How the Ukraine War Helps US Empire

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Click here for the extended episode, including the full interview with Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison. For a while, pundits have been predicting the decline of American superpower. Although some decline is inevitable, don’t expect Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to precipitate it. As the American Prestige podcast’s Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison explain, the US ability to invade another country and commit war crimes that would merit US sanctions if it was any other country, and without any backlash, underscores America’s overwhelming strength. “What would these scholars, who say Russian students should be kicked out of schools and that there are no good Russians, have thought if in 2003, scholars in Russia said there are no good Americans because we invaded Iraq? They would have been aghast.” “They can’t process the thought that those situations are analogous. We’re virtuous and everyone else is evil.” With the war ramping up, US ghoulishness runs rampant. Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, and Nancy Pelosi all giggle at the brink of war while Bucky is left to take the fall. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to YouSlowDiets. I'm one of your hosts, Gate Halper.
0:09.0	I'm the other host, Aaron Mate. How are you doing?
0:12.0	I'm well. I'm well. I just got back from Yale University, where I had a really interesting time.
0:19.0	I was invited to take part in this debate by the Yale Political Union and the motion on the floor was
0:27.0	whether or not to absolve the military industrial complex. I gave a very...
0:31.0	Absorb it. Absorb it like...
0:33.0	Oh, sorry. That's absolved. No. To abolish.
0:35.0	Abolish. Abolish. Abolish.
0:37.0	But I give a very spirited case for why we should abolish the military industrial complex.
0:42.0	I talked about Yemen. Obviously, what's going on with Ukraine, the deprivation of people here at home,
0:48.0	all this money going into the Pentagon while not providing people with healthcare.
0:52.0	But I bad news everybody, our future overlords who are not studying at Yale voted over...
0:59.0	Not over on me. Voted narrowly to defeat my proposal.
1:03.0	And so the military industrial complex will have to remain. I'm sorry to report. I did my best.
1:08.0	I have my hopes up. I thought maybe we're going to get rid of it this week.
1:11.0	So it's you debating... Like, there's a debate or how does it work?
1:16.0	This is a debate club where... And they have... It's really interesting.
1:20.0	I had been to like a formal debate since I was a kid.
1:23.0	You know, they have all these different political parties and everyone has their own group that they are part of
1:28.0	and people debate foreign against the motion and they invite a speaker to come argue one way or the other.
1:33.0	And I did my best, but I lost. It was a close vote. We almost squeaked through, but the military industrial complex prevailed.
1:40.0	Who knows what kind of lobbying they did behind closed doors and reaching out to the allies? Yeah.
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