When you’ve been watching him over the past week, what have you been seeing that other people might be missing?įiona Hill: Putin is usually more cynical and calculated than he came across in his most recent speeches. Maura Reynolds: You’ve been a Putin watcher for a long time, and you’ve written one of the best biographies of Putin.
The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. We have to prepare for those contingencies and figure out what is it that we’re going to do to head them off.” It’s not that we should be intimidated and scared…. “And he wants us to know that, of course. “Every time you think, ’No, he wouldn’t, would he?’ Well, yes, he would,” Hill said. It’s important not to have any illusions - but equally important not to lose hope. Putin is increasingly operating emotionally and likely to use all the weapons at his disposal, including nuclear ones. There’s lots of danger ahead, she warned. “Every country in the world should be paying close attention to this.”įiona Hill testifying in an impeachment hearing of Donald Trump. “Ukraine has become the front line in a struggle, not just between democracies and autocracies but in a struggle for maintaining a rules-based system in which the things that countries want are not taken by force,” Hill said.
Those old historical patterns include Western businesses who fail to see how they help build a tyrant’s war chest, admirers enamored of an autocrat’s “strength” and politicians’ tendency to point fingers inward for political gain instead of working together for their nation’s security.īut at the same time, Hill says it’s not too late to turn Putin back, and it’s a job not just for the Ukrainians or for NATO - it’s a job that ordinary Westerners and companies can assist in important ways once they grasp what’s at stake. “Sadly, we are treading back through old historical patterns that we said that we would never permit to happen again,” Hill told me. We are already, she said, in the middle of a third World War, whether we’ve fully grasped it or not. People have very vivid imaginations, and that they have a lot of time on their hands.Hill spent many years studying history, and in our conversation, she repeatedly traced how long arcs and trends of European history are converging on Ukraine right now. Make of all this what you will, but one thing is clear for sure. One line says that “Humans open-mindedness will soon change forever.” Another one, reads just a date from November, later this year. The traveller’s Instagram bio has quite a few ominous-sounding predictions. That is why, no matter how ludicrous such “predictions” may seem to be, people listen to the story with a very keen interest, even though they are more likely to dismiss such stories off. Make what you will of these predictions and everything, but one cannot deny, there is a guilty pleasure of sorts in entertaining thoughts such as these. People, surprisingly, commented on his video, stating that they were going to move away from where they lived while others revealed they would be building a shelter.Ī viewer of his asked, "Question and please answer, will Canada be okay? Do we find a way to survive?" Another added: "POLAND? A’ight I'm moving out." He even names countries like Poland, Turkey, and Japan and the USA being involved in a major conflict. Giving more details, they went on: "The cause of this war will be with the attack on the US orbital defence network and subsequent declarations of war.” He continues, saying, “WW3 will start in 2048 but the world war is generally said to have begun on Thanksgiving day, 2051.” He started by saying that, unlike the previous two World Wars which were ‘total wars,’ the third one will be a ‘precision war.’ Putting an end to all speculations, he responded by putting up a video. The man put up a video on TikTok and a few other social media platforms, claiming that a lot of his followers have asked when will the next world war be fought. The Time Traveller who goes by the username (because he’s from the year 2582, he says) claims that the next World War will start in 2048. Make of that what you will, but do take his ‘predictions’ with a pinch of salt.
In case you were wondering just how bizarre people on social media can be, a man claiming to be from the future has “predicted” when will the next world war take place and why it would be fought.īe warned though that the man usually communicates using TikTok.
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