From The Silo: If Russia's Going to Accuse Us of Escalation Even if We Don't Escalate, Then Why Not Escalate Anyway?

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 26 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Originally Aired: March 10, 2022 As the war in Ukraine drags on, Russian atrocities are mounting. Bombing hospitals, using thermobaric weapons, and potentially escalating to chemical weapons. What should the West do? David Rothkopf and Kavita Patel look for answers with Alex Vindman former Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder. Should the U.S. get involved militarily in Ukraine? Is Putin on his way out? How should we approach countries that don't support Ukraine? Find out the answers to these and other pressing questions during this dark period. Don't miss it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	9, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23.
0:18.0	This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the
0:23.9	third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C. and from other undisclosed
0:30.4	locations across America and around the world.
0:34.4	Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Deep State Radio. I'm your host David Rothkoff.
0:40.1	I'm in New York City, coming to you from our nation's capital, or in that vicinity, of
0:46.4	course, being this time of the week. We have Dr. Kavita Patel, late of the Obama White
0:52.2	House and practicing physician. How are you doing today?
0:57.0	Very excited for this episode today.
0:59.7	As I would hope you would be each week, but it's a very good episode. Also joining us in the,
1:06.1	I don't know, probably in the Washington, D.C. area, but you can never be sure is Lieutenant
1:12.2	Colonel Alex Vindman, where are you today, Alex? Undisclosed location. I can see from the pictures
1:18.6	behind you that you're in a family location and a man who's always in an undisclosed location
1:27.0	because everybody wants a piece of him, Eva Daulter of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
1:32.6	How are you today, Eva?
1:34.2	I'm great. I'm actually in the best, wonderful, most wonderful city that everybody thinks they
1:39.8	should fly over in Chicago, so it's wonderful to be here.
1:43.0	As a product of Illinois, someone born in Illinois, I have to embrace that thought as well.
1:49.3	Clearly today we're going to talk about where we are in the conflict in Ukraine and in our response
1:57.4	to the conflict in Ukraine. I have to say it's Thursday and I watched last night on the last word
2:05.0	with Lawrence O'Donnell, a show that I joined on a pretty regular basis, a lively discussion
2:11.5	between you, Alex, and Lawrence O'Donnell, in which I think he was pushing back a little bit
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