"The West Has Lost Its Confidence" - Frank Furedi

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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SPONSORED BY: Epoch Times, an online news source that presents clear, fact-based journalism without spin. Go to: http://epochtim.es/triggernometry to find out more! SPONSORED BY: easyDNS - domain name registrar provider and web host. Use special code: TRIGGERED for 50% off when you visit https://easydns.com/triggered/ Frank Furedi is a Hungarian-Canadian academic and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent. He is well known for his work on the sociology of fear, education, therapy culture, paranoid parenting and the sociology of knowledge. He is a prolific writer, his most recent book being, 'The Road to Ukraine: How the West Lost its Way'. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/trigger... https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ | Channel ID: UCo_8zzSxKeL3arKWVuP8wdQ Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Intro 09:13 Similarities Between World War 1 and the War in Ukraine 16:24 The Aftermath of the Soviet Union’s Collapse 31:13 Destructive Division in the West 35:12 Russia’s Future after the War in Ukraine 47:11 Is the West the Deciding Factor of Ukraine’s Future? 56:47 Is this War the Wake-up Call that the West Needed? 1:04:02 What's the One Thing We’re Not Talking About? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Suddenly we find that especially with COVID and the Ukrainian war, the world is breaking
0:08.1	up and everybody is looking, you know, what side they should be on.
0:13.3	They could pretend that, you know, it's us in the United States, we're on the world.
0:18.4	And now, the suddenly wake up one morning and you realize that you're just a large regional
0:24.8	power. And I think for those people, a lot of those people, that came as a bit of a shock
0:29.6	and they basically began to sort of blame the West for the predicament they were in.
0:37.4	You know, you can't blame the war on this single individual. There's a whole system
0:41.2	that played there. There's a lot of interests that are working. If Putin is taken out, then
0:48.4	somebody else will replace him who might smile a bit more than Putin does, but essentially
0:55.4	things will pretty much remain the same. One of my fears is not just simply what Russia
1:00.7	is doing in Ukraine. One of my fears is what will happen if Russia implodes, the federation
1:06.6	implodes because in the Russian federation is by no means as coherent and stable as it
1:13.2	looks. I'm a lot of the republics, you know, sort of there exists within Russian federation
1:18.7	or dying to get out of that federation. They're all looking somewhere else.
1:23.2	Hey, Francis, do you like journalism? Of course! So who's your favorite journalist, then?
1:37.6	Superman. What? Superman. Superman isn't a real person, Francis.
1:43.0	He's an alien, he's not a journalist, and more importantly, he's fucking fictional, mate.
1:48.2	If he was fictional, then why did Frederick Nature write about Superman, otherwise known
1:53.7	as Uberminch, in his seminal work, thus spoke Zarathushra, published in 1883, but still
2:00.3	widely quoted today by both students and intellectuals alike.
2:05.0	Sometimes, Francis, I feel as if I have no clue who you really are. But if you do like
2:10.1	journalism, then you have to check out the Epoch Times.
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