Crimea Attack, Pipeline Sabotage, Kiev Bombing, Endless NATO Weapons: Ukraine War Widens
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Russia has been hit by multiple major attacks, including sabotage in their Nordstream energy pipelines and the explosion on the Crimean Bridge. The bridge is a vital supply route to and from the peninsula with military supplies. Russia responded with missiles hitting Kiev. As NATO and Europe send further weapons and technology, the war is quickly escalating. Where is it going?
Brian is joined by Eugene Puryear, the host of the BreakThrough News podcast The Punch Out and co-host of the BT live video show The Freedom Side, which you can watch on the BreakThrough News YouTube channel, Thursdays 3–5pm ET.
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| 0:00.0 | Both sides in the Ukraine war are dramatically climbing the escalation ladder. |
| 0:07.0 | Where is this war going? |
| 0:09.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:13.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:18.0 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to this week's episode of the Socialist Program. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:49.7 | Today we'll be joined by Eugene Per Year. |
| 0:52.0 | He's the host of the daily podcast, The Punch Out. |
| 0:54.5 | He's also can be seen every Thursday on the Freedom Side with Rania Kalluk on Breakthrough News. |
| 0:59.7 | He's an author. |
| 1:00.5 | He's an activist. |
| 1:01.7 | We've talked to Eugene numerous times about the escalating war in Ukraine. |
| 1:06.2 | The last time on September 21st, we talked about the logic of escalation and why this war would widen, |
| 1:12.3 | become bigger, escalate, impose new dangers. Eugene, Pierre, welcome. Brian, thanks so much for |
| 1:18.0 | having me back. Thank you. Eugene, we talked on September 21st. That's when Vladimir Putin made |
| 1:24.1 | the speech announcing that he was calling up 300,000 more Russian reservists. |
| 1:29.3 | That was after Ukraine launched a successful counteroffensive taking back some territory held |
| 1:35.4 | by Russia in the northeast part of Ukraine. Since that time, there has been a terrorist attack |
| 1:41.7 | on the Kerch Bridge that connects Crimea to the Russian mainland. |
| 1:46.0 | There has been the sabotage of Nord Stream 2, the pipeline that brought Russian natural gas to Europe. |
| 1:54.0 | Russia has carried out what it described as mass missile strikes against different targets in Ukraine, |
| 1:59.0 | some of them far away from the Donbass. |
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