If one listens to the U.S. media and U.S. politicians, you would come to believe that Russia is about to invade Ukraine.

What's going on?

Today we'll talk about the possibility of war between the United States and Russia.

We need a new system. We need a new society.

We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. City. Welcome to this week's episode of The Real Story on the Socialist program.

I'm your host, Brian Becker.

Today we'll be talking to Eugene per year from Breakthrough News.

Eugene is an author.

He's an activist.

He's the host of the daily podcast, The Punch Out.

And with Rania Kallik, he is the co-host of the Freedom Side.

Eugene, welcome.

Thank you so much for having me, Brian.

Happy to be here.

Thank you.

Well, if we look at the newspaper, New York Times, Washington Post, look at TV news,

one couldn't but come to the impression that the United States and Russia are about to go to

war. And the reason that they're about to go to war, the two largest nuclear powers in the world,

is that Russia, the autocracy led by the autocrat, Vladimir Putin, is about to invade Ukraine. And the American people are being

spoon-fed this line almost every hour, perhaps even more frequently than every hour.

And there is a virtual hysteria in the media. So much hysteria, in fact, that when Joe Biden suggested last week at a press

conference that if it was a minor incursion from the Russians, there might not be all-out war.

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