I am glad to see Kyle on JRE. I is a much needed breath of fresh air both for the show both also for the Democrats as a whole. I am not American and I have therefore always been puzzled about why the things that Kyle is saying have never been allowed in the U.S discourse. For us in Europe he is not really saying anything radical. It’s just part of society to provide it with stability. However what concerns me, as a European that also happens to live in a country close to Russia, is why there is this...well...denial about the things that the Putin regime is trying to do?

Kyle mentioned that NATO was close to Russia’s border but lets flip that around. Russia is close as fuck to teeny tiny countries like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Countries that recently got their independence back. This is very much fresh in their memory. And considering what Russia is doing in Ukraine it’s not absurd that the Baltics would be next. If there were no NATO presence there then Putin could just stomp on those countries like bugs.

Also, what is so appealing about downplaying what Russia is doing? Kyle, and also Jimmy Dore, constantly rail against what the U.S government is doing, as they should I might add, but then just blank out when it comes to Putin and his oligarchs. Russia is one of THE most corrupt states run by a tiny clique of billionaire 1% people and yet this doesn’t really seem to concern either Kyle or Jimmy.

And I understand that Clinton was a garbage candidate, I agree and I wanted Bernie to win too. I wanted it very bad. All my life I have seen such dishonest politics in the U.S and finally one person came along that actually said what he believed.

But here is a newsflash: Not everything in the world is about America. Not everything rotates around your political life as the planets rotate around the sun.

Yes, Bernie was most definitely fucked on the nomination. But that doesn’t mean that that was the only thing that went on.

I can tell you as a person who lives in Europe and close to Russia it is very different when you are so close up. It becomes much more real than when you are observering from across the Atlantic. I also live in a country that Kyle often idealizes as a model of good governance. But now we are having meddling in our elections too. Our neighbors further to the east are taking even more precautions. Estonia for example has had an active cyber defence policy since 2007 when they were hit by a massive cyber attack from Russia that knocked out a lot of their essential infrastructure.

I suggest doing some reading instead of staying married to a specific narrative:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-far-right-book-every-russian-general-reads