3/4/22 Peter Van Buren on the War in Ukraine and the Origins of Russiagate

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Scott was joined by Peter Van Buren for an extended Antiwar Radio interview. They begin with a long discussion of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, how it’s going and how it will likely end. Van Buren also explains to Scott why the invasion has made him more confident that China will not invade Taiwan. Next, they turn to all the new information we are learning about Russiagate. Van Buren lays out what we now know and fits all the new details into the broad timeline of the coordinated attempt to remove Trump and protect Hillary Clinton. Discussed on the show: “Ukraine Is Redefining America’s Interests” (The Atlantic) “John Mearsheimer & Ray McGovern on Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine” (Antiwar.com Blog) “More Questions About Russiagate” (The American Conservative) Peter Van Buren worked for 24 years at the Department of State including a year in Iraq. He is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People and the novel Hooper’s War. He is now a contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine. 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, March 6th, 2022.
0:05.0	I'm Scott Horton.
0:08.0	This is anti-war radio. I'm your host, Scott Horton.
0:25.7	I'm editorial director of anti-war.com, and I'm the author of Enough Already. Time to end the
0:30.9	war on terrorism. You can find my full interview archive more than 5,600 interviews now going back to 2003 at Scott Horton.org and at YouTube.
0:43.0	And you can follow me on Twitter at Scott Horton Show.
0:46.0	All right.
0:47.0	Introducing one of my favorite guests, and I know y'all's two,
0:50.0	it's the great Peter Van Buren, formerly a State Department official,
0:54.8	wrote a great memoir of his time in Iraq War II called We Meant Well, which is
0:59.8	also the name of his great website where he writes all of his brilliant pieces and he's a
1:04.3	regular writer also for the American Conservative magazine here and his new one is called
1:11.1	more questions about Russia Gate welcome back back to the show. How are you doing, Peter?
1:15.0	Always a pleasure, Scott.
1:17.0	All right, so we have a limited amount of time and I think we're going to talk more about this article in the second half that'll be available on my website
1:24.2	later over there at scot Horton.org. I want to talk more about the war up front here, but I want to start with
1:30.7	this article about Russiagate because I think that now I see how important it is
1:36.3	Peter Van Buren that you have Americans who are absolutely terrified out of their minds about Russia because of
1:45.0	Russia Gate who are now off on why we need to make things worse in
1:49.6	Eastern Europe because this isn't to them about the Don Bass at all. This is about the
1:54.9	American almost fascist dictatorship that we just barely avoided. And so you know the fate of all mankind hangs in the balance might as well be
2:05.9	talking about Harry Truman and Joe Stalin and the dawn of the old Cold War right
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