a country and culture. Thanks!

[ravindertalwar]

I congratulate you on such a wonderful presentation and explanation.

[km]

"Russian soldiers are dying" but Russian soldiers are killing, raping, torturing Ukrainian civilians. Notwithstanding this one mauvais ton, a brilliant talk that is still, fantastically, 100% relevant and well worth listening to. The Q&A is particularly instructive, as well.

[Rascalndear]

I would say two things: (1) regarding Putin's mistakes. I would suspect that a large part of his miscalculations was because, as a typical dictator, the people around him were not longer telling him the truth but telling him what they thought he wanted to hear. (2) The plan to do Ukraine was probably percolating way back when but took on life in 2008, when NATO rejected both Georgia's and Ukraine's applications for the MAP in April, Russia attacked Georgia and took out a chunk of territory in August, and in November the NATO FM summit reaffirmed NATO's rejection of both countries. The message was loud and clear. I said at the time that Russia had effectively been given carte-blanche to go after Ukraine because NATO didn't care.

[florianmeier]

Regarding bilingual capital: There is Luxembourg and Bruxelles, which I would also call bilingual. Bruxelles is French, but surrounded by Dutch speaking areas and therefore a lot of people can switch between both and in Luxembourg they have their own language, but it is very close to German and officially they use also lot's of French meaning that they use to switch regularily. Interesting that he thought firstly about Bern in Switzerland which is much more clearly part of German speaking area even if Switzerland as a whole is multilingual.

[ubroc]

I'd love to see him have a conversation with Jeffry Sachs

[Alexander-oufg]

The techniques Timothy points out, is called trolling. In this case - state institutionalized trolling. Best solution, is not respond to nonsense, but tell the true fact, which leaders have no guts to do anymore...

[theongreyjoy]

1:13:09 Can someone transcribe what did she say?

[zinde]

History is the easiest subject to manipulate and turn it into politics or maybe propaganda

[FW]

Ha, that an interesting view.  Also sounds very probable.

[alandeacon]

Amazing - all this history without mention of NATO or Nuland. That is quite a feat.

[TMuitgevers]

Fascism also means a fascist mass movement: there is no mass movement of this kind in Russia. Putins fascism is different from the former German fascism.

[MichaelMiller-qmnl]

There is a lot of russian trols here...

[michaelmullins]

As I understand it this talk was given 7years ago. Snyder should play it back today and see how totally wrong he was, then and still totally wrong today. By the way I’m not a Russian bot, or Putin apologist.