How the West Provoked War in Ukraine

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-interview-how-the-west-provoked?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web How the West Brought War to Ukraine: https://www.amazon.com/How-West-Brought-Ukraine-Understanding/dp/0991076702 Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Researcher and writer Dr. Ben Abelow, a scholar who lobbied Congress on nuclear arms policy, joins Useful Idiots to explain, as his new book argues, how the west brought war to Ukraine. “The goal of the US,” Abelow says, “is not to save Ukrainians but to degrade Russia’s military until they won’t be able to fight in the future. And while some say stopping Russia is a humanitarian goal, the way one would degrade Russia’s military is to keep an extended war going and fight to the last Ukrainian.” Abelow analyzes the history of this cold war, the aggression by each side, and the hypocrisy of the argument that Ukraine has a sacrosanct right to join NATO. “The right to join NATO is the right to place a western military arsenal on Russia’s border. If Russia made a military alliance with Canada or Mexico, US leaders would not be talking about their right to do so.” And on this week’s news of Putin announcing military escalation and giving a thinly-veiled threat of nuclear war, Dr. Abelow warns: “I hope it’s taken seriously.” These are scary times. So buckle up, cook some Nyquil chicken, and get ready for this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm
0:04.8	Welcome to you, Flutts. I'm one of your host Katie Halfer and I'm at their host Aaron Nitech. How are you Katie? Good you?
0:11.4	I'm good at the second week. It's like a time to grow you've I'm just trying to you know like I'm speaking
0:16.4	I'm trying to ask you how you're doing but you're so such a good friend and you can't wait to ask me how I'm doing
0:20.8	I know I'm so concerned with your own
0:23.2	Well being it's true. What can we say? Yeah, are you worried about me or something? Is it?
0:27.4	Yeah, yeah, no more than usual. Yeah
0:31.5	Should we tell people that we're gonna be starting at 12 30 on
0:35.5	Oh, this is a big announcement. This is a huge announcement. Oh my god
0:38.5	So for people who are
0:40.5	Listen to our Monday morning show, which is when we go over the
0:44.7	Sunday morning news shows that we watch that you don't have to
0:48.3	This Monday as well as a couple more Mondays, but we'll tell you later about those
0:53.0	But this Monday we're gonna do instead of a Monday morning. It's gonna be called
0:56.4	Monday midday. How about that? Midday Monday and we're gonna be going over the
1:01.9	News stories at 12 30 instead of our usual time at 10 a.m. And then the call-in will be at 130 instead of our usual time at 11
1:10.1	But then the next week it'll be back to normal. So don't freak out too much. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, yeah
1:16.5	Huge announcement. So we're moving the time up by what two hours two and a half hours. Wow
1:21.0	Wow, I'm gonna be guest hosting at the hill which I've done in the past
1:25.6	But I'm doing it again. Yeah, very cool. Yeah, cool
1:29.2	Well, we look forward to that. I mean, that's a big Monday. Katie Halper host the Hill in the morning. Yeah
1:34.2	You come back for more at 12 30 for midday Monday morning. Yeah. All right. Well, should we get to it? Yeah, let's do it
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