Is Russia Losing Its War of Aggression?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 27 February 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
As Russia launches a war of aggression against Ukraine - has it backfired? There are signs the invasion may not be going to plan as Ukrainians courageously put up resistance, while anti-war sentiment has been expressed in surprising sections of Russian society. What are Putin's prospects, what happens next - and how is it all likely to end?
We're joined from St. Petersburg by researcher and anti-war activist Ilya Matveev and Paul Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies.
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| 0:00.0 | Now this very moment, a war of aggression is being waged by the peat in regime against |
| 0:21.4 | Ukraine. |
| 0:22.4 | A war which is as criminal as it is unjust. |
| 0:26.2 | Now this is a war with no justification despite the propaganda claims of the Kremlin and |
| 0:31.1 | its allies, either from the vantage point of self-defense, morality, whichever vantage |
| 0:35.9 | point you happen to choose. |
| 0:37.8 | Now the whole world is watching and can see criminal acts being committed against the civilian |
| 0:43.9 | population of Ukraine. |
| 1:03.2 | I should warn some of obviously the footage we're going to show is very, very distressing but |
| 1:07.0 | the reality of war should not be hidden and I should also say that miraculously the driver |
| 1:11.5 | of that car actually did survive, that was not the case for this, for the driver of |
| 1:18.7 | an ambulance who was killed by the Russian army. |
| 1:30.6 | I should explain that was the paramedic who did survive, these are atrocities being committed |
| 1:35.2 | of course by Russia's army. |
| 1:38.1 | Now there have been protests across the world including Illinois. |
| 1:54.0 | And in Estonia which is a country which has its own reasons to fear of aggression. |
| 2:15.1 | Now there have also been protests in Russia, very courageous protest because there have |
| 2:20.2 | been mass arrests of protesters, let's have a look. |
| 2:36.1 | Now we've got to you fantastic guest to talk us through exactly what's happening and one |
| 2:40.6 | of the things we want to look at is this has this war backfire, is it going as well as |
| 2:45.5 | Putin expected in terms of resistance from within Ukraine but also public opinion in Russia |
| 2:53.0 | to the degree that can be quantified, that's problematic for reasons that our first guest |
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