Katrina vanden Heuvel on Putin & Ukraine

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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There is only one truly bipartisan issue in the United States Congress these days: increasing military spending. Every year it passes, and every year we spend trillions of dollars on weapons and soldiers. Money that could be spent on education, homelessness, and infrastructure all goes to the war chest. The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel joins the Useful Idiots to warn of the dangers of the US escalating tensions with Russia over Ukraine. It’s not about helping Ukraine, she explains. It’s about money and power. We’re at war to show that NATO matters. We’re at war to save Biden’s sinking poll ratings. We’re at war so politicians, lobbyists, and pundits can make money. “That is not a good reason for a soldier to be away from his family. They’re being used for symbolic fodder.” And while anti-war groups are speaking up to stop this, mainstream media is a lot louder. CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times are helping shape the propagandist narrative that a Russian invasion is imminent and US troops and weapons are needed to stop it. So don’t listen to them. Let’s find the facts and figure out for ourselves: are there peaceful solutions? Plus, attempted cancellations of Joe Rogan and Whoopi Goldberg, Trump’s biggest protest this country has ever seen, and please, don’t inject stuff into your penis. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. And stay tuned for the full interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel on Monday at 7am. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm
0:05.2	Hello, and welcome to useful ideas
0:09.6	I'm Katie helper. I can pause I
0:12.7	Was sing if you jump in and say I'm
0:15.8	Mariam Matte. I was really leaving this I was holding the space for you in case you want to do that
0:20.4	So I'm gonna come as your time I'm gonna come and say my name before you even said you're not now
0:24.6	I would do that you didn't do that right
0:26.8	Well, I was I just want to mix it up a little bit. Okay. I mean there's so many ways we could do it
0:32.2	Yeah, it could be hello. Welcome to idiots. Well, you could say welcome indeed
0:36.8	Welcome indeed yet. No, yeah, no, I don't see it. I like that. Yeah
0:42.6	Anyway, I'm Mariam Matte. That's my name. That's the same. Yeah good to be here. Yeah good to see you. How's it going? Good good?
0:49.1	How are you good welcome back to the United States?
0:51.4	Thank you. Thank you. I was at home of the free land of the brave land of the free home of the brave. How does it feel?
0:57.8	It was good. I you know had a great time with my parents at visit them for a while and
1:03.1	Got a lot done and you know, it's gonna be back. It's gonna be back back in the in the grind
1:10.6	Well, we have a great show for you today. We have the
1:14.6	esteemed Katrina Van Inhuvel of the nation magazine real Russia expert she even speaks Russian. Yes she does Katrina has been
1:24.8	covering Russia for several decades now. It was a major part of
1:31.4	her
1:33.0	reporting career to this date and obviously you know the focus of her late husband Stephen F. Cohen the eminent Russia scholar and
1:40.4	With so much going on right now the US war machine
1:46.1	Escalating war fever with Russia, you know, we couldn't think of a better person to speak to the Katrina. Yeah, so we're very excited about that and
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