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🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with journalist Bryan MacDonald about what a Joe Biden presidency would mean for US-Russia relations. We also remember late scholar Stephen F. Cohen, who spoke out against the new cold war. And we debunk the ridiculous "red-brown alliance" myth spread by pro-NATO trolls.
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0:00 Intro
3:35 Remembering pro-peace scholar Stephen F. Cohen
16:58 NATO trolls' absurd 'red-brown alliance' myth
31:00 What would a Joe Biden presidency mean for US-Russia relations?
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(Episode recorded on September 22, 2020)
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0:00.0 | I mean, like, at the end of the day, I have to say being here in Russia that no matter who wins, |
0:05.2 | it's not going to make any difference anyway. |
0:06.9 | I mean, Trump has just spent the last four years destroying all the arms treaties that |
0:11.6 | underpinned, you know, the tant and security in the world. |
0:15.6 | Biden has no incentive to do anything. |
0:18.3 | He will bring back the Obama team. |
0:20.0 | That means there will be no progress |
0:21.4 | in the Russian-America relationship for the next four years. Because the Democrats hate Russia so |
0:26.5 | much because of all the propaganda and the narrative, obviously that would be a disaster for Russia |
0:30.9 | too. It would probably mean more sanctions. |
0:36.4 | This is moderate rebels. |
0:38.3 | I'm Ben Norton and is always joined by my co-host, Max Blumenthal. |
0:43.3 | This is part two of our interview with the Irish journalist Brian McDonald, who has |
0:49.0 | lived in Russia for many years. |
0:51.4 | He is an editor at the Russia desk for RT and really knows the country inside it out. |
0:58.0 | And in the first part, we were talking about the media narrative around the alleged poisoning |
1:04.3 | of the opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, his real politics, the fact that he is rather a fringe figure inside |
1:14.3 | Russia, and the strange circumstances around this alleged poisoning, how it was used to clearly |
1:21.0 | try to sabotage the Russian pipeline with Germany, known as Nord Stream 2. So definitely check out |
1:27.2 | the first part. |
1:28.5 | We also talked about the color revolution attempt in Belarus and the insides and outsides of that. |
1:34.8 | In this second part, we're going to continue our discussion on Russia, but we're going to begin |
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