Mar 17, 2022·edited Mar 17, 2022Liked by Darryl Cooper
Dear Darryl, Thank you for your podcast on this topic. Although , as with most human interaction, we may not agree on every detail and nuance of an issue, there are a huge number of things which I genuinely appreciate about your presentation in general and your specific comments on this particular episode. My first degree was in history. I learned from wonderful teachers the art of historiography. Many of my courses focused on the histories of central and eastern Europe. In the spirit of balanced historiography you have offered up a valuable context which allows the listener/reader to have a vantage point from the top of the fence, rather than being ensconced on one side or the other of this issue. I have never valued commentaries or opinions which pander to the views I already have and leave me in a comfortable place. Your take on things challenge me in some areas, have me nodding a strong yes in others, and leave my sensibilities feeling uncomfortable in either further areas. That to me is the mark of a strong presentation. For your study, your analysis, your empathy and your hard work, I offer my gratitude.
Just finished V1 earlier today. Agree the audio quality was on the rough side but still was solid. Really appreciate the effort to put out a quality product in these tumultuous times!
I love your podcasts that's the main reason I immediately became a Substack subscriber but this one was very disappointing. I understand from Geopolitical perspective you can find many excuses for this invasion but having family over there(I am Ukrainian/Russian) I can tell you the bombings of civilian (mostly Russian speaking) cities have been horrific. Whatever mental gymnastics supporters of this invasion have to do the bottom line is Ukrainians have never been more united in resisting this invasion than now. If in 2014 the invasion of Crimea was a surprise to them, this one wasn't. There are line ups to join the military. This will be a costly war for both sides but I can't see how Russia will come out of this a winner. Keep up the good work, looking forward to hearing more on the topic, but please talk about it from both sides.
I very much appreciate this content, I just wish I knew what to do with it. I have always been a firm believer that knowledge is power and have pursued knowledge in many forms across a variety of subjects. I thought being a well educated citizen was one of the best ways to be a good citizen. But Covid taught me that knowledge may be powerful but it’s less powerful than narrative and that the most effective narrative is fear. So there is a part of me that wants to understand the nuances of the conflict, that wants to understand the historical actors and actions that have brought us here. I want all the information I can get so I can try and discern what “facts” coming out of the war zone might have some semblance of reality and what is pure propaganda. But there is a growing sense of dread that doing so is pointless. My elected officials don’t care what I think. Our options in the ballot box are often a choice between bad and worse. Most of the people in my inner circle either cling desperately to the narrative or just can’t be bothered to care one way or another. I feel bipolar, desperate and obsessively looking for more information but consumed by the feeling that none of it matters anyway.
Very, very interesting. Russia's government is wholly responsible for a lot of needless death and suffering, but western interventionist policy certainly seems to have greased the rails. It's kind of like the people who bully those who end up becoming school shooters. Just because you didn't pull the trigger doesn't mean you should sleep particularly well. Thanks for connecting some dots for me.
Hello Darryl Cooper. i have listen You for a while and i think You have objktiveti in Your arguments, thats why im responding to You and trying to explaine something abaute the situation in ukraine, in a werry different angle.
Im a half Russian ( the better half ) and living near Russia, i have lived in Russia and i know Russians, i know ukrianians too and have lot of friends who lived in Donbass or theire realtives still living there. After 2014 coup in Kiev the country is like a mad experiment from the west, what we can do to people and get away witht this.
Good that You covering this case and to better understanding....its like two brothers get the inheritance ( soviet union died and Russia and ukraine get their new territories ). Ukriane got lot more than they had when they united with soviet union. And the one brother ( ukraine ) soon will be found by the bad guys and oportunist ( Us and allies ) who yust want to get something of the inheritance. They drink him and give him a drugs, he wastes hes part of the inheritance and at the same time they telling him that the other brother is a bad and we got to get him to give his cut of inheritance away too.
At the end, the bigger brother ( Russia ) yust get werry angry abaout this situation and get the younger brother, beat him up, silbering him up and get wride of his bad friends and influence, starting from a new page and keeping family together. But those bad friends are on the enemy list now...
DC—all the talk about Saakashvili being a USG pawn (no doubt), but has anyone ever taken a look at someone else in his orbit, both in Tbilisi and Odessa: Christina Pushaw, Ron Desantis’s press secretary and attack dog. She’s great at owning the libs (when she’s not congratulating Dave Rubin), but how did she go from Misha to a possible US president hopeful? As an RDS fan, it’s concerning. I don’t believe in coincidences like that either…
Hi Darryl, just finished “thoughts on Ukraine (remast)” - I am an American, and I have to say thank you for taking the time to put this together. I understand other listeners, especially from European countries may have completely different perspectives here, and of course that is okay, but I appreciate your view and hope it can permeate into our national culture. Laying aside what our corporations and our politicians have done, we the people, could be so much better than this, and I’m sure I am as guilty here as the next guy, but I would love to see that day, when as a nation we decide to stop falling for their distracting bullshit, and realize that we the people have created this problem, and only we the people can solve it.
One thing you cover in this "series" that I absolutely cannot wrap my mind around, is why the Russians would put Americans in charge of reshaping their economy after the Cold War. For decades we fought, argued, undermined, and plotted to annihilate one another. Then when the dust settles they decided to employ professionals strait from the feeder of the American Deep State to remake the country? This was long before I was born, but it seems a little naïve, no?
Loved the episode, really opened my eyes to the Russian perspective.
My understaning was that this podcast was exactly that. Russian perspective and ignorance or deliberate provocation from NATO regarding that. It was not supposed to be a totally comprehensive take on everything but the point of view almost completely missing fromt the current western discourse.
1) Are there any differences between the script of the original and the remaster?
2) Does anybody know of any in-depth critique of the podcast?
The comments I have found on the subbredit were not very numerous or substantial.
Bro, you’ve helped me write yet another A+ essay on Russia U.S relations post Cold War relations. You give me hope that prehaps something out of america can be salvaged.
I loved the first episode. It was real and raw. Very interesting and entertaining. Personally, I would have preferred a second follow-up episode rather than a re-make of the first.
Dear Darryl, Thank you for your podcast on this topic. Although , as with most human interaction, we may not agree on every detail and nuance of an issue, there are a huge number of things which I genuinely appreciate about your presentation in general and your specific comments on this particular episode. My first degree was in history. I learned from wonderful teachers the art of historiography. Many of my courses focused on the histories of central and eastern Europe. In the spirit of balanced historiography you have offered up a valuable context which allows the listener/reader to have a vantage point from the top of the fence, rather than being ensconced on one side or the other of this issue. I have never valued commentaries or opinions which pander to the views I already have and leave me in a comfortable place. Your take on things challenge me in some areas, have me nodding a strong yes in others, and leave my sensibilities feeling uncomfortable in either further areas. That to me is the mark of a strong presentation. For your study, your analysis, your empathy and your hard work, I offer my gratitude.
Just finished V1 earlier today. Agree the audio quality was on the rough side but still was solid. Really appreciate the effort to put out a quality product in these tumultuous times!
I love your podcasts that's the main reason I immediately became a Substack subscriber but this one was very disappointing. I understand from Geopolitical perspective you can find many excuses for this invasion but having family over there(I am Ukrainian/Russian) I can tell you the bombings of civilian (mostly Russian speaking) cities have been horrific. Whatever mental gymnastics supporters of this invasion have to do the bottom line is Ukrainians have never been more united in resisting this invasion than now. If in 2014 the invasion of Crimea was a surprise to them, this one wasn't. There are line ups to join the military. This will be a costly war for both sides but I can't see how Russia will come out of this a winner. Keep up the good work, looking forward to hearing more on the topic, but please talk about it from both sides.
I very much appreciate this content, I just wish I knew what to do with it. I have always been a firm believer that knowledge is power and have pursued knowledge in many forms across a variety of subjects. I thought being a well educated citizen was one of the best ways to be a good citizen. But Covid taught me that knowledge may be powerful but it’s less powerful than narrative and that the most effective narrative is fear. So there is a part of me that wants to understand the nuances of the conflict, that wants to understand the historical actors and actions that have brought us here. I want all the information I can get so I can try and discern what “facts” coming out of the war zone might have some semblance of reality and what is pure propaganda. But there is a growing sense of dread that doing so is pointless. My elected officials don’t care what I think. Our options in the ballot box are often a choice between bad and worse. Most of the people in my inner circle either cling desperately to the narrative or just can’t be bothered to care one way or another. I feel bipolar, desperate and obsessively looking for more information but consumed by the feeling that none of it matters anyway.
Very, very interesting. Russia's government is wholly responsible for a lot of needless death and suffering, but western interventionist policy certainly seems to have greased the rails. It's kind of like the people who bully those who end up becoming school shooters. Just because you didn't pull the trigger doesn't mean you should sleep particularly well. Thanks for connecting some dots for me.
Hello Darryl Cooper. i have listen You for a while and i think You have objktiveti in Your arguments, thats why im responding to You and trying to explaine something abaute the situation in ukraine, in a werry different angle.
Im a half Russian ( the better half ) and living near Russia, i have lived in Russia and i know Russians, i know ukrianians too and have lot of friends who lived in Donbass or theire realtives still living there. After 2014 coup in Kiev the country is like a mad experiment from the west, what we can do to people and get away witht this.
Good that You covering this case and to better understanding....its like two brothers get the inheritance ( soviet union died and Russia and ukraine get their new territories ). Ukriane got lot more than they had when they united with soviet union. And the one brother ( ukraine ) soon will be found by the bad guys and oportunist ( Us and allies ) who yust want to get something of the inheritance. They drink him and give him a drugs, he wastes hes part of the inheritance and at the same time they telling him that the other brother is a bad and we got to get him to give his cut of inheritance away too.
At the end, the bigger brother ( Russia ) yust get werry angry abaout this situation and get the younger brother, beat him up, silbering him up and get wride of his bad friends and influence, starting from a new page and keeping family together. But those bad friends are on the enemy list now...
I said this on Twitter already but I think this was my favorite episode yet. Really fascinating stuff. Thanks Darryl!
DC—all the talk about Saakashvili being a USG pawn (no doubt), but has anyone ever taken a look at someone else in his orbit, both in Tbilisi and Odessa: Christina Pushaw, Ron Desantis’s press secretary and attack dog. She’s great at owning the libs (when she’s not congratulating Dave Rubin), but how did she go from Misha to a possible US president hopeful? As an RDS fan, it’s concerning. I don’t believe in coincidences like that either…
Hi Darryl, just finished “thoughts on Ukraine (remast)” - I am an American, and I have to say thank you for taking the time to put this together. I understand other listeners, especially from European countries may have completely different perspectives here, and of course that is okay, but I appreciate your view and hope it can permeate into our national culture. Laying aside what our corporations and our politicians have done, we the people, could be so much better than this, and I’m sure I am as guilty here as the next guy, but I would love to see that day, when as a nation we decide to stop falling for their distracting bullshit, and realize that we the people have created this problem, and only we the people can solve it.
One thing you cover in this "series" that I absolutely cannot wrap my mind around, is why the Russians would put Americans in charge of reshaping their economy after the Cold War. For decades we fought, argued, undermined, and plotted to annihilate one another. Then when the dust settles they decided to employ professionals strait from the feeder of the American Deep State to remake the country? This was long before I was born, but it seems a little naïve, no?
Does this differ from the original in any meaningful way?
thank you for re-recording this, that was likely not a fun task
Imagine if the United States made the same mistake with Japan. Thank you Darryl for addressing many gaps in my knowledge in historical context.
Loved the episode, really opened my eyes to the Russian perspective.
My understaning was that this podcast was exactly that. Russian perspective and ignorance or deliberate provocation from NATO regarding that. It was not supposed to be a totally comprehensive take on everything but the point of view almost completely missing fromt the current western discourse.
1) Are there any differences between the script of the original and the remaster?
2) Does anybody know of any in-depth critique of the podcast?
The comments I have found on the subbredit were not very numerous or substantial.
Bro, you’ve helped me write yet another A+ essay on Russia U.S relations post Cold War relations. You give me hope that prehaps something out of america can be salvaged.
I loved the first episode. It was real and raw. Very interesting and entertaining. Personally, I would have preferred a second follow-up episode rather than a re-make of the first.