Last US Ambassador to USSR Reveals USA Doctrine Of Hegemony | Amb. Jack Matlock.
The USA has "inherited" the Brezhnev-Doctrine, says last US Ambassador to Soviet Union, Jack Matlock. As one of the men who negotiated the Cold War to an end, Ambassador Matlock talks in a candid interview about how the USA has been using regime-change operations systematically and without remorse ever since the USSR has officially stopped doing so and how the motivations for those changes are-as as they were for the USSR-a matter of ideology. To spread "the liberal world order" the USA today would go further than its old rival.
Ambassador Matlock's Essay: americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu...
And another very pointed remark by him: jackmatlock.com/2024/02/the-b...
Ambassador Matlock was born in 1929, educated at Duke and Columbia Universities, he entered the Foreign Service in 1956 and went all the way to become US Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-91 with his duties in Moscow ending only months before the dissolution of the country itself. He was famously working with President Reagan and Bush Senior to end the Cold War which he keeps emphasising happened due to mutual agreement and good diplomacy, not because of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
95 years old, almost, Ambassador Jack Matlock. Wise and balanced. And brighter and more coherent and more rational than our current occupant of the White House. Peace on earth and goodwill towards all mankind. God bless the United States. God bless Russia.
Omg bless this man heart. He served when it was policy to serve the constitution republic.
I heard he speaks Russian pergectly and he was so into his ambassador job that he tried to understand the Russian soul and culture traveling around Russia meeting people.... sounds like this dude would make a much better president than genocide joe ...
He's a war criminal who murdered at least 100 million Russians and probably about as many more in the rest of the USSR.
He speaks far more clearly, intelligently and with more foresight than so-called 'diplomats' half his age
More respectful too, I can't imagine him using the same offensive language that Biden is recklessly using
The Soviet Union stopped fighting the cold war. The United States did not.
It seems all the geriatric politicians are cold warriors. The Rossophobia is strong in them.
What do you mean by that?
SU did not stop, it collapsed. Now KGB shithead Putin is back with neo-sovietism..
@@wrestlinginfodude2644US has been playing the slow game of pushing Soviets to extinction. The Chinese will be the doomfall of US in long run because of the economic and population.
That's basically the whole thing, isn't it? The USSR got sick of it and engaged with The West and The West acted the way it always does. Violently and rapaciously.
Jack Matlock is exceptional. He speaks from experience and puts today's conflicts in a new light. Most retired US officials fail to speak out on the flaws of US foreign policy. Thank you.
Yes, think how it might have been if Bill Burns who said "Nyet means nyet!" about NATO in Ukraine had retired instead of becoming head of the CIA.
Yes, there was s similar interview with Sven Hirdman, a retired Swedish ambassador to Moscow, made during the first month of the war (over here in Sweden), where he carefully talked about the background of the conflict, how it entwines both a struggle between Moscow and Kiev and a NATO-driven proxy war, and about the differences between "international law" (backed by the UN and predominant during the Cold War era, with norms of non-interference in other countries) and the so-called RBIO, a new-fangled concept promoted by NATO and the US that's far more adaptable to pushing for regime change, "armed interventions for liberty" etc. That one was very illuminating, but it was printed in a left-wing magazine with fairly low circulation - presumably nobody else would have dared to present the interview in that way and without hailing NATO as the saviours. (I found that magazine, a theme issue on Ukraine, a year later at a thrift shop and bought it for like half a dime) ;)
Older than Biden yet sharp and precise, wishing this legend good health, thank you for the knowledge.
He looks 68-70 not 95.
95 years old and sharp as a tack. Amazing man and exceptional diplomat. Thank you.
The days when the USA actually had ambassadors who had knowledge and even sympathy, NOT INGRAINED HATRED like Michael McFaul, allowed fruitful communication and decisions. Congratulations Pascal on finding Jack Matlock, a genuine treasure.
A big part of the reason is that the US has turned these Ambassador positions into crony rewards for buddies and campaign donors.
This should be mandatory listening for every western citizen. Thank you ambassador for your honesty and clarity. I am impressed and grateful.🙏
Unfortunately they are not interested. They only listen to themselves.
I agree...share this video if you can, it is a free education and and the end of the day it is us the informed People that can lead the way....let us begin by waking people up. Regards from Belfast.
Just imagining there was a real chance of peaceful and prosperous coexistence, which was carelessly thrown away makes you want to cry. Sadly, nobody in US bothered to learn from these wise people.
Twas the US leaders impelled by the global controllers of capital that caused all the problems by "couping, invading and encircling any government that did not go along with the grift
Well, there is no peace with Socialism and communism as we’ve seen from Nazi Germany and fascist Italy in World War II an adult until the Soviet Union communist China and the communism in color Cambodia as well and North Korea
America is too young of a country to be in a position of dominating anything. "Domination" as a concept, already implies an immaturity of a state.
It is indeed probably one of the only, if not the ONLY country that went through barbarism to decadence without civilization inbetween
Who said that? I've heard it before. Was it Bismarck?@@RenjiXIII
That makes no sense
America is like an adolescent who hasn´t understood that you have to compromise to take part in the adult world
@@margaretcaine4219 Oscar Wilde.
OMG!!!! This is a very true American ambassador in Moscow. So many years, we loved him and respect him very much much. Brilliant man! ❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
He murdered over 100 million.
After the Reagan-Bush(41) administrations established trusting friendship with the Gorbachev regime, the subsequent Clinton Administration lost the thread, thrusting the new Russian state into an economic downturn more severe than the Great Depression, with economic chaos, decreasing life expectancy, etc. That was what refined Putin's viewpoint on US. But ONLY after 'W' Bush(41) promoted the accession of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, did V.Putin slowly become more defensive and hostile. OS foreign policy team failed to update their assumptions.
@@user-xq1wz3tp5z Reagan was always part of the plan to genocide Russia. It spanned multiple generations.
Exactly and even the Americans who call themselves Democrats are really more socialist and communist! I believe Republicans or conservatives and Christians are c cult. It’s awful and they can get by with treating people as badly as they want and they’ve gotten by with murder but you can’t break a window if you’re a Christian or an independent or Republican and they always censor us & that’s fascism!! I knew there was nothing good to come out of big tech years ago and then it seemed cool, but it will inevitably be evil and it is. Certainly, we can do a lot of good things with the Internet and computers, but there’s far more evil going on .
@@user-xq1wz3tp5z agree!! Donald Trump said he wanted to be able to talk to Putin more like he was able to talk to the Chinese president dictator, but he wasn’t able to because of all the accusations and lies about him. The thing about Reagan is similar to Trump and it’s about sovereignty and borders. You respect ours and we will respect yours. When Reagan was president in 1988 half of Iran’s naval fleet was destroyed in eight hours, because of what Iran did. It started off with the country blowing up Iraq oil rigs, and then they were blowing up Kuwaiti oil rigs. then they blew up in American ship at the bottom and then when they got the ship to port in Dubai by miracle and some very talented and skilled sailors, technicians in the seals, went under the boat to find out what happened, and it was a mine. The seals were sent out into the golf, and they kept finding Iranian mines everywhere, and Ronald Reagan said to hit them proportionally.. there’s a really good KZhead video about the story on the fat electrician’s KZhead page, and he makes it all sounds hilarious, even though it was terrible, but Iran did it to themselves.
Pascal Lottaz, Your interviews with Ambassador Matlock are absolute WORLD CLASS HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL TREASURES! Congratulations! Please save them, don't let them perish, spread! And your conduct (patient, un-interrupting, smart) was exemplary.
The Soviet Union intervened in Hungary and Czechoslovakia for security reasons, first and foremost, knowing that with a change of political orientation these countries would become easy prey for NATO. And that's exactly what happened with the dissolution of the USSR. The Russian Federation was then left to deal with subsequent encirclement by a hostile NATO, culminating in the 2014 US+EU engineered coup d'état in Ukraine and the war on the people of Donbass, who opposed the coup.
That's true. Also the people of these countries did not decide freely after the second world war where to belong? So it would be fair to ask this people what they want, wouldn't it be? But I do not blame solely the Russians for that. Where were our "allies" back then? Nowhere? Why? But suddenly after (I guess long before) the 1989 when it was so easy they immediately expand eastward (now their sphere of influence). People from the former Soviet sphere of influence were fed up being in prisoned, they wanted the life the western countries had and they did not know anything about the battles of the world powers on their backs in the back room. So now the US won. There even wasn't time to rethink how should the countries develop, which way to go after the revolution. There already were plans - the most brutal capitalism. Immens corruption, crime, unemployment, loss of social achievements began. Did the people felt free? Not at all. They were scared, unprepared, couldn't do anything, there was no help. All they got to hear it's democracy deal with it even if you do not have enough to eat. People were desperate, people died. This people who weren't wealthy bud had enough to live a quiet life. It wasn't up to them, again. It slightly improved. Very few got very rich and very many, well, not so rich.
👌👏👏👏Браво Васе!!!
Exactly so.
@@dvegule920 > "... - the most brutal capitalism. Immense corruption, crime, unemployment, loss of social achievements began." Indeed, capably reported. After generations proclaiming, "the problem is Commies need Democracy & Free Markets" the US instead acted as though 'Free markets & Democracy are a private club, friends only'. It was not the dissolution of USSR that was cataclysmic, rather the profound decline in living standards which ensued. And Not just in Russia/East-Europe: during '90s there was a blooming profusion of adoption of democracy and free markets worldwide. But within a decade 'democracy' faltered; recently in US, democratic socialism has more esteem than 'free markets among substantial numbers of young American citizens.
@@dvegule920 what you said is idiocracy - very few people were imprisoned after 1960s, in fact US prison population have been largest in the world for the last 50 years. What happened in Checkhoslovakia anf Hungary is not very different from what happened in USA on January 6th, 2020.
Thank you Mr Matlock for speaking out and your service to our country.
This esteemed gentleman is 94 years old and everything he said in this interview makes a lot of sense. I watched the whole thing. Would love to see him more often.
how fortunate we are to be such times wheres so many historical figures can talk freely and it can reach us all.
We are lucky that the internet is still allowed as a release valve and only comments are censored completely
Despite the age mr. Matlock seems to have a clear and sound mind. Nice interview
Amen ! We need many more people like US Ambassador Jack Matlock. His ability , intelligence and experience is badly lacking in present American policy . Our so called "diplomats " need to learn many lessons from him .
Love Ambassador Matlock. Intelligent, truthful, and most of all humane.
This maybe the greatest interview the world has ever hard. I will send this interview to everyone I possibly can. I hope everyone does the same. This is beyond important at this time.
These are very important living statements in witness of historical events from first hand protagonists that will serve a reference to clear any doubts from those who are inclined to rewrite history on their behalf. Thanks for inviting the former US ambassador under the Reagan administration.
Very good conversation with somebody who was there and is honest
Thank you for bringing Ambassador Matlock on. It is always great to hear from the eyewitnesses. It I sad more people are not interested in what he has to say.
Thanks -- as US citizen first visiting the USSR in December 1986 and moving to USSR in August 1991, days before the end of the USSR, I've been watching all this while working as a scientist and editor in the USA, Hungary, USSR, Germany, and Russia.
what an incredible carrier, good for you sir!
You’ve lived an interesting life👍👍👍
What a wise man! It's no wonder that he was a great ambassador. Great interview, thank you to both.
An EXCELLENT presentation by ambassador Jack Matlock.
Super intelligent conversation with Mr. Matlock.
Mr Matlock 's memory is remarkably clear for someone his age, and he's providing an invaluable history lesson. Many thanks to Pascal for bringing him on.
There is nothing like the truth for a real wake up call. Thank you Jack Matlock for keeping with the truth.
Thank you Mr Matlock.
Thank you for hosting Amb. Matlock. Very interesting to hear from his personal experiences.
Excellent and deeply impressive interview.
Utterly utterly magnificent. This was an inspired choice, Pascal, to go back to Jack Matlock. Thank you.
This history is so important, and so relevant for today--thank you, Mr. Matlock!
Good interview with substance. Hard to believe how that gentleman has mind this sharp and clear at an age of 95.
Thank you Pascal, that was great. Thank you Ambassador Matlock, I listened from Athens with tears in my eyes. All such a tragic waste: of historic opportunity. And of lives. For no good purpose. Thank you for your work in the 1980s to create a good path going forward.
Thanks. Amb Matlock is one of the true Diplomats of our age.
One amongst many.
Not anymore in the West though@@brutallyremastered4255
Awesome interview, it is a shame that current American leaders don’t have as good of a perspective as this former diplomat has even now at his age.
One thing every country must know that lies, decit and killing of innocent people are sins that can never be washed off. As they say in India the theory of Karma says that, as you sow so shall you reap. Thanks 🙏
95 and still able to body Fukuyama at the drop of a hat
Excellent guest with keen knowledge and personal insights. If you ever have Amb. Matlock on again, I'd like to know who he thinks has been making the US policy that has us in conflict with much of the rest of the world. What combination of Gov't and business entities are really running the show regardless of who is in the White House. Plus, how do we get them dislodged and out of policy making?
He's 95 and still so clear. Great and cultured personality of peace. Love from Switzerland. Danke für das Interview Herr Dr. Lottaz. Habe eben diesen Kanal und Ihre Arbeit entdeckt.
Smart people are rare these days Thank you
God bless you, sir 🙏 You are a true American patriot 🙏 ❤ God bless America 🇺🇸 🙏 ❤
Thank you Pascal and Amb Matlock. It is always enlightening to listen to a wise man that earned that wisdom at the coal face. ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Lovely Interview. Thank you Jack Matlock. ..
Thank you Ambassador for Truth!
Sharp and great points, the idea the US has inherited the Brezhnev Doctrine is apt.
It is unfortunate that such great diplomats were pushed onto the back burner. Now even neutrality is called aggressive neutrality. It is you are either with us or against us.
Because the tedious mentality of the boardroom pandering to partisan politics has gutted foreign services and lowered the tone and quality of civil servants.
YES! YES! YES! OMG, that's exactly what I've been saying. The US has become like the Soviet Union because they never changed from the cold war. They stayed in the past, while Russia moved towards the future.
@@RedZangief In terms of expansionist ideology.
@RedZangief Do not get me wrong my friend. I am Greek. Russians are our brothers and we owe them a lot. However, because I've seen a civil war happen in my country because of communism, I am not a fan of that type of ideology. I respect modern Russia not the Soviet Union.
This is a common feeling in Russia - there were good sides and bad sides of the USSR, and now we should keep the good ones, like medical care or education and drop this fake hammer and sickle ideology, that took us to the bottom. The best ideology is no ideology at all. Live and let live.
@@11dope11 Exactly. We are fine with Russia. Always were.
@@RedZangiefactually yes, they do
It'n not an invasion you bastards!! It's a special military operation!
It is an invasion.
Thank you very much for the interview, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it. The Ambassador's mind is sharp and his words are wise.
We need political diversity. Our political duopoly is an anachronism.
Thank you for these words of wisdom.
a remarkable man! thank you for bringing him into the conversation!
Jack Matlock has explained the sequence of events that have brought us to where we are now. Thank you, Pascal, for bringing us this great interview.
PRESS THE LIKE BUTTON how will we beat YT algos if we continue to ignore the 👍 button that can Great conversation as always - w the US living in the most Orwellian times it’s voices like these that give me hope in our future
Great to hear you speak in a manner that we grew up knowing what the US stood for. The old school diplomats, military, and other agencies, all you guys are determined to defend the American image, integrity and to see this present government doing what is, funding wars and supply weapons that kill woman and children and does not benefit the US population, leaving open boarders and taking care of the huge poverty in your country. I see you concern regarding your grand kids, as do most Americans. Trust the people of the US see this interview and start putting the right people in power and we will continue in our endeavours that we would make every effort to ensure a better, safer, equal society so that all our kids can live in unity and freedom. Once again thank you for this very information programme, wish when I get to your age, I will be able to speak well s you, which I doubt
A true Genrleman
Thanks a lot for this interview and all the best to his excellency ambassador Matlock.
34 trillion dollars in debt.
Wonderful idea to have a giant treat us to his thoughts on today’s complex diplomatic situation. Together with his predecessor George Kennan, Jack Matlock has been the most astute ambassador to Russia that we have been lucky to have. Unfortunately he has been followed by a long list of no-name politicians who have done nothing to forge a meaningful and productive relationship between the US and Russia. Thank you Pascal for another wonderful dialog.
Amazing testimony and great insights - hats off!
Respect 👏👏 Thank you mister
ABSOLUTLY GREAT. AGREED WITH EVERY WORD. THANK YOU!
Another amazing interview. I learned a lot. Thanks.
Very good interview. I will watch it again to grasp it all.
Excellent interview with a man of conviction, knowledge and experience who clearly wants the best for his grandchildren and by extension other peoples and their families.
I thought this would be good to listen to while I had a quick bath and it was sooo good I did not get back out until it was finished! LOL! Was a treat to hear Ambassador Matlock talk about the USSR. Thank you Pascal
when he opened the parenthesis of the Panama intervention inside the parentheses of the Romanian revolution inside the parentheses about the Brezhnev doctrine I thought he was losing it, but no, he closed them all and they made perfect sense; a great mind, and really amazing at his age
Excelente programme already a fan. Truth always comes out on the open, but powerful líderes will fight tooth and nail to covered up
Thankyou for this information!
Always a pleasure to listen to this great man
I would love to see a discussion with Mr. Jack Matlock and Prof. Jeffery Sachs. Mr. Matlock is an American living historical figure
MARVELOUS INTERVIEW FROM ALL POINTS OF VIEW.....CLEVER , FROM INSIDE ......THANKS A LOT.
Thank you jack
A true citizen of his country!
What a magnificent interview from such a historical figure!
Great interview!
Wisdom! It is so rare in todays world particularly among our so-called leadership in the Western world. Thanks for this.
Thank you for shareing this conversation!
Thank you
Remarkable!
Amb Matlock 👍
It is such a pleasure for me to hear an exceptional speaker and educated gentleman at this age, with tons of experience in foreign-affairs, analyzing our achievements and failures in foreign policies for the last forty some years... with such thoughtfulness and elegance! He reminds me of another giant, Ambassador Chas Freeman...
Jack Matlock- Man of the best quality on his job.
Brilliant interview, Matlock not only have a great name but also experience and clarity that we desperately need
Intellectually just succulent. Thanks for sharing your insights, Mr. Matlock! And my compliments to Mr. Lottaz for not interrupting despite emerging questions from his part.
A remarkable presentation. This man deserves so much respect for daring to tell us so much about our secret worlds, and the host deserves just as much for letting him do it without useless interruptions, at his own pace, in complete humility and respect for one of the few who truly deserve it.
Great interview, with esteemed, eminent practitioner of international relations 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 many valuable insights. Big thanks go to Ambassador Matlock and, of course, the Interviewer Dr Pascal Lottaz for good conduct of interview
It is great to hear context. Thank you for that Mr. Matlock.
Excellent. Clear headed and uniquely knowledgeable. He is being generous when he says people on both sides are sincere in what they’re doing in the various conflicts, though. We’ve had power mad people running the show for many years now. When the mainstream media is compromised, as ours is, the intention is clearly bad.
Amazing insights from one of the people that observed from first person the fall of the USSR. I hope people like him find their way to the foreign office again.
I am relieved to there are still some rational and honest Americans left! I hope that Amb. Matlock is not alone and that reason and truth in our world will prevail.
What's so incredible? The ex-ambassador seems very lucid in memory and fair in appraisal.
There were times when old meant wise, beyond good and evil, beyond us and them. In the recent years senior politicians at the age of 70-80 behave like hormonal teens. Amb Matlock restored my faith in wisdom being a prerogative of old age. 🙏
Greatly enlightening discourse. Thanks
nice to listening smart voice from usa🤗
Thank you for this 🙏
Well worth watching. And the article is well worth reading.
Great show.
From this legend to Michael McFaul in less than a generation. Doesn't that just about tell you everything.
Just look at the deviant diplomats that the US installed in Ukraine to orchestrate and escalate this conflict with Russia, along with Creepy Joe. Says it all.