A warning to America -- Timothy Snyder

Transcript >The other thing which will be compromised to the point of collapse, will be American reputation, because, even if we convince ourselves that Ukraine is not important, because we're not really paying attention to it, I can assure you this. I'm sure many of you have had these conversations as well, but pretty much everybody around the world whatever their stand towards the United States might be, looks upon Ukraine as an incredibly easy test for us. Iincredibly easy, because we don't have to send soldiers. Incredibly easy because the amount of money concerned, is frankly invisible. Incredibly easy, because ideologically, it's exactly the case, that we keep saying we care about: A democracy which is directly threatened. and so if we can't pass a test which our allies adversaries and everyone else regards as being incredibly easy, we can't expect our allies adversaries and others to think that we will pass harder tests in the future. We can Bluster all we want about it, but if we fail to pass this test, no one's going to think, we're going to pass any others. But that's not all either. And now I'm going to say something which is certainly going to be painful for our Ukrainian guests, I have to apologize for for this in advance, but when if Ukraine loses, that doesn't mean that Ukraine disappears. It means that these incredibly skilled and experienced soldiers will be press ganged into the Russian Armed Forces. It means that the Technologies which Ukraine has developed on its own, Technologies without being too specific, although be happy to be do more in the Q&A, Technologies which Taiwan very much needs, will instead go to Russia and to China. it will mean, that Ukrainian agriculture which is the third or fourth most important agricultural sector in the world will be controlled by Russia, rather than by Ukraine. iI will mean that rare Earths in Ukraine, which are necessary on the market and necessary for lots of people,will be controlled by Russia. So there's a lot more to be lost here, it's not a country which will disappear, it's a country whose resources , ncluding its Human Resources will then be pushed, pulled l, forced in another Direction and then it will be Russia, that one has to deal with. A Russia which has won a war of aggression. A Russia which has proven, that the rules don't matter. A Russia which has gained lots of resources and a Russia which has proven, not only to itself, but to most of the world, that there's no particular reason to take the Americans seriously. That's what we have. < YT Source:

@TimothyDSnyder That was very spot on! Thank you Timothy.

If we fail this straight forward test of our vaunted values &amp; resolve, we embolden russkiy mir.

Brutally frank observations...

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chilling but true

This needs to be a commercial broadcast globally

@TimothyDSnyder @NFX360, is this available on YouTube?

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