2/18/22 Jack Matlock on the Predictable and Avoidable Crisis Over Ukraine

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Scott interviews Jack Matlock, former Ambassador to the USSR, about the current situation in eastern Europe. While he can’t imagine Russia will actually invade Ukraine, Matlock points to the last three decades of unnecessary NATO expansion as the catalyst for today’s tension. Impressively, he went on record and testified all the way back in 1997 that expanding NATO would be a mistake. Scott and Matlock also point to the discrepancy between the hysterical political narrative being amplified by the media and the actual diplomatic progress as a source for rational optimism. Discussed on the show: “Today’s Crisis Over Ukraine Was Predictable and Avoidable” (Antiwar.com) Jack Matlock is a career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union when the Cold War ended. Since retiring from the Foreign Service, he has focused on understanding how the Cold War ended and how the lessons from that experience might be applied to public policy today. 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	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
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0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
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0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
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0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. to last Ambassador to the USSR and writing here now for the American Committee for
0:57.0	US Russia Accord.
0:59.2	That's at US Russia Accord.org and we also reprinted it at anti-war.com as well.
1:05.0	Today's crisis over Ukraine was predictable and avoidable.
1:10.0	It even has a little poem at the beginning,
1:12.0	an avoidable crisis that was predictable
1:14.4	Actually predicted willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense
1:25.0	Ha ha very nice. Welcome back to the show Jack. How are you sir? Glad to be with you. I'm just fine.
1:29.0	Great. So, big crisis in Russia and Ukraine. you've been in on this story for a very long time here,
1:36.6	of course, just this last Christmas, we celebrated the 30-year anniversary of the very final
1:42.3	end of the Soviet Union.
1:44.7	The red flag came down and the very last of the republics even were set free.
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