I watched some Stanislav Kropivnikov stuff and decided to read about him. Read how he identified a lot of problems with the west correctly, and then got disappointed when he blamed it on the gays and trans youth healthcare. Was watching Douglas Mcgregor. Aside from saying something along the lines of “Stalin made a mistake when creating Ukraine because Ukrainians are fake there’s no such nationality” he was spot that the west has to look into itself and change. And then he randomly blamed immigrants. Maddening.
The good thing about Glenn Diesen is that he lets everyone make their points without interrupting. The bad thing is, he has guests like extremely reactionary Douglas McGregor, or that annoying fake Chinese “professor” who is pushing some obviously insane conspiracy theories. Stanislav is interesting for his battlefield knowledge I guess, but otherwise, as he once said “I am a monarchist!” which is a laughably dumb thing to publicly admit to.
These guests have some good insights, but they also have a lot of dumb ones too and it’s basically up to you to filter out the obviously dumb ones. For example, McGregor always and without fail, pivots to immigrants as the root of all evil and for me personally, he isn’t worth listening to, for a couple of interesting points he perhaps managed to make under a mountain of garbage. Krapivnik mostly talks about the battlefield, so if that’s your thing, he is (for me) more tolerable than McGregor.
I temp unsubscribed from Glenn when he started having “prof” Jiang on. He also had that weenie Gad Saad on at one point. The comments were absolutely scathing so I hope he doesn’t try that again.