Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Putin's Road to War: Julia Ioffe (interview) | FRONTLINE" video.

Go look at her wikipedia bio, it makes for interesting reading. She was born in Russia and is a native Russian speaker who after her family immigrated studied Soviet history at Princeton. I have also watched Konstantin Kisin who's a Brit with a similar background. He too has been incredibly informative in recent days. Most notably neither of them needs an interpreter when Putin is speaking they can understand what he's saying. Konstantin has already pointed out that some of the news channel interpreters are slanting some of the definitions and not fully conveying the meaning of some of Putin's statements. That's their real value to us all right now. They can both explain what's being said because they are both native Russian speakers.
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Go look at her wikipedia bio, it makes for interesting reading. She was born in Russia and is a native Russian speaker who after her family immigrated studied Soviet history at Princeton. I have also watched Konstantin Kisin who's a Brit with a similar background. He too has been incredibly informative in recent days. Most notably neither of them needs an interpreter when Putin is speaking they can understand what he's saying. Konstantin has already pointed out that some of the news channel interpreters are slanting some of the definitions and not fully conveying the meaning of some of Putin's statements. That's their real value to us all right now. They can both explain what's being said because they are both native Russian speakers.
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@nn-hx8oe Well DK-HED she was born in Russia and speaks Russian. What part of that don't you get? If you want to talk about lies and propaganda - how about Putin changing the law so that news outlets can't call it a war. I think we all know who you work for. And for the record we've had enough of Putin and his BS. We've also had enough of some other people like Trump, like Biden and all the others who lie about everything and cheat everyone.
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@3DLasers Yeah those final words are seriously scary. Konstantin Kisin emphasized on a BBC panel that the last thing we should do is back Putin into a corner right now and she's saying he's already backed into a corner of his own making. That's not good for any of us.
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@nn-hx8oe WHY DON'T YOU TELL US ALL WHAT YOUR SOURCE OF WISDOM IS? Is it pro-Trump Fox, Skynews, OAN, Newsmax? OR Is it pro-Putin RT? Your mouthing off at people, hiding behind a pseudonym AND not telling anyone who you listen too. FYI - I don't watch CNN. EXPOSED
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@nn-hx8oe WELL YOU STILL HAVEN'T TOLD US YOUR SOURCE. You've spewed out another pile of incoherent crap and garbage. You can't even form clear sentences or use punctuation properly. Anyone can see your the person repeating what others have told you. Go back to school and learn to read, write and think before you mouth off at others. I hear they are taking new students at Prager U.
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@yvonneplant9434 I agree. Way back not long after Trump won 2016 Masha was on the Australian TV program "Planet America" and gave the best explanation that I saw anyone give on that whole fiasco. Masha explained that in Putin's experience elections are decided before election day. Election day is just a confirmation exercise and that's how it works in the Russian version of democracy. Way to often we think (and particularly Americans) there is one version of democracy. In Putin's brain Hilary had already won months and months beforehand. Everything else was just theatre because that how he thinks. So what was Putin doing hacking emails handing stuff to Trump's people? We all tend to forget that Hilary in her career of upsetting people had also slapped Russia (including Putin) with sanctions while she was SecState. PLUS Putin hated the fact that America had undermined and helped trash his glorious Soviet Empire. So he hated her. PLUS Soviet political strategy all through the cold war was "We are unpredictable while America is predictable." So having a lose cannon like Trump in the White House wasn't what Putin wanted. Putin wanted a predictable America he could play the classic Soviet games with. Just imagine what would have happened if Comey had kept quiet about finding the laptop with emails and then Hilary had won. Consider what Trump and the GOP would have done once the Russians started releasing proof that Comey had withheld vital information that helped Hilary win. Can you imagine how Trump and the GOP would have taken that? That's what is great about people like Masha, Julia and Konstantin Kisin. They understand Russian culture because they were all born into Russian culture. For almost 30 years we have been trying to put Russian politics into a Western Democratic Model. Its like trying to run Apple Software on a Windows PC - it doesn't work.
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@twatts1523 What, gives you that impression? How does anyone who understands their subject mean they're a spook? I think you're stretching reality a bit too far.
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@jakebredthauer5100 Yeah but Russia should also stop being a pain in the butt to the rest of the world. I can see a moment coming when one some guy from a small country gets up in the United Nations and just lets fly at how America, Russia and China just wont stop interfering in everyone else's business and tells the 3 of them to FK-OFF. And when the Brits, French and others laugh at it he throws stuff at them too.
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