In part two of Stephen’s interview with former Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, they discuss how the domestic audience in Russia is perceiving Putin’s war against Ukraine, and similarities between this military endeavor and the U.S.S.R.’s disastrous war against Afghanistan decades ago. Stick around for more from Amb. Michael McFaul. #Colbert #Ukraine #MichaelMcFaul
Very interesting to heat the ambassador’s perspective.
Replyits almost as if its always been a class war disguised as a race and nationality war.
Replyhmm….
Yup, Putin’s emotions made him miscalculate an unwinnable war.
Prayers.
ReplySo the divide is the same as Dems vs Reps.
ReplyAfghanistan was Russia’s Afghanistan – 115,000 soviet troops v 65,000 Afghan regulars and 250,000 Mujahideen. Russia took 68,206 casualties in 9 years of fighting.
ReplyUkraine is going worse for Russia than Afghanistan: 12,000 casualties in under 2 weeks and it has already lost more tanks / APCs and guns than it did in Afghanistan.
What’s everybody think about the price of peanut butter now
ReplyThis was sad I just thought the same words as the headline this is Putin’s Afghanistan, Putin knows that the West has their hands tied over threat of world war 3 and it may play out that no U.S. president or European leader will do anything except fund and send weapons to Ukranians for possibly 20 years of Russians and Ukrainians dying of a pointless unprovoked power grab. America isn’t spotless our middle eastern wars were extremely unpopular from day one and no protestors were locked up for 15 years for saying the word war or invasion and many soldiers regretted having friends die there and advocated the war end. However and there is a big however. The U.S. was provoked by 9/11 thousands of Americans dead that day from an actual terrorist group with an actual evil leader that terrorized the U.S. and his own country until his death. Russia doesn’t have an evil terrorist like that so Putin said with no proof or claims of proof that the Ukrainians are Nazis and terrorists. He actually said in an address that one of his high profile commanders got killed by Ukrabian snipers that were terrorists. Turns out that was when Russia sent in a squad of paratroopers into kharkiv after intense shelling. The Ukrainians shot his decorated officer that was TRYING to kill them after indiscriminately bombing the city including civilians and Putin calls zelensky and the Ukrainians Nazis.
ReplyPutin’s aim for regime change has found a target. He can’t see it clearly but it’s right there every time he looks in a mirror. The shadow men will take steps when they see his goals hurt Russia more than any external enemy.
ReplyGee, it ounds to me like a New Russian Revolution would solve a lot of problems right now..
Reply5th war? Gosh. Putin is mad.
ReplyI hope not because afghanistan war lasted 20 years
ReplyThe captions need to be better -__-
Replyfailure of all in Afghanistan was due to the terrain not overreach ( by that logic USA also overreached there ) Ukraine’s. terrain doesn’t pose that problem
ReplyUkraine is Putins’ will be thorn to his leadership and downfall and end to his regime.
ReplyBoris Yeltsin’s choice of Putin one of the worst decisions of the 21st Century
ReplyThe rich have stuucked it in.
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