Anne Applebaum: The GOP’s Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Win | Amanpour and Company
Ukraine is breathing a sigh of relief as the Senate passes its long-awaited aid bill. Speaking to The Guardian, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said “hallelujah” to the news. But he also warned that Russia is out-shelling Ukraine ten to one, and “no single package can stop the Russians.” Author Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her latest piece is called “The GOP’s Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Win." She joins Walter Isaacson to discuss the importance of stopping Putin’s aggression.
Originally aired on April 24, 2024
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As a 40-year GOPer, Reagan '84 voter, I am ASHAMED of what Trump & MAGA has done to the GOP. They disgust me to no end.
So what are you going to do, besides making comments on KZhead?
Reagan Republican here. The Great Cold Warrior and Great Communicator would weep to see the state of today's GOP.
They're a bunch of TRAITORS!
@@charliewatts6895 Uh, Reagan met with the head of the 'Evil Empire' multiple times, signed agreements with them, visited Moscow and had Gorby and Raisa at the White House....all the while that the Soviets had troops in Afghanistan and were supporting communist movements in the US. Reagan was for strength, but also peace.
@@mitchyoung93Yes, Reagan supported the rebels in Afghanistan which ultimately led to the dissolution of the Soviet union. They lost so much over 8 years of war against US supplied guerillas that it collapsed. Similar forces are in play now in Ukraine.
Don't give Moscow Marjorie the opportunity to gloat!
125,000 retired and active transgender military.The United States is going to wipe the slate with the macho Russians!
Moscow Marge and Comrade Tucker
LOL - it's just the FOG of WAR propaganda !
She’s to busy playing the victim.
Anne Applebaum's views are always so clear and up to the point. No ambiguity. Politicians should get inspired by her wisdom.
If this turd thinks this will save the Neo Nazis in Kiev she is totally deluded😂🇷🇺💪🏽
I mean it is a fact that the Russians are producing much more artillery, it is a fact that Ukraine has Nazis in its military leadership (not all not even half. Not even 3/4 but a significant number. To deny it is to give Russian disinformation credibility). It's a fact that some of the money has been stolen through corruption and that Ukraine was notoriously corrupt to begin with. It's a fact that zielinski has shut down voting and therefore it's not a democracy. It's a fact that there's no way a small Ukrainian Army could ever defeat a much larger nuclear-powered in Russia. These facts may be uncomfortable, unpleasant but they are making it facts, not just information. I guess my real question is what does victory look like? No seriously?!?! Is it every last woman man and child in Ukraine dead? Do you really think that Putin would give up? The oligarchy would have him killed if he did that. So it's existential to him so it ain't going to happen. Also, clearly America doesn't give a f*** about human rights either, they just helped slaughter 40,000 Palestinians. This lady is about as dishonest as they come, this show has shown that it is more or less a propaganda arm for the military industrial complex. Disgusting
She is just like her husband.. or the other way around..
Her view that Ukraine can win is clear, except she provides no evidence to back it up.
How do you provide evidence that lies in the future?
Well said, Anne Applebaum. You are always worth listening to -- and reading.
Wouldn't want to kiss that though!
Yeah one of the cabal responsible for those really successful forever global wars that Washington needs Afghanistan Iraq Syria Libya need I go on and now the debacle in Ukraine where the west is losing big and you want to support this🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@imperialmotoring3789 you can always kiss a worm infected rat carcass instead !
I mean it is a fact that the Russians are producing much more artillery, it is a fact that Ukraine has Nazis in its military leadership (not all not even half. Not even 3/4 but a significant number. To deny it is to give Russian disinformation credibility). It's a fact that some of the money has been stolen through corruption and that Ukraine was notoriously corrupt to begin with. It's a fact that zielinski has shut down voting and therefore it's not a democracy. It's a fact that there's no way a small Ukrainian Army could ever defeat a much larger nuclear-powered in Russia. These facts may be uncomfortable, unpleasant but they are making it facts, not just information. I guess my real question is what does victory look like? No seriously?!?! Is it every last woman man and child in Ukraine dead? Do you really think that Putin would give up? The oligarchy would have him killed if he did that. So it's existential to him so it ain't going to happen. Also, clearly America doesn't give a f*** about human rights either, they just helped slaughter 40,000 Palestinians. This lady is about as dishonest as they come, this show has shown that it is more or less a propaganda arm for the military industrial complex. Disgusting
@@imperialmotoring3789 ....like she would let you, ha!
I hate those GOP traitors.
I guess the other NATO allies couldn't take up the slack. Till US came up with the money
Not one house has been rebuilt in the Hawaiian Islands after their devastating fires...not one because no money apparently.
Every sane person hates the GOP/MAGA (CSA 2.0).
Ukraine is going to lose 🤣
@@JOdell-si8mq When they do it won't mean one bit of different to the safety of the US or NATO.
Great interview. Ukraine is fighting for its survival--literally, nationally, and culturally. If we care about democracy in Europe, we should help Ukraine defend itself.
to win !!
Democracy in Europe lived before Ukraine, lives during Ukraine and will live after Ukraine disappeares.
Unfortunately many in the GOP don't care about democracy in Europe or America. They'd gladly sell out to Putin for power and cash
I don't care about Europe at all actually...
Ukrainenato a democracy🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Two words that I never thought would be together: gop pro Russian .
I agree. It’s Absolutely shocking and disgusting
The GOP has some soul searching and/or house cleaning to do.
The GOP cannot be reformed. Republicans insiders like Stuart Stevens, who was a Republican strategist for 60 years, and many others have said "It is rotten to the core. It cannot be fixed. Any pretend reform is just another lie." That includes Trump own DHS chief Miles Taylor, former Republican Tara Setmayer, Joe Walsh, are all clear on this. Trump revealed who they are, and it is criminal and ugly.
Lot of house cleaning!
But it's been going on a while, hasn't it? Google "Rather be Russian than a Democrat" or "Trump Putin Helsinki Summit 2018"
It’s so good to listen to someone wise. Anne Applebaum understands how totalitarian systems work.
LOL ! Anne Applebaum would not know how her Garbage Disposal works ... let alone how the military conflict between UKR and Russia works !
Wise? We've been giving Ukraine weapons since many years before 2022 and she thinks $60 billion is going to change the fact Ukraine is losing. She's not wise, she's ignorant.
@@TheVeritas2100 LOL, you seem to be the know it all expert in garbage.
@@TheVeritas2100 A troll on the internet tries to discredit a highly intelligent foreign policy expert by saying she doesn't know how a garbage disposal works. Wow.
@@TheVeritas2100 LOL. Your knowledge of Garbage Disposal mechanics is impressive. Not many of you experts left. You’re a dying breed.
Now the pro-putin assets and agitators in Congress and Senate need to be held to account for their actions, follow the money
Their stance has nothing to do with being a pro Putin asset, and only idiots like you make such ridiculous statements.
How much will the Cheney's cut of this money be?
@@imperialmotoring3789 your comments is not relevant to this threat, perhaps you should improve your misinformation seeding comments
@@RudolphoAqui What Threat? How much is Cheney's cut? Do you know or are you just spreading propaganda?
@@imperialmotoring3789yo, what, bot?
Some very treacherous people in your congress. ✌🏻🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸✌🏻
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💯💯💯🤦♂️😔 Whole MAGA wing is in league with Moscow at this point. Don't give AF about America. Just lining their pockets with billionaire and oligarch money
We're working on it. Someone left the door open and some MAGA Rats got into Congress. That'll be changing in November.
Fantastic interview. It is so refreshing to listen to highly intelligent people.
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@@dannyb4753 🤣😂
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I mean it is a fact that the Russians are producing much more artillery, it is a fact that Ukraine has Nazis in its military leadership (not all not even half. Not even 3/4 but a significant number. To deny it is to give Russian disinformation credibility). It's a fact that some of the money has been stolen through corruption and that Ukraine was notoriously corrupt to begin with. It's a fact that zielinski has shut down voting and therefore it's not a democracy. It's a fact that there's no way a small Ukrainian Army could ever defeat a much larger nuclear-powered in Russia. These facts may be uncomfortable, unpleasant but they are facts, not disinformation. I guess my real question is what does victory look like? No seriously?!?! Is it every last woman man and child in Ukraine dead? Do you really think that Putin would give up? The oligarchy would have him killed if he did that. So it's existential to him so it ain't going to happen. Also, clearly America doesn't give a f*** about human rights either, they just helped slaughter 40,000 Palestinians. This lady is about as dishonest as they come, this show has shown that it is more or less a propaganda arm for the military industrial complex. Disgusting
The Republican Congress members failed to take fast and deliberate, corrective actions upon their fellow Republican members, and by that failure has ruined their party.
Particularly McCarthy and McConnell; they had the perfect opportunity to break the fever in early 2021 and they simply lacked the character and bowed to the extremists in their party
They wanted the wins, to get control of Congress, the Presidency and the Supreme Court, and look what they've done with them!
Let them fall of their own corruption. Vote them all OUT.
Republican failures to hold their own accountable has ruined their party and gravely threatens our nation as a whole. We're on a knife's edge.
@@annakingry9157 It's amazing how they can do almost anything: buddy with Putin, incite January 6th, etc. and still get re-elected. I think their pitch is "We're one of you, and if you're a one-issue voter, then you must ignore other things we do that you don't like." But their pitch against voting for Democrats is "If there's just one thing you don't like that the Democrats do, then you must not vote for them." And so-called "moderates" believe it or "both parties are the same" or just tune out, and don't stand for or against anything, not even women's rights or January 6th.
An excellent articulation of the consequences and hope Ukraine faces and fosters by Ann Applebaum. Thank you !
Mike Johnson is not courageous, he just has skin in the game now - son is going into the military. 6 months of Ukraine people being killed. Real courage would have been 6 months ago. Disgusting.
No matter how long you find out you have been going on a wrong road, the best you can do is to change direction. Which he did. I bet foreign policy was never his highest priority. I am glad he came around. (I never thought I would in any way defend Mike Johnson. I gues I am just trying to say, dont dig trenches. Please work together to bridge the gaps. So many good things in US. Cherish and preserve it. Take the best from the past and the future to move your country forward? Sorry, I must be getting sentimental. Thank you for standing up to Putin with the bill. 🍀 Best of luck 💕 Love 🌱 Hope Lots of greetings from Denmark
Real courage would have been not rigging the election for Biden.
@@imperialmotoring3789vodka o'clock in Vladivostok, comrade?
@@arthurswanson3285 What are you having in your San Francisco Bathhouse my friend?
@@imperialmotoring3789 You certainly have proved your complete inanity. Clearly a Russian troll.
Anne Applebaum is up there with Snyder, Kotkin and Hodges as the most intelligent and interesting speakers on this topic. Wish I could have been at the UofAlberta yesterday to hear/see her.
Why are they all jews?
I wish Trump was president then there would be no Biden war in the ukraine.
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Anne Elizabeth Applebaum[2][3] (born July 25, 1964) is an American and naturalized-Polish journalist and historian her great-grandparents immigrated to America during the reign of Alexander III of Russia from what is now Belarus.[9] Applebaum has stated that she was brought up in a "very reform" Jewish family.[10] Stephen Mark Kotkin (born February 17, 1959)[1] is an American historian, academic, and author. Kotkin was born in New Jersey, the third son of Jay Kotkin, a factory worker of Belarusian-Jewish descent, and Joanne Korolewicz, a cook and art teacher of Polish descent.[6] His father's family emigrated from Vitebsk in the Russian Empire (now Belarus).[7] He grew up in New York City
Excellent informative interview! Thanks PBS!
Excellent interview! Wish more news organizations were shouting this information. The silence on Ukraine lately is shocking!
Agree.
Who said it was about more than just securing eastern Ukraine after 8 years of constant fighting?
Thank you for believing in Ukraine 🇺🇦
Slava Ukraini!
Outstanding! Ms. Applebaum and Amanpour & Co., always provide fantastic insight!
Love this speaker, she tells is how it is or rather how it should be if the timid West got it's act together.
Thank you so much for covering this
Thank you for this interesting interview. It's good to listen to someone intelligent who speaks sense.
Great interview! She is telling us what we're up against... a force that literally says F U to the post-WWII value system America and Europe support (even if we do so very imperfectly ourselves). This is why the 2024 election matters! We will either continue in our quest to create "a more perfect union" year after year ... or that great "experiment" will end.
There's a worldwide movement since 2015 or earlier to elect authoritarians like Putin. We saw this with Trump in the U.S., in Brazil, Hungary, India and of course Israel.
This is a giant FU to the USA! Good job Democrats!
america has a prison (gitmo) in a communist dictatorship off the coast so that we can violate our own constitution and we have been engaged in illegal wars for the last 20 years we are currently shipping bombs to a whole different genocide. pretty sure the America is the perfect good guys narrative ship has sailed... that only works on people that watch the corporate news. the reat of the world isn't buying it, russia isn't buying it, and the majority of americans now are waking up and saying we just want to focus on fixing our own country...no more foreign wars. theres no answer to a more perfect union, by burning billions, halfway across the world in a corrupt money laundering pit like ukraine
😂😂Putin told y F U repeatdly😂😁your puppet will never inhabit Kremlin again😂😂😂
What's this post WWII value system?
Thanks for conducting this interview. Very well informed explanations and analysis.
Absolutely fantastic. Great program!!!!
Good interview. Thank you!
"Conservative implies you are actually conserving something..." That is the glaringly obvious truth about the American conservative movement for decades: the only things they seek to conserve are their own power and wealth.
Their values are not to conserve anything but their own power.
“Conserve” power among a few individuals similar to royalty. That’s what they have in common with Putin.
Exactly.
Thank you, Ms. Applebaum. You've had it right from the start of Russia's insane Ukraine invasion.
Anne Applebaum, your book "The Twilight of Democracy" just moved to the top of the stack on my nightstand. You are an amazing analyst and truth-teller.
Always a stimulating deep commentator. Thanks.
GREAT ANN APPLEBAUM
Applebaum is great. Interview her more often. And, the mere fact that Trump is allowed to have influence over our policies and indeed government angers me to no end. While I prefer to have politicians of all stripes around at all times to seed discussions of all ideas, I'm so angry that I will fund Democrats to the exclusion of Republicans. They must pay a painful price for electing Greene and all the rest and allowing Trump to "rule" from Mara Lago (the idea of that is against everything we stand for). Johnson, though he allowed the vote and that's obviously good, is no hero here. Indeed, he's a villain.
do u feel the same about obama
Only Nuland is more evil than Applebaum
Anne Applebaum together with Fiona Hill and Timothy Snyder are the best experts on the subject. They just get it.
The most Biased you mean
And Julia Ioffe is an excellent expert
May add Bill Browder to the list.
@lauriew3517 how's the daily trip, trip of Kremlin bias working for you?
They understand how important it is to liberate the children's gender expression from tyranny in Russia!
So much sanity and straight talk 😮❤😮❤😮❤
We need to help Ukraine! The best way we can do that is by voting the Republicans out of power. VOTE BLUE!
No, vote selectively. About half the GOP favors Ukraine. Don't punish them.
@@richardbayer5702 I don’t agree but I respect your viewpoint!
@@carlosbond5062 OK. Best wishes.
Abandoning Ukraine is a monumentally short-sighted strategy. The surest path to world domination is through total control of Eurasia, and Russia-China are well on their way. This would lock America and Europe to defensive postures within their respective fortresses for generations. There is a reason Ukraine, the “borderlads” which cut through the Eurasian periphery have been coveted by Nazis and then Soviets in the 20th Century alone. It is the bulk of the remaining fertile land on earth. In our near future, food will have more value than gold or chips. Even while at war, Ukraine is feeding Africa. This is a prize to be won, not by conquest, but through guaranteeing the freedom and self-determination of its people.
Oh my how succinct👏. I forgot that Ukraine is so agrarian and traditional in the best ways. A shame not more powerful people stood up to defend the great people of Ukraine.
The same people who say Putin want to rebuild the Soviet empire are the same ones who say Russians are incompetent, stupid and unprepared to fight.
Anne Applebaum is a global powerhouse of fighting for decency, democracy and historical memory. One of my favourite personalities of our present.
She is a Russiaphobe warmonger and always has been.
Excellent interview with Anne Applebaum - always worth listening to.
Gee, Carlson uses all the Russian talking points.
Cheney will get a nice kickback! Vote Blue!
Like MTG.
@@annakingry9157 I put USA over Russia AND the ukraine. MTG bothers you because she wants the USA secure???
Part of the problem with the West supplying weapons to Ukraine is the lack of a manufacturing base in the West. This is due to the treacherous investment class lowlifes who spent decades breaking up and selling manufacturing operations for quick corporate raid profits. Another major part of the West's weapons manufacturing problem is the rampant over regulation of industry by arrogant and overzealous bureaucrats with unchecked power to block productive activity with red tape. There is no way to run a factory effectively with short term obsessed investment professionals breathing down one's neck and bureaucrats taking every opportunity to shut down factories over every technicality they can find.
The American munitions manufacturing base is superior to that of any other nation in the world. Put down the propaganda pipe.
yes I find few patriotic Americans where I live. Every time I insist on buying US made people look at me like I'm nuts. I make furniture. Went to casters store and owner says I am first person to ask for USA made. Each of my grandparents generation was named after a past US president. There were times when pride in country was strong. We do not represent unity or quality anymore. We represent insanity, novelty, greed, hubris.
Well,. it's greener and better for the climate to have China make our weapons. Also cheaper so we have more resources for the migrants.
the manufacturing base is still there, the problem is the "Just in time Manufacturing" mindset .... it needs time to ramp up, Russia is already at a peak war time production and look how badly they're doing, the west hasn't even started to ramp up but when it does....
@@Xl8tor241 , I hope you are right.
Kind of like noting that your house has termites, shrugging it off for a year, and then wondering why the cost has gone up.
Wow what a great interview, Walter Isaacson posed excellent probing questions which prompted Anne Applebaum to greater heights of explaining her insights. This interview is a Keeper!
Thank you so much!! My hubby and I have disagreed about Ukraine and Putin's "rights" to take over and Zelenski's corruption and yachts... Ha!!! I was right. Slava Ukraine!!
Heroyam Slava!🫡💙
As an older male, who has observed the progress on women's rights over decades, I have to admit that significant progress has been made. What I can also say, is that despite their generally fewer opportunities, we have already reached the point, in many countries, where many women are observably smarter and wiser than men. This seems to be the next key field in which progress is needed. In other words, the key problem is no longer a lack of female empowerment, _it is an overabundance of male stupidity._
My advice is divorce. There is something fundamentally wrong with your husband.
Zelenskyy is not corrupt nor does he have any yachts or expensive vacation homes in other countries. All of that is Russian propaganda and lies repeated by maga traitors. Vote all Putins pawns and republicans out! Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦!
Your husband can do better.
Trump did not change his mind on Ukraine aid. He did not want to look like a loser when the tide (USA interests) changed against them. The USA public should know that 80% of this aid goes to the American weapons contractors. This war has also helped the USA 1- Sell liquid gas to Europe thus replacing Russia 2- Two more NATO countries and increased Arctic presence to vie for energy down there. Unfortunately Ukraine is paying for all this with blood and hope not with loss of territory.
Yes, strategically the war in Ukraine has been a big win for NATO and a major loss for Russia. That's cold comfort to the Ukrainians.
@@lawrenceksyahoocom More importantly, if we allow Ukraine to lose, by providing too little, too late and too slowly, then we will eventually face a Russia that has absorbed Ukraine and will use that additional power and resources in the next step in its expansionist plans. Yes, Ukraine's sacrifices have improved our economy and standing in the world, for now. But what is truly at stake is the opportunity to make the world a safer and more hospitable place for generations to come. This is the greatest threat to our future since WWII. One literally has to go back to Hitler and Stalin in the 1930s to find an equivalent threat, and consider what doing too little too late resulted in then.
Follow the money.
I think the vociferous objectors know so little that they visualize stacks of money being sent to other nations. And what about the Americans who work making the armaments we send? Just throw them out of their jobs? Drop US productivity and profits?
@@lawrenceksyahoocommakes one wonder is that why Boris Johnson flew to Kiev and told Zelenskyy not to sign Istanbul peace treaty and “just keep fighting” back in March 2022.
Spot on !
There can be no denying that history will indeed judge America by this critical aid package to Ukraine. Encouraging to note that there are American government representatives who are Americans first, politicians second. When allies work together, America ensures that making America Great Again is solidly secured!!!
All of the money spent on Ukraine is going down the drain. 80% of the people living in America couldn't show you where Ukraine is on a map if their life depended on it.That money could have been used on upgrading and improving the Postal Service and etc. Russia has been in Ukraine for over 300 years. they will not lose this war and they will never tolerate NATO being in Ukraine. Russia is stronger and better equipped than when the war started the U.S. and NATO woke them up.
@@lawrenceharris4704 you're not funny,youre just pathetic "Russia is stronger and better equiped than when the war started" that's why their using Chinese golf carts to get around the battle field, begging for artillery from North Korea, cheap drones from Iran... Lost their nay to Ukraine, still do not have air superiority over the battle field....
@@Xl8tor241 The same people who say Putin want to rebuild the Soviet empire are the same ones who say Russians are incompetent, stupid and unprepared to fight. You need to get updated whats happening on the battlefield.Ukraine is losing badly.The 61 billion aid is not going to make any difference.Ukraine had to pull all of the Abram tanks from the front line because Russia destroyed 5 of them using $500 drones, that's $50 million dollars worth of tanks.Russia is slowly grinding them into submission.This war will probably end by June or July.
@@Xl8tor241Ukraine had all the support they could get last summer, remember? What did Ukraine achieve then? What would Ukraine achieve now with half the manpower and half the equipment? The reality is that Ukraine already lost. Any new funding will only extend the agony. The new “draconian mobilization” law that the journalist mentioned in passing just shows how desperate (and failing) the Zelenskyy government is to get the new cannon fodder.
@@andreyd8116 you're so funny.. for all of the issues that Ukraine has faced recently, they have still held the line against Russian aggression. The russian navy is nowhere to be seen, their airforce still does not have superiority over the battlefield, just recently they lost one of their bombers being shot down 300 km from the ukrainian border, Russia has only made small incremental steps in the past 6 months, nothing of substance. Their money is worth nothing, their economy is on a war time footing with almost reaching peak production yet little o show for it. Their chief source of income (oil and gas) is in serious decline, just recently they were begging for fuel from Khazanstan, they've conscripted school kids to work in factories and they have lost all international standing. China is breathing down their neck openly eyeing off Vladivostok... Russia has lost and yet they won't admit it...
MTG is a dinosaur
Kind of an insult to an extinct reptile...
There is nothing but praise and high marks that one can give to Christiane Amanpour and the Amanpour and Company interviewers who have not only given us excellent interviews with some of the top geopolitical experts and star journalists and commentators in the world like Anne Applebaum, but also shown us a world of facts that expose the real goings-on of the behind-the-scenes' nuts and bolts of the Ukraine war, for example. What we take home from Anne Applebaum's dedicated reporting on the Ukraine / Russian 'military-exercise' per se, is a look-see into the twisted politics of modern-day conflicts and the go-for-broke politicians steering their nations towards costly victories or chaotic defeat.
What she is not telling you is that the State Department and the CIA in 2014 form a coup to sweep pro-Russian Pres. Viktor Yanukovych from office in February, and replace him by a pro-Western interim government.If this would not have happen there would be no war.The Pentagon and the State Department has spent billions of dollars building up and training Ukraine's Military just to destroy Russia and it isn't working out to well. The Ukraine war is not about Ukraine, it is about Power and Dominance. Russia does not conform to the agenda of the WEF. The United Nations signed a memorandum of understanding with the World Economic Forum (WEF) that they'd would be working on a agenda for 2030.The threat wasn't military it's economic, the pullback away from the U.S dollar as a reserve currency. The U.S. thought they had a ace in the hole, their ultimate hold on things we can use sanctions, we can use financial control to keep other countries in line, but other countries is saying not so much we'll trade in Redmond B, we'll trade in Rubles, we'll trade in our own national currency. BRICS which includies the nations China, Russia, Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India,South Africa, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.More than 40 nations have indicated an interest in joining.The Brics nations have agreed to use Gold as their main backing for international currency to settle transactions.Russia is stronger and better equipped than when the war started the U.S. and NATO woke them up.Russia has been in Ukraine for over 300 years. they will not lose this war and they will never tolerate NATO being in Ukraine period.
Always brilliant and moral thanks Anne
Anne Applebaum is always informed, clever, well-spoken and logical. It is wonderful to hear from her anytime. 🇨🇦
I agree with Anne
CNN has become Trump Court TV; thankfully I can get news from sources like this online.
I’m a CNN guy but I have to agree… CNN has become “The Trump Channel” it’s sickening really…. And I’m not a Trump guy! Let’s move on already!
MSNBC has been all over the Chump for eight years. The only story they haven't covered is "Fart-gate."
MSNBC covers the Chump almost continuously. They're getting rich doing it. They ought to send him a check.
It takes a lot of courage to publicly admit being CNN fans.
@@TheLocoUnion CNN reminds me USSR's state TV which I still remember and can compare. Remember that all bolshevik "revolutions" whether in russia or china were made not by drunken soldiers and "matros" but by so called "intelectuals" - journalist, professors , etc. - "Inteligetsia" in russian. They were slaughtred first or obeyed after victory of revolution. So Lenin's statement was quite precise "Inteligentsia is not conscience of nation, inteligentsia is sh-t of nation"
Anne is awsome.
GOP, Guardians Of Putin!
Most GOP in the Senate, and almost half in the House, voted for Ukraine aid. Your brush is too broad to paint with. 🙂
Schadenfreude should be made a formal religion in the USA with Marelago as its Vatican.
That's beautiful - Thank You , Amen !
Thank you for having Anne Applebaum. Always very good to listen to her. I wish our political leaders would listen to her and other defenders of democracy like Ben Hodges. We the free world need to unite to enable Ukraine to defeat Russia, but also to counter the brutal Mullah regime of Iran and especially the vicious CCP!
Dziękuję za ten wywiad pani Anno. Jak dobrze słuchać mądrych ludzi.
I love listening to Anne Applebaum 💙
It's absolutely amazing that some people lie and say that PBS is too woke and only cares about left wing talking points and diversity. This interview was the most questioning, in depth journalism in American media that I have seen in a long time. Every point the journalist made was questioned and she was forced to support all her conclusions with evidence. We would all be the worse for any change to PBS.
Thank you for interviewing Anne Applebaum! #standwithukraine
Anne Applebaum to the point again. Clear, concise.
Americans have been detached from truth for decades.
Just the Republicans who get alt-right news from Fox or Limbaugh's successors.
Tell me! Democrats now think men can give birth! Seriously!!!
Longer range missiles and F-16 are being included in this aid package. Hopefully these can make the difference.
The Roman Empire rose in 300yrs, remained at peak 200yrs, and collapsed in 200yrs (in the West), and 1200yrs (in the East). Ottoman Empire rose in 200yrs, remained at peak 200yrs, and went down in 200yrs. The British Empire rose in 200yrs, remained at peak 100yrs, then collapsed in 50yrs. The American Empire rose in 150yrs, remained at peak 75yrs, and should be going down in less than 50yrs (by the historic pattern of shorter times). The major cause of decline and collapse (for all) was internal dynamics i.e. in-fighting in the ruling elites and irrational partisanship of masses.
And over-reach in military expenditure and over-ambition in expanding global influence, while neglecting domestic and internal problems.
The number one obstacle to addressing problems is the elephant party. What has the do nothing House of Representatives done?
I trust Anne Applebaum with my democracy.
Well lets hope the American package helps but lets not forget Russia's 300billion in frozen assets thats being talked about thats five times as much as the Americans aid so lets help they get it.
‘Now the Ukrainians have to win’….well, that might be exactly where the issue is. Let’s wait and see. We may not have seen the end of Marjorie Green……
It's amazing how a few lies can affect so many and they are just sayings, memes or videos. No facts.
Bravo!!!👏
Tks for Real News Ann
I heard Anne Applebaum called a war monger -- the way people can twist reality is astounding.
She is a terrible war monger. She will try to help Poland provoke Russia into WW3
I believe a large portion of the republican electorate was disgusted with speaker johnson/tump's Prorussian position. their position is not what the republican party always stood for and I for one had already decided not to ever vote republican again if Ukraine is not supported.
I'll never vote Republican again. It is the Trump Party.
Anne's book, Twilight of Democracy" is a great read.👍
Thank you
A completely sensible and logical presentation by A. Applebaum with a firm foundation of fact. One could note the corrupt misadventures of US foreign policy but that's a different discussion.
No it isn't a different discussion
And it's not likely one Ms. Applebaum would participate in with much enthusiasm. Edit: "misadventures" is a euphemism, at best. War crimes is closer to the truth.
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Johnson said some Republicans threatened to join Democrats to bypass the speaker. Trump wouldn't like to lose that way.
Convincing in-depth knowledge and a great explanation of the situation. Great expert, and maybe close relationships with a country with over a thousand years of experience with (totalitarian from time to time) Russia as a neighbor help understand all the details.
Anne Applebaum is right, Conservatives generally do not support propaganda from other countries, although in BC they have agreed to be supportive of Aboriginal tittle rights and are supportive of giving Ukraine, and Gaza UNWRA payments from Canada.
Your aboriginals give their money to the ukraine? Seriously?
Truth. 🌺
As a USAF vet, I would never have dreamed we'd be talking of rolling over to Putin, but here we are. Is Vance corrupted or simply stupid?
Anne is the best!❤
Read Freezing Order by Bill Browder
Yes!!
Stay strong and Patriot ❤🤍💙
How callous. Let Ukraine fight back with both hands before ANY expectations. This current "aid" requires Ukrainians fight on WITH ONE ARM TIED BEHIND THEIR BACKS!
They need my money to fight? Don't they have men there?
Ever billionaire is a policy failure, Walter.
It's time for those who are able to join the fight for freedom and justice on a massive scale. ' Ukraine Volunteer ' will be a new scale of awe and gratitude. International Justice Brigades
I have a lot of respect for Anne Applebaum. She has written some excellent works on central/eastern Europe and I have followed her articles in the Christian Science Monitor, WSJ and elsewhere for years. I currently work with an NGO that has been delivering ambulances, medical supplies and other material to Ukraine since March 2022. Now, all of that said, I think she has taken this a little far to call all of the Republicans who opposed the additional aid package as "pro Russian". I did not agree with their opposition, I think we need to keep supplying Ukraine until they finally stop the Russian invasion, IF they can. I have been near front line towns and in formerly occupied cities, and have seen some horrific scenes. I have been with Ukrainian soldiers before they head to the front. However, we need to learn from our recent past and make sure that we have an end-game plan, an "exit strategy" if you will. Think Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam. The US cannot afford a "blank check" and to be drawn into funding something if it lasts 10, 20 years or more. That is not to say that this should be broadcast to the world (and Putin) of course, but the US, the EU and its constituent nations need to decide what will be acceptable short of outright defeat of Russia (which may never happen). I respect that some in our Congress raise legitimate concerns about long-term heavy spending on this war. Our deficit now is beyond the pale.
We need Ann Applebaum on every media outlet and ad. The Pro Putin MAGA has to be stopped
5:00 I disagree about Putin’s goal not being about territory. I believe he wants to gain control of Ukraine’s agricultural resources. He then has the ability to engineer food shortages in North Africa worsening the illegal immigration issues for the West. All this is part of his life long goal to avenge the collapse of his beloved Soviet Union whom he blames on the West generally and the US specifically.
Correct, on a number of occasions Putin (in common with other Russian nationalists) has said that he intends to restore ‘greater Russia’ and by this he means take over all territory that Imperial Russia and the USSR occupied. This means Finland, the Baltic Republics, Eastern Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, all the trans-Caucasus nations, all the ‘stans’ of Central Asia. With specific regard to Ukraine, Putin has said he blames Stalin for its loss to Russia in that It was an integral part of the USSR and post WW2 Stalin split it off (and Belarus as well) as supposedly an ‘independent’ nation. Of course in Stalin’s time this was a de facto sham but Ukraine did gain the trappings of independence such as its own seat in the UN.
I think Applebaum said "it's not just about territory." I'm not trying to quibble, I just can't imagine her not knowing that in addition to controlling the cities Putin wants to seize control of Ukraine’s agricultural resources as well.
Pooter needs to lose. He's fighting against the gender liberation of children!
Putin wants to re-establish the Soviet Union. It's his big frustration, in addition to being a short-arse, that he is only president of russia.
Is that why Putin is currently giving poor African nations free wheat?
An excellent segment. I have read some of Anne Applebaum 's work since 2016. Please consider interviewing her colleague Dr. Timothy Snyder on Amanpour and Company. Maybe you have already done so. His book "The Road To Unfreedom" is outstanding.
I agree with much of what Anne has to say but I don’t think she acknowledges how strong the strain of American and British “fascism-friendliness” existed in the 1920s and 30s within the “conservative” crowd. Leaders of large international business and banking institutions were very supportive of ‘strong-man” regimes in Italy, Spain and Japan and to a slightly lesser extent Germany. These regimes loved borrowing money, using it to purchase expertise, products and commodities and were committed (for a time) to paying off loans with interest and aggressively squashing any socialist or communist uprisings might lead to USSR-style defaulting on loans. In the USA this played out against a backdrop of right wing AND moderate wing isolationism. This history has been significantly downplayed by post-war historians who act like America First was some odd fringe cooked up by Charles Lindbergh and a handful of bundists. Ram Rayburn had to really work his ass off to get Roosevelt’s two Lend Lease allocations passed by Congress…a full 6 months after the Miracle at Dunkirk. His ghost may have paid a visit to Mike Johnson last week to give him a lesson in building a backbone…and counting votes. Interestingly…it was southern “planter” Democrats with their weird self-identifying attachment to “roots” in British aristocracy who were first on board one the Luftwaffe began bombing England in the fall of 1940.
If Joe McCarthy and his clan was around, I think MTG, and others would be in jail
Vance is an incredible disappointment. He came across sympathetically in his book, but since then has entirely lost credibility.
We wonder why Trump didn't come out in public against Speaker Mike Johnson for bringing this to a vote? Look at how we label Marjorie Taylor Greene as pro-Russian because of it. That is why Trump didn't say it in public (like he does it in private assiduously) and chastise Mike Johnson for bringing it to a vote.
Years ago Trump made it clear that he chooses Putin over America. "He said he didnt interfere in the election and in spite of our own info, I believe Putin."
Great vid.
Freezing Order is a great book and a real eye opener about Russia
Just a neocon chat. It's all history now. Democracy- autocracy. Freedom- dictatorship. Yes, for sure.
The question that has to be answered is: Are Americans listening? Do they even care? Will they vote in favour of democracy in the Nov 2024 election?