Neocons Have Lost Ukraine And They Will Continue Anyhow | Dr. Michael Brenner
Video Recorded on October 6, 2023. Before (!!) Israel-Palestine War breakout.
Based on the essay "Defeat" by Michael Brenner. Full essay here: neutralitystudies.com/2023/10...
The United States is being defeated in Ukraine. One could say that it is facing defeat - or, more starkly, that it is staring defeat in the face. Neither formulation is appropriate, though. The U.S. doesn’t look reality squarely in the eye. We prefer to look at the world through the distorted lenses of our fantasies. We plunge forward on whatever path we’ve chosen while averting our eyes from the topography that we are trying to traverse. Our sole guiding light is the glow of a distant mirage. That is our lodestone.
It is not that America is a stranger to defeat. We are very well acquainted with it: Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria - in strategic terms if not always military terms. To this broad category, we might add Venezuela, Cuba, and Niger. That rich experience in frustrated ambition has failed to liberate us from the deeply rooted habit of eliding defeat. Indeed, we have acquired a large inventory of methods for doing so.
Defining & Determining Defeat
Before examining them, let us specify what we mean by ‘defeat.’ Simply put, defeat is a failure to meet objectives - at tolerable cost. The term also encompasses unintended, adverse second-order consequences.
First, hat were Washington’s objectives in sabotaging the Minsk peace plan and cold-shouldering subsequent Russian proposals, in provoking Russia by crossing clearly demarcated red lines, in pressing for Ukraine’s membership in NATO; in installing missile batteries in Poland and Rumania; in transforming the Ukrainian army into a potent military force deployed on the line-of-contact in the Donbas ready to invade or goad Moscow into preemptive action? The aim was to either pin a humiliating defeat on the Russian army or, at least, to inflict such heavy costs as to cut the ground from under the Putin government. The crucial, complementary dimension of the strategy was the imposition of economic sanctions so onerous as to implode a vulnerable Russian economy. Together, they would generate acute distress leading to the deposing of Putin - whether by a cabal of opponents (disgruntled oligarchs as the spearhead) or by mass protest. It was predicated on the fatally ill-informed supposition that he was an absolute dictator running a one-man show, The U.S. foresaw his replacement by a more pliable government ready to become a willing but marginal presence on the European stage and a non-player elsewhere. In the crude words of one Moscow official, “a tenant-farmer on Uncle Sam’s global plantation.”
Second, the taming and domestication of Russia was conceived as a vital step in the impending great confrontation with China - designated the systemic rival to American hegemony. Theoretically, that objective could be achieved either by enticing Russia away from China (divide and subordinate) or totally neutralizing Russia as a world power by bringing down its stiff-backed leadership. The former approach never went beyond a few desultory, feeble gestures. All the chips were placed on the latter.
Third, ancillary benefits for the United States from a war over Ukraine that would bring Russia low were a) to consolidate the Atlantic alliance under Washington’s control, expand NATO and open an unbridgeable abyss between Russia and the rest of Europe that would endure for the foreseeable future; b) to that end, the termination of the latter’s heavy reliance on energy resources from Russia; and c) thereby, substituting higher-priced LNG and petroleum from the United States that would seal the European partners’ status as dependent economic vassals. If the last were a drag on their industry, so be it.
The grandiose goals stated in (1) and (2) manifestly have proven unreachable -indeed, fanciful - a blunt truth not as yet absorbed by American elites. Those in (3) are consolation prizes of diminished value. This outcome was determined in good part, albeit not at all entirely, by the military failure in Ukraine. We now are about to enter the final act. Kiev’s vaunted counter-offense has gone nowhere - at an enormous cost to the Ukrainian military. It has been bled white by massive losses of manpower, by the destruction of the greater part of its armor, by the ruin of vital infrastructure...
Rest of essay here: neutralitystudies.com/2023/10...
Only fools and the buried thought they could defeat Russia on their borders.
The. Plan was to destroy their economy, so that the Russian state crumbled. It was clear by June last year that this had failed. That was the time to make peace, because Ukraine was never going to beat Russia militarily. Instead we adopted this fable that the Russians were uniquely disorganised and inefficient. The people who beat Napoleon and Hitler can't fight - that's what we came up with! Any one who believes that is an idiot, no other way to say it.
so they didn’t hope for it, this war has other tasks that are being carried out.
Anyone who knows basic history understood ukraine didn't stand a chance. We are led by ignorant liars and idiots.
@@inbuckswetrust7357 >so they didn’t hope for it, this war has other tasks that are being carried out. Presuming, they're no fools. I wonder, what making you think so? And what "other tasks"? Accelerate dedollarization? Help to promote alternative payment systems by undermining trust in existing one? Shatter western military mythology? Empower BRICS? Etc, etc... As Pascal said, - "spin it however you like, mr blinken, whatever".😮💨🙄
I don't know if it was invented by the Russians, but there is a whole school of art about monumental heroes. Yet another will be built somewhere in the Ukraine, probably a big one this time, an extra couple hundred feet tall or something... Artisans are probably making sketches already. I am not into heroes so much, it's just another ugly job someone got stuck with, but I am sad for the mothers. Very sad. 😿
Brilliant, wise guest, good questions. Well done, many thanks.
Is this how one compliments a toad that supports dictators? Over 23 years of Putin in power and hundreds imprisoned for speech crime, journalists included and his media and political opponents people murdered or prosecuted and jailed.
comforting to know there are still intelligent people out there.......despite all the evidence to the contrary
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For real!!!💯💯💯💯
Yes evidence - like your inability to punctuate a sentence?
your biggest concern is punctuation? what a shallow little chap you are@@johnsmith1474
was that a question or do prefer question marks to periods@@johnsmith1474
Never underestimate the influence of global corporate consultancy firms that have revolving doors with both billionaire funded public policy think tanks on one side and the revolving doors with local and central governments around the world. This directly injects billionaire funded think tank public policy into sovereign governments around the world. How else do governments around the world simultaneously adopt the same public policies that conflict with the public interest.
White collar consultants rubber stamp everything in our Govt most have zero clue that the revolving door of elite power follows a clear path from birth to prestigious private schools to Ivy leagues to McKinsey & co or BCG or Deloitte to Wall St politics CEO’s to the point that this Orwellian bubble of non thought becomes the reality 4 the rest of the world at their whim
What about the effect of Oligarchs subservient to Putin?. Various PMC (Private Military Companies i.e. mercenaries) servicing as Putin's rats and stooges? Why has Wagner on behalf of Putin created conflicts in 20 locations in Africa (apart from extracting gold and diamonds in cahoots with African War Lord)
The IMF does this for instance. And thanks to Covid many countries got indebted with them even more.
Look at the mass migration across the west which is a BS WEF Nazi plan. God complex to rival anyone on earth
These also have a huge influence on the media, uniforming their informarion and messages. A clear example are the Soros "Open Society" organizations and their branches.
It is comforting to know that at least one professor from my alma mater (and my old international affairs department - SAIS) knows the truth.
You could not separate the US foreign policy's power structure from those in power in the US now. The last election process was a clear demonstration of an inflection point: by now, there is way too much power concentrated in the hands of too few; forget about democracy, checks, and balances, and all that B.S. Democracy became "Our Democracy", a revealing oxymoron. Most importantly, forget the real meaning of "free", like free speech, free press, free elections, free markets, free-dom...
Well said, if voting makes any difference, you will not be allowed to vote.
Has it ever occurred to you that you didn't have democracy in the first place?
@@AxmedBahjadthey where given the illusion of choice, that happened in post monarch Europe and extended to America Post WW2
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
In other words, forget about Multipolar power, back to US Hegemony; next stop will be Tyranny.
Superb, well balanced, nuanced and conducted conversation. Thank you Pascal for not vocally interrupting your guest speaker your courteous hand gesture is the ideal indicator and all that is required.
If Russia is winning how come Kyiv still is under Ukraine. I thought it would only take 5 days for a super power to occupy Kyiv.
only cia propaganda ever said russia wanted to occupy kiev lol. the whole country wouldn't exist if russia wanted to finish it and zelensky wouldn't be making foreign trips at will lol. russia's objective is simply to make ukraine a dysfunctional rump state that doesn't threaten it militarily.@@user-hj3lu5ky5f
@@user-hj3lu5ky5fyou don't understand Russian objectives and you should have remedied that by now.
@@user-hj3lu5ky5f Super power Russian Federation wanted all the port cities under its control and they achieved their goal. By defeating US and NATO. Secondly they transferred the world from unipolar to multipolar one and achieved the same by forming BRICS and massive effort for dedolarization. Thirdly they want a Russian Puppet government in Kyiv amd they are very much close to it in annexing the entire Ukraine.
@@user-hj3lu5ky5fRussua original said 3 days and we are getting close to 2 years. According to these muppets running away is a sign of winning. This you tube channel is a joke, and a bad joke at that.
Thank you both! Great conversation. Just puts everybody in power here to shame, really.
Yea, like Urshula cares a bit..
Pro Dictator, Pro Russian Imperialism, Pro Totalitarian Neutrality studies. Yeah right.
This is one of the most trenchant analyses of the conflict I've seen lately. Brenner's appreciation for psychology, e.g. "cultivate amnesia" is spot on.
Great discussion. It's disturbing what is happening. The narcasistic politics, erasing any alternative views and slowley diminishing any independant thought. Pushing conflict to a point where most people think it's in their best interest. Keep it up. Wish more people would watch this.
Unfortunately the majority of the Americans r so brainwashed by their propaganda that they still think their criminal leaders r doing a noble job by sending endless supply of weapons to bolster their proxy war in Ukraine. Sadly the world is not just destroyed by the evil but also the ignorant
A more interesting discussion will be how the Dictator Putin will spin Russian defeat to his Vatniks?
This is a Kremlin propaganda channel for pseudo intellectuals, academic mercenaries, and the indoctrinated incel type.
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What a wise man.We need characters like this to run the countries of the World.
Only bloody Vlad, Ivan. These two are bloody bootlickers.
If anyone thinks they can view a more informative / trueth filled video presentation, all the best wishes to you on your long long journey. Thank you all for this effort. Be Blessed.
Duran, Brian Berletic, Martianov. Not to start the fight, just my humble suggestion to check them up.
American diplomatic culture and caliber began to change, and change for the worse, beginning with Zbigniew Brzeziński and Madeline Albright. Ever since, it has been on a downward trend, with the exception of Colin Powell's tenure, who as Secretary of State gave the diplomatic corps some dignity and respect. It is now at its nadir with Antony Blinken, who lacks the aptitude to deal with the complex world that we have now.
When you have people with certain background/agenda filling up government departments that's what will happen. You have US secretary of state go to Israel openly claim he is a Jew who's grandparents escaped Russia, while the US is at war with Russia. I mean does anyone need a handbook to understand there's an obvious link between extreme US hostilities towards Russia? This is not some cooky conspiracy theory or anti-semitic dog whistle, this is a fact. A certain ethnicity of Eastern Europeans brought hangovers from centuries old European conflicts at the doorsteps of America and made America part of those squabbles in the 20th and 21st centuries. And I am not even blaming these Eastern Europeans, I probably would have dragged stupid Americans to my conflicts too and get them to kill my historical enemies.
Absolutely accurate but make no mistake, Powell was the right man at the right time as a tool of a universally despised hegemonic petro-fascist police state.
I agree he was used, and the loyal soldier he was he did not refuse to serve. As an individual he never lacked integrity, and the world understood him so. He resisted the neocons that surrounded him to no avail@@TheJudgeofLevelstm
What diplomatic culture, my way or the highway. What changed is that it doesn't work anymore. We are being told to F off.
@@bircruz555 Neah you're giving him to much credit, he was a careerist. People at his level are known to have done what's needed to get ahead.
I'm glad you're keeping the focus on what I think is the most important thing for the whole world, in years to come. I know Palestine&Israel is hot topic right now, but I hope you will continue covering the conflict in Ukraine.
We can do both Nazis & Israel
Palestinians are without hope, BUT yet they remain defiant with a courage that exalts Humanity.
They brought their own misery upon themselves.
Lloyd Austin former member of the board of Ratheon Industries and a partner in Pine Island Capital Anthony Blinken Pine Island Capital founder and a close friend of Robert Kagan Vitoria Nuland Neocon operative in three administrations Robert Kagan neocon guru son of the founder of the group well connected with the MSM, the military industrial complex and the think tanks such as the Rand and Carnagie Instituts
Thanks for connecting the “dots”
Plus Kagan's sister-in-law is the head of the military hawk ISW think-tank (often mistakenly treated as an academic research institute in the news) - and both Nuland and Blinken descend from Ukro-J families: their paternal great-grandfathers emigrated from Ukraine/southern Russia in the early 20th century. Blinken's great old man in 1904 and Nuland's sometime between 1900 and 1930. There's no doubt that both Nuland and Blinken see Russia as a personal enemy of their families - and this has been married with a hefty dose on American exceptionalism (just as with Anne Applebaum).
Loyd Austin low IQ shill
@@louise_rose I didn't knew those facts Tx you very much
Robert Kagan’s granfather was a Zionist Rothschilds Ashkhanazi Talmudic Hazar called Lazar Kaganovich who was the butcher for Joseph Stalin enabling the death of well over 25000000 Slavic Orthodox Christian Russians. He brought in the killers from the Stan countries to do the killing because real Russians had no guts to kill their own brothers . Now we have the children of the most evil people on the planet leading America and the West. Just to name a few: Blinken, Sullivan, Nuland ( Kagan’s wife) , Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer , Bernie Sanders, Bill Gates ,George Soros , Claus Schwab . These are all psychopaths and sociopaths who are hell bent on creating Sodom and Gomorrah on face of the Earth while destroying Christianity and God . They are all of their father the Devil.
excellent interview! Thank you both for a lot of information and for a sense of hope seeing that there are intelligent honest people out there with a strong sense of right and wrong
The fundamental democratic question about US hegemony is: Who in the World elected the US Congress to be the lawmakers of the "Rules Based World Order"? As far as we all know the US Congress had been given by the US Constitution the democratic power to make the Laws of the US State and not for the whole world. One aspect of the unipolar world is that the soft power part of the hegemony has been given to the National Endowment for Democracy. Their goal is to promote the Victorian Liberal Capitalist type of Democracy to all the individuals who are responsible for decision-making in important organization structures such as government organizations, public services, healthcare, media and education. It is evident that they have miserably failed in Russia and China. That is why the only option they have left now is hard power.
Spot on!
You talk of US hegemony but never of Russian hegemony and oppression.?
Enjoy your half baked analysis
@@williamzk9083enjoy your ignorance
@@yaoliang1580 Is that all you have to say? No arguments? China and Russia are both dictatorships. China is a one party state. Try and get rid of the CCP when they’re being incompetent. Try and get rid of Xi who is being economically incompetent. Try and get rid of Putin
Excellent interview. Thank you!
Great conversation.
One crucial difference between this defeat and previous lost wars is that they left the US' enemies devastated even in victory and the US relatively unscathed. The Ukraine war will leave the US' allies devastated or harmed and Russia relatively bolstered.
Yes, and the claim of the US to be the single World Sheriff, ordained by God and Fate alike, and able to handle any war, will hopefully take a serious hit - both economical and political. If the EU and its members had been a bit more flexible, they could have escaped this war, but the euro elite (both in Brussels and around national politics and media) has largely bought into the American idea that US prerogatives are paramount and that things must be hinged on the US role as Global Sheriff, so they jumped on the bandwagon immediately, supported Zelensky 110% and threw the kitchen sink at Russia. "No one gets to move a border in Europe an inch without first having it rubberstamped by the EU and NATO!" (both more or less controlled/supervised by the US). This naive doctrine will be defeated when Ukraine is broken up and Europe has to accept the reunification of several regions with Russia - perhaps even all of Ukraine east of the Dniepr plus Odessa and the western Black Sea coastline region - there won't be anything they can do to stop this from happening and all their pledges about the Zelensky peace plan will be proven worthless. Of course if there is a landlocked and neutralized Ukraine after that point, no one will be interested in making it an EU or NATO member either.😃 The EU has tied itself to the mainmast of the US' prerogatives, and this means they can only learn useful lessons by a hard defeat that forces their pet Ukraine to its knees and thwarts their entire game plan for the future. There is no need for the quasi-federal colossus of "the United States of Europe" in any shape - the EU needs to be seriously slimmed down and made to drop much of its pretensions - so therefore I support Russia. Slava Rossiya! /Louise, Scandinavia
Putin's folly has already been a huge win for US/NATO and huge disaster for Russia.
@@louise_rose I agree with much of what you say but the lesson I take is that Europe needs to be more united and to move toward an eventual union with Russia - and whatever is left of Ukraine.
@@louise_roseI agree with you as well…from 🇨🇦…I just hope our country is remembered for what it once was, and not what it has become under our current psychopathic leader…he doesn’t even have the majority here, most ppl hate him….but our electoral system needs to fix that and prevent from happening in future. I too want to see the world work more cooperatively together, and all allowed to prosper, and the narcissism of America squashed….
@@johnrohde5510 I was hoping Europe might find a resurgence without going into a massive hardwired union - Europe is far more varied in terms of culture, history, politics and values than the US has been for most of its history, the multiplicity of languages is a huge obstacle too if the aim /of the EU/ would be to create a kind of European democratic federal republic of any kind, based on an active continent-wide citizenry. I don't think it's neither possible nor useful to try to force a real federal union down the throats of forty or so different countries -- who have spent centuries actually becoming states of their own, and fighting other states nearby in order not to get swallowed up, to assert their identity - it would just lead to a technocratic pseudo-democracy and that's more or less where the EU seems to be heading... .The kind of EU I would support is an inter-state cooperation affair, focused mostly on trade, energy and shared scientific/education objectives, not a superstate that becomes a rigid overcoat to national governments and parliaments, and I'm fairly sure a big majority of people here within the EU feel the same way. The modern EU (since around 2000) has lost its way in the terrain on so many levels.
Keep up the good work Michael and Pascal and never forget every one of your viewers are also motivated and sharing all we learn from your show with our friends and family. So you reach a lot more people than you realise. My husband has had his eyes opened listening to me about your show and is in turn educating his friends. Thank you both ❤
Excellet interview Pascal. Thank you Mr. Brenner.
Thans for introducing me to an unbiased, logical & informed US citizen.
Pro Dictator Putin, Pro Ruski Mir Imperialism, Pro Totalitarian "Neutrality studies". Yeah, that's logical. Not.
"Self-deception", "cultivated amnesia" … absolutely essential but rarely cited psychological factors contributing to the confusion. Fascinating, that a nation that understands psy-ops heavily suffers from internal dysfunction.
I would like to congratulate you, Mr. Pascal Lottaz, for this excellent interview and conversation with Prof. Michael Brenner. It was truly exceptional. Greetings (Porto, Portugal)
yes, pascal. this was astonishingly excellent. america will never begin to heal until it stops lying to itself
I have never heard of this channel, YT suggested this video. (Wow to that fact! I mean the fact of them suggesting the vieuw and the story which you won't hear on MSM! ) Good work, thanks for this video!
Two brilliant minds in a fascinating discussion. Loved this.
Outstanding interview stating tolerance and wisdom. Thank you !!!!
Just another great interview by Pascal. He’s guests are top notch
Factual guest. What a brilliant interview
Neocon expectations: Bully slaps you and your dad humiliating you in front of the entire world. Bullie expects you to pick a new dad and be dearest friend of bully. Instead bullied dad and people ties are strengenthened and Bully doesn't comprehend how this absolutely solid insight into the human psyche could have possibly be wrong from the getgo. Bully sees former bullied (almost) entire world be ecounraged to finally turn against him. Bully doesn't comprehend that outcome either. Bully doesn't mentally recover from that and in a final rage exhaust all it's energy and health to die a slow but deserved death. P.S.: Germany has the most US military bases apart from the US itself. It has no peace agreement with the US. It is but a slave to this cruel and dumb overlord. And I relish in his failure!
To become a neocon is to put a hold on compassion and let the dice roll as it may for world domination. They can see only their potential gains and never the possibility of bad reasoning, atrocious consequences and outcomes. That is because they are immoderate and blind. A great amount of schooling goes into the shutting down of their mind. But what gets them to prestigious schools are their family connections. They are oligarchs as much as they claim Russia is run by oligarchs. Their loyalties are to their own class not to the amount of wasted human lives on the battlefield. There is no compassion or loyalty to America's interests. Or, put another way, America's interests are their interests. They put themselves, their rights, and their interests, first; never are they obligated to anything else, or to something higher or greater than themselves. They are smelling their own fumes and getting high on it. That's the long and short of it.
Wellstated and right on point !
The connection between politics and psychology has been generally underestimated, but was always well understood by intelligence agencies and regime change strategists. One of their most important "emotional buttons" has always been vanity and image, and that is why nowadays we find such a high percentage of vain and opportunistic persons in power positions, even and growingly on the left. Going into politics for reasons of true social responsibility has become very rare, and is not appreciated by most political structures, because responsibility comes with honesty, sensibility and respect, which risks bringing down others' false appearances and judgements.
Truly appreciate ur channel & the Prof is always a wonderful guest. Thank u for hosting him again.
Always such wonderful thinking guests. Thankyou so for the pleasure of listening to such great people who I remember well and admire greatly. 👍
All time great interview, nothing more to say except than you for including us in this conversation
So right and so sad that the reasonable persons are not being heard by the masses, that we are actually a small group that is aware that we live in extremely dangerous times
China see: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte
High quality informative interview
Yeah Alex Mercurius, Alex Cristoforu, Micheal Brenner, Col McGregor, Professor Wolf, Greyzone, Danny Haipong, Micheal Hudson, Scott Ritter, Aaron Mate, Katie Halper, and many others are telling the truth about how are world really is...
Ivan, you put together a short list of fsb assets, too bad the degenerates are of little value to the russian nazi cause.
Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal, Glen Greenwald, Alastair Crooke, and others.
One of the best geo-political analysis episode I've ever watched! Thank you Mr. Lottaz and Brenner!
Que pena que pocas personas han escuchado este post. Sabias palabras que me ayudan a comprender los comportamientos y psicología de políticos estado unidenses.
@marions. Russia was clearly not talking about taking the whole of Ukraine. You are hearing voices.
@@marions7423 hablo de los políticos estado unidenses en forma general. Ellas y ellos, mantienen la misma política exterior, recordemos Vietnam, Irak, Siria, Libia, Cuba, Venezuela, Afganistán entre los más destacados. No he dicho nada respecto conflicto ruso-Ukrania, ese es tu tema. En mi país también estuvieron involucrados en el derrocamiento de un gobierno democrático en 1973. Desde los 9 años hubo un golpe de estado en mi financiada y orquestada por la "democracia" estado unidenses. Pasaron 17 años y muchos muertos para poder liberarnos de estos militares con comportamientos genocidas. Creo que mi historia la podrian contar demasiadas personas en el mundoque han vivido en el siglo 20 y 21 . Estoy lejos del norte por lo que no tengo rusofia, ni anticomunismo (alteración de la percepción) más bien una desconfianza absoluta en la política exterior estado unidenses. Espero puedas escuchar e intentar tener una mirada más global e historica.
@marions7423 Source?
@@marions7423. This is what we call a non sequitur to Roxana’s comment.
@@marions7423no they weren’t. If you actually LISTEN to any of Putins speeches you will hear that they already have the largest landmass in the world….which they want to develop. Ukraine was killing ITS OWN eastern citizens (Russian speaking/loyalists) and Zelensky broke the Minsk agreement….which Putin gave many oppertunities to correct or renegotiate. Do you expect Putin to just roll over and not protect the interests of his OWN nation..as a leader? Now…..what is americas business in this all? That’s what you should be asking….
Excellent Michael cool insights.
Brilliant!
Pascal, it was doubly gracious of you to thank Michael twice at the end, in identical manner each time.
Now the western slogan should be ”for as long as it takes for us to get bored … and loose interest … and dump you”.
Brenner is a gem!
Very detailed and insightful discussion
The essay Defeat is brilliant and utterly depressing. If this is really the world view of US elites, it must be the crudest and basest philosophy the world has seen since 1930s Germany.
This is continuation of US Monroe Doctrine & Vatican Doctrine of Discovery.
Another interesting interview. Keep the good work.
Brilliant Synopsis of world Geopolitical Phsyco pathology as you say. Jeri Forensic Engineer. New Zealand.
Thankyou. So rational.
Thankyou, very informative and interesting content which makes one think how the voices of Michael Brenner and his ilk would change things if they were heard widely and had positions of authority.
Back in the Sixties the Chinese referred to America as a paper dragon. Michael Brenner just described "the paper dragon".
China is so poor n technologically backward in the sixties to the late nineties they have no clout back then. Their phenomenal progress within a short period of time is remarkable.
@@yaoliang1580 I was only referring to what the Chinese thought about America back then. In the Sixties many countries were technologically behind even America.
@@catapetrovich6688 but China was very far behind back then as it was in the midst of its greatest tragedy
@@yaoliang1580 Nixon changed that becaused he believed that America was, in fact, a "paper tiger".
@@catapetrovich6688 I was too young then n wasn't interested in politics so am not aware of it. I only remembered their withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975 n the resulting horror of what happened to that tragic nation after years of intense bombardments
Just read the article, Carl Schmitt's essay "The Unity of the World", I did not know till read it refers to the world of Multipolarity in 1952. You may want to use this essay as a basis/starting point to discuss this topic, Multipolarity with a 1-2 guests.
This is an excellent conversation. Good questions from the interviewer.
I enjoyed this conversation immensely, thank you.
When will Americans wake up? Likely never!
"Thank you very much for your work that is so enlightening in understanding geopolitics."
Very relevant and valuable discussion.
Great conversation!
It's like a grandson discussing with his grandfather... Quite interesting to listen to.
One of the most intelligent and realistic geopolitical discussions on this topic since 24-02-2023! Food for thought indeed!
24-02-2022 😉
Brilliant
Thank you!!! You helped put more points into alignment as re sovereignty and the USA.
It is ideological, and from US side it is extremally immature the way US deals with other countries. This shows the mine set of capitalist world.
Many US neo-con pundits today remind me of Ayn Rand's billionaire tycoons and their brash, self-entitled attitude to the world around them. "Without US geniuses leading the way, the world would collapse into a cesspool, and that's just what they would deserve, too, if they won't fawn over us!". This simplistic attitude has also trickled through down to their fans - if you question the double standards, arrogance and frankly the imperialism of US foreign policy they tend to reply "so do you want to be ruled by CHINA, because that's' the only alternative there is without US!".
Excellent discussion... Insightful from a psychological angle into the leadership crisis.
I believe that one of the goals of the USA was to weaken Europe, and they have succeeded. Europe was the first to have a currency that gave an alternative to the USD. They were developing at a faster rate with way less debt. Had this continued for another 50 years, the importance of the USA to Europe would have dwindled. That would have made Europe more dependent on Russia & China than the USA. If Russia, too, continued to depend on Europe for its economy, then there wouldn't have been a reason for Europe to see Russia as an enemy, and the importance of NATO would have diminished. In that sense, the USA has succeeded in converting Europe weak and dependent on the USA for gas, etc.
Perhaps the US made the best gift ever to Europe. They have reminded us that once Europe ended in Vladivostok, that once we prospered because of trade and education, that Humanism was born here and that the filty people unable to fit in would give up and leave the continent. Europe has not become great because it was wealthy and ablevto sack and rape. That dame later with the red robes. Europe grew for the same reason China does now. There were enough people who enjoyed to create life and find together.
Paul Wolfowitz said as much back in 1992. The Europeans might have been deluded into thinking it did not apply to them, or that he was joking. It did and he didn't.
It was obvious from the start how this would turn out...
Dr. Brenner provides a brilliant dissertation on the status of the American empire today and, ultimately, its devolution. The nation's fate is intertwined with its ability to move beyond its own notions of imperial grandeur, propaganda, hegemony, and political ineptitude towards a cooperative and sustainable existence in an evolving, multipolar world. Whether we survive the imperial descent as a nation is very much contigent on our nation's (the people's) ability to conduct honest examination of what we are, what we have done, and how we might change for the betterment of our own nation and this earthly plain!
Certain people get their sense of power through the organization they are part of. These people will never give up on that power as it is personal to them.
@sylviam6535 I, for one, don't expect the warhawks and profiteers to change, but the people must, because the current operating system is not working in our interests. I hope that with broader discussion, the American people can move beyond the current United State of Amnesia, and ignorance!
@@F.W.I.S. - I hope so. The problem is that most are brainwashed by mainstream media aligned with the corrupt establishment.
Brilliant content as expectable. Thank you so much.
Right, Ivan.
The list of US defeats didn't include southern Africa. How there could be nostalgia for those bad old days, I dont know!
Upvoted not only because of the dialog, but even moreso because of the interesting comments/perspectives. However true they are or not, I would have to look certain statements up. Thanks, you all!
Professor Brenner, Thank you! The samizdat comparison is accurate. In the end, the writers of samizdat transformed the USSR… so there are grounds for optimism!
Countries that were never Soviet States keep telling Eastern Europe how to deal with Russians
You have no point
Thank you, both
Enjoyed it. This conversation was a lot about generalities and taking the overall temperature of the current world and the main powers. Pascal asked an interesting question about the psychology of the American institutions, for example the presidency. The presidency is like a very important cog, and in a way a ritual of what calls itself democratic liberalism. IN the long perspective I would say that the USA, the America, is an extremely unique state, young but significant empire and modern financial monopoly. And all of the cultural and cosmopolitan fashions, trends, technologies, fascinations, inventions, intrigues, sensations that can occur in such an interesting time with the wondrous technological innovations that the world has seen over the last 100-150 years. So the times are an amazing story by themselves. But what makes the relatively young empire so unique is how it capitalized big time on the colonial expansion of the yet uncolonized continents on earth. It was able to conquer, genocide and exploit what must have seemed like endless continent in North America. To go back to the question about psychology. This is definitely something that characterizes the colonial mindset of the modern imperial US. This used to be more out in the open. This Wild West manifest destiny of the American spirit blah blah blah. Every other picture show used to be a western. But the twentieth century brought a lot of economic and technological maturation and financialization. There is a lot to the twentieth century. Long story short. In the age of the digital communications and entertainment. The age of digital currency. The age of mass digital media, algorithm population control being a totally undemocratic ongoing arrangement between the oligarchy and the new modern empire. I will make this analogy. This new digital world, the cloud, the communication, the information, the population control, the currency and banking and e-business/e-transaction. The US and its associated oligarchies in the anglo and European vassals want to capitalize on this "new frontier". The new "Wild West" of the limitless cloud. The limitless continent. The limitless markets, the limitless commodities, limitless meta data and the limitless ways of exploiting and capitalizing on the meta data etc. etc. etc. Conquering continents and capitalizing on endless resources and endless land obviously ran out a long time ago. New ways of maintaining hegemony or imperial conquest developed, that being among other things, energy. Oil. global reserve currency. Military capitalism and continued colonization and market monopoly. financialization/bubblenomics. Where are we now? WE are watching a battle for the cloud. Maybe. I don't know. The psychology or the mindset of the American identity is conquest and unlimited monopoly. Where is the conquest? Where is the monopoly? Where to pick a fight? Where to escalate? Zero sum? What is the mindset of AI? of financialization? of monopoly? of algorithm population control? How about the WHO? What is their mindset? Who are the oligarchs and the foundations? What is their mindset?
I don't know what you taking about but the only thing I know is that without internet cable and satellite their will be no cloud let alone digital currency and after ww3 tribes will exist more than nation's
If the Americans can think independently like you, the world will be a much safer place. However the majority are so brainwashed by their propaganda that they still consider their beloved nation as a beacon of light for the world n still think their criminal leaders r doing a noble job by sending endless supply of weapons to bolster their proxy war in Ukraine. Sadly the world is not just destroyed by the evil but also the ignorant
Psychopathy is their mindset…..it’s quite apparent now, well always was, but before other nations felt they had to “go along to get along”…being 🇨🇦 we didn’t have that power, but still had to live next door as a neighbour….they’d probably treat us like how they treat Mexico otherwise…..anyway….I hope this frees the world and we can all work together to birth a better world and all it’s people….not just America.
What would be different if Canada was free from the US deep state?
The Oilers Vs The Bankers War. The shiv has met the bone... Something's gotta give.
Why do you both assume that the politicians you accuse of being ineffective intended to act in the best interests of the American nation? Wouldn't ig be better to deduce from their actions what their actual intentions were and in whose interests they enacted those policies?
At the expense of other nations 🥴
Ya they definitely screwed their own citizens too….a bunch of greedy psychopaths run your country….they have no care for anything in the world beyond money and themselves….
Oil and gas revenues of Russia have collapsed 60-70% from 2021, from pre-war level. Domestic revenues are higher but it is mostly based on increased military spending and raised taxes. If you think raising taxes and building more weapons make your economy strong think again. (These figures are based on official monthly reports of Ministry of Economy of Russia) At least million of best educated young Russians have left for good and hundreds of thousands men are dying and crippling themselves in meaningless battles in Ukraine. Ruble has also collapsed and real inflation values are soaring. If you have any sense in your head you have to see how grim it is for Russia now
The USA started the war in Ukraine brainwashed slave
Russia is 600 days into a three day op...they are 250,000 men down reduced to trawling the provinces.for cannon fodder. They are doing so well.
The realistic hope is for us to become Michel de Montaigne. Outwardly conform and inwardly be free. The intellectual and intelligent of our times will operate on a small scale to preserve culture. The monks of Skellig Michael are a great example, in opinion!
I am very glad that I have found this channel
Thanks for your appreciation 😃
It would be really useful if Dr. Brenner got national newspapers to include his essay...just a thought.. probably not going to happen..
Thank you
0:11: 📺 Michael Brener discusses the essay 'Defeat' and the situation in Ukraine. 7:29: 🌍 The video discusses the challenges faced by NATO and the EU in maintaining control over Europe, and the unlikelihood of the US achieving its objectives. 13:01: 📺 The defeat of the US in Afghanistan has not been fully accepted or understood by the Biden Administration and neoconservatives. 19:54: 🌍 The video discusses the impact of the Ukraine war on global world order and American objectives. 26:40: 🌍 The speaker criticizes the Western narrative surrounding Russia's actions in Ukraine and highlights the limitations of NATO. 32:49: 🌍 The United States is ill-prepared to navigate a multipolar world and lacks diplomatic skills. 39:22: 🌍 The speaker discusses how the younger generation, who grew up during the era of unipolarity, will react to the shift towards multipolarity. 44:49: 🌍 There is a pervasive consensus among the American political class to maintain the United States' dominant position in the world through any necessary means, including nuclear war. 51:35: 🔍 We should analyze both individual psychology and the psychopathology of institutions in power. 57:29: 🌍 The video discusses the importance of maintaining a specific view of the world and missed opportunities for global cooperation in the past decade. 1:03:54: 🌍 The video discusses the ongoing geopolitical tensions between the US, Russia, and China. Recap by Tammy AI
Hi from Malta I have educated, intelligent friends that have blind faith in 'The Collective West!' No room for dis ussion!
Ha...ha...well said. Sounds familiar...😀
To bad they will never learn !
Excellent
Your Cnahhel with 60K Abonnents is much underrated. Thanks for your work.
Aw thanks a lot! Working on it bit by bit. Thanks for the kind words. U made my day 😃
Yes, is going to be a blow to the neo oinks oinks
got that right Michael nice work
Adorable.
Still looking for an off-ramp. . .what about “the weakening” of the USA?
We’ll do whatever it takes. We’ll stay as long as it takes TO DO WHAT?
it's like that song: "we can't stop~~ and we won't stop~~"
In the 1980's they overthrew the State Department and it has been downhill since.
Why Americans make every conflicts about themselves.
I love my fellow American working people. Isolationism, sensible immigration on merit and values. Trump 2024 for a better life. No more stupid wars 4000 miles away!
I just watched Trump just a week or two ago in South Carolina singing the praises of Lindsey Graham. The man is a clown. He is no solution to anything.
@@danthemansmail I saw him here in Michigan with the autoworkers. Trump is the best thing to ever happen to the working man. My 401k made 300,000 dollars in interest. It was so awesome. Loser Biden has lost money for me.
Enjoy your criminal worship
@@danthemansmail Yep, Trump has never been against financial exploitation, Wall Street/Corporate Corruption or money-laundering in any meaningful sense - his own career and fortune were largely built on those! (and on Poppa's money and business connections of course, which lay the groundwork for himself). He is definitely not against smash-and-grab capitalism - only against certain rich guys he perceives as his enemies, like Jeff Bezos etc.
Mviking39 you are deceiving your if you think trump can drain the swamp, he will be given a lead injection if he tries to.the game is rigged and the only way to fix it is to raze it down.
Regime change begins at home.