03/02/2025: Ukraine-US and Death Flights

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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During his campaign, President Donald Trump promised to bring peace to Ukraine. That hasn’t happened yet. However, he has changed how the United States deals with Russia. Correspondent Scott Pelley travels to Washington, D.C. to speak with members of Congress who argue America should not abandon Ukraine. 60 Minutes reports on how the flight logs found in a plane in Fort Lauderdale, FL uncovered Argentina’s notorious death flights during its dictatorship in the mid-1970s – serving as key evidence of the state’s lethal scheme that “disappeared” thousands of innocent citizens who they viewed as a threat to the state. Correspondent Jon Wertheim revisits this dark and traumatic period in Argentine history, meeting the pair of investigators who discovered the plane, and families of the victims who were thrown to their deaths. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	NPR's ThruLine podcast sort of feels like stepping into a time machine.
0:06.1	Each episode, our Peabody Award-winning show, travels beyond the headlines to answer the question, how did we get here?
0:13.7	Listen to one of Apple's favorite podcasts of 2024 by searching for ThruLine on Apple Podcasts or on your favorite podcast app.
0:22.6	You're gambling with World War III.
0:33.6	You're gambling with World War III.
0:36.6	Vladimir Putin watches the video from the Oval Office, and what does he see?
0:41.3	Vladimir Putin couldn't be happier, Scott, because what he sees is all of the pressure on Zelensky, all of the pressure on Ukraine, and no pressure on him.
0:52.3	The Allies look at the video and see what?
0:56.0	What they see is something that's just confounding a discussion that doesn't reflect the reality of the war in Ukraine,
1:03.0	the degree to which this war is a crime against humanity.
1:10.0	Tonight, the saga of an airplane that doubled as an instrument of murder.
1:14.9	During Argentina's ruthless dictatorship in the mid-70s, the Skyvan PA-51 was used to
1:21.0	throw victims alive into the Atlantic Ocean. To quote-unquote disappear, thousands of innocent
1:26.8	citizens seen as a threat to the state.
1:29.6	Dumping prisoners out of an airplane seems so extreme. Why would a military resort to this?
1:37.8	No trail, no clues whatsoever that could incriminate them.
1:46.8	I'm Leslie Stahl.
1:48.7	I'm Bill Whitaker.
1:50.0	I'm Anderson Cooper.
1:51.2	I'm Sharon Alphonse.
1:52.7	I'm John Worthy.
1:53.9	I'm Cecilia Vega.
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