3/15/22: Ukraine Diplomacy, Economic Fallout, China's Crossroads, Anti-War Protests, & Media Propaganda feat. Matt Taibbi!

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

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Philosophy, Government, Politics, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Krystal and Saagar break down the NATO leaders going to Kyiv for diplomacy, Russia's economy tanking, China at a crossroads, anti-war protests in Russia, Biden blaming Putin for inflation, wartime authoritarianism among liberals, the end of globalization, the case for nationalizing US oil, and an extended interview with Matt Taibbi on all things US propaganda and Russian history! To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/ To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Matt Taibbi: https://taibbi.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.3	Good morning everybody. Happy Tuesday. We have an amazing show for everybody today. What do we have, Crystal?
1:24.8	Indeed we do. Lots of big stories this morning. We're going to update you. Of course, on what's happening on the ground in
1:30.0	Ukraine, some new diplomatic efforts, also the fallout in the Russian economy. In addition,
1:36.6	massive drop in the Chinese markets. It's really quite stunning. So we're going to talk to you about
1:43.6	that and what is going on there. A truly brave protest unfolding on Russian state TV. We will
1:50.5	bring you those details as well as protests from some of the citizens in Ukraine that are now in
1:56.0	Russian occupied territory. So a lot of courage and bravery there. We'll break down what's going on
2:01.9	for you with Joe Biden. Some new polling there and his messaging and some insane comments on the
2:10.2	view, like total McCarthyite authoritarianism. I mean, it really is wild. What is sort of just being
2:16.6	casually put out there in the public space? Well, so not taby on excited to get us take. Of course,
2:21.5	he lived in Russia and is a Russian speaker actually. It'll be great to hear from him on how he
2:28.5	views all of the events that are unfolding. But we do want to start as we have been with what is
2:32.6	unfolding on the ground in Ukraine to the best of our knowledge. Yeah, this is always a difficult one.
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