Twenty Years of Putin Playing the West in 3 Minutes | NYT Opinion

Vladimir Putin, especially these days, is widely reviled. To some he’s a war criminal, to others he’s a dictator, and to many he’s simply a very bad man.
But it wasn’t always this way.
We trawled through video footage from 20 years of international summits, speeches and news conferences and discovered a man who once basked in high regard: the one who went fishing and dancing with George W. Bush, who fell into warm embraces with Tony Blair and whose jokes had NATO’s leaders rolling on the floor with laughter.
As the Opinion Video above starkly reveals, Western leaders once considered Vladimir Putin not just an ally, but also, apparently, a friend.
Even if they were simply giving him the benefit of the doubt for political purposes, they were taking a naïve gamble of historic proportions: Be nice to Putin, and maybe he would be nice back.
It’s true that this brand of personal diplomacy scored some significant security victories. Arms control treaties were signed, and Putin allowed U.S. jets to strike the Taliban from bases in Russia’s satellite states.
But as Russian tanks rolled into Georgia in August 2008, Bush learned that his eight-year friendship with the Russian leader had earned him zero leverage over Putin’s territorial ambitions.
While it’s debatable whether Western governments could have foreseen the bloody horizon of Putin’s vision, let’s now be clear about one thing: Personal diplomacy doesn’t work when you need it most.
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  • @anonjan82
    @anonjan82 Жыл бұрын

    As far as I can see he was totally honest and clear. Problem was that nobody took him serious.

  • @DirtyLunchLady

    @DirtyLunchLady

    Жыл бұрын

    Dishonest NYT video doesn’t show that part

  • @ch-co

    @ch-co

    Жыл бұрын

    Current video just shown that Putin is dissembler

  • @b3at2

    @b3at2

    Жыл бұрын

    He is the enemy... no worship. And those who worship him should be sent to the gallows.

  • @user-bi5jc7mx9m

    @user-bi5jc7mx9m

    Жыл бұрын

    @@b3at2 same for every USA president in last 30 years.. except Tramp ofcourse)

  • @cyberwarrior8382

    @cyberwarrior8382

    Жыл бұрын

    This is what he makes really good, he makes you belive he is honest. People in Russia trusted him, even when 'Kursk', Beslan,terrorists "explosions" to provoke invading Chechnya happened. And even today, some old people in Russia trust him after invading Ukraine.

  • @natedeichard1261
    @natedeichard1261 Жыл бұрын

    Now do 100 years of the US playing with the World in 30 hours.

  • @bluedog2367

    @bluedog2367

    Жыл бұрын

    Talk about a horror film….

  • @user-hz1oy6ni6kpaparovits

    @user-hz1oy6ni6kpaparovits

    Жыл бұрын

    Ha ha

  • @christosnikiforos4103

    @christosnikiforos4103

    Жыл бұрын

    Well said

  • @DrMrPersonGuy

    @DrMrPersonGuy

    Жыл бұрын

    Always the russian whataboutism

  • @chloetaylor2713

    @chloetaylor2713

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DrMrPersonGuy And what!? You think Russia is always the bad guy and the US is always the good guy!? What ever happened to freedom of speech!? What ever happened to non biased news!? What ever happened to journalism that isn't one-sided and always neutral news reports!? And you think you guys can always get away with all of your wrong doings!?

  • @kamrad_ichu
    @kamrad_ichu4 ай бұрын

    Putin: "I am not friend, foe, bride or groom for West. I am President of Russia".

  • @mh-em2mp

    @mh-em2mp

    Ай бұрын

    he is the devil

  • @michaelscottland4239

    @michaelscottland4239

    8 күн бұрын

    Meanwhile Bangladeshi foreign minister Abdul Momen about India: “Our relationship is like of between husband and wife.” Referring India as the husband of Bangladesh 🇧🇩. What a shame.

  • @alexanderkuznetsov4190
    @alexanderkuznetsov41906 ай бұрын

    For people confused with the “soviet” joke - its a wordplay. “Soviet” means “council” in russian.

  • @egorsurimov5996

    @egorsurimov5996

    4 ай бұрын

    not really

  • @teggyegg

    @teggyegg

    3 ай бұрын

    .

  • @mishkalisten

    @mishkalisten

    3 ай бұрын

    @@egorsurimov5996no, it does, I am Russian, I can tell you, Soviet means a council

  • @egorsurimov5996

    @egorsurimov5996

    3 ай бұрын

    @@mishkalisten а я не русский что ли?

  • @rahulvats95

    @rahulvats95

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@mishkalistenSoviet Union basically means Council Union? 😂😂😅

  • @heristyono4755
    @heristyono47552 жыл бұрын

    "He's not going into Ukraine" Well, technically, it's true, he's still in Moscow

  • @valdasdr8432

    @valdasdr8432

    2 жыл бұрын

    "While I am the president"

  • @kingsmercyglobalchurch5382

    @kingsmercyglobalchurch5382

    2 жыл бұрын

    I can't stop laughing by your comment. You must be a lawyer

  • @Cleeon

    @Cleeon

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeaahhh, that's right

  • @baloz8974

    @baloz8974

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Just_another_Euro_dude I didn't died in Germany during the collapse of soviet union when he was left alone surrounded with nazis how can he die now?

  • @thorax9997

    @thorax9997

    2 жыл бұрын

    yer that was fact checked saying no puttin is in Moscow LOL those classic george soros fascist fact checkers the left so heavily relies on

  • @sonsoeg
    @sonsoeg7 ай бұрын

    He has not played the west, he has always been clear on what he wants

  • @SnakeEngine

    @SnakeEngine

    7 ай бұрын

    @@DJSHaKa This is wrong translation. And I'm shocked everyone just ran with it, like they wanted to. He said "The Council of Advice". "Sowet" is "Advice" in Russian.

  • @Rexxsar

    @Rexxsar

    6 ай бұрын

    @@SnakeEngine yes this is true, Putin likes to use word game alot) this is not the single case he did it)) But you have to understand Russian language to understand his jokes and the most politicians don't posses humor at all

  • @SnakeEngine

    @SnakeEngine

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Rexxsar But it is the western media that used the word game on him and just ran with it, not him! He clearly said "The Council of Advice" , as clear in Russian as it can get.

  • @Rexxsar

    @Rexxsar

    6 ай бұрын

    @@SnakeEngine no doubt about that. But do you speak Russian? And understand it? Not understand like in school to be able to translate it literally , but understand it like really understand, understand slang and street talk? I tell you Putin used that word in purpose, and in cool way, because he has good sense of humour and becase he himself is cool chap)

  • @SnakeEngine

    @SnakeEngine

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Rexxsar Yes, I also speak Russian natively. He clearly said "The Council of Advice". I doubt that he counted on the wrong translatin in advance. "word-play" jokes are more a thing for the German and British.

  • @Moribus_Artibus
    @Moribus_Artibus4 ай бұрын

    It's adorable how the NY Times makes it seem like they weren't played in all these years as well.

  • @pm8401

    @pm8401

    3 ай бұрын

    pootin is a cornered mouse

  • @ziepex7009

    @ziepex7009

    20 күн бұрын

    @@pm8401 Sure buddy

  • @jr.fidelcastro8890
    @jr.fidelcastro88903 ай бұрын

    Never try hide and seek with an ex veteran KGB-soldier.

  • @dominuseterro9866

    @dominuseterro9866

    Ай бұрын

    Until KGB have to hide

  • @aaaaaa-hh8cq

    @aaaaaa-hh8cq

    Ай бұрын

    I mean, Putin is now the ones hiding and screaming. he couldn't even defeat a small country like Ukraine 😂

  • @ZestyFireTF2

    @ZestyFireTF2

    Ай бұрын

    ​@aaaaaa-hh8cq Russia recently took Avdiivka and many important locations in Ukraine, wdym he Can't win against them?

  • @science_engineering

    @science_engineering

    Ай бұрын

    ​@aaaaaa-hh8cq small country? Before recently, Ukraine had a population of 40 million people, and was supported by the whole NATO: intelligence data, Military equipment, tanks , anti air defense system, money. Ukraine's army at least is one of the strongest in EU.

  • @PlumbuM871

    @PlumbuM871

    Ай бұрын

    You guys live in a parallel reality. Ukraine has already been defeated. Your awakening will be painful

  • @benaldinhomasaba
    @benaldinhomasaba2 жыл бұрын

    Putin: “I suggest from now on, the head quarters of Nato should be renamed The Council of Soviets” really hits hard.

  • @s5r581

    @s5r581

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nope because he still pro communist. You don't even know! what Different between democrats and communist. I don't know how many dumb people in this world. The country that had communist party is murder million of people and not letting people Escape their country. Democrats is not perfect but we never murder people for protest and keep our people in.

  • @MrBizon91

    @MrBizon91

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sovet means council or advice, thats the thing that it means the same.

  • @thatguy4360

    @thatguy4360

    2 жыл бұрын

    No it doesn't lol Literally just means 1. an elected local, district, or national council in the former Soviet Union. Or 2. A citizen of the former Soviet Union. Same thing as ur saying just. With the added description lol :P

  • @MrBizon91

    @MrBizon91

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thatguy4360 first you say that it doesnt, last you say its the same, i dont get it :D Also word "sovet" does not have to be close to soviet union meaning...

  • @thatguy4360

    @thatguy4360

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrBizon91 I'm saying u r both correct and incorrect

  • @josephhebert1785
    @josephhebert1785 Жыл бұрын

    You can't claim that he was playing the West if the West was trying to play him at the same time problem is we couldn't keep our story straight because we kept electing people who disagreed with each other so we feel like he was getting over on us the whole time

  • @jokerjokerovic9339

    @jokerjokerovic9339

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah,because for west it's good to have control of Russia like with their leaders before Putin,so Putin is gamechanger.

  • @GabrielRGomes

    @GabrielRGomes

    Жыл бұрын

    Putin rose to power knowing that the west wanted. He knew what they did to Yeltsin

  • @robertocalderon1584

    @robertocalderon1584

    Жыл бұрын

    Right...no continuity of foreign policy. It's a stupid system. The problem is that Old money controls the Right...and New money controls the left...these two forces are the true faces of our elected officials 98% of the time. Each side gets in and does everything it can to weaken the outgoing factions inroads. It's all about money, just the interests of each side are diverse. That's our government. It's 100% corporate controlled. It NEVER says what it means or means what it says. Not even trump kept his promises...just ask the cattle ranchers on the southern border, or the still impoverished coal miners of West Virginia.

  • @englishman9020

    @englishman9020

    Жыл бұрын

    We're they playing each other

  • @Rebelloraptor

    @Rebelloraptor

    11 ай бұрын

    That's not what happened.

  • @y40ll
    @y40ll6 ай бұрын

    NATO played Russia by bringing NATO to Russia's border.

  • @SumitGaming-

    @SumitGaming-

    Ай бұрын

    Still Europe scared

  • @piyushsharan406

    @piyushsharan406

    Ай бұрын

    Your sweet Ukraine is fighting a lost war.

  • @reverie4632
    @reverie46326 ай бұрын

    I'm very happy you kept comments on.

  • @ChrisPeck-niganma
    @ChrisPeck-niganma2 жыл бұрын

    “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” --Mark Twain

  • @michaelweston409

    @michaelweston409

    2 жыл бұрын

    History will repeat itself soon.

  • @archingelus

    @archingelus

    2 жыл бұрын

    And that's why mark twain is the greatest humorist in the world

  • @tompaulcampbell

    @tompaulcampbell

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelweston409 How so? Depression?

  • @ChandranPrema123

    @ChandranPrema123

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well people are still keeping Biden in power that itslef is making people in America become History. And about 51% of Biden and Musk Followers are like Bots. Well American people have been injected with USSR hate that they are jealous of A president who care about people

  • @michaelweston409

    @michaelweston409

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tompaulcampbell World War III, a great depression, world wide shortage of all resources & necessities. Not even going onto upcoming catocylsmic climate change events & a resurging Covid crisis.

  • @Frederick.J.Marshall
    @Frederick.J.Marshall2 жыл бұрын

    ‘I looked the man (Putin) in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country." - George W. Bush on Putin, 2007

  • @WalterBurton

    @WalterBurton

    2 жыл бұрын

    No. It was 2001. In Slovenia.

  • @WalterBurton

    @WalterBurton

    2 жыл бұрын

    @John Jones : No. 20+ years.

  • @WalterBurton

    @WalterBurton

    2 жыл бұрын

    @John Jones ; Yeah whatever, except it happened in 2001, not 2007, son. 🙄

  • @dutchdna

    @dutchdna

    2 жыл бұрын

    The only USA POTUS that got it right was Biden who called him a ruthless killer and thug. And then of course there's the "genius POTUS" that called Putin a genius.

  • @AirQuotes

    @AirQuotes

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bush could be tricked by a bush

  • @NightOwl222
    @NightOwl2226 ай бұрын

    West loved him while they expected him to hand over Russia. Once he showed he is not going to, he became a 'dictator', etc, etc.

  • @gkone6722

    @gkone6722

    7 сағат бұрын

    perfectly said.

  • @HFDLI
    @HFDLI3 ай бұрын

    When you sit on the same chair for more than 20 years, you know how the game played.

  • @manson.oldboy

    @manson.oldboy

    Ай бұрын

    Also you are named "dictator" by the USA and EU if you do so

  • @miguelpoky2
    @miguelpoky29 ай бұрын

    The Soviet joke was wild 😅 especially when the person asks if it was a joke and then he just smiles.

  • @alexfriedman2152

    @alexfriedman2152

    8 ай бұрын

    lol that wasn't a joke. He would've loved to rename it the soviet council if he could. He wants the Soviet union back

  • @Elver_Galarga816

    @Elver_Galarga816

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@alexfriedman2152 if the Soviet Union is back I don't think the Russian Communist party would like for Putin and the oligarchs to have a seat

  • @luanmateus4505

    @luanmateus4505

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@alexfriedman2152More like he wants Russian empire back. He wants nothing like comunism again he just wants to look like the Soviet union and reigh like a Czar.

  • @user-wk9xv2jf7z

    @user-wk9xv2jf7z

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@alexfriedman2152 Nah man, Putin was one of the actors that made possible the destruction of the Soviet Union. Putin just respect the past and the main actors that made possible the revolution. Most of you, Americans, know nothing bout history... The ideal of the contemporary russian government should be described as "the new Russian empire", far away from the lefts

  • @bjs8397

    @bjs8397

    8 ай бұрын

    He didn’t ask if it was a joke, he said “I declare that to be a joke”

  • @Lmao_ded
    @Lmao_ded Жыл бұрын

    When people laughed off Putin's idea of calling the NATO headquarters the council of soviets that's when Putin took things personally

  • @billykhayaSA

    @billykhayaSA

    Жыл бұрын

    That's when he realised he cant trust them.. Putin..wow ❤❤❤❤

  • @sakurakou2009

    @sakurakou2009

    Жыл бұрын

    @@billykhayaSA the way he never smile now, it make me wonder what made him loss his smile

  • @belaprela2485

    @belaprela2485

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sakurakou2009 He does smile wtf bro

  • @sakurakou2009

    @sakurakou2009

    Жыл бұрын

    @@belaprela2485 he doesnt , his smile seem so forced and creepy

  • @belaprela2485

    @belaprela2485

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sakurakou2009 I don't think so

  • @eight8muzik
    @eight8muzik6 ай бұрын

    Just because he didn't bow to any demand you don't like him. That's the whole reason. He doesn't play by your rules because you're hipocrites.

  • @concernedcitizen5317

    @concernedcitizen5317

    2 ай бұрын

    *hypocrites 🦛

  • @LukaBEET
    @LukaBEET7 ай бұрын

    More like the west playing Putin and he had enough.

  • @dakedakinson64
    @dakedakinson64 Жыл бұрын

    Anyone remember when Obama installed missile systems in Poland saying to Putin they are there to protect Europe from Iran? When he ordered destruction of Libya under excuse of "no fly zone"?

  • @L_U-K_E

    @L_U-K_E

    9 ай бұрын

    True

  • @tatyanamorgoeva8806

    @tatyanamorgoeva8806

    9 ай бұрын

    He also got a Nobel Prize of Peace. For that probably.

  • @shhinobii

    @shhinobii

    9 ай бұрын

    @@tatyanamorgoeva8806 Level cap of hypocrisy

  • @teddybearroosevelt1847

    @teddybearroosevelt1847

    9 ай бұрын

    Yeah it’s one of the things he did. He wasn’t such a great president…

  • @deraid712

    @deraid712

    9 ай бұрын

    But Iran attacks Israel and is a real threat of an Europe and what should Obama say? "We are putting rockets in Poland so Rossia will not attack Europe"?

  • @mikesaundersnyc5200
    @mikesaundersnyc52007 ай бұрын

    Mr Putin himself told the BBC back in 2000 that "Russia is ready to co-operate with Nato... right up to joining the alliance. I cannot imagine my country isolated from Europe," he added.

  • @double_latte

    @double_latte

    7 ай бұрын

    Exactly 💯

  • @ceremony777

    @ceremony777

    4 ай бұрын

    Mind games?

  • @TheTeodorsoldierabvb

    @TheTeodorsoldierabvb

    4 ай бұрын

    @@ceremony777 I don't believe so. Could be wrong but there was a time when Putin wanted relations, and he wanted an alliance. But he saw what the west really is like and backed off.

  • @adm_Pelmenev

    @adm_Pelmenev

    4 ай бұрын

    После развала СССР, у нас была везде разруха, а также у нас была проиграна холодная война с США, потому было логично вступить в нато, да и идея, что ты можешь проехаться от парижа до сибири звучит круто. Но, к сожалению или к счастью, нас не приняли в нато. Если честно, раньше я думал:"какой же путин плохой, вор и т.д.", но недавно я понял, что путин хоть и имеет за собой грешки, но сделал титаническую работу, сделав из руин сильное и вполне самостоятельное государство

  • @user-jf3uf2ur4e

    @user-jf3uf2ur4e

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@adm_Pelmenevпосмотри на остальные пост-советские страны, везде тоже самое. Без путина даже лучше было бы😂

  • @masterdarkdeath
    @masterdarkdeath4 ай бұрын

    West really thought the Russian bear had became a puppy, nahhhh!

  • @linkmeforfun
    @linkmeforfun5 ай бұрын

    It is the West that tried to play Putin in a geopolitical chess game. But, Putin being the master of chess, the West has been outplayed.

  • @agagqbq

    @agagqbq

    3 ай бұрын

    please explain how the west has been played when putin's russia is failing to achieve superiority against a country 1/3 its size while adding 2 new enemies on russia's border

  • @linkmeforfun

    @linkmeforfun

    3 ай бұрын

    @@agagqbqAnyway, I wonder why I should labor to explain to you something that should be obvious to a kindergarten kid. But, first of all, know that NATO (a gang of 32 timid countries) was formed, exists, and continues to expand just to confront one country called RUSSIA. Second, the money, strategy, intelligence, and weapons used to fight Russia are provided by NATO + G7 + a dozen other countries. Third, fourth, fifth, etc.... I don't need to go further because I know that you are not ignorant but just pretending to be. If you were indeed such ignorant, I would curse your gods for bringing you into this earth a million years late.

  • @linkmeforfun

    @linkmeforfun

    3 ай бұрын

    @@agagqbqAnyway, I wonder why I should labor to explain to you something that should be obvious to a kindergarten kid. But, first of all, know that NATO (a gang of 32 timid countries) was formed, exists, and continues to expand just to confront one country called RUSSIA. Second, the money, strategy, intelligence, and weapons used to fight Russia are provided by NATO + G7 + a dozen other countries. Third, fourth, fifth, etc.... I don't need to go further because I know that you are not ignorant but just pretending to be. If you were indeed such ignorant, I would curse your gods for bringing you into this earth a million years late.

  • @PlumbuM871

    @PlumbuM871

    Ай бұрын

    @@agagqbq How can I explain something to you if you are so stupid? NATO lost a two-year war, but you don't see it

  • @derikpham3368

    @derikpham3368

    Ай бұрын

    @@agagqbq 1. If you actually watched day by day analysis of the war, it's very obvious that Russia doesn't want the West to legitimize their presence in Ukraine. However the West is more aggressive, and with Macron announcing French troops to go to Odessa, the West already fell into his play. 2. In case you forgot, Ukraine is backed by the entire Europe, specifically NATO nations. It's literally just NATO vs. Russia, with Ukraine as battlefield. How coincident is it that the only times Ukraine is failing and retreating (for example, right now) are the time that NATO supplies can't reach soon enough, funny right? 3. The West put more than 16.000 sanctions on Russia, companies moving out, workers escape, it should've crippled Russia economy beyond saving. Yet look at the reality: Russia's still fine and dandy, they might have some problem with workers but that can be resolved thanks to robots, and they even managed to revive some older national product brand that was becoming obsolete due to presence of Western companies. Meanwhile, the West is suffering with record high inflation and risk of total economic downfall and riot. In short, while Russian is intact, the collective West is in shamble economically. Tell me who's being played right now?

  • @vasilimici1032
    @vasilimici1032 Жыл бұрын

    “Keep your friends close; keep your enemies closer.” -Sun Tzu

  • @karlspaak7069

    @karlspaak7069

    Жыл бұрын

    That was Michael Corleone in The Godfather part 2

  • @nahiyanalamgir7056

    @nahiyanalamgir7056

    Жыл бұрын

    @@karlspaak7069 The Corleone saying was more like, "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"

  • @shalev3368

    @shalev3368

    Жыл бұрын

    "כבדהו וחשדהו" (to respect someone while suspecting him) Was written by the jews sages 2000 years ago

  • @jennymay330

    @jennymay330

    Жыл бұрын

    And who is the enemy?

  • @vasilimici1032

    @vasilimici1032

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jennymay330 Your friend today is your enemy tomorrow.

  • @Meghnaaad
    @Meghnaaad Жыл бұрын

    Bush: I can see through your soul. Putin: laughing hysterically.

  • @Ribulose15diphosphat

    @Ribulose15diphosphat

    Жыл бұрын

    Putin at least has one.

  • @RedValleyMilsim

    @RedValleyMilsim

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Ribulose15diphosphat ordering all innocent civilians to be killed isnt very humanitarian or representing of any soul

  • @seanoreilly40

    @seanoreilly40

    Жыл бұрын

    A few years later "He launched a holy unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq...I mean Ukraine" Goerge Bush

  • @Meghnaaad

    @Meghnaaad

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Ribulose15diphosphat I don't think he has a soul.

  • @user-rr4md8ft5p

    @user-rr4md8ft5p

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RedValleyMilsim Откуда информация и где доказательства?

  • @mickmouse4650
    @mickmouse46503 ай бұрын

    Putin is a great leader

  • @stefm.8438
    @stefm.84383 ай бұрын

    And he wasn't gonna go to the Ukraine but the americans made him do the move. Don't be fooled people.

  • @maxs6450

    @maxs6450

    2 ай бұрын

    You are absolutely right! Thanks

  • @annacartel1835
    @annacartel18352 жыл бұрын

    Missed one key issue here - Putin's Munich speach. Add it to make the full picture

  • @ronymooney6175

    @ronymooney6175

    2 жыл бұрын

    and 2008 Bucharest Summit by NATO

  • @mbdulka

    @mbdulka

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nah, that ruins their propaganda video ...

  • @mbdulka

    @mbdulka

    2 жыл бұрын

    Or the part in 2000 when Putin asked Clinton if Russia could join NATO and Clinton laughed and said Russia is too big and independent.

  • @ov7419

    @ov7419

    2 жыл бұрын

    Correct!

  • @0bserver416

    @0bserver416

    2 жыл бұрын

    If NATO allowed Russia to join, it'd lose its purpose and thus effectively cease to exist.

  • @ronymooney6175
    @ronymooney61752 жыл бұрын

    "Our mistake was that we trusted you too much. And your mistake was that you tried to take advantage of that." - Putin.

  • @rithvik119am6

    @rithvik119am6

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well it is true

  • @danielwhyatt3278

    @danielwhyatt3278

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wow, it’s really crazy how flipped it all is. Everything the rest of the civilised world knows, Putin and his regime think the opposite.

  • @ElectroIsMyReligion

    @ElectroIsMyReligion

    2 жыл бұрын

    It goes both ways - don't act like Russia is a force of world peace lol. - You're seriously childishly naïve and sadly immensely misinformed if you really think that world politics is as simple as that.. it’s way more complicated than your simplistic “good vs evil” argument. The world isn’t black and white as you’d like to portray it. I think you should do some more research..

  • @ov7419

    @ov7419

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ElectroIsMyReligion nope, it doesn't

  • @collinnazareth160

    @collinnazareth160

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ElectroIsMyReligion nope it doesnt. Away with you leftie

  • @NorthPoleSun
    @NorthPoleSun3 ай бұрын

    Title should be "Twenty Years of the West Playing Putin in 3 Minutes"

  • @killmen_55055

    @killmen_55055

    3 ай бұрын

    Hryuk-hryuk

  • @TroySan1985
    @TroySan19855 ай бұрын

    i keep finding him to be a savant, well spoken and on the ball

  • @District_57_Toastmasters

    @District_57_Toastmasters

    4 ай бұрын

    It's not how someone acts that matters....it's what they do

  • @seechunchong9876
    @seechunchong98762 жыл бұрын

    Forget about Putin. How many politicians you can look them in the eyes and found them to be straightforward and trustworthy nowadays?

  • @soccerguy325

    @soccerguy325

    2 жыл бұрын

    A few.

  • @parisulki729

    @parisulki729

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, western politicians come and go. One presidents administration could override all work of the previous one. But did Putin ever left his position? And don't say Medvedev, it's common knowledge that he was a ploy, while Putin still was in power by being Prime minister

  • @Reth_Hard

    @Reth_Hard

    2 жыл бұрын

    Vermin Supreme, just to name a few...

  • @maliksy7746

    @maliksy7746

    2 жыл бұрын

    He's referring to American politicians

  • @soccerguy325

    @soccerguy325

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@maliksy7746 Yeah, there's still a few.

  • @Ola_Uteligger
    @Ola_Uteligger2 жыл бұрын

    ''I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.'' Should have taken a peek into the other one aswell...

  • @dmitry5233

    @dmitry5233

    2 жыл бұрын

    Says the man who has no soul... The irony

  • @johannuys7914

    @johannuys7914

    2 жыл бұрын

    Said by the man who has the blood of over a million Iraqi's on his hands. Well done Ola.

  • @denisevarrie6880

    @denisevarrie6880

    2 жыл бұрын

    Says who? Bushing other countries for a great loot😢

  • @tshililoclaudinahmugovheli5793

    @tshililoclaudinahmugovheli5793

    2 жыл бұрын

    😀M finding this amusing

  • @HayDawgWood

    @HayDawgWood

    2 жыл бұрын

    He has a weird twitch

  • @Mika-dv1os
    @Mika-dv1os7 ай бұрын

    Now "failed personal diplomacy" called the fact, that he didn't follow USA "democratic" way?

  • @tommcfadden5232
    @tommcfadden5232Ай бұрын

    Biden: For God sake this man can’t remain in power. Putin 2024: Tired of holding my beer yet?

  • @zarypoff
    @zarypoff Жыл бұрын

    He sincerely thought he could change their attitude. Anyone in doubt can listen to his Munich speech in 2007. In the end, these guys bail on him.

  • @musicnlove911

    @musicnlove911

    11 ай бұрын

    Prior to his munich speech, he genocided the chechens, had Estonia hacked, threatened Poland with invasion, occupied parts of Moldova and killed journalists opposing his crimes against the russian population. He was a criminal before 2007. Noone in their right mind should integrate russia and certainly the west was way to naive.

  • @DrMrPersonGuy

    @DrMrPersonGuy

    11 ай бұрын

    Lol no, he openly claimed that the USSR territories should be returned to russia. The West was blind to russian aggression.

  • @amandapeluso4217

    @amandapeluso4217

    10 ай бұрын

    Exactly

  • @katerinak5387

    @katerinak5387

    9 ай бұрын

    Действительно, в Мюнхенской речи он был максимально прямолинейным.

  • @thekontuli2828

    @thekontuli2828

    8 ай бұрын

    If the US had properly analysed that speech; there would be no war in Ukraine today. but then again, the US was intending initiating a proxy war with Russia soon after 2016 US presidential elections. The Chair of Defence Adam Schiff was already boasting in the media that they would "fight Russia in Ukraine so that they don't have to do it here (in the US)" - 2 to 3 years before this war started.

  • @no1stress77
    @no1stress778 ай бұрын

    Now we need a version of USA coups around the world in the last 20 years. To bring things to a more even playfield

  • @mohann2289

    @mohann2289

    6 ай бұрын

    No they are failed look at Afghanistan,vietnam, iraq, Iran

  • @ashu-

    @ashu-

    6 ай бұрын

    @@mohann2289 lost the battle but won the war, look at the economy and sanctions.

  • @moslyjeb3090

    @moslyjeb3090

    6 ай бұрын

    @@ashu-look at Vietnam, they’re our friend now, and their economy are doing pretty well after the war. 😂😂😂

  • @atlash6387

    @atlash6387

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@moslyjeb3090Oh I'm sure they really consider US friends.

  • @j.ceasar

    @j.ceasar

    3 ай бұрын

    @@atlash6387 they actually do.

  • @SnakeEngine
    @SnakeEngine7 ай бұрын

    What New York Times covers is: How we played Putin. But now he decided enough is enough. ("The Council of Advice", is the proper translation from Russian btw.)

  • @S1aSoN
    @S1aSoN6 ай бұрын

    Problem is that appetite of USA and NATO, became more and more hungry...

  • @DreadNawght
    @DreadNawght8 ай бұрын

    He wasn't playing the west. The west was playing itself.

  • @vlada91bulbulder

    @vlada91bulbulder

    7 ай бұрын

    true india china russia are strong now

  • @farhadaa

    @farhadaa

    3 ай бұрын

    It's all business for the West and suffering for the East, always has been.

  • @Simboiss

    @Simboiss

    3 ай бұрын

    If only "The West" was a clear concept...

  • @darkwoodmovies

    @darkwoodmovies

    Ай бұрын

    @@vlada91bulbulder China's flopping and India is too dependent on the USA to dip.

  • @SumitGaming-

    @SumitGaming-

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@darkwoodmoviesindia dependent on usa 😂nice joke

  • @straightforward5916
    @straightforward5916 Жыл бұрын

    Someone rightly said: Putin is that guy in the UN who reads each and every T&C,all the disclaimers and warnings and then choses to disagree without a second thought.

  • @Y0NI

    @Y0NI

    Жыл бұрын

    And the makes his own ToS

  • @8888LR

    @8888LR

    Жыл бұрын

    The west playing russia 🇷🇺

  • @MrMadnessSRBIN

    @MrMadnessSRBIN

    Жыл бұрын

    usa also breaking alot of UN laws back in 99'

  • @endykapini1115

    @endykapini1115

    Жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @stefanfreestylez

    @stefanfreestylez

    Жыл бұрын

    Легенда🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

  • @abdullahalraiyan7873
    @abdullahalraiyan78733 ай бұрын

    they talk about what he did, but not what they did that forced his reactions.

  • @lescaster2179
    @lescaster21796 ай бұрын

    Now do one about the Mainstream Media playing the American People...

  • @stefanmilojkovic
    @stefanmilojkovic9 ай бұрын

    It would be better to make a video about a USA fooling Russia 34 years

  • @stefanmilojkovic

    @stefanmilojkovic

    9 ай бұрын

    Or playing..nvr mind

  • @Mertvayamyish

    @Mertvayamyish

    6 ай бұрын

    Или как сша вторгались в десятки стран и разрушали их

  • @MrElias1998

    @MrElias1998

    5 ай бұрын

    Yea i cant really see how Putin played the West when the only one suffering are russians and the country He is invading.

  • @inspektorcap7267

    @inspektorcap7267

    5 ай бұрын

    Agree 100%

  • @amotriuc

    @amotriuc

    4 ай бұрын

    not sure how USA was fooling Russia, Russia was doing what it wanted for 34 years. The only fooling was: Russia did ask USA for control of half of the Europe and USA did say that's silly they can't promise that.

  • @truth1267
    @truth1267 Жыл бұрын

    How would you guys feel if it was the opposite and there was Russian weapons and both Mexico and Canada pointing at us…

  • @saumyashah4831

    @saumyashah4831

    11 ай бұрын

    this is exactly the thing no one wants to realize 😭 all busy blaming russia

  • @powerboatguy2308

    @powerboatguy2308

    10 ай бұрын

    We don't the ability to put ourselves into other's shoes.

  • @darkwolf4434

    @darkwolf4434

    9 ай бұрын

    It wouldn't matter. Russia can fire at the US from Russia and the US can do the same. We don't have cold war tech anymore. The situation would be similar if the US were to constantly threaten Mexico and completely infiltrate the mexican goverment to do things that benefits nobody but the US.

  • @RodolfoMiguelBia

    @RodolfoMiguelBia

    9 ай бұрын

    No hay ni se planteo nunca qué exista ningún arma no convencional en Ucrania. Rusia incumplió el tratado de Budapest.

  • @vadimkochkin9095

    @vadimkochkin9095

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@RodolfoMiguelBia Why UK and US insisted that Ukraine gives nukes to Russia do you think?

  • @_-MiamiVice-_
    @_-MiamiVice-_6 ай бұрын

    Bush: I was able to get a sense of his soul Me: George, how do you get a sense of something you have never had?

  • @user-bq9wy9kx3y

    @user-bq9wy9kx3y

    4 ай бұрын

    #1 best comment ever.

  • @ACOcean
    @ACOcean3 ай бұрын

    The world would have fewer problems if the media told and showed the truth more often instead of lies.

  • @eastone8514
    @eastone8514 Жыл бұрын

    Putin was opened to West, wanted do business on equal terms. Wanted to introduces alternative currencies to international trade (besides $$),. Title should be 20 year of Putin attempting establish good relations and how the West end up backstabbing Russia with playing political games at Russia's doorsteps.

  • @MatthewCobalt

    @MatthewCobalt

    9 ай бұрын

    If he was a competent politician, he would have stopped in 2014 and kept Ukraine out of the EU and NATO indefinitely. But he wasn't, he was more of a mobster than a politician, intimidating and manipulating the veil so much that once something broke away, his only choice was violence.

  • @zukunftverstehen

    @zukunftverstehen

    9 ай бұрын

    @eastone8514 - you said it all! As a Russian I can confirm, that's exactly what has been happening!

  • @danielchettiar5670

    @danielchettiar5670

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@MatthewCobaltWtf are you even talking about? Westerners are the biggest morons I see when it comes to geopolitics

  • @MrIceColdM

    @MrIceColdM

    9 ай бұрын

    Great comment.

  • @deraid712

    @deraid712

    9 ай бұрын

    And started war in Georgia, occupied it's territory. Hmm, very interesting way of wanting to do business with civilized world while killing other people in other countries

  • @pankajtekchandani3417
    @pankajtekchandani3417 Жыл бұрын

    I am not a geopolitics expert but Libya was a real turning point for him. Going on the offensive was always years in the making though well before that.

  • @waltermodel2521

    @waltermodel2521

    Жыл бұрын

    yes, you're right. Medvedev was president at the time, but after that there was a loss of trust of the West in Russia

  • @izajahmed8863

    @izajahmed8863

    Жыл бұрын

    Libya?

  • @kamaubrendamuthoni9490

    @kamaubrendamuthoni9490

    Жыл бұрын

    @@izajahmed8863 they murdered Putin’s best friend Gaddaffi. He was president of Libya

  • @user-ug5mf4yy4j

    @user-ug5mf4yy4j

    Жыл бұрын

    Глупость. Какая Ливия? Мюнхен 2007, а потом лучший друг США Саакашвилли напал на Южную Осетию итд

  • @notastone4832

    @notastone4832

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kamaubrendamuthoni9490 "best friend" bruh everyone but NATO was against getting rid of gadaffi

  • @cidadaoPPT
    @cidadaoPPTАй бұрын

    In case anyone needed a reminder that you are no longer a news organization.

  • @julianlawson1608
    @julianlawson16083 ай бұрын

    *Tucker Carlson has entered the chat

  • @knighthawk3559
    @knighthawk35592 жыл бұрын

    He wasn't playing them, it was his 'special military co-operation'

  • @ionorreastragicomicchannel

    @ionorreastragicomicchannel

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, like the Operation Iraqi Freedom.. Neither Russia nor USA are angels, they are just competitors for influence within Europe, they both have done plenty of clandestine operations to get where they are now, and after the fall of the Soviet Union, there were plenty of neutral countries liberated from bear's influence. A new battle for the influence thus began, until the West met the East through their expansion of influence with each other again. The difference is, that no large nation wanted to join Russia's sphere of influence by a democratic process, only as a dictatorship puppet state, as Russia is not enthusiastic about democracy, not even an illusion of democracy as the West has for the same reason why China isn't a democracy, it would be counterproductive to the unity of the nation that would at best end like EU, at worst like the middle east. That's why only the Crimea region that was part of the Russia for a long time joined Russia somewhat legitimately and without any fight as somewhat larger piece of land.

  • @socrateswithinabrownbear

    @socrateswithinabrownbear

    Жыл бұрын

    Operation but okay

  • @rok2383

    @rok2383

    Жыл бұрын

    @@socrateswithinabrownbear whoosh.

  • @petergreen5337

    @petergreen5337

    Жыл бұрын

    HAHAHA, very true, it just took 20 years for us all to UNDERSTAND.

  • @melayujembal2749

    @melayujembal2749

    Жыл бұрын

    Lame

  • @alexanderlevitin1390
    @alexanderlevitin13909 ай бұрын

    This is not a war between Russia and Ukraine at all, but part of the US geopolitical war for the preservation of a unipolar world.

  • @RedSpicyFeast1010

    @RedSpicyFeast1010

    8 ай бұрын

    Precisely.👍

  • @tbmofoulprinceromero

    @tbmofoulprinceromero

    6 ай бұрын

    Oh, and it somehow justifies Russia's invasion?

  • @user-bz5kg1ek4y

    @user-bz5kg1ek4y

    6 ай бұрын

    Underrated comment

  • @HoomanxD

    @HoomanxD

    6 ай бұрын

    Very well said. Short and informative 👏

  • @PogU_4Life

    @PogU_4Life

    6 ай бұрын

    Russia has commited war Crimes in Ukraine and is a terrorist nation.

  • @raphaelcuault8819
    @raphaelcuault8819Ай бұрын

    Poutin: "I suggest to rename NATO as the Council of the Soviets" Croud: *Laughing* Poutin: "I actually meant that..."

  • @reezyberlanga
    @reezyberlanga6 ай бұрын

    he is like the quiet kid in class but in presidential level 😂😂

  • @joons3374
    @joons3374 Жыл бұрын

    What ordinary people do not understand is that politics have to lie, to pretend they trust someone in order not to raise suspicion, it is true that some of them are dumb, but a person with a high education on politics intuitively understands that the way to power is a game of deceit, you smile, shake the hand and keep your eyes on the person no matter what. You have to say things you don't believe in order to be the one who strikes first, or at the veey least not to be a target.

  • @trippasnippa119

    @trippasnippa119

    Жыл бұрын

    for some reason media wants you to think that america is just the fool out of the big three governments. Our people of america are pretty goofy. The government knows that if they preoccupy us with sjw topics we'll never be able to see whats actually going on. Not that i have some big grandiose conspiracy theories but i know everything isnt as it seems.

  • @joons3374

    @joons3374

    Жыл бұрын

    @@trippasnippa119 american government is far from stupid when it comes to foreign politics, they just know how to keep the rest of the world under their thumb..

  • @jaredmarrero5251

    @jaredmarrero5251

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah…then you have to sign a bunch of treaties and papers that bind you together financially with Russia, and then when they play their game, you’re screwed because they provide 90% of your oil (Germany). These politicians are not smart. They’re the engineers of a multi state disaster that is culminating in the immense loss of life in Ukraine.

  • @egg-iu3fe

    @egg-iu3fe

    Жыл бұрын

    Politics is just a game of thrones

  • @happyelephant5384

    @happyelephant5384

    Жыл бұрын

    And who are you? Aren't one of ordinary people? Why their believes worse then yours? What if they are right and you are just ordinary person and wrong?

  • @ventibreeze6648
    @ventibreeze664811 ай бұрын

    These politicians all smile and shake hands but neither one trusts the other.

  • @imperator791

    @imperator791

    10 ай бұрын

    That's the first thing for becoming a politician - Never trust anyone

  • @powerboatguy2308

    @powerboatguy2308

    10 ай бұрын

    There are very good reasons for both county's leaders not to trust the other.

  • @NoamPitlick-bg8kw
    @NoamPitlick-bg8kw3 ай бұрын

    Putin exhibited academy award performances here.

  • @rylencason4420
    @rylencason44206 ай бұрын

    The farther we get into this "conflict" with Russia, the more I blame the American politicians and praise the Russians. 🇷🇺

  • @buryitdeep
    @buryitdeep Жыл бұрын

    Funny how the good guy becomes the bad guy when he won't do what they want.

  • @userlox615

    @userlox615

    Жыл бұрын

    He still a good guy btw

  • @andrzejdymek1822

    @andrzejdymek1822

    8 ай бұрын

    Tell me how person that is ordering poisoning of his enemies, locking people in jail keeping propaganda in country and sending young people to die and a former secret police member a "good guy"? Xd

  • @nexofilipe

    @nexofilipe

    8 ай бұрын

    It’s the west agreeability complex. Everyone is a friend until it has a different view and goal.

  • @pedromarques9267

    @pedromarques9267

    8 ай бұрын

    True, Putin reminds me those co-worker that are nice with everyone, overdeliver and help everyone when they need until they found out they were backstabbed by their co-workers and starts reacting aggressively. Everyone things that the guy who is aggressive is the mad one when the co-workers are the ones to blame

  • @bananenmusli2769

    @bananenmusli2769

    8 ай бұрын

    @@nexofilipe if his goal is to slaughter innocent families in another country then he should absolutely be allowed to do it, right? That's what I'm getting from your comment.

  • @afonsoalexandre4722
    @afonsoalexandre472211 ай бұрын

    It's missing in this story, the NATO invitation in 2008, to Georgia and Ukraine to become it's members. That's when things start changing.

  • @Bobeli2008

    @Bobeli2008

    9 ай бұрын

    At that 2008 he was not the president of Russia, and the army top commander, so had nothing to do with the 5 days war in Georgia.

  • @berniko4954

    @berniko4954

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@Bobeli2008He gave commands, Medvedev is a puppet of Putin

  • @solitary200

    @solitary200

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Bobeli2008 plz, he was always the leader, he had a puppet in place with Medvedev. Only reason he had Medvedev take power is because he didn't want to change the constitution at that point.

  • @Bobeli2008

    @Bobeli2008

    9 ай бұрын

    @@solitary200 puppet or not - it's only your opinion, you know? There's an army. Big army. They strictly perform the orders. Real orders. Not dreams or personal wishes or assumes like yours. Millions of people in Russia who were receiving orders from Medvedev and going to execute them in order to work on a daily basis, they were supposed to do what? Do what Medvedev said or do what Putin said? Now, it's no secret Putin remained having his previous office, board number one, his limousine and all. He WAS GOING TO BE BACK. So what?

  • @faxriimanov3D

    @faxriimanov3D

    9 ай бұрын

    So what? these is the independent nations it's for them to choose.

  • @TobiasVetterTV
    @TobiasVetterTVАй бұрын

    Well, Schröder and Putin are still friends...

  • @Adarsh_sharma12474
    @Adarsh_sharma124745 ай бұрын

    Now putin rules ❤

  • @sparrowsparrow7505
    @sparrowsparrow75052 жыл бұрын

    If anything, kudos to the NYT and their sense of humor.

  • @haikalhadzik7744

    @haikalhadzik7744

    2 жыл бұрын

    So no one is going to point out that it all started in 2008 Bucharest NATO summit? that time NATO openly declared to invite Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, after that Putin give a declaration of Hostilities to NATO nations in the summit for crossing the "red line", couple of months later Georgia invaded south ossetia thinking NATO would back them up, but NATO lied just like Ukraine today. This video really a propaganda trying to shift our prospective of history

  • @kimkim-mh7bv

    @kimkim-mh7bv

    Жыл бұрын

    This is the reason why you should unsubscribe this channel. Why? Bush and obama was a f$$l and let putin go off while trump use russia and get rid of isis and other problem and russia didn't expand at all. And yet this channel didn't tell the truth and claim everyone are the same.

  • @urbonx

    @urbonx

    Жыл бұрын

    And propaganda

  • @priyanshu3182

    @priyanshu3182

    Жыл бұрын

    They didnt make a vid on west playing putin coz that would go on for hours

  • @constancemiller3753

    @constancemiller3753

    Жыл бұрын

    Just don't open your mail without gloves. 🧪📬

  • @CosmicValkyrie
    @CosmicValkyrie9 ай бұрын

    I clicked on this to write about how it's the other way around but I'm pleased to see everyone understands the truth already.

  • @mariadyma6321
    @mariadyma63213 ай бұрын

    When the West violated the treaty and began to expand NATO closer to Russia again, they thought to laugh at Putin, but the one who laughs last laughs

  • @Blanka1100

    @Blanka1100

    3 ай бұрын

    There is no written treaty not to expand Nato that you can show me. Why didn't Putin invade Poland which borders Russia and joined in 1999? Did he wake up yesterday? Why didn't he invade Finland which has the boggest land border with Russia? Because Nato is fake excuse for russian greed. Putin wants Ukraine and he could invade non Nato Ukraine only.

  • @dimonddust4318
    @dimonddust43183 ай бұрын

    What's with the music?.. it makes me see Putin in an oddly romantic way, but he is many times my senior. Thanks a lot. 😅

  • @josaphcj7199

    @josaphcj7199

    Ай бұрын

    Did u find the music name

  • @dimonddust4318

    @dimonddust4318

    Ай бұрын

    @@josaphcj7199 No, but if you find it.. let me know.

  • @sergeikhmylov1557

    @sergeikhmylov1557

    Ай бұрын

    @@josaphcj7199 Bruno Nicolai & Edda dell'Orso - Cheek to Cheek

  • @saigonabsurdfantasy7718

    @saigonabsurdfantasy7718

    Ай бұрын

    @@josaphcj7199 yo i swear i was looking for this song

  • @claritaturbo
    @claritaturbo Жыл бұрын

    As I continue to say - I can not wait to be 60/70 years old, total grandpa, and watching the documentary movie on what actually happened right under our noses. Time is ticking

  • @Trin978

    @Trin978

    Жыл бұрын

    I can't wait for the day putin Era will end. He's days are numbered. He's 69 already.. Devil is waiting.

  • @lobiankk77

    @lobiankk77

    Жыл бұрын

    It'll be totally manipulated by the masonic elite, though.

  • @claritaturbo

    @claritaturbo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lobiankk77 .. don’t worry .. people like you will make the cut too

  • @Miller80

    @Miller80

    Жыл бұрын

    if ure not in ur 40s alrdy this i can tell ya aint gonna happen brother, either we get nuked out, slaved to death or a.i take over and destroy us.

  • @akjohnny5997

    @akjohnny5997

    Жыл бұрын

    and it will be total propaganda. i wouldn't waste your life waiting for 'the truth'

  • @rmg3008
    @rmg30088 ай бұрын

    No as an American I can tell you that he didn't play America America has played Russia along with a ton of other countries

  • @Mush2389

    @Mush2389

    5 ай бұрын

    You would think that wouldn’t you.

  • @rmg3008

    @rmg3008

    5 ай бұрын

    @@Mush2389 no thinking just facts

  • @deejons5760

    @deejons5760

    4 ай бұрын

    Yeah, wow, the West played with Russia. It was terrible what we did by giving weapons to terrorist movements, and also on that day when we invaded Russia and destroyed half of the country. We really are terrible.

  • @BadgerView

    @BadgerView

    3 ай бұрын

    @@rmg3008 Your personal facts or the real facts? The real fact distance them selves from your personal facts.... by miles

  • @ReveredWizardBob

    @ReveredWizardBob

    3 ай бұрын

    I can't hear you over your spats of self importance as a nation and failure to ever admit to any failings or shortcomings. The only thing you've ever played is yourselves by creating terrorist nations in the middle east fuelled with hate towards the West and the support of countries that commit war crimes under the banner of "self protection" when in reality you do it for money and military security of US interests in the middle east (OIL AND MONEY).

  • @RussianAngel120
    @RussianAngel1203 ай бұрын

    Russian from Crimea here. The title is wrong. The West was playing... unfortunately.

  • @MyZk089

    @MyZk089

    3 ай бұрын

    How is the temperature in the Troll Factory in St:Petersburg these days?

  • @RussianAngel120

    @RussianAngel120

    3 ай бұрын

    @@MyZk089 What are you talking about? Do you need to see a doctor?

  • @fpsnoobs8453

    @fpsnoobs8453

    3 ай бұрын

    they still cant believe that crimea want to be russian

  • @kookootrix1978

    @kookootrix1978

    2 ай бұрын

    Russian occupying Crimea

  • @rubiconb8176

    @rubiconb8176

    2 ай бұрын

    @@MyZk089 Everyone I disagree with is a Russian troll.

  • @toshi9794
    @toshi97945 ай бұрын

    Need a video of the us playing everybody else

  • @alsosprachzarathustra5505
    @alsosprachzarathustra55059 ай бұрын

    NATO going offensive in Serbia was his awakening, I think. The further enlargement in 2004, and the tried one in 2008 was another development fostering his suspicion towards NATO. The war against Libya was not needed anymore but just eradicated any of his doubts: NATO was not just a defensive pact it was aggressive too. Hence, it became a potential threat. Why do you think did he had so many spies in western countries? He wanted to find out what their plans are for Russia. However, he made up his mind long time before 2022 and had very much reason for his decision to act violently.

  • @victorenin8760

    @victorenin8760

    9 ай бұрын

    The attack on Serbia was a moment of awakening not only for Putin, it was a moment of awakening for all Russians. Then the Russians felt threatened.

  • @wbsees

    @wbsees

    7 ай бұрын

    His awakening was in 1991.

  • @user-dq3ee5kh6m

    @user-dq3ee5kh6m

    7 ай бұрын

    @@wbsees Мало кто понимает это

  • @NightOwl222

    @NightOwl222

    6 ай бұрын

    In the 1990s USA was in control of Russia, establishing NGOs there and also in early 2000s USA created the Chechen conflict in Russia. Putin knew all this.

  • @agagqbq

    @agagqbq

    6 ай бұрын

    his "reason for his decision to act violently" was because it would no longer be possible to take annex Ukraine if they joined NATO the fact that you think Ukraine would be needed for NATO to attack Russia is so hilarious you clearly watched too much of Putin's propaganda, a war between Russia and the US would be over in a day even during Russia's wannabe-annexation of Crimea only 22% of Finland's population was in favour of joining NATO

  • @esbjorn9199
    @esbjorn91998 ай бұрын

    Would have loved to see you include the part where Trump is scolding the European leaders for Nordstream. Putin tried to play the West as did the West try to play him.

  • @MasterRe-mk3rs

    @MasterRe-mk3rs

    5 ай бұрын

    Yep, Trump knew the situation very well, but the author of this video has a different agenda.

  • @MMAVoodoo

    @MMAVoodoo

    5 ай бұрын

    You think the NYT is going to admit that a Republican was right about anything?

  • @justinlavine9209

    @justinlavine9209

    4 ай бұрын

    Probably. I don't know exactly what you mean by 'play', but it seems to me that's usually the way with international relations where any two sides have a vested interest in a common thing.

  • @profinneupane6883

    @profinneupane6883

    3 ай бұрын

    What did he told them?

  • @MasterRe-mk3rs

    @MasterRe-mk3rs

    3 ай бұрын

    @@profinneupane6883 that Germany and the other EU countries shouldn't have been so dependent on Russian gas

  • @berserker4940
    @berserker49403 ай бұрын

    More like the West played him

  • @user-gl9fx6ws5x
    @user-gl9fx6ws5x5 ай бұрын

    the background score for this video is awesome

  • @josaphcj7199

    @josaphcj7199

    Ай бұрын

    Find the name?

  • @pavlenikolic9023
    @pavlenikolic90232 жыл бұрын

    I wish to se a clip named US playing the rest of the world. But that cannot be put in 3 minutes

  • @Asoka-great

    @Asoka-great

    2 жыл бұрын

    u do it.

  • @gelo3859

    @gelo3859

    Жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @bojannikolic5678

    @bojannikolic5678

    Жыл бұрын

    Dobro rečeno ...Trebao bi im klip od jedno dva sata ...

  • @miguelbarrientos7276

    @miguelbarrientos7276

    Жыл бұрын

    More like 3 hours🤭

  • @samvictor217

    @samvictor217

    Жыл бұрын

    exact same thought, i have and I am not even Russian, I am Indian, and I know that the world is suffering because of the crimes of US

  • @olaf9957
    @olaf9957 Жыл бұрын

    It seems to me that while Putin was playing them, they were also playing him. And at the same time, they were all playing us.

  • @Mira-pm3ni

    @Mira-pm3ni

    Жыл бұрын

    Best comment 🤣🤣🤣

  • @olaf9957

    @olaf9957

    11 ай бұрын

    @Accurate Mediator HD CH1 us the citizens. We are all losers, no matter which side we're on. Meanwhile the Putin and Biden of this world are laughing at us.

  • @Instagramdiff1
    @Instagramdiff16 ай бұрын

    ❤️ thank you , sir 😊

  • @the-architect7789
    @the-architect77893 ай бұрын

    Cool, now make a video of America playing the world since WW2!

  • @WeyardWiz
    @WeyardWiz2 жыл бұрын

    Played like a fiddle! 🤣🤣

  • @mejrikais6002

    @mejrikais6002

    2 жыл бұрын

    The phantom pain putin 😅

  • @Psookpy

    @Psookpy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lmfao

  • @art_means_artificial

    @art_means_artificial

    Жыл бұрын

    Love Putin!

  • @kimkim-mh7bv

    @kimkim-mh7bv

    Жыл бұрын

    This is the reason why you should unsubscribe this channel. Why? Bush and obama was a f$$l and let putin go off while trump use russia and get rid of isis and other problem and russia didn't expand at all. And yet this channel didn't tell the truth and claim everyone are the same.

  • @isaiahbaker132

    @isaiahbaker132

    Жыл бұрын

    @@art_means_artificial how many times you gonna comment that b.s. under different comments man

  • @ttgeopol1289
    @ttgeopol12898 ай бұрын

    Actually, most people in the world does not see him as a "bad man", but as a Russian patriot. America and West Europeans see Russia as an enemy because it does not fold to Western interests. Putin has transformed Russia from a poor, almost failed state, to a country that cannot be pushed aside.

  • @MrJdsenior

    @MrJdsenior

    7 ай бұрын

    No, they see Russia as nothing, totally irrelevant, a world stage wannabe. Nobody in America was talking about Russia at all, contrary to the Russians ongoing blabberfest about the US and the rest of the West. You would know that if you'd ever been here. The US had over 14X Russia's economy pre war, much more than that now, and it's people, per Capita, earn about twenty times what Russians do, on average. Putin is transforming Russia into something that may not even be the Russian Federation in the end. If you can't see that, you are blind. Already, supporters and satellite countries of Russia are dissing Putin and Russia left and right, even holding Putin in waiting in meetings, just like he used to do them. It is HILARIOUS to watch. In case you didn't realize it, Russia won it's end of WWII ONLY because the US was supplying them trucks, planes, etc.. and more ammo than we were using toward the end of WWII. Russia has been a no op for centuries. Moscow was a dirt road town when Kyiv was a large city. The way you guys rewrite history is absolutely amazing.

  • @RDdggrd

    @RDdggrd

    7 ай бұрын

    A dictator is still a dictator.

  • @ttgeopol1289

    @ttgeopol1289

    7 ай бұрын

    @@RDdggrd define dictator

  • @Toroleco

    @Toroleco

    7 ай бұрын

    @@RDdggrd USA is ruled by Vanguard and BlackRock and the corporate mafia, a Dictator has more acountability and less power than Big Business.

  • @infnte9984

    @infnte9984

    7 ай бұрын

    идиот

  • @SameerSamon
    @SameerSamon6 ай бұрын

    West: We took everyone down but he.. He is tough.

  • @ILWU4Ever2024
    @ILWU4Ever2024Ай бұрын

    What the world leaders of democracy say about Putin: “Fooled me once…shame on you. Fooled me twice…shame on me”.

  • @central3425
    @central34252 жыл бұрын

    Politics is full of duplicity on both sides It's the common people who suffer

  • @leoh3616

    @leoh3616

    2 жыл бұрын

    There is no such thing as "the common people", at least not in democracies. If you don´t want a leader to cooperate with Putin, vote him/her out, vote for someone else, or get political yourself. And stop talking like YOU are the voice of the people.

  • @herecomesforego1787

    @herecomesforego1787

    2 жыл бұрын

    there's no such thing as duplicity -- the common people imagine a unity that doesn't exist

  • @tompaulcampbell

    @tompaulcampbell

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@herecomesforego1787 No, they image great differences that don't necessarily convert to positive actions with our sleazy pols., In fact, they rarely do. And even when they do change things it's usually for the worse, like Biden's Bozo Economics,.Many of the sycophants are still saying, "At least Trump isn't President!" (Note: I despise Trump, but his stats don't lie...)

  • @octanman4784

    @octanman4784

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hello comrade. Are you guys are still working out of St Petersberg?

  • @frauddiac

    @frauddiac

    Жыл бұрын

    @@herecomesforego1787 You're saying all humans doesn't have the same desire to live in peace, be with their family and live a joyful life? Are you human? Common people, like me, and others, all have that desires. What he said is true lol, it's full of smoke and mirrors, it's more than game of chess, with thousands of groups in power furthering their interests and imposing their ideologies to create a "better world" as they see fit. Live and let live is what it's supposed to be, people like you is the problem.

  • @stefanivezic6500
    @stefanivezic650011 ай бұрын

    Putin kept trying for 20 years to be allies with NATO and to be on the same side, but the West always looked upon him as an outsider, didn't take him serioiusly, and kept pushing its boundaries East.

  • @MrJdsenior

    @MrJdsenior

    7 ай бұрын

    What a bunch of BS. In case you are not aware, NATO was formed and populated to preclude MORE Soviet (Russian) expansion. True then, true now, with Sweden and Finland clamoring to join, with no previous interest whatsoever, after Putin's Ukraine brain fart. Putin does more to increase NATO cohesiveness and power than anyone else ever could. NATO had literally NOTHING to do with this attack, or any other. Putin has been writing and speaking openly about the 'a return to the glorious USSR' for decades, and about nations like Ukraine having no sovereign rights. Nice try, but bring in the hook folks, and drag this one off stage. Maybe try it again, with some actual supporting evidence, like I did. What a concept.

  • @Geluonis920

    @Geluonis920

    6 ай бұрын

    Oh stfu. If not for centuries of russian agression and russophication of russia's neighbours would not need to join nato. Or was it not moscow who occupied baltic states for 50 years? Was it not kremlin who had puppet states in all eastern europe?

  • @user-bz8zt6jv1x

    @user-bz8zt6jv1x

    6 ай бұрын

    If Russia and NATO were on the same side what would be the reason for NATO to exist?

  • @Kronwall

    @Kronwall

    6 ай бұрын

    I would say because of a Post-9/11 world/Isis etc@@user-bz8zt6jv1x

  • @Art-qs9ow

    @Art-qs9ow

    6 ай бұрын

    @@user-bz8zt6jv1x Believe me, our world is full of dangers even without a hard Kremlin

  • @Lis519
    @Lis5193 ай бұрын

    Как круто сделать "удобную" нарезку. Есть формула: чтобы в лож поверили, необходимо ее разбавить щепоткой правды и тогда она будет сладка

  • @dkokalanov
    @dkokalanov6 ай бұрын

    It should have been named "Twenty Years of the West Trying to Play Russia while Putin is in Power".

  • @Max_Jacoby
    @Max_Jacoby Жыл бұрын

    It's funny to see so many different presidents from America while only one from Russia. He's like "eh, whatever, I won't see you after 4 years anyway".

  • @apb2081

    @apb2081

    Жыл бұрын

    Look at what dictatorship means for Russia. Total failiure.

  • @andrewdunn49ers
    @andrewdunn49ers8 ай бұрын

    This isn’t really 20 years of him playing us. It’s just clips of him shaking hands with heads of state.

  • @INNIMA

    @INNIMA

    3 ай бұрын

    Only the regime media complex can turn a hand shake into a conspiracy theory 😂😂

  • @elpresidenta1945
    @elpresidenta19456 ай бұрын

    The fact that the West just kinda ignored the 2008 Invasion of Georgia is crazy

  • @user-tz6vf8to5f

    @user-tz6vf8to5f

    6 ай бұрын

    the fact that the West's invasion of Iraq without a UN mandate was ignored by everyone (except Germany and Switzerland, who simply condemned) is simply madness. And the Georgian war was recognized as provoked by the Georgian side after the shelling of South Ossetia. The only thing that was said was that Russia's response was excessive, but here we behaved like Israel and completely ignored these accusations.

  • @elpresidenta1945

    @elpresidenta1945

    6 ай бұрын

    @@user-tz6vf8to5f agreed

  • @user-lm1co4zx4u

    @user-lm1co4zx4u

    Ай бұрын

    Это Грузия напала на Абхазию и Осетию.

  • @josimpson7999
    @josimpson7999Ай бұрын

    He played them all like a seasoned violinist plays a Stradivarius.

  • @rnapol3266
    @rnapol3266 Жыл бұрын

    How did he play the west? NATO has been getting closer and closer to Russia’s border. NATO missiles are within striking distance of moscow. Then, when there were rumors of ukraine joining NATO, that’s when president Putin drew the line.

  • @ROBLOXGamingDavid

    @ROBLOXGamingDavid

    11 ай бұрын

    that's one thing. No matter what motive, they may just not accept the fact that, it is by choice to join NATO. To me, they want to get away from Russia, but on the other, I can predict that they will say they want to attack Russia even though it's solely on defense (but... that's being questioned and became a done deal long ago, everything is a power projection offensive)

  • @Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus

    @Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus

    10 ай бұрын

    Dude what does other countries joining NATO has anything to do with his invasion of Ukraine?

  • @rnapol3266

    @rnapol3266

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus nato getting closer and closer to Russian border …

  • @philiprea8340

    @philiprea8340

    10 ай бұрын

    Exactly!!

  • @SM-uj1ep

    @SM-uj1ep

    10 ай бұрын

    NATO had a treaty with Russia to not have bordering countries join nato. Ukraine has always been seen as part of Russia (in russias eyes). Once Ukraine tried to join, nato were looking like they would accept, means breach in treaty and putin showing he won’t stand for it. This is all natos fault thinking they had Russia under control, well who’s got the red face here then? NATO keeps prodding, putin will not back down, neither will nato, unfortunately people, ww3 started last year once nato sent arms to Ukraine. Hopefully it stays in cyber warfare, not physical battle grounds

  • @user-hg2sf5hu7l
    @user-hg2sf5hu7l8 ай бұрын

    When you’ve seen enough US presidents, you know what cards they’re holding when they sit down.

  • @doludeli

    @doludeli

    6 ай бұрын

    Or.. after seeing enough US presidents, then you understand, they are not the people who govern the US.

  • @user-fy3qi1rp3r
    @user-fy3qi1rp3rАй бұрын

    Putin 20yrs ago has different eyes and eyebrows than 2024 Putin

  • @Jon-cb9dt
    @Jon-cb9dt4 ай бұрын

    I did not thing I would land here the trajectory in plan was quiet different.

  • @itsmeratnesh599
    @itsmeratnesh599 Жыл бұрын

    Well, NYT should also make video on "100 years of West Playing with the Whole World in 10 Minutes"

  • @Henrique-wy6cv

    @Henrique-wy6cv

    Жыл бұрын

    I think you mean 4000 years lol

  • @lonestar1068

    @lonestar1068

    Жыл бұрын

    You and I think alike 🤔, stay on the right path even if it's just you on it .

  • @Amsterdamochka

    @Amsterdamochka

    Жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @Amsterdamochka

    @Amsterdamochka

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Henrique-wy6cv 4000🤦‍♀️???

  • @bizzwap8633

    @bizzwap8633

    Жыл бұрын

    ... LMFAO... Yes, 4,000 years. Did you miss out on World History class or do you think that America is the only country associated with 'the west.' sdklfjsdkljfas

  • @jyc313
    @jyc313 Жыл бұрын

    There are many factors here, but a big one is that Putin probably knew Western leaders wanted to look good in their country and constituents’ eyes when they seem to be cooperating productively with Russia (previously the big bad Soviet Union), and even seeming to bring them “to heel”. Played rather well into his strategies.

  • @broskyification

    @broskyification

    Жыл бұрын

    Played well into his strategy?? My guy he’s not even winning the war against an inferior Ukrain while hundreds of thousands of Russian men are abandoning their country because putin is so incompetent at keeping his people alive and well

  • @QuintusBatiatus

    @QuintusBatiatus

    Жыл бұрын

    The truth is that he really tried to be friend with westerns but they played him

  • @kaan8964

    @kaan8964

    Жыл бұрын

    Diplomacy and international politics aren't as simple as that to summarize in a few sentences. There are a lot of different factors that one needs to take into account to understand the relationship between Russia and the West, so it's pointless to dumb down the subject by saying "stupid leaders tried to get votes"

  • @eugenmerkel2525

    @eugenmerkel2525

    Жыл бұрын

    Kaan thats the widespread lack of education causing these slow thoughts to roam around in peoples heads. Another part of the problem.

  • @myosotis4507

    @myosotis4507

    Жыл бұрын

    @@QuintusBatiatus no. No he never did. The high political society in Russia was already wary of western influence by the tail end of Yeltsin's rule. The closest Putin ever got to cooperation was suggesting once that he wanted Russia to be invited into NATO, as opposed to applying to the organization and going through the meticulous approval process like every other nation.

  • @stray8468
    @stray84684 ай бұрын

    soon we will find out, that was never meant to be a joke.