Jacobin Radio: A Year of War in Ukraine

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Suzi talks to Vladyslav Starodubtsev and Jeremy Bigwood about the war in Ukraine, now entering its second year. Russia’s war on Ukraine has been a disaster causing human suffering and economic devastation not just in Ukraine but also on the lives of ordinary Russians, treated like cannon fodder. The war has also had an impact on global hunger and energy supplies and the world environmental crisis. It is no exaggeration to say that this war has changed the trajectory of the twenty-first century. We get two perspectives.

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0:00.0	This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Suzy Weisman, back and I'll be seeing you again in about a
0:17.5	month or so.
0:19.0	Russia's war in Ukraine marked its first anniversary on the February 24th.
0:23.4	It's a brutal, horrible, destructive disaster, causing human suffering and economic devastation,
0:29.9	not just in Ukraine, but also on the lives of ordinary Russians who were cannon fodder
0:34.8	in Putin's war.
0:35.8	The war has also had an impact on global hunger and energy supplies and the world environmental
0:41.6	crisis.
0:42.6	It's no exaggeration to say that this war changed the trajectory of the 21st century and
0:49.0	it has created new divisions among the left, especially in the United States.
0:53.9	Ukraine is finding a legitimate war of self-defense, a war for its national survival,
0:59.1	and in that sense could be called a People's War.
1:02.8	Calling for peace in the abstract is meaningless in these circumstances, even though an end to
1:08.0	the barbarous war is urgent.
1:10.7	We marked the one-year anniversary of the war speaking to Vladislavskaya Bootsiev in
1:15.8	Kiev and Jeremy Bigwood who just returned from Kiev.
1:19.9	Well, this, when our program returns, in just a moment.
1:32.9	This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Suzy Weisman.
1:36.2	Russia's war in Ukraine is entering its second year.
1:39.4	Russia's war conduct reminds the world of war tactics from another time.
1:44.5	World War I's mass slaughter, making it seem as though history is running in reverse.
1:49.9	Ukrainian resistance to Russia's imperial onslaught has inspired the world.
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