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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Will the GOP's Ukraine Aid Block Kick-Off Another Worldwide War?

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Putin's language of escalation highlights the danger that the GOP’s embrace of Trump and Trump’s ties to Putin have put the US and the entire democratic world in…

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Will the GOP's Ukraine Aid Block kick off another worldwide war?

0:05.0

On Saturday I published a breaking news oped here on Harman report about the possible

0:10.2

consequences of Putin using Friday's theater attack in a Moscow suburb

0:14.3

the same way Hitler used the burning of the Reichstag-Gebode to end democracy in

0:19.5

civil rights in Germany. Bush used 9-11 to attack Iraq and push the Patriot Act.

0:25.3

Putin used a different theater attack in 2002 to destroy and seize Chechnya.

0:30.2

LBJ used the foreign Gulf of Tonunken incident to accelerate the Vietnam War,

0:35.0

and Netanyahu is using the October 7 Hamas attack to stay in power and out of prison.

0:40.0

In other words, might Putin be prepared to use the ISIS attack on the theater as an excuse to do something draconian?

0:48.0

Would that mean he substantially escalates his war against democracy in Ukraine?

0:52.0

Might that escalation lead to a confrontation with NATO?

0:56.4

And where would that take the world?

0:58.5

Given these possibilities, if Republicans continue to block USA to Ukraine and now that Trump has given the marching orders

1:04.5

may block the Tik-Toc divestiture in the Senate.

1:07.6

Is that convincing Chinese dictator Xi to move up his schedule for attacking and seizing

1:12.0

Taiwan? While the article posited a potentially up his schedule for attacking and seizing Taiwan.

1:13.0

While the article posited a potentially dire outcome,

1:16.3

World War III, as the most extreme consequence of Putin

1:20.3

trying to use the theater to justify an all-out war as opposed to a limited

1:25.0

special military operation against Ukraine. There are multiple other

1:29.0

possible outcomes if he takes that route and sticks to it the way for example George W Bush used

1:34.7

9-11 to seize Iraq's oil fields second largest in the world and sell their

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