Fog of War Over Ukraine - Ben Norton

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[elliey]

Yes, many people in ASEAN countries, India, Pakistan, China are supportive of Russia.

[antiimperialism]

So long as the Imperialist maintained its hegemony a peaceful world is impossible.

[User___]

I remember reading Brezinski saying that

[Larkinchance]

A friend said to me today, “I don't think it's right for country to invade another country.”
I said, “It's not that simple, it is very complex involving NATO's push to the East, ethnic minorities and, ”
We know that the narrative is managed and relies on omissions and distortions.. Both sides do it. My friend, like most people, wants simple and uncomplicated because it is easy and apparently conclusive... If you try to explain, their eyes glaze over or they become very angry and uncomfortable... In short there is no dialog...

[franceleeparis]

The reality is that America and the other western countries have nothing in common culturally, religiously, language wise, or historically with Middle Eastern countries, so they didn’t worry too much about destroying everything.. as they had no intention to govern those countries.. Russia has a lot in common with Ukraine.. and it did not want to destroy its own cultural history in Kiev or other cultural centres like Odessa.. Zelensky doesn’t care about Ukrainian culture because it is Christian oriented.. so it’s a sort of secret desire for him to see it wiped out.. this is as much a religious war as a war of attrition…😏😈

[transsylvanian]

Russia's intervention is legal according to international law. They invoked article 51 of the UN charter pertaining to individual and collective self-defense. They intervened on Feb 24 to defend the Donbass republics from the OSCE confirmed escalating attacks on them since Feb 16, and from the impending invasion by over 100, 000 Kiev regime troops that had amassed on the line of contact.

[DinoCism]

If people have the time to watch the full webinar they should. Very informative guests.

[ruth.greening]

Brilliant analysis Ben! What about de-Na -zif-ying Ukraine, see Oliver Stone's film, Ukraine on Fire. He explains that side.

[andreyche]

That a good presentation. It deserves more views than it has so far.
BTW Lenin's work was called "Imperialism as the highest and the LAST stage of capitalism".

[ewalker]

Perfect Series Title, "Fog of War" Best for last.

[jamesmurphy]

American Imperium war crimes continue yet no economic sanctions from Africa or South America to much dependance on the dollar

[jamesmurphy]

To bad Russia didn't create a new capital in the far east
Create a new
Russia

[mimosveta]

why not let him speak? it's a youtube video, you don't have time limits imposed on you by producers cause they have to cram ads in

[e_valley]

Zelensky pupet? I don't think so, maybe a used car salesman, perhaps; imo he'll tell ya everything you wanna hear to make the sale, then go to the manager to make the real deal.

[ebflegg]

There is an imperialist aspect to Putin’s nationalism, but the point is that it harks back to nostalgic feelings about the Tsarist empire. This is nothing to do with the ‘highest stage of capitalism’, obviously. People on the left who try to equate US and Russian ‘imperialism’ make a fundamental error that leads them to support reactionary Ukrainian nationalism pushed by the fascist right, with the red and black banner waving amongst the blue and yellow, characterising this falsely as ‘anti-imperialist’. A pitiful spectacle

[GlobalDrifter]

You don’t like the USA. OK. How about some original thinking