2/10/22 Ray McGovern on the Russia Invasion Panic

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Ray McGovern joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the hysteria over a Russian invasion of Ukraine. McGovern explains why no such invasion will be taking place. They then discuss the reasons the U.S. government has to stir up panic and what both sides here actually want. Lastly, McGovern gives his opinion on William Burns, the current Director of the CIA. Discussed on the show: “Putin Is Not Stupid and That’s Good” (Antiwar.com) Support KPFK Ray McGovern is the co-creator of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and the former chief of the CIA’s Soviet analysts division. Read all of his work at his website: raymcgovern.com. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For Pacifica Radio, February the 15th, 2022.
0:05.0	I'm Scott Horton.
0:08.0	This is Anti War Radio. All right, y'all, welcome to the show.
0:14.0	It's All right, y'all welcome to the show. It is anti-war radio. I'm your host, Scott Horton.
0:27.0	I'm the editorial director of anti-war.com and the author of the book Enough Already.
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0:46.0	All right.
0:47.0	Introducing the great Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and chief of their Soviet division back in the day and he spent this
0:55.0	entire century being a great anti-war activist, co-founder of veteran
0:59.1	intelligence professionals for sanity and now full-time writer at anti-war.com as well. I am so
1:06.3	proud to say welcome back to the show Ray how are you sir?
1:09.1	I'm doing well Scott thanks for having. Very happy to have you here.
1:13.0	So there's so much going on.
1:15.0	Let's start with the bottom line, which is,
1:17.3	if I may sum it up, your position, sir,
1:19.3	is that the Russians never were going to invade Ukraine. And this whole thing is essentially a tempest in a teapot built up in Washington DC starting last November.
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