Frontline: My thanks to you taking the time to speak with the adults here.

@UGDebs

4 жыл бұрын

lol... yes, what a nice propaganda piece... lol... "adults" ... lol

@fake11end

3 жыл бұрын

@@UGDebs Did you ever notice that people like you never contribute with anything factual? Its always "propaganda, crook, liar etc." It´s a recurring trend.

@TampaDave

3 жыл бұрын

Lukáš Matějka -- nice observation. Speaker: The sun will rise at 6:12 in the morning. Troll: Lies! Propaganda! Nothing this person says is ever true, he is an idiot! Normal Person: The NOAA says it will be at 6:14. Notice the difference.

@NoahDetweiler

2 жыл бұрын

@@TampaDave Dudes a confirmed Neocon

@kathycaldwell7126

Жыл бұрын

The grown-ups in the room have been heard from, Mr. Bernecky. Thank God for that.

Frontline one on one interviews are my new obsession. ☝️ Very well produced and good journalistic format. IMO. Very easy listening for the most important amount of information. Very soft well spoken thoughtful interviewees, excluding Bannon. Good watch though. 👍

@TampaDave

3 жыл бұрын

Really, this series is like taking a college level course on Putin's Russia. I hope everyone who cares, knows that the. English captioning in this series is EXCELLENT. Obviously done by someone with good English language skills, who cares if you get the meaning of what the speaker says. It also identifies each speaker, in case you want to know the names of the different questioners.

@tonefilter9480

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Giving full freedom to the interviewee whilst keeping a strong logical line to the interview. First class. And whilst Putin and Russian leadership make sweeping conclusory allegations that “the West is out to get Russia” but produce no such evidence and first hand accounts to support it, the USA does both openly and honestly admitting mistakes along the road. When did Putin last admit to a mistake other than the old “we should t have trusted the west” line.

@21972012145525

Жыл бұрын

Bannon’s Interviews were actually good too. Very telling

@julianciahaconsulting8663

4 ай бұрын

yeah sure except the choice for who was to be interviewed skews that information - essentially all these people on "The Putin Files" all say the same thing; just the degree of condescension varies.

Mr. Fried is the best historian I’ve seen in this series and beyond. He is philosophical, smart, and has amassed a well of wisdom regarding Russian history and society that informs his current observations. This is a must see episode of Frontline’s “Putin Files.”

This series is endlessly fascinating, and prophetic given current events in 2022

@elenalatici9568

2 жыл бұрын

I agree..Am listening endlessly some more than once. Putin, like Berlusconi, os a chameleon, but when Putin offered to help after 9/11 it looks like a missed opportunity.

@JurisKankalis

2 жыл бұрын

@@elenalatici9568 Opportunity given by what? A chameleon? Don't think so. He's not invading Ukraine, he's totally not - yet, here we are - with hundreds of kids - KIDS SPECIFICALLY - bombed just to cause desperation. How? How is he still alive and breathing? When Biden said in Warsaw - after having visited US troops in Poland and refugee camps - having seen all the kids and their mothers - with lives previously, but nothing now - he said at the end of his speech - For God's sake - this man cannot remain in power. He expressed what most here, in Latvia - and anywhere else in the world - have been believing for many, many years. Greetings - and take care, Elena.

@21972012145525

Жыл бұрын

It seems Putin wanted to focus on islamophoic tendencies while bush firmly wanted to fight the viewpoint (even though his administration still played into it)

Very impressive man and interview.

Mr Fried has a fascinating way of talking. The story about Stalin asking who organized the spontaneous applause is amazing. Makes me wish I was privy to daily national intelligence reports for the rest of my life.

@barbaralerner6071

2 жыл бұрын

P0pl

This guy is really good , need more content from him

A prescient series… watched in full several years ago and again now (2022) only to learn heaps more that relevant to the here and now. Bravo frontline and interviewees.

Very interesting interview, again. I commend Daniel Fried for participating.

@danielfried2431

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sir!

@narkelnaru2710

4 жыл бұрын

@@danielfried2431 Mr. Fried, what a fantastic education for us junkies. Thank you so very much.

@viktoriagrafinvonherzenste1107

4 жыл бұрын

Seconded! The insight provided here is wonderful to hear!

@DaleBernardoQueLio

3 жыл бұрын

If this man is an example of our best foreign diplomacy, then I say let's try to clone him. What a fantastic example of a well intended, logically sound, and empathetic statesman. We need to seek your kind Mr. Fried😊

@williamyoung9401

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad he didn't see the throttling of the Independent Media by Putin for what it was.

The meaning of the reset button was over-charge as in pay too much. Ironic.

The fact that I'm watching this of my own volition (and belated interest) surprises me - but what surprises me more, maybe even scares me a little, is that Frontline has such a small subscriber base. Prank videos, pet videos and videos of people falling down have the attention. Mike Judge's 'Idiocracy' is coming rapidly true. I need to move off this planet...

@davidsawyer1599

4 жыл бұрын

They are trying to get more subscribers. They did a Facebook documentary. An Amazon documentary. A Generation Like documentary. But once that audience realized is wasn't a fluff piece they went back to no substance. Your point is valid.

@feels6233

3 жыл бұрын

Just leave this country and your perspective of the planet will change dramatically

@adamfrazer5150

3 жыл бұрын

@@feels6233 that is absolutely true man, grew up in England, visited the States several times and am currently getting 'psyched' to spend the next few months freezing my stones off in Canada. Everyone should travel somewhere, by themselves, and notice how their mind expands along with their perspective.

@TampaDave

3 жыл бұрын

Adam Frazer Yes, consciousness growth is limited when you must BE who the people around you THINK you are. Unless they see you as an advanced consciousness being, they will beat you up if you begin to LIVE like one. Traveling by yourself gives you an opportunity to re-discover yourself without outside resistance.

@steveaustin5344

2 жыл бұрын

But Brawndo has what plants crave.

I love hearing this insider view on this fascinating piece of international relations. Wunderschön.

@sabinegroe2006

2 жыл бұрын

Unglaublich gut 👍

@ahwien

2 жыл бұрын

Wirklich

Democracy is always ill with corruption, but not so ill as totalitarian regimes with instituted unreachable corruption. That makes great difference. In a democracy is always some tendency to confront the corruption, to throw it down immediately after it tries to concrete itself in some position. Totalitarian systems are stable just for a while, as he said in 51:00, it always means hostility and downward spiral with increasing repression until it fails and collapses like communist regimes in the eastern block. So now we can say that Putin's regime is on the path to collapse. But we still don't know how painful it will be, how many lives it can destroy as a side effect. And we don't have any control over it as the regime is perfectly institutionalized unreachable stupidity.

Should you trust a spy when he tells you: “never trust a spy?”

Excellent interview.

I am speechless before his mastery of English language and éloquence

Mr.fried is 1,000,000%rite...He knows alot....

Oh, how things have changed..

Wow, this was good, informing & most fair assessment of Putin Russia. What a difference; professional politician with a first hand experience so dissimilar from disgruntled journalists with their disproportional over dramatization of their often too liberal takes on reality.

Really wish more political interviews were as interesting and enthralling as this one! Fascinating insight into US-Russia relations and the complexity of foreign policy making.

Ex Soviets said "a group of drunks wouldn't trust Putin to buy the bottle".

This man has some good insights and communicates them well. It's too bad he is unable to admit that Bush or anyone in his administration ever made a wrong choice.He even attempts to smear some shit on politicians who opposed their disastrous decision to invade Iraq at the time, which is pretty low.

@nomadpurple6154

2 жыл бұрын

I'm only 20mins in and he has made me doubt that he has any valuable contributions to make (this is my 16th episode of this series and the first I might not finish) Europe was split on the decision to go into Iraq, not because of political shenanigans by Germany & France (and of course he fails to say that USA had ANY political motive) but because they wanted to do it legally through the UN. Opinion was also very divided in the UK with one of the biggest demonstrations against it. So he isn't good at judging other societies, which makes me doubt any opinions he has on Russia. He can't admit Bush was wrong to say "he looked into Putin's soul.......", clearly Bush was a poor judge of character. And Fried seems to revel too much in his own priviledge and the events he attended.

@tbone2859

2 жыл бұрын

@@nomadpurple6154 amen!

Riveting. You feel like he's reliving it as he describes it.

Why aren’t people like this running for office? Seriously we need more policy makers actually in office instead of the sidelines.

At the moment, the best thing I can say about a free democracy system is that I can ask the question that I put below: that's it...that I have the freedom to ask that question without going to jail...but nothing else is so terrific...nothing...in a country of people who are basically morally bankrupt because of their free choice...dts/usa

Interesying

Very interesting.

Dammit man....

@TampaDave

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for what you have added to this comments section. (Jk)

@charlottebrefo6879

2 жыл бұрын

@@TampaDave 🤣🤣🤣

This guy is good.

@danielfried2431

5 жыл бұрын

Ok

@TampaDave

3 жыл бұрын

Daniel Fried - Damned by faint praise? This series is ok. Lol.

Is it Putin or the people behind the scenes and he is only the poster boy?

What we learn from history is that we don't learn from history! 😢

okay, where is my "reset button' since we are doing a group hug and all that ?

@TampaDave

3 жыл бұрын

If you hate group hugs, your reset button when around people who love each other should say "return to space of hate"

The recourse to colloquialism, the lapse into coarse language, the narrowed vision, the unwillingness to take responsibility, are building this image of an untidy diplomatic service, never mind the Russians.

From what does that infinite capacity to suffer stem? I understand that CONDITIONS for centuries upon centuries were so bad they CAUSED suffering and that there was nothing (within the context of staying & under the feodal regime of suppression) that the Ordinary Russian could do. But supposing Russians as people are not different from any other people and aren't dumb, and given the fact that they recently were in a position that allowed them to at least get acquainted with some freedom, some better conditions, and the spirit of liberty (that allows people to speak their heart, a complete novelty), would circumstances today (now that a new unrivaled repression seems to be what their "president" is intent on instating) STILL be so that the Russian would still be willing or even capable to put up with it? ...Of course, it in fact is their ability to put up with misery that stands out, not their ability to put up with any choice for it, so I guess what I mean is, ARE they GOING TO??!...

Mafia way of dealing.

This is to me the most honest take on this matter.

Anyone else get here from Scotchbox's Star trek bridge crew playlist? lol tf

The biggest problem is nuclear weapons on Belarus land would cause WW3

Why did they abandon Belarus. Belarus nearly starved and fell into Russia's orbit.

If Putin wasn’t so paranoid, Russia would have had a brighter future.

@chokingthebishop2894

6 жыл бұрын

That is not paranoia. That is fight for survival and Putin is winning it!

@breek.8678

5 жыл бұрын

@@chokingthebishop2894 if you call the state Russia is in right now winning, then this explains why you guys are in such poor condition. In all honestly, Russia is a bit of a shithole... however I hope you guys can overcome this dictator and get to a brighter future

@chokingthebishop2894

5 жыл бұрын

@Bree K. First I am not Russian. Now... Santctions are on Russia from 2014 and Russia still stands. Are they in wors condition than in 2013... Well maybe. Overcome dictator? LOL! Is tat a joke? Putin is not a dictator he is just not a puppet and all those who are not puppets are called dictators by you guys! And pls dont worry about their future. Worry about yours, because if you poke Russian bear hard enough Russian bear will make you dissapear... Literally!

@yvetteolvis9526

5 жыл бұрын

@@chokingthebishop2894 No we call people who suppress their political opponents, eliminate criticis, ignore constitutional restraint on limits to their power and manipulate laws so they can remain in power for life dictators.

@chokingthebishop2894

5 жыл бұрын

@@yvetteolvis9526 Where ever you are from... Putin by his name might be called dictator because you see him. Lets talk about your country and your government. Who controls you and your internal and foreighn policy? For almost a century someone dictates your presidents and governments how to behave and what to do. USA changes governments of countries or invades them just to be able to control them. Why? Under a pretext of democracy and keeping your way of living. This what you write is a hypocracy. Putin is a strong man that will not allow Russia to be humiliated. Let Russians deal with him if they want to in the first place. Putin is not business that you should take care for. About suppressing... You government need not to suppress anyone cause both Democrats and Republicans are just someone who does what someone from shaddows say that they should do. So from this there is not a single difference between Putin and USA.

I'm just learning about Putin in the last two months, seems by FORCE💯

I would have to say putin is fascist or nationalist. As for his treatment of women this guys right. When are the weakness of both China and Russia. Both having the capability of creating democratic change in both countries. Which is why they crack down on women in both countries in different ways

@user-xj3dm9ly3s

2 жыл бұрын

On contrary, this bastard fried is real nazi fascist and liar who equals to goebbels. Due to efforts of such morons hitler was driven to the power in 1933.

@kathycaldwell7126

2 жыл бұрын

Brent: Agree 100%.

@markofsaltburn

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-xj3dm9ly3s You have nothing positive to offer the greatest number of people.

Way too apologetic towards own politics and fuckups.

Bush is a "shrewd judge of character" but who he thinks he's dealing with ... isn't. Hmm.... interesting twisting of reality. Bush got his pants charmed off by a cool and calculation Putin - played him like a fool. Poor stuff from an American President.

I wish that Fried would push those rose colored glasses higher up on the bridge of his nose. Maybe it would bring some realism to his perspectve.

You will never break the free democracy social policy. No capitalism in Europe will flourish

DDR was way more successful then Russia and it had zero impact on the feeling of the simple Russians that they should now go out and make some kind of revolution to be or to live like DDR

So vlad watched these diaries l wonder how he responded. Whoops.

Articulate, a grossly overused characterization. In fact, this man is articulate. Intelligent.

Throughly interesting interview. He blinks way too much for my comfort, had to listen rather than watch.

"Bush is a shrewd judge of people" 😂😂😂

I think it is Putin's personal "thing" about women, considering those rumors about his wife and their past relations.

@breek.8678

5 жыл бұрын

what rumors?

David Sedaris has really let himself go.

Everyone wants to modernised their society, but they do for sure want to maintain their own culture. If the west think that by being modernised mean being more western that's where they're wrong. And this man is wrong

Continue the policy of nato enlargement

at 14:25

at 30:43

Im USA citizens in Putin files when he was agent snow in kbg

(39:00) Wow...and he didn't make a connection between Kosovo and Iraq? o_O

@21972012145525

Жыл бұрын

He did. That’s the point. Note the years

“I’m not going to criticize that line”... dude, you haven’t criticized one thing yet. Your answers are a trite tapdance to avoid blaming anyone for being naive or simply incompetent.

@mariorossi9655

3 жыл бұрын

Intel training at its best right there. You don't tell people (or policymakers) what to do or think, you just put the facts before them and let them make their own judgement.

@TampaDave

3 жыл бұрын

Mario Rossi - Politicians will never get that. Treating citizens like ADULTS??!!!

Which revolution is he talking about in the beginning? Did I understood right, did he praised the era before Russian revolution 1917? Russians have never ever had anything remotely looking like democracy. Before revolution, they had hundreds of years of horrible autocracy by Tsarism. So, political power just shifted to different hands, but the basic outcome for the ordinary people was the same, and STILL is.

@Asptuber

2 жыл бұрын

What he is alluding to is probably the time between 1861 and the October revolution, might even be 1906- or even February 1917- to the Bolshevik takeover. It wasn't directly from serfdom to the Soviet Union.

I'm sure Putin was happy as a clam cause he figured he's never gonna get anyone dumber than bush...then of course 2016 happened. He musta felt like he'd won the lotto TWICE!!!

The Bush people couldn't even translate Russian properly...and we wonder why we have problems...

@dancraig9

2 жыл бұрын

That was so embarassing. My wife understands Russian. I got the background on all this stuff. The appointment of Michael Chertoff as head of Homeland Security was a particularly funny moment. It must have amused the Russians no end.

@kathycaldwell7126

Жыл бұрын

WILLIAM YOUNG: did you bother to watch the video? I find that helps my understanding. Such as what Administration that occurred under.

russian weapons to canadian border

Bollocks.

It is beyond comprehension as l sit here with the benefit of hindsight learning about these important players that they are really that gormless of their actions. When you act unilaterally then these responses are truly disingenuous. America should pay for its hubris but why with ukrainian lives.

Agent snow Moscow Russia in kbg soldiers in world domination

Looks like Carl from Billy Madison

@TampaDave

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for such an informative contribution.

@Thegolfsnob

3 жыл бұрын

@@TampaDave lol

US obsession with Putin is disturbing

@ram77ram81

6 жыл бұрын

The Shadow Man so does putins with the west

@theshadowman1398

6 жыл бұрын

ram77 ram President Putin isn't interested in the west at all

@plunderpunk2

5 жыл бұрын

That's the dumbest thing one could say about the man.

@vonabele7546

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaelburns9155 Thugs are in the White House...

@TampaDave

3 жыл бұрын

The obsession with the Son of Sam killers while the killings were happening, is just as disturbing. Except that the Son of Sam didn't seem to have an axe to grind with THE WHOLE COUNTRY. Ignoring Putin is exactly like ignoring the cobra under your bed sheet.

So I still don't get why they needed to enlarge NATO? Why not make eastern European countries neutral like Finland or Austria? That would be a fair arrangement. But trying to "engage Russia" while moving a military block to its borders (given the history of invasions coming from the west that Russia suffered)? What kind of analysts work there?

@TampaDave

3 жыл бұрын

Who are you to say that countries should not be allowed to join NATO? At one point there was consideration on both sides of Russia joining NATO. It is to promote peace and provide common protection to its members. If you were Polish, for example, you might feel NATO was your best tool for staying out of Russia's grasp militarily. No, forget it, Nicolai says you can't join. For some reason.

@Aan_allein

2 жыл бұрын

What if they want to join?

@nikolaishmelev7837

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aan_allein Them wanting to join is not a sufficient reason to put European security at big risk. This is a lose-lose situation.

@markofsaltburn

2 жыл бұрын

@@nikolaishmelev7837 if you live next door to a lunatic and buy a gun to protect your family, only the lunatic next door thinks you’re being unreasonable. The only Russians that understand enlightened self interest and self determination have already left the country to prosper in the west - and they weren’t “tricked” westwards either. Human traffic goes one way, and Putin’s only solution to that “problem” is to give his most talented, functional, positive, creative, civically-minded and uncynical people nowhere to run. The people of Finland and the Baltic states are some of the happiest in the world, and Putin hates that, because he can’t make those people happier. Good luck building a society with people who can’t give their best freely.

@nikolaishmelev7837

2 жыл бұрын

@@markofsaltburn i am trying to follow your logic, but it's difficult. Ok, lets suppose you live next to a lunatic. And you buy a gun. And you say that the lunatic is irrational because s/he would think you had bought the gun to threaten his/her country. And the lunatic would think s/he needs to address the threat. So how exactly buying a gun enhances your security? To me, it only creates problems for you. Now think about the fact that your neighbor also perceives you as an irrational lunatic, or at least as someone who cannot be trusted. This is a road to hell.

This guy worked at the State Department? Jesus, he talks like a crazy homeless guy from Florida!

@davidsawyer1599

4 жыл бұрын

FYI there is no one from Florida. They all have run away from somewhere else. Think of Florida as the septic tank of America. You would be hard pressed to find a Floridian that can trace back more then one generation in Florida. Most are originally from the North East or the Caribbean. People are under the illusion that if they relocate all their pitfalls will be left behind. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The American government organised coups in Iran,Guatemala, and Chili to name just a few countries. It is bizarre that the interviewer and interviewee do not address this issue in the interview. Of course the Russian government would be concerned about possible American backed coups. The USSR did the same in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Afghanistan. This interview reveals each side thinks they are innocent and are blind to their own faults.

@Trashcansam123

2 жыл бұрын

What relevance do those coups have to anything involving Russia in the 2010s. That’s what this filming is for, not our foreign policies in general.

This is one of the weaker interviews and he does not appear to be completely sincere, honest and upfront

@TampaDave

3 жыл бұрын

I have watched all the videos in this series, most of them twice. I am at a loss to guess how you might be able to justify ANY of the things you said. What he said is internally consistent, and differs in no important way from the observations of the other 30-something contributors to this series. He worked with R and D administrations with equal loyalty, as far as I can tell, so your problem can't be party blinders. Are you just a troll?

@PinchHarmonic69

2 жыл бұрын

I would say the exact opposite. And He nails the core reason of the Russia vs US conflict.

@markofsaltburn

2 жыл бұрын

Point at the doll where the intelligent man hurt you.

But the true question is when will Russia lose its mental anguish and lose this inferiority complex towards the west and gives itself a real chance at democracy because the only thing holding them down is themselves so as a biproduct of being led blindly is you have lesser men at the helm they speak of" russian resolve " well ....

@TampaDave

3 жыл бұрын

I am very curious what your qualifications are to psychoanalyze 140 million people and give advice to a country encompassing more than 1/8 of the earth's inhabited land area? You must have many doctorate degrees and decades of experience with governmental and social systems. Can we see your resume? Can you produce a historical time-line for Russia's centuries of history to explain your sweeping analysis?

@user-xj3dm9ly3s

2 жыл бұрын

Hey guy. Just don't believe to such assholes like ted cruz, fried and mccain since they are stupid war mongers and morons.

Putin in head 24/7 rent free