35 Burst results for "Vladimir"
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Sleepless in Kyiv: Nighttime Russian air campaign terrorizes citizens in Ukrainian capital
"Russia has unleashed one of its biggest air strikes on Kyiv since the war began as the Ukrainian city suffers its second overnight assault in a row. Officials say its defense forces have shot down more than 40 targets during what Kyiv's mayor of Vladimir Klitschko describes as another difficult night in the capital. Ukraine's air force claims to have shot down 37 out of 40 Russian launched cruise missiles and 29 out of 35 drones, the latest wave of Russian strikes on the city come as Ukraine prepares to launch a counteroffensive to reclaim areas that Russian forces have taken. I'm Lauren Brooks
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Head of Russian private army Wagner says his forces are handing control of Bakhmut to Moscow
"The head of the Russian private military contractor, Wagner has claimed that his forces have started pulling out of bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and handing over control to the Russian military, the announcement by yevgeny prigozhin, the owner of the private military company, comes days after he said Wagner troops had captured the ruined city, the millionaire owner, with longtime links to Russian president Vladimir Putin, said in a video published on telegram that the handover would be completed by June 1st. We are handing over military positions, ammunition, everything including dry Russian to the Russian military. Nevertheless, a day earlier Ukrainian general staff said that heavy fighting was continuing inside the eastern city after a 9 month battle that killed tens of thousands of people, I am Karen Chammas
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Ukraine secured military aid, including advanced fighter jets, at the G-7 summit
"President Joe Biden announced a new military aid package worth $375 million for Ukraine during his meeting with Ukraine's president at the G 7 summit in Japan. President Biden unveiled the aid package at a meeting with Ukrainian president, Vladimir zelensky, in Hiroshima. Includes more ammunition, artillery, armored vehicles, to bolster Ukraine's battle abilities. Zelensky's response to the package. My appreciations. We never forget. Biden's fresh pledge came after the U.S. agreed to allow training on American made F-16 fighter jets. The training lays the groundwork for their eventual transfer to Ukraine,
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Zelenskyy denies Ukrainian city of Bakhmut occupied by Russian forces
"Ukraine's president has denied that Russian forces are occupying the eastern Ukrainian city of bakhmut. The claim by Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky has cast doubt on Moscow's insistence that the Ukrainian city had fallen. On Russian state TV, the anchor announced that president Vladimir Putin had congratulated the Wagner private army in helping to liberate at your mosque, which is Soviet, however, Ukrainian military officials also said their soldiers were still engaging Russian forces in fierce battles in and around bahn, the 8 month battle for bakhmut has been the longest and probably most bloody of the conflict in Ukraine. I am Karen Thomas
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy arrives in Hiroshima for G7 summit as world leaders sanction Russia
"Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky has arrived in Japan for talks with the leaders of the world's most powerful democracies. His appearance at the G 7 summit is meant to galvanize global attention as nations ramp up pressure on Moscow for its 15 month invasion of Ukraine. Zelensky's visit comes just hours after the U.S. agreed to allow training on potent American made fighter jets, laying the groundwork for their eventual transfer to Ukraine. Bolstering international support is a key priority as Ukraine prepares its counter offensive. I'm Lawrence Brooks
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'Clock has hit midnight': China loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse
"China has said it special envoy met with Ukraine's president during talks in Kyiv, according to China, the meeting with Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky came about amid discussions between envoy Li Hui and Ukraine's foreign minister. The envoy's visit followed an earlier Franco between zelensky and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Ukrainian officials say that over two days Lee and Ukrainian foreign minister dimitro kuleba discussed ways to stop Russian aggression, made it clear again that Ukraine wouldn't accept any proposal involving the loss of its territories or the freezing of the conflicts. Cheese government says its neutral and wants to serve as a mediator in the 15 monthlong conflict, but has supported Moscow politically and economically. I'm Karen Chammas
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China says Ukraine envoy met with Zelenskyy during talks in Kyiv
"China has said it special envoy met with Ukraine's president during talks in Kyiv, according to China, the meeting with Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky came about amid discussions between envoy Li Hui and Ukraine's foreign minister. The envoy's visit followed an earlier Franco between zelensky and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Ukrainian officials say that over two days Lee and Ukrainian foreign minister dimitro kuleba discussed ways to stop Russian aggression, made it clear again that Ukraine wouldn't accept any proposal involving the loss of its territories or the freezing of the conflicts. Cheese government says its neutral and wants to serve as a mediator in the 15 monthlong conflict, but has supported Moscow politically and economically. I'm Karen Chammas
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Left in Denial: China Planning Invasion of Taiwan
"I had a dinner lunch last week with three smart people. One of whom is a foreign national two of them are Democrats. All three of whom agreed that China wasn't going to attack Taiwan. They would prefer to absorb it by osmosis and take many years and they'll just buy the island like they did Hong Kong. And I thought to myself, boy, oh boy, the left doesn't want to deal with the reality of the chai comes. How do you get through to people like this that we could wake up any morning and see an invasion? Well, let me start by paraphrasing what Churchill said at Westminster college in Fulton, Missouri, which is to say there's no doubt that the Soviet Union does not want war. They want the fruits of war and an unimpeded expansion of their power and ideological objectives. The same is true of Xi Jinping. No doubt he would prefer to absorb Taiwan via political warfare rather than actual warfare. Yet he repeatedly is telling us that he's prepared to use force if necessary to achieve his life's ambition. And what these people need to do is pay attention to what Xi Jinping says when he talks not to the Davos crowd, but when he talks to his own party membership. And on that point, he has been crystal clear that he is prepared to use force if necessary, particularly when, as I believe, will happen, he realizes that if achieving that objective, that objective of reunification of Taiwan with the mainland, can not be achieved via political warfare because the DPP is going to win the election in Taiwan in January of 2024. So if you crane has taught us anything, it is that we should listen to dictators when they tell us in plain language what they intend to do. And if we ignore that because we graphed our own western sensibilities on to Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and we do mirror imaging, we do so at our own peril.
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Jansen has game-winning hit, Blue Jays rally to sweep Braves
"Kenny Jensen's two run single brought home Vladimir Guerrero junior and Matt Chapman as a Blue Jays beat the brave 6 5 at roger center. Jensen's game winning knock was his second hit of the afternoon, sent me more than 40,000 into a frenzy. It's a good team over there, so I had a feeling it was gonna be, you know, big blow is going back and forth throughout the series and stuff. So just kept at it. George Springer hit his 5th home run of the season, Atlanta had three home runs over their own from Ronald Acuna junior, Ozzie albies and former J Kevin pillar. Nate Pearson wanted out of the pen, as Toronto's won three in a row. John leatherbee, to run
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Pope Francis meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican
"Ukraine's president has met with the Pope at the Vatican as his country continues to endure a war against Russia. Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky arrived at the gates of the Vatican guarded by two Vatican soldiers robed in traditional colors, Pope Francis using a cane comes to meet the president's zelensky puts his hand to his heart and utters it's a great honor. The Vatican later released a statement saying the two men spoke about the humanitarian and political situation provoked by the ongoing war last month Ukraine's prime minister also met with the pontiff at the Vatican. He asked Francis to help Ukraine get back children illegally taken to Russia during the invasion. I'm Karen Chammas
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Zelenskyy, in Rome for talks with pope, hears Italian president say, 'We're at your side.'
"Ukraine's president is in Rome for talks with the Pope, and Italy's president and premier, as his country finds to liberate itself from Russia's military invasion launched last year. A military band played as Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky was welcomed by Italian Panera giorgia meloni outside of kichi palace upon his arrival many Ukrainians and Italians alike lined the streets of Rome to welcome him, Eleanor litvinova told the AP she hopes Ukraine will be victorious. And we want that Kremlin many should be stopped. On Twitter zelensky cited his schedule in Rome, first his meeting with Italian president and then the premier zelensky is also due to meet Pope Francis, who recently said that the Vatican has launched a behind the scenes initiative to try to end the war launched by Russia last year. I'm Karen Chammas
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Zelenskyy: Ukraine counteroffensive needs more time, launching now would cost too many lives
"Ukraine's president has said that his country's military needs more time to prepare for a counter offensive against Russia in an interview with the BBC Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky said that it would be unacceptable to launch the assault now because too many lives would be lost, a Ukrainian fight back against Russia's invasion has been expected for weeks, Ukraine is receiving advance western weapons, including tanks and air defenses, and western training for its troops, as it gears up for unexpected assault, with Russian forces deeply entrenched in many parts of eastern Ukraine, Kyiv's counteroffensive would likely face minefields anti tank ditches and other obstacles. I'm Karen Chammas
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Putin tells Red Square parade 'real war' unleashed on Russia
"Russian president Vladimir Putin has addressed his country's victory day parade on Moscow's red square, claiming that a real war has been unleashed against Russia, a reference to the war in Ukraine. Putin says today the civilization is once again at a decisive turning point, a real war has been unleashed against our motherland, but we have rebuffed international terrorism, and will protect residents of the Donbass, and we will ensure our security. Putin welcomed soldiers fighting in Ukraine, who were present at the parade. I'm Charles De Ledesma
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Russia's Wagner boss threatens Bakhmut pullout in Ukraine
"Russia's Wagner boss threatens a back mut pull out in Ukraine. The owner of the Wagner group has vowed to pull his troops out of the protracted battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of back next week, accusing Russia's military command of starving his forces of ammunition and causing them heavy losses. Yevgeny prigozhin, a notorious millionaire with longtime links to Russian president Vladimir Putin, claims his forces had planned to capture back mud by May 9, but he says he hasn't received enough artillery ammunition supplies from the Russian military since Monday known for his cluster, the vanden bos has previously made unverifiable claims and made threats he hasn't carried out. I'm Charles De Ledesma
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Zelenskyy wants Putin trial, Russia accuses US on drones
"Russia is accusing the U.S. of being involved in a purported drone attack yesterday on the Kremlin. Moscow alleges it was a bid to assassinate Vladimir Putin, whose spokesman says, decisions on terror attacks are not made in Kyiv, but rather in Washington. Dmitri peskov says Ukraine then does what it's told to do. He offered no evidence of U.S. involvement, and at The White House. We're still trying to gather information about what happened and we just don't have conclusive evidence one way or the other. Though National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says one thing is for certain. The United States was not involved in this incident in any way contrary to mister peskov's lies. That's what they are just lies. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy expected to visit Int'l Criminal Court
"Ukraine's president has made a surprise visit to The Hague in the Netherlands, the home of the International Criminal Court, which is issued an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky's visit to The Hague came a day after he denied Ukrainian responsibility for what the Kremlin are calling an assassination attempt on president Putin, ICC staff crowded at the windows to get a glimpse of zelensky's arrival and raised a Ukrainian flag next to its own flag outside the building. Meanwhile, Ukraine's air force said Russian forces attacked several regions around Ukraine, including the southern city of Odessa, and the capital Kyiv, with Iranian made drones. I'm Karen Chammas
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Russia: Ukraine tries to attack the Kremlin with drones
"Russia says Ukraine has tried it to attack Moscow's center of government. Russian authorities have accused Ukraine of attempting to hit the Kremlin with two drones overnight, the Kremlin has decried the alleged attack attempt as a terrorist act, saying Russian military and security forces disabled the drones before they could strike the Kremlin adds that a president of Vladimir Putin was safe and has continued to work with his schedule unchanged in a statement carried by a state news agency, the Kremlin said Russia retains the right to respond when and where it sees fit. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
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Zelenskyy on weapons delivery talks with Macron
"The Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky said he spoken with his French counterpart about the delivery of more supplies ahead of a possible counter offensive against Russian forces. In his daily address, zelensky claimed Emmanuel Macron had confirmed the supply of requested support without going into specifics. Zelensky then expressed his gratitude to France the president and other Western Allies for their continued support of Ukraine and its people. The president's praise comes just days after NATO said its allies and partner countries had sent 98% of promise combat vehicles as well as other equipment to Ukraine. The added artillery is expected to give key of a bigger punch as a contemplates launching its counter offensive. I'm Lawrence Brooks
Lex Fridman Podcast
"vladimir" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"Do you have a device that you can give to someone like me or anyone hoping to understand something about a human being? Sitting across from them about what it takes to do a good interview. You're doing one. Well, no, but listen, there's a levels to this game. And interviewing somebody like Vladimir Putin also language barrier, sit across from the man, tried to keep an open mind, tried to also ask challenging questions, but not challenging with an agenda, but seeking to understand. And I understand deeply. How do you do that? Seeking the truth. It's very simple, seeking the truth, being a questioner like you are, you want to know what is really going on. I could not get anywhere with Biden or bush or for that matter Obama. They'd be opaque with me. There's no interview possible with the president of the United States because he's got to stand for all the stuff that they stand for, which is imperialism, which is control of the world. How can you defend that? No one's going to come out and say that. They're always going to blame the enemy. They're going to blame Iran. They're going to blame China. So some people may not be possible to break through the opaque. I mean, have you ever seen an interview with the president? Besides being personable, where he actually discussed American policy? Yeah, I mean, not really, but maybe after their president, I could see Obama being able to do such an interview..
Lex Fridman Podcast
"vladimir" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"I see no evidence of it. Why didn't he do something in all these years? Nothing. He did nothing except defend the country in Georgia and in Chechnya. So the imperialist imperative is coming more from the west imperialist. It's the imperialist agenda going back to I'm sorry where we left our discussion off. I mean, I was going to go on with America not only being closed down now, closed down and you say, it's not fear. Well, it is fear. I am scared. Because if you get your Facebook page to spend it or YouTube, Twitter account thrown off. A lot of good people are getting there. Thrown off. You can't say you can't speak out. It affects your business. It goes back to the 1950s when my father's world, when you could not express any sympathy for a Soviet Union without endangering your job without basically being not trusted. You had to be part of the program to get along to go along. Same thing when the United Kingdom for all their talk, this Boris Johnson is an idiot. But all their talk about do you remember their policies with the IRA in Ireland when Ireland was threatening them? They cut off the IRA completely. Jerry Adams, who was a wonderful guy, I met him, was not allowed to even be heard in Britain during certain years. In France, all constantly through the Algerian war, the algerians were not allowed to be heard. The Algerian war for independence divided France greatly, you could not even show paths of glory. World War I film in France for, I don't know, 20 years after it came out. Censorship is a way of life when democracies also feel threatened. They are much more fragile than they pretend to be. A healthy democracy would take all the criticism in the world and shrug it off and say, okay, that's what's good about our country. Well, I'd like to see that in America. It used there are times that it's been like that, but it's so scary now. So it is scary. That's what I was trying to say. It's not un scary to me. In China, I would say to you, yes, it's much scarier to me because there is the Internet wall that they cut off and I got in a problems in China too because I said something in years ago about you have to discover your own history. You have to be honest about Mao. You have to be. You have to go back and let's make a movie about Mao. That upset them. And show his negatives. So China has been much more sensitive than Russia about criticism, much more. And it is a source of problems, but on the other hand, China has a lot of grievances. A lot of going back to the 19th century and the British imperialism of that era and the American imperialism. If you could talk to Vladimir Putin once again. Now, what kind of what kind of things would you talk about here? What kind of questions would you ask?.
Lex Fridman Podcast
"vladimir" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"It was no long a president and Vladimir Putin became president. You did a series of interviews with Vladimir Putin, as you mentioned, over a period of two years from 2015 to 2017. Let me ask the high level question. What was your goal with that conversation? Came out in 2017, I guess I started them in 2014. At that point, there's no nefarious happened. I was working on a movie on Snowden. That happened in 13. Ukraine happened in 14. And one thing after another, by 14, Pope Putin was enemy number again becoming a wanted man on the American list. He was certainly in the top 5, but the animosity towards Putin had been growing since 2007 at Munich. I remember that speech when he made it, it's in my documentary that's a four hour documentary, four different conversations. I mean, we talked to over two years, two and a half years. But I remember that image of him at Munich, making a very important speech about world harmony about the balance necessary in the world. And I remember the sneer, the sneer on John McCain's face, he was in Munich, obviously eyeballing Putin and hating him. And it was so evident that McCain had no belief whatsoever that this he was almost treating him like these are the communists are back. And we know that Putin was not a communist. We know the Putin is very much a market man. And he made it very clear and tried to keep an open climate. A new relationship with Europe, but the United States always certain people in the United States always sell that as a threat, like Putin is trying to take Europe away from us as if we own it. As if we have the right to own it. But Putin was making the point. It's very important about sovereignty. Sovereignty for a country is crucial for this new world to have balance. That's sovereignty for China, sovereignty for Russia, sovereignty for Iran, sovereignty for Venezuela, sovereignty for Cuba. This is an idea that's crucial to the new world, and I think the United States has never accepted that. Sovereignty is not an idea that they can allow. You have.
Today, Explained
"vladimir" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Back with Marvin kalb journalist author Russia hand for almost 70 years in 2009, the Obama administration announced what it called a reset between the U.S. and Russia. Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva. The cameras were flashing Clinton handed him a red button with a word on it. I wanted to present you with a little gift, which represents what president Obama and vice President Biden and I have been saying. And that word in Russian was supposed to say reset, but it was actually the wrong translation and the word that appeared on the button was overcharged. You get the drunk. I got it wrong. It should be better. Let's talk about that moment. Vladimir Putin was not president, a man named Dmitri Medvedev was, at the time, what was the U.S. trying to reset from? There had been a very long time in the recent historical relationship between Russia and the United States when we were in constant state of anxiety of tension of confrontation and that was all called the Cold War. By the time Clinton came around with Lavrov and the reset idea, what they were trying to do was simply say enough of that confrontation. Let's try to get along because there's a whole rest of the world. That the U.S. has to deal with, and for Medvedev, who was then technically the leader of Russia, with Putin very much in the background, but very much in control. The idea was simply to romance Russia into an association with the west, and they wanted to reset it. It was an easy, very American way of doing things, but not a Russian way of doing things. From the beginning in 2009 and 2010, were there any gains made toward normalizing a relationship between the United States and Russia. Did anything go right? Absolutely. There were a number of agreements that were reached. There were long-term negotiations on arms control. There were trade agreements that were reached, there was more than anything in attitude of openness on that spot. That had never been apparent with Putin. In 2007, Putin delivered to speech in Munich. He simply attacked the west. He made it very clear that he was unhappy with the state as quote. We then came in with this reset, but at that time, Putin felt that the progress that had been made under Medvedev. Was not healthy for Russia. In the years after 2012, what would you say were the pivotal moments where it became clear to you and other observers O Vladimir Putin doesn't want to reset? Vladimir Putin wants to do what Vladimir Putin wants to do and the U.S. be damned. The most important thing that happened were the mass demonstrations inside.
Today, Explained
"vladimir" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Putin's own advisers are misleading him about the war, they're telling him what he wants to hear. So what's going through this secretive solitary dictator's mind? We found one man who thinks he knows the answer. It's today explained I'm Noel king for almost 70 years Marvin kalb has loved Russia. In the early 1950s, he studied Russian history as a PhD candidate at Harvard. In 1960, he moved to Moscow as a reporter for CBS News. He's interviewed lots of powerful Russians, but he's never talked to Vladimir Putin. Kelp says, to get insight into Putin, it's better to read about him than to interview him. I have found over the years that if you read intensely, what it is that a leader says or writes or thinks about himself, you're going to get a pretty good idea of what he actually is. Sometimes in an interview you get only what a major political figure wishes to convey. And he does that very well, Putin is an astoundingly good interview. And reporters who get in the views with him, do very well because he can play to the personality. He knows how to deal with people. That's terribly important to him. Based on your many years of reading and observing and knowing that you have a keen sense into who people are. Who is Vladimir Putin? Vladimir Putin at the moment is a very lonely figure. He is finally a dictator. He used to be an authoritarian figure. He used to have the kind of power that a Tsar had. He is now an absolute dictator, and for him, that's a bad thing. What it means is on the one hand he has absolute power to do whatever he wants in Russia, but the people around him are now terrified of him. And that means that they will tell him what they think he wants to hear. That is very bad for any leader of any country. Putin now is in desperate need of solid 100% verified information, and he is not getting it. That is the belief of the U.S. government of western nations, and I think logically given the history of dictatorship. But when you get to an absolute top point of power, you begin to lose it, and put you now is in the process of losing the power that for most of his life he sought to accumulate. He is a former KGB official. One of the young men in the dying days of the Soviet Union, who would try to live in the artificial world, created by the KGB. He would imagine what the western world was like. He would try very hard to understand it. He would pick up a language, the government gave him every opportunity to learn as much about the enemy as he could, and he did, and he thought he would be able to figure out how to manipulate the enemy so that he could destroy it. That was the whole point of the KGB operation. It was an intelligence unit, but it was also a unit that operated to achieve certain ends, and for the KGB the end as always been. The dissolution of the western threat. We know that U.S. intelligence has tried to assess whether the pandemic changed Vladimir Putin's mental state, whether isolation from the pandemic changed him. Was he a solitary person before the pandemic? Was he a lonely figure prior to this virus? Every leader is to some degree a lonely figure, but Putin was not. Putin enjoyed being with people, but at the same time he was always very suspicious of everybody. And so there was always a distance between him, and any one he was negotiating with, and certainly between him, and a person he would regard as an enemy. And so yes, distance existed. He was surrounded always by his own intelligence, his own ambition, his drive for power, and when he achieved that, and he was very good at persuading the man above him. The president of Russia, mister yeltsin, in the 1990s, guilds him brought him down from St. Petersburg to Moscow, yeltsin appointed Putin the head of the KGB or the new version of it. And a couple of years later appointed him prime minister, and then when yeltsin wanted to resign, he looked around and the only person he felt he could trust was potent, and so Putin became his successor, and almost immediately established a new kind of governance in Russia. He had his KGB folks ready to roll into power. Not only in Moscow and Petersburg, but all over the country. It is a vast country. It extends over many time zones. It is difficult to run a country that large. And Putin had his people in position to run it, he had control over the entire operation. He became the boss. And so who surrounds Putin now? Who are his advisers? Who are his friends? The people who are around him now are the same people, more or less, who have been around him for the past 22 years. Wow. They are the people from the KGB, he allowed those people to take over control over large economic assets in the country, oil, gas, timber, were invested in the hands of a very small group. And this small group proved to be effective enough for Putin to become the boss and run this very complex society. What does it tell you that Vladimir Putin has not made new friends over the last 22 years that the same people who surrounded him when he was a KGB agent surround him as he is president of a world power? And that is an extremely important observation, because what we learned from it is that we are dealing with a man who had a certain vision of the world, 2030 years ago, and retains it only in sharper form today. Please remember, Putin is first and foremost, a Russian nationalist. The question that comes into mind is he an ultra nationalist by which I mean, does he see everything? From a Russian point of view and the answer, unfortunately, is yes. And because he sees everything from a Russian point of view, he looks at a country, for.
Today, Explained
"vladimir" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Added up to a lot of people being online and saying, you know, what a hot guy. Yo, I got one thing to say. President zelensky? Daddy. All these little boys out there. Like I've seen criticisms of this as being inappropriate or cringe or whatever, from an audience that is not affected by this conflict. I also, this is just your gentle southern mama reminder that president volodymyr zelensky is married. I'm specifically talking about all of the naughty videos. Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. But like, this veers into an area where when big, bad, scary things happen, our brains get distracted by things that are not the big bad scary thing. And zelensky is placed himself in a place where he can be the object of will make him our hero. We'll make some jokes about his old comedy and his old performances. We'll get really drawn into him as a person. And an inevitable offshoot of that is horny tweets, and I don't feel like shaming anybody for those. You have your emotional reactions to the scary world that you have. And I don't know, maybe don't tweet about it. Yeah. I mean, it's important to remember that ultimately what we are enjoying when we enjoy a zelensky video is wartime propaganda. Yes. And like, we're in a situation where kind of one of the acceptable reasons to wage a war and putting heavy air quotes around that is if your country is invaded by a larger country by a foreign power by someone who is pushing in and trying to incur upon your territory and take over your territory, which is exactly what's happening to Ukraine. So in terms of like propaganda, he doesn't have like a very large hill to climb. He just kind of has to be like, hey, this is not good and we're fighting back. And we're like, yeah, that makes sense. So I think that that is a big part of why it works. But when I say propaganda, there's such a dirty word quality to that word, but I also think it's propaganda toward a cause that is a fundamentally sympathetic one for most of the people watching it. And like propaganda isn't always bad to be clear, he's being invaded by a much larger army. He doesn't have a lot of weapons at his disposal, but he's really good at being on camera. So here's the weapon he can use, and it's working. Right, what he lacks in army he makes up for in propaganda, whereas at least in the west, it would appear that what Russia has an army, it really seems to lack in propaganda. Which I think if you had asked anybody three weeks ago, who's going to win the PR war here, you would have said Putin because Putin has just a tremendously large, usually effective propaganda operation. He sends out all of those shirtless photo ops where he's, you know, trying to be the world's most masculine mask man. I do think three weeks ago we would have thought, oh, Russia is going to win the PR war two because they also have a massive global media operation. Ukraine doesn't have a similar element. So it is really remarkable and it really comes down to his skills, as someone who's good at being on camera as someone who's.
Today, Explained
"vladimir" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Become everyone's first thought? Well, the way he reacted, the way he led the army during the first several days has constant a video addresses his willingness to stay in Kyiv, which is bombarded by Russia. He was able to show the world that maybe he wasn't the best peacetime leader, he is the perfect wartime leader that we now know that the landscape will do everything he can to.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"vladimir" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Really happy guys to be returning to Dante as you know we've taken a couple of days break partly because we were, as I mentioned earlier in D.C. and but now I'm glad to be back and picking it right up. Now there's a saying in Dante scholarship that when you have finished reading the poem, you're ready to read it again. And you may think why? Why would you read the same poem twice or let alone more than that? And the answer is you begin to see as you read this poem that Dante has very ambitious goals. And his goals are number one to make you a wise person. Number two to make you a happy a person and number three to help you on your journey to the paradiso. In other words, to make you a holier person and Dante is very explicit that this is what he's trying to do. This is not an ordinary poem. Oh, you read it for fun. Yeah, you do, but there's a lot more to it. My goal in this series is to play, well, it's just sort of play Virgil, right? Virgil is Dante's guide. It's a guy not have Dante the poet, but of Dante, the pilgrim. And Virgil is leading Dante the way through, but not all the way through. At some point, Virgil is like, now you gotta go. With other guides or go on your own. And that's my hope here, too, is to guide you in reading this poem, but I actually want to point you eventually to the poem. So that you can be your own guide. And I think also it's fun to read the poem to get an edition of Dante that has the English translation on the right and the Italian on the left. There are a number of translations that are like that. And what I do sometimes is I just go over to the Italian and I don't, you know, I speak very little Italian, but I read the words because you can capture some of Dante's melody and you almost makes you feel bad. Like, wow, I'm not getting the poem and it's full power. I'm getting it at like 60% because I need to learn Italian. And in fact, I need to learn sort of late medieval vernacular Italian to fully get Dante not only in the message, but also in the medium. Now, we're talking about Francesca and Paolo. We're talking about Dante in the 5th canto of the inferno. And it's important to see here that the unrepentant of the sinner, in this case, Francesca is really beautifully shown by Dante in the way she talks and in what she says. It's very clear that she is not in any way regretful about what she did. And in fact, her need is to compulsively justify and explain and in a sense put the blame on someone else and the ingenious charming way that she does this is kind of a metaphor for all the sinners in the deeper circles of hell. It's a kind of a prototype. And even though the Sims get more grievous, the technique of the sinner is always the same. It's sort of, I'm the center of the universe, and everything has to be seen from my perspective. And what's so clear here is I told you a little bit the backstory of Francesca she was kind of caught in the act with her brother in law, this guy named Paolo, the husband comes bursting in kills them both. That's why they're here in this, well, Dante calls it an infernal storm. And so you've got the sinner as the evil spirits in Dante's words being hurled about left and right. They're literally out of control. They're just being buffeted. And for Dante, this is a, I think, a beautiful way in which the moral geography of hell matches the sin itself. Dante is not just coming up with sort of ingenious punishments or ever more macabre ways of hurting the sinners rather the punishment is kind of what you really wanted, what your sin was about, what you wrongly coveted in this case, what Paolo and Francesca covered it. What did they wanted most was to be, you may say, out of control out of control. And so Dante is like, okay, you got it. You can have it and here is the your desire itself, but stripped of its kind of veneer of appeal. Now, what's remarkable about the story is Francesca talks to Dante is Dante does not give you the full story. Well, why not? Because neither does Francesca, she's telling a highly selective edited version of what happened. And this is all so important that I'm actually gonna do it kind of line by line. But I want to point out right here that this is kind of why we need notes for reading Dante because if you didn't have the notes, see the Paolo Francesca scandal was kind of a big scandal in Dante's own time. So Dante's readers knew about it. It's kind of similar to things we might hear about Marilyn Monroe or O. J. Simpson. And so if you write about Marilyn Monroe, Jay Simpson, you don't have to actually say, well, Marilyn Monroe she took pills O. J. Simpson. No, because people already know that. And so what's interesting here is to listen to what Francesca says, but the notes help us to understand the full story, the backstory, what Francesca is leaving out. But Dante lets her speak. Dante never challenges our narrative he never goes, but wait a minute, or he never goes, what a bunch of nonsense no. In fact, as you'll see, Dante is very much taken in by what Francesca says and this shows a couple of things. One is it shows that this is actually a sin that appeals to Dante. And by appeals to Dante, what I mean is this is a sin that Dante himself in his own love poetry that was mostly what he wrote before he wrote the divine comedy, Dante is very tempted himself by the same things that tempted Francesca and Francesca talks in a way as we'll see that matches Dante's own love poetry. So this is hitting Dante very close to home. Let's remember Dante is a very, you're almost called like a classic Italian and one of his earlier poems I remember and not sure if this was in the Vita nuova, Dante talks about the fact that when a beautiful woman goes by, his head turns. To which I say classic Italian. Dante is like that. Don't think of Dante as some kind of Luther in a monastery. This is a guy who's on the street of Italy. This is a guy who knows beauty when he sees it. So this is Dante in a sense listening to a woman and he knows the language that she is speaking. So here we go. Here's Francesca talking to Dante. Oh, living creature or gracious and so kind who makes your way here through this dingy air.
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"vladimir" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Mark, you said right up front, were you talking about how this sort of liberal mainstream was overrun and intimidated and sort of pushed aside by what was originally a relatively small, radical faction. And I want to think about why that happened because obviously the liberals, the old liberals, had the power. The radicals, numerically, were not strong enough, they were younger professors. So I'm thinking, could it be that the older liberals somehow shared some of the assumptions of the radicals so that the radicals were able to say things like you're supposed to be an antiracist? How can you not agree with us that Mark Twain's huckleberry friend does not belong in the curriculum? Why would an argument so inane work? Unless the old liberals were to some degree vulnerable to it. I think the old liberals felt a great deal of moral authority from the civil rights movement. And then from women's liberation and then from the gay liberation of the 70s, this is liberalism. This is be a free individual. This is live and let live. Do your own thing. Whatever floats your boat. That was kind of the popular liberal attitude. And what they didn't realize is that not only were they offering this individualization that would liberate in their eyes, they were taking away the foundations of any kind of ultimate kind of moral authority, the foundations that would give deeper purpose deeper meanings in life. So that the liberal outlook really became don't believe in anything too strongly, right? We don't want strong gods. We don't want to be too forceful in our convictions. Let's not judge. We don't want to judge. We're going to let people be. And the thing is, the left never got into that kind of relativistic, easygoing, live and let live. They kind of offered that as a surface excuse or rationale, but what they really were doing was playing deep power games. Saul Lewinsky tactics, who was a brilliant tactician, by the way, and they ran circles around the liberals, and the liberals were always scared. Of getting the leftist accusation of, you know, what kind of conservative church are you trying to take us back? You want to take us back to Jim Crow. You want to put women back in the kitchen and the bedroom? And they were so vulnerable. They were so intimidated by those accusations. I mean, I saw them in meetings when liberal would offer but open free speech kind of things like, oh, you think it's okay to offend these people? Haven't these people suffered enough? And the liberals would buy it. They were such dupes. They were the useful idiots for the left. And so I would see the way the bureaucracy would be structured to make this happen. So if you teach a course, you have 35 students in the course. Two students on the course evaluation is complain that you committed some little micro aggressions. Maybe you taught huck Finn, which has the N word in those two students complaint. The other 33 students, good teacher, really, you know, learned a lot from him. The usual, those two students count more than those 33. They can file a complaint, it might take months the administration would take it very seriously. You will may end up saying, well, I'm sorry I taught that book. I didn't want to offend anyone. They do the apology, you know, the struggle session routine. And it passes away, but meanwhile, you've had three or four months of feeling like you've been smeared. I'm a good person. I didn't do anything that I didn't want to offend anyone. That's the liberal sensibility at work. The process is the punishment. And so what does the liberal teacher do? I'm not going to teach that book anymore. I'm going to change my ways. I'm not going to fight. There's something about the spinelessness. And I think Mark, I want to highlight the point that it's not just that it's a complaint from two students because let's imagine that those two students were being taught James Joyce's Ulysses. And the same two students were to say, you know, this book has an awful lot of raw sexuality in it I've been raised in a conservative household. This is a little disturbing to me. You shouldn't be teaching this kind of explicit stuff in a university. It's going to corrupt the morals of young people. I mean, the administration would not take that seriously with the professor wouldn't have to worry about that. So it is the very nature of the allegation coming from the left and Tapping into, well, it's kind of the race card, isn't it? And it's the gender card. As my boss rusty, Reno puts it. Well, liberals are against it, except when they're for it. Okay? They're very flexible about these things. We would say they're hypocritical. No, we're nuanced, okay? They would always rationalize their inconsistencies on precisely the grounds that you identified. The double standard, you know, dinesh you. It was amazing how they would just do it. And I think that they realize, well, this is how you rise in academia. I mean, if you're a college president now, you might be dealing with millions of dollars here and there. You've got an endowment to take care of. You've got big donors, you got a new hospital that you're building. All these big things going on..
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"vladimir" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Depression is up, anxiety is up narcissism is up. Who would have thought that they would become narcissists when we handed them a tool that where they could carry 250 pictures of themselves around in their pockets at all times? Suicide is up. They're not getting married. They're not forming families. They still want to live with their friends, like those 90s TV show heroes, friends, friends are very, very important to them. They were said to be so tolerant, so progressive. They helped elect our first African American president and now they rate more intolerant than any older generations. They actually have a vindictive sense of their fellow citizens. They have high social mistrust and when they see an injustice going on, even a microaggression, they want that culprit to pay. So they'll sign a petition with 2000 others to get a stranger fired for telling some dumb sexist joke on Twitter, that's where the dangerousness is coming in. They are illiberal citizens as you wrote. They got an illiberal education. The screens, the digital tools, reinforced that illiberalism. Remember, the next, when they were 15 in the bedroom, and they're on Facebook, and one of the Facebook contacts writes something that he doesn't like, unfriend, you're out. They've been canceling for 15 years. Wow. They've been blocking. You could just block someone. A newsfeed is coming in. You don't like that you don't like a story? It's out. So you could fabricate the reality that was all affirming. It was the daily me. Remember that term? The daily me, and so they never had to face a contrary opinion, a disagreeable outlook. And what they've done is transfer the norms, the mores of that 15 year old bedroom into the workplace into the public square. So I shouldn't have to listen to this. This is offensive. And not only will I just walk away, but you have to shut up. This is where we are now. Hey, Mark. You know what, this is why this is such a fantastic interview. Is it makes my life unbelievably easy? I go, hello, you go for 8 minutes straight. Then we take a break, then I go hello again. You go for another 8 minutes. But you've said so many interesting and provocative things, let's take a pause when we come back, I'm gonna actually just probe you on a couple of things you.
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"vladimir" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"A smart power line who's a senior editor at first things where he hosts a podcast. He's also a professor emeritus of English at Emory university. He's written for The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, and he's written a number of important books, including the dumbest generation, and now more recently the dumbest generation grows up. Mark, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for joining me. You are a veteran I would have to say of the culture wars and you have sort of, you've seen the culture wars in the place where they seem to have been almost incubated, namely the American university. Can you talk a little bit about how things changed over your career? In other words, if you take a snapshot of when you first went into teaching English to when you got out, what was the difference? I was, I finished in 1988. I got my docker at UCLA in 1988. I came out. I got a job. I talked for as a lecturer for a year at UCLA, then I went and got a job at Emory university in Atlanta in an English department, which was growing, had a lot of money, a lot of hiring going on. I was a carbon copy academic in the humanities. I was ferociously liberal. I was actually a militantly atheist. I would never even consider even taking seriously a Republican candidate for office because Republicans were either greedier stupid. Take your pick. And actually one of the topics in those years, as you remember quite well, were the academic canon wars, the culture wars. I actually remember you did an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal about how pop culture westerns were now really supplanting. Western civilization. And great literature. And we all took notice of what you and a few others were, I mean, Alan bloom and roger Kimball, dinesh d'souza, the illiberal education book, those actually had a real impact on the humanities in higher education. They rippled through and the impact was nervousness, okay? You made us nervous. We felt deeply discomfited. We didn't take your ideas seriously because we were the smart ones. We knew better. We were the ones who were there credentialed, and we were tenure tenure to getting tenure. So we were in charge. We knew, but these arguments by these people, like Kimball and d'souza, they were just, they were just an irritant and what gradually came to me was over the course of the 90s as I saw these identity politicians in departments. Who were hard left. And there may be only two or three of them in a department of 25. Those two are three were able to cow and silence and intimidate the other 22 more or less reasonable moderate liberals in the room. And this is something that I thought, what is wrong here? These people are destroying civilization as we know it, as we understand it as we teach it. And I started sort of reacting to that. And then I started actually reading people like you, more carefully, David Horowitz. And others and think, you know, these people are kind of right about what's going on. And that actually pushed me to the right. And it's one of those things where you start moving and then you move a little farther and things open up and I read classic books like witness, you know, Whitaker chambers and started reading the weekly standard and some of the other conservative publications, the new criterion. And I simply found myself becoming a cultural conservative and realizing I always was, actually, an education conservative. I believe in western civilization. I believed in great books. And seeing my colleagues just kind of letting that slip away, I thought, what do you people decadent? Are you just corrupt or just cowards? My goodness. And that pushed me over to the right. I went to work for the W's administration for a couple of years. And it just sort of kept kept moving me to the right, reading more things. And part of what I saw was education was humanities education was deteriorating. The popular culture was deteriorating in terms of maintaining a little bit of high culture, high literature in there. And I was seeing it in my students. And then I saw the digital age hit them. They all become addicted to those little screens. They're walking around on Facebook and they were all these cheerleaders saying the young are going to lead us into the 21st century. Look at all the innovative improvisational things they're doing with this Facebook stuff and now this iPhone and then texting and that's why I wrote the first book. The dumbest generation, the first title, the first full title is how they did stupefied young Americans and jeopardizes our future or don't trust anyone under 30. And so that warned we're letting 15 year olds here go into their rooms and case themselves in screens, which are just praying youth culture and peer pressure all the time, the grown-up issues of history, politics, religion, great books, are not penetrating into their end of their lives. They have the tools now to shut things off. I didn't when I was 15. I'm not better than they were. I just didn't have the equipment to do what they were doing. And I warned they're stupefied now. They are going to grow up and they are not being prepared for citizenship in an open society in a free republic. And here we are now. Dinesh were 15 years past it. How are the millennials doing? Well,.
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"vladimir" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Circuit, her name is brown Jackson. As the replacement for Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. And there is not a whole lot to be said about judge Jackson because she's not a very distinguished judge. In fact, she is not on the second highest court in the land. She has not written a lot of opinions. In fact, very few, and she has been on a couple of significant cases, swatting down by higher courts that basically said you're exceeding the authority of a judge. I'll get into some of those cases as we get a little bit closer, talking a little more detail about her record. But here I want to talk about kind of the broader point, which is, which is you've got all kinds of people on the democratic side. Notably James Clyburn of South Carolina. Saying, you know what? Lay off her. Don't. Let's not. Let's not have another intemperate judicial nomination process. And then he says this line which I want to focus on. This is above politics. Now, why is it above politics? Is it above politics? Because judicial nominations in general are above politics, that would be news to me, going all the way back at least to the bork nomination, judicial nominations have been all about politics. So maybe that's not what he means. I think what he means is that we have a kind of totemic nomination. We have a first. We have a first black woman card here. And so Republicans need to sort of pay a certain deference because, you know, we've got a twofer. We've got someone who is not only a person of color, but also a woman. So there's a kind of double immunity here from what the Supreme Court itself calls strict scrutiny. Now, I think that this call for treating judge Jackson you may say with kid gloves is nonsense. And the Republicans should not fall for it. Why? Because first of all, clarence Thomas is black. Was he treated kindly by the Democrats? No, they went after him with a kind of comprehensive ruthlessness that had to be seen to be believed. They tried to destroy the man's credibility and destroy the man's life. They tried to humiliate him. I mean, I remember Thomas himself called it a high-tech lynching. That's how he described it. So that's how that's the treatment that the Democrats gave to that black man. And Republicans need to realize that this kind of racial immunity, if we don't get it on our side, we don't need to give it to them on their side either. Number two, what about the woman card? Well, what about Amy Coney Barrett? She's a woman that the Democrats sort of say, listen, you know, we're not going to be too hard on her because she's a woman. This is a very special occasion. No. Their idea was let's go after her. Let's try to discredit her. Let's try to make our religious fanatic. Let's try to demand that she recuse herself on cases related to election fraud. Let's let's use every card we can to try to defeat this nomination. Of course, we all remember what they did to Kavanaugh. So I think Republicans are going to be in for this kind of treatment. Unceasingly. Until they realize that they are going to have to meet out some of that same treatment to the other side. And so what I would recommend, let's unleash some private investigators. Let's find out everything we can about judge katangi Brown Jackson, let's find any skeletons that we can in her closet. Let's highlight them, expose them, bring them up. Let's put her under the toughest scrutiny possible. Now this is not, this is a case where the Democrats need 51 votes. But they do not want to, first of all, they've had a little trouble getting 51 on their own side. But I think that they might, in this case, they're probably will. But they're hoping to get Republican votes. They're hoping to get a bunch of them. They'd love to get Romney and Susan Collins and Murkowski and 6 O 7 others so they can say, well, this was a bipartisan, this was a bipartisan approval. Let's remember Amy Coney Barrett's. Got through on pretty much a straight party line vote. So the Democrats don't want that. They want to create a kind of air of bipartisan legitimacy and Republicans may not have the power to stop this nomination, but they do have the power to.
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"vladimir" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Big part of why you're seeing this sort of spirit from the Ukrainian population that you are. So when you step back now, TJ and you look at the full story here that you've reported. The life story of Vladimir Putin to all of these massive global events to the athletes who are clearly on the ground, a part of the biggest news story on earth. What comes to mind? That sports are not incidental to this fight. They are another front in this fight. I mean, this is a war being fought in the streets with guns, but it's also a cyber battle. It is also a battle of information and misinformation and propaganda plays a part like really no other war in recent memory and sports are part of that sports are politics, sports are essential to Russian culture and identity and to Vladimir Putin's identity. And so when the world steps, steps up and says, we are going to eliminate Russia from the global sports community. That's not just propaganda. That is not just a cosmetic step. That is something that absolutely hits at the core of who Russia is of who Vladimir Putin is and how he maintains his support. DJ Quinn, thanks for doing this, man. Thanks, man. I'm Pablo Torre. This has been ESPN daily. I'll talk to you tomorrow..
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"vladimir" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"He was a scrapper, Street Fighter. We shot images of the apartment building where he grew up in St. Petersburg. He has one generation removed from maybe the most brutal chapter in Russian history, which was the siege of Leningrad. Once St. Petersburg, Leningrad under communist Soviet rule, and then back to St. Petersburg again. I was born in Leningrad. And as you know, during World War II, Leon grad went through 900 days of blockade. Every day. This is where a million people died during the Nazi siege where people were cannibalizing bodies that were dead in the street where everybody lost family members. And he was born in this rough part of town, he lives in this apartment building where by his description and by others there were this courtyard with drunks and thugs and he's always getting into fights. And he gets into judo and gets good at it. And that became absolutely essential to his personal identity. And all this is happening as he comes of age and then goes to work for the KGB during the Cold War. So now you've got this idea. He is a street scrapper who is now working for the most notorious spy agency in the world. Putin as we know, he joins the KGB, the Russian spy agency, and he gets staffed in Dresden in East Germany during the 70s and 80s. This is the height of the Cold War. Just remind us what the role of sports was during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Sports were the battlefield. That is where the Cold War was really fought, where there was any actual engagement between the two sides. What it meant, every time these teams faced was which system was superior, capitalism or communism, democracy, or authoritarianism. And in 1972, when the Soviets beat the Americans in basketball was one of the greatest moments in the history of Soviet Russia. Now the clock shows three seconds. There is time for the Russians to go to their big man Alexander bell out. They're going to try. Alexander Bella. Between two American defenders. And this time it is over. Other than, you know, conquering all the nations that they invaded. This was the biggest political victory. And same thing in 1980, for those of us who are old enough to remember, it's funny to think of the American superpower as this plucky little kid on the world stage, but in the hockey world, that's what we were. They were pros. We were amateurs. And then all of a sudden, how many people, even if they weren't alive and can still do Al Michaels, do you believe in miracles? Yes. Unbelievable. It felt like a miracle. That was a political victory for this country. And so these are the formative years for Vladimir Putin TJ is what you're saying. And it takes us to 1991 because this is the collapse now of the Soviet Union, and with it a lot of Russia's sporting empire. Vladimir Putin is returning home from East Germany. He's working his way back up through the political ranks in Russia. He eventually becomes prime minister under the then ailing president Boris Yeltsin. And when yeltsin resigns on the last day of the 20th century, December 31st, 1999, Putin takes over and how does he begin to use sports once he's in office? Well, he recognized a couple of things. One was that having events like the Olympics, like the World Cup, that means you're a world power. That means that you are right up there with everyone else. And I'm choosing this word specifically. When the Soviet Union collapsed and then as yeltsin's presidency collapsed in the late 1990s, it was emasculating for a lot of people in Russia. They had convinced themselves that they were this major world power into the Soviet Union and now they were a joke. The president of the country is this man whose lampooned is a drunk who almost collapses during public events and Putin recognizes that sports are one of the vehicles that can get them back into maybe not actual world power, but at least the appearance of it. And when you run a country like that, appearance counts for an awful lot. I don't know if there's a moment that did more to create that appearance than the one that we got in 2007 TJ when Russia was selected to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. The 22nd Olympic winter games in 2014 are awarded to the city of Sochi. Putin himself was everywhere at the Sochi games. I mean, he was arguably the whole thing's biggest star. Well, they're called the Olympic Games, but they may as well call them the Putin games. Never before have a game has been this closely identified with one personality. And one of the people you talk to for this story, TJ, before he passed away, was senator John McCain, what did he have to say about Putin and staging those Olympics in Sochi? That was really something. That was a month before McCain was diagnosed with the cancer that eventually killed him. We were lucky to get that time. And he immediately drew a contrast with Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Olympics. Having the Olympics and being clearly responsible for it was another step in that deification of Vladimir Putin with the Russian people. Dominating the world's sports was not only his ambition, but by the way, it was another guy, too, and his name was Adolf Hitler. You know, we also interviewed for this piece, Gary Kasparov, one of the, if not the greatest chess player in history, one of the two greatest in a former hero of the Soviet empire. And both of them said that the apt comparison is those 36 Olympics. And both of them pointed out, look, we're looking from the 21st century as Hitler in full of the man who murdered 6 million Jews, tried to take over Europe. But in 1936, he had only been in office a few years and was trying to show the world that Nazi Germany was a force to be reckoned with. I mean, this was a propaganda event. And that's what Kasparov told us when we pressed him about it. We're not talking about Hitler from the history book. We're talking from Hitler of 1936. Where Hitler could enjoy tremendous popularity around the world because he was at a limelight in the center of world attention. That's where you can make the case. It's a valid comparison. A rising authoritarian figure with bigger ambitions than just his own country. Frankly, that holds with Putin. Yeah, TJ look, anytime there's a Hitler reference, right? This is the Godwin's law thing. It sort of is like, wait a minute. Are we sure we want to talk about it in this way? But there do seem to be parallels here that you have come to report out and understand. There is great validity in this because what you're talking about is an authoritarian figure with two audiences. One is domestic, showing look what I can do for us on the world stage. Look at the glory that I'm bringing us. The world is coming here. I'm the leader who did this for us. And at the same time, it's a message to the rest of the world that we are a country to be taken seriously. That is very much what the 36 Olympics were for Hitler. And.
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"vladimir" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"To be right back final segment with doctor Vladimir zelenko. Folks, I'm talking to doctor Vladimir, zelenko, doctor zelenko, this is all extraordinarily depressing. What's your advice? Well, actually, I'm very optimistic. What's my advice is civil disobedience? Don't comply. Say no to the mandates. Don't take the poison def shot. Don't do it. I mean, hold on. I'm with you. I mean, I'm against the more I hear the more I'm amazed, how many people have gotten the vaccine for no particular reason that I can understand, but you're calling for civil disobedience. I've done the same because what you have just shared is it's chilling. Let me ask you a question. Children have a 99.998% recovery rate from COVID with no treatment. According to the CDC. Yeah. What would be the justification for injecting children? Well, it's not the medical reasons, but the reason why it's being done is children are going to be transacting in the future. Their breeding slaves. This is a Christian faith would call the mark of the beast. What this is, it's literally tagging humanity and then controlling their ability to transact to transaction. I was just going to say this is right out of the book of revelation. It's extraordinarily clear the parallels between what it says in revelation and what you're saying. Now obviously, as a Jew, I don't expect you to take the revelation as serious as the book of revelation. Seriously, as I do, but it is very striking, chillingly striking. Let me tell you. Anyway, so I think that we need to resist, we need to take our kids out of public schools. The public school system is a tool of indoctrination to convert people into those that. React to stimuli like pavlovian dogs. They don't think. You get robots. Well, look, I'm with you on that. And the scenario that you have just spun out, I don't know about you, but I'm expecting to show up in about ten minutes. Well, I feel the same way also because first of all, the narrative is changing. People are realizing that they put their faith in false gods. The God of siren forgot of technology, the God of politicians got a money. You got a power. Everything but the true guy. And the slippery slope to idolatry and child sacrifice. Is here. You know, according to doctor Michael Aden, who was a former VP of Pfizer that vaccine kills a hundred more children for everyone child I would die from COVID. In other words, the vaccine is a hundred times more lethal to children than COVID. So the only reason why children are getting it and exposed to that risk is so that they will have the implanted technology to be plugged into the matrix of the grid that will be under the control of a few sociopaths. Well, look, this is why we do the program because I know that very few people are hearing this kind of thing. We have to get the word out. We can encourage people to do their own research. But it's a staggering thing to see people go along with this. I wrote a book on Germany in the 30s and it's an amazing thing to see an educated population simply go along really not knowing where they're going, not asking questions and then finding out when it's too late. Basically, billions of people have been suckered into taking a injecting technology through false and switch basically. You create a false disaster, you control the fear, anything that could reduce the fear you de platform and sensor. And then you use that fear to manipulate people and coerce people into taking something that they don't need. We're out of time. I'm very grateful, doctor zelenko for you and your work and your courage God bless you. And thank you for your time. The rocket mortgage Super Bowl square sweepstakes is back and we're kicking off the action again with the largest official game of Super Bowl squares ever. Here's the play by play. There's millions of dollars in prizes and a bunch of lucky fans are gonna win big every single score change will draw one lucky winner from the square to win $50,000. That means touchdowns field goals extra points save these pivot at two point conversion is a winner. 50 G's plus two grand prize winners will win a half $1 million they could use toward their dream home. There's one way to enter two ways to win and zero reasons not to play. See rules and get in the game for free.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"vladimir" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"So I can't answer that question. I've heard that, but I guess my question is, where do you I mean, look, there's nothing more nefarious than what you're describing and what you're saying. It's very similar to mein kampf. Hitler told us what he wanted to do. And nobody bothered to take it seriously. And then, of course, two decades later, he did it. You're saying that Schwab and others have been on the record stating what they want to do, but nobody has paid attention. So it's kind of been batted away. But you're saying that you have paid attention and it is real, and it is happening. Yes. And I want to tell you about a very important puzzle piece. In 2020, Microsoft got an international patent. This one I even remember by heart. W O 2020 O 6 O 6 O 6. Let me just take a drink. Sure. And by the way, what is a website where people can find you? Vladimir zelenko, MD dot com. Vladimir zelenko MD dot com. I'll go ahead. You are just going to give us another piece of the puzzle. So I have a presentation that I want to send to you with everything that I'm saying now with the references. And you could choose to, if you want, share it with your audience. I just need an email to send it to. Well, I mean, we'll do that when we're off the air. I don't want my radio audience to have my personal email. You can understand how that could be a problem. Yeah, of course. So this patent by Microsoft describes the technology, the linkage, a biometric data, transmission, to cryptocurrency. To cryptocurrency, now you've lost me. Why would biometric data be related to cryptocurrency? That's a good question. It doesn't have to be, but it is. And here's my supposition. Before you give this before you give this up position, we're going to go to break. When we come back, we're going to get your supposition folks. Don't go away. Folks, aircraft taxes here, somebody just handed me a piece of paper with insane information on it. But I know it's true because the other day I literally got a phone call from Mike lyndell telling me Eric, you got to check out and he then he tells me about this towel special, right? And he says, you got to tell your audience, okay, so here's the special. 39.99, if you use the code Eric, normally, $109 and 99 cents. We're talking about the towels that work. We've talked about this before. It's a technology where the towel is actually do the job of being absorbent and you know, you know, you know that whole thing, so they're amazing towels, but you can get a set of 6 towels for 39.99. You have to use the code Eric, go to my pillow dot com, click on the new radio listener specials and or you can call 809 7 8 three O 5 7 809 7 8 three O 5.
The Ben Shapiro Show
"vladimir" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"If you wish to get involved with this magnificent company already well. We begin with the simple facts. That joe biden is slated to meet vladimir putin and things are not going to go. Well this is my prediction. According to yahoo news president biden agrees with russian president vladimir putin on at least one thing relations between their two nations are currently at a very low ebb. Now my favorite way that that is that is sort of phrase. Is the suggestion that they have been at high in the recent past. You may have remembered. The george w bush one said. He looked into vladimir putin's eyes and saw his soul and relations didn't end up being very good and then barack obama was like no you might. I'll give you some flexibility. And then things didn't end up going up. And then donald trump took a harsher position with the russians but was currently bit was simultaneously being accused of being a russian stooge and it turns out relations. Weren't that great. it turns out. It's very difficult to have. Excellent relations with a dictatorial murderer like ladder putin me just baseline very rough. Rough stuff right. But apparently joe biden and vladimir putin agree on one thing and that is that donald trump was very bad. Orangemen who's bad and oranges. Well both set as much in interviews leading up to wednesday's meeting in geneva which comes attentions over myriad issues including a spate of cyber attacks emanating from within russia putin's military adventurism along his country's border with ukraine and his imprisonment of opposition leader alexei navalny who survived poisoning with a russian nerve agent. According to yahoo news biden arrives at the summit fresh from enthusiastic meetings with allies welcoming the return of the united states to conventional multilateral diplomacy emc used that support to present a unified front to challenge putin. That's weird way of putting it. Considering that in the recent past joe biden has basically green lit the nord stream two pipeline. Which is going to wildly enrich russia and also saying that. He's arriving fresh. From anywhere is is a bit of a malpractice. Considering that joe biden has not been fresh for niane forty five years in that fish has been rotten for for quite awhile and that simple fact is demonstrative of sort of where we stand in terms of global politics right now. The rest of the world is looking at the united states and they are seeing easy pickings right now. That's just the reality. The reality is the donald trump. for all of his foibles was considered prickly. He was considered unpredictable himself. Said i like to be sort of predictably unbridgeable right now. I don't want them to know what i'm thinking. And nobody introduce thinking to his credit. People didn't know whether who's gonna hug the more they're gonna fire some sort of missile at them and not a terrible thing with joe biden. Everybody sort of knows what they're going to get which is a little bit of talk and not much action. The russians know this vladimir. Putin is being shy about any of this. Not only that vladimir putin understands enough about the american left to understand that if he just mirrors the arguments of the american left. There's not much they can do about it now. This is a common tactic. During the soviet union during the soviet union the soviet union would be criticized for you know slaughtering twenty million of its own people or keeping a hundred million people under the boot heel of a totalitarian regime or taking over eastern europe or funding communist insurgencies around the world ending with the murder of tens of thousands of human beings and they get these sorts of critiques every so often using rare from left at some times and their usual response to be a. Yes but you have sinned Yes but look at race. Relations in the united states Yes but look at the united states where cruel has led to capitalistic poverty and lesbians. That's true oh my god i never thought of it. That that's so true we are we. Maybe we are the bad guys. Let trained in the kgb and so he uses these executive tax all the time and he says stuff he knows that the american left grew with c. Makes the same critiques of the united states. The biella makes he makes the critical race theory arguments that the left in the united states likes to make and so he will deflect any criticism and all criticism simply by talking about the weaknesses of the united states which with which the left largely agrees. Here's ladner putin. For example deflecting criticism by setting january safety. Said we have a saying. Don't be mad at the mirror. If you're ugly point honestly points for being a bond villain for to have land report and said it before the man is just an excellent bonville says it has nothing to booth bell similarly but if somebody blamed for something what i say is why don't you look at yourself. You'll see ourselves in the mirror not us. We have much in common. Mr bond every vladimir putin speech he said did you order assassination of the women who walked into congress and was shot and killed by policemen. He's talking about ashley. Abbott is do no four hundred and fifteen visuals arrested. After entering congress it go to steal. Laptop came a political demands for now. He's he is suggesting that the crackdown on people who invaded the capitol building is sort of like the crackdown on you know. Just peaceful dissenters in russia who have been imprisoned mass protests broken up and all the rest it so this is the game that vladimir putin loves to play and vladimir putin also at the same time will not commit to human rights in his own country..