5/19/22 Patrick Cockburn on the Arrogance of War Hawks on All Sides

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 22 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Scott talks with Patrick Cockburn about Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Western response. Cockburn argues that, regardless of any media spin, the Russians are running into more trouble than they expected to in Ukraine. He chalks that up to hubris on the part of Putin and other high-level Kremlin officials. But at the same time, he points to that same hubris as driving western leaders in their decision to fund this proxy war against Russia. Discussed on the show: “London and Washington are Being Propelled by Hubris – Just as Putin was” (CounterPunch) Patrick Cockburn is a columnist for The Independent and the author of War in the Age of Trump. 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.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arran,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
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. Of course, award-winning Middle East correspondent for the Independent and author of Chaos and
0:58.3	Caliphate and his latest book is War in the Age of Trump, and he's got this really important one I hope you'll read it
1:05.8	it's at counterpunch.org London and Washington are being propelled by hubris just as Putin was.
1:14.1	Welcome back to the show, Patrick.
1:15.3	How are you doing?
1:17.0	I'm doing good.
1:18.2	Good to be back.
1:19.2	Good, good.
1:19.7	Very great to talk to you again.
1:21.0	So really important piece that you write here. You start off with
1:24.5	World War II and a comparison to America's policy toward Japan in 1941
1:30.9	before the Pearl Harbor attack. What are you getting at here?
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