A War Correspondent on Russia-Ukraine (Robert Wright & Seth Harp)
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🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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2:04 What Seth learned from being in Ukraine that you won’t learn from western media 12:32 Was the ouster of Ukraine’s president in 2014 a revolution or a coup?19:45 Could the White House have averted the invasion – and could it end the war now? 37:46 The degree of on-the-ground American involvement in Ukraine and Syria49:32 Why Seth warns of frozen conflict when others predict Ukrainian victory 59:14 The extent of pro-Russian sentiment in eastern Ukraine 1:02:33 Seth: War always means atrocity, so we should avoid wars 1:15:47 Is wartime reporting less objective now than usual?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Seth Harp (Rolling Stone). Recorded October 18, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, Seth. |
| 0:09.5 | Hey, Bob. |
| 0:10.2 | Great to be with you. |
| 0:10.9 | How are you? |
| 0:11.7 | I'm great. |
| 0:12.6 | Good to have you. |
| 0:13.4 | Let me introduce this. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the Non-Zero Newsletter. |
| 0:16.9 | This is a Non-Zero podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | You are Seth Harp, a, I uh i guess war correspondent is that a fair |
| 0:23.7 | way to describe your profession that's fair yes you're a journalist you're also an army |
| 0:30.7 | veteran you served in iraq um you're also a lawyer you were uh on the Attorney General staff in Texas, there where you are. |
| 0:41.6 | You're an assistant, you were an assistant attorney general for Texas. And unlike most |
| 0:48.4 | Americans who are trying to figure out what's going on in the Ukraine war, you've actually been there. |
| 0:55.3 | You, you know, you're an independent journalist. You've written for various places, New Yorker, |
| 1:01.0 | Harper's Daily Beast, The Intercept. But you, and you've also reported from Syria, I gather, |
| 1:07.3 | and I hope to get into that. But most recently, you went to Ukraine, did a long piece for Harper's early in the war, kind of on your search for the Foreign Legion, so to speak, right? |
| 1:21.0 | We had all heard about these people who are flocking to Ukraine from various countries to help out. And you |
| 1:29.1 | tried to figure out what, if anything, was actually going on in that front. And we'll talk about |
| 1:36.4 | that as well. And then you did a piece very recently for responsible state crafts I definitely |
| 1:43.4 | want to talk about because you're arguing that there are some pretty widespread misperceptions about the state of |
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