#301 — The Politics of Unreality: Ukraine and Nuclear Risk
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Sam Harris speaks with Timothy Snyder about the ongoing war in Ukraine. They discuss the effect of Russian propaganda, Putin's motives, whether the US and NATO bear some responsibility for the war, widespread calls for de-escalation, nuclear blackmail and nuclear risk, and other topics.
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| 0:46.7 | Okay, well, I should say something about my last podcast with Meg Smaker, |
| 0:53.4 | as you might recall, Meg is a documentarian who had her first feature length documentary |
| 1:01.2 | accepted more or less everywhere, including Sundance and South by Southwest, and then she got |
| 1:08.4 | attacked by a Denditarian grievance entrepreneurs and promptly defended by Sundance and the other |
| 1:20.5 | festivals. And this really was a case of picking absolutely the wrong target. You just have to |
| 1:27.1 | listen to Meg for about 10 minutes and you realize she's pretty much the last person who should have |
| 1:33.0 | been canceled for making the film she made. Anyway, she has a GoFundMe page to support her ongoing |
| 1:39.4 | efforts to get the film, G-Hod rehab, now known as the Unredacted Distributed, and when we recorded |
| 1:47.8 | that episode, her GoFundMe had raised $3,000, but at the end of that episode I asked you all to |
| 1:56.0 | contribute if you could, and now Meg has raised over $600,000 in one week. So Needless to say, |
| 2:04.8 | her situation has completely changed, and it will be fascinating to see what happens next. |
| 2:10.6 | So thank you all for supporting her. Beyond changing the material prospects for the film, |
| 2:18.0 | your notes of encouragement, I know have made a tremendous difference over there. The outpouring |
| 2:25.2 | of love and support was tremendous, and it was really, really gratifying to see I love seeing a |
| 2:32.5 | podcast guest supported in that way. So thanks again for showing up. And on the topic of love |
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