365 Days of Ukraine War: US Doubles Down, While Global South Realigns
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
As the war in Ukraine hits one year, Biden visits Zelensky in Kiev, Putin gives an uncompromising state of the nation speech, and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs makes a fiery statement against the US Empire, the likes of which haven’t been seen in decades.
Brian is joined by Walter Smolarek, editor of Liberation News and producer of this show, to sort through the tea leaves on where the war in Ukraine may be headed.
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| 0:00.0 | One year ago, the Russian government decided to carry out what it called a special military |
| 0:08.4 | operation in Ukraine, what the West calls the invasion by Russia of Ukraine. |
| 0:14.4 | Today we're going to talk about the Ukraine war one year in. |
| 0:19.0 | We need a new system. |
| 0:20.7 | We need a new society. We need a new society. |
| 0:22.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only |
| 0:28.6 | realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to this week's episode of The Socialist Program. |
| 0:56.7 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:58.8 | In this week's conversation, we're going to be talking with Walter Smolerick. |
| 1:02.9 | Walter is another colleague who helps produce and carry out the work of the Socialist Program, |
| 1:09.3 | and we've been doing the show for more than two years. |
| 1:11.6 | Walter is a journalist. He's the editor of Liberation News. And Walter is a close observer of international events. |
| 1:19.6 | We're going to talk about the Ukraine War one year in. We're going to try to evaluate the state of the war, the state of the Russian economy, the orientation of |
| 1:29.7 | the United States government and NATO, and the thinking of Vladimir Putin and the Russian government. |
| 1:35.1 | We're also going to talk about how China views this war. |
| 1:39.1 | Walter Smilerich, welcome. |
| 1:40.6 | Glad to be here. |
| 1:42.2 | Well, Brian, I wanted to start by getting your thoughts about Joe Biden's recent trip |
| 1:47.4 | to Kiev. |
| 1:48.4 | I mean, he marked the one-year anniversary or the near one-year anniversary of the beginning |
| 1:53.1 | of the war. |
| 1:54.2 | By traveling to Kiev, he announced a major new weapon shipment valued at $500 million in line with the U.S. policy from the beginning of the |
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