I have received this 5 times today-Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin

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Note that this lecture is four years old and the number of views - he was a regular on TV a few decades ago

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1. Way More Here - must of us remember this document

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfowitz_Doctrine

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2. Be wary of him....

Pozner was a Soviet propagandist and STILL likes to direct as much blame as possible on the West.

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4. I listen to everything I can n/t

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3. Gosh, is there no evil, no sin, no atrocity, that CANNOT be ultimately laid at America's feet?

Even the evil that is Vladimir Putin is our fault? Putin is a psychopath, and bloodthirsty, and lost in the past "glories" of the USSR, and we didn't make him that way. Our lack of full trust of him is because he is untrustworthy as a leader and as a human being. Anyone who trusts Putin and the Russian government he leads is a fool. Constant lies, constant deception, constant red herrings and whatabouts, constant and ever-shifting excuses and rationales for war and invasions. (Denazification? Really??). He's even lost his Eastern European buddies. He really stepped in it now. Edit to add: I watched the speaker portion of the video. This dude's eating his words today.

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5. Pozner is a very captivating commentator, but he has always ladled on the whataboutisms

He appeared on US TV a lot in the 70's and, even then, I remember noticing how his persistent reliance on the standard russian whataboutisms would consistently undermine his viewpoint.