Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. On today's episode I'm going to do another one

of my Red Hot Takes, which are basically kind of extended monologues on a certain topic that

fired me up more or less. And this episode I got fired up because I do this a masochistic thing

where I continually listen to liberal centrist, conservative and even right wing media,

ostensibly to keep a finger on the pulse of different ideological factions in society,

but also just because I can't help myself. I am a political junkie in the trueest sense and

even against my own internal wishes, I subject myself to constant streams of nonsense,

to the detriment of my own mental health in a lot of situations. But this time I was listening to

making sense podcast with Samuel Harris. Oh, Sam Harris, we all know that liberal idealist.

And on this episode he has on the, let me think, I think Timothy Snyder, he's a very famous,

let's see here, he's the 11th professor of history and global affairs at Yale University

and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He's the author of a

dozen books, including bestsellers on tyranny, our malady, the road to one freedom, black earth and

bloodlands, etc, etc. So he's a very well respected, vaunted academic who specializes particularly

in Ukrainian history. So he teaches at Yale is more or less a western expert in Ukrainian history.

And Sam Harris is having him on a Sam show to push back against these claims coming from the far

left and the far right that mock the liberal centers fetishizing of Ukraine that critique

the neoliberal, neo conservative approach and posture to Russia and Ukraine who center American

bringsmanship as a leading factor in this common or in this current situation, etc. So basically,

and I'm sure the far right has a bunch of deviations and stupid shit on this topic that I'm not,

by any means, trying to wait into much less defend, but on the far left, there's not the far left.

There are certainly critiques of this war, critiques of Americans position critiques of the

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