Episode 6: “Hello America, this is Addis Ababa.”

Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News

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🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

An authoritarian ruler moves to invade a smaller country and take it for himself. People around the world rally to that country’s defense. European and American leaders grapple with how to stop the invasion and prevent a wider war. But this isn’t Russia and Ukraine in 2022. It’s Italy and Ethiopia in 1935. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson explore what we can learn from the very different choices made decades ago, when the world faced a similar challenge.

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0:00.0	What is your address Mr. Anderson?
0:05.0	225 East 129 Street.
0:08.0	225 East 129 Street.
0:11.0	109 Street.
0:12.0	Uh-huh. What's your age, Ms. Downeson?
0:14.4	37.
0:15.4	37.
0:16.4	What is your weight?
0:17.4	150 pounds.
0:18.4	height.
0:19.4	In the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City, men are lining up to enlist. They're volunteering to go to war.
0:27.6	That's fine, sign right here on the dotted line.
0:29.9	This war is oceans away, and it's not a war that the United States is even a party to.
0:36.2	The US is studiously staying neutral, staying out of the whole thing entirely.
0:40.9	But still, a not inconsiderable number of New Yorkers, particularly black New Yorkers,
0:46.7	are lining up to join this fight.
0:49.9	And even though this war is unfolding halfway across the world,
0:53.2	and it doesn't technically involve the United States,
0:56.9	a kind of mirror image of the conflict
0:58.8	has also started up here on the streets of New York City.
1:03.6	One headline in the New York Times says,
1:05.5	1,200 extra police on war duty here.
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