Russia - Be Careful What We Wish For | Frankly #17
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
We were reminded this week of how precarious and dangerous the ongoing NATO/Russia situation is. An errant missile in Poland on Tuesday nearly started World War III (thankfully - cooler heads prevailed). The situation in Ukraine is horribly complex - but are people in the USA even paying attention? Many naively believe getting rid of Putin or 'winning' militarily vs Russia are valid and reasonable goals. But from a systems vantage there is more going on here than the mainstream narrative - we are in the liminal space between a unipolar and multipolar world order - a time fraught with various risks. Our collective understanding/response is vital to livable futures.
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| 0:00.0 | In addition to being energy blind, our culture is largely geopolitics blind. |
| 0:07.6 | This week's frankly, I'm going to talk about what's going on between Russia and the United |
| 0:12.7 | States in the country of Ukraine and the situation we all find ourselves in as we navigate |
| 0:19.7 | a unipolar world towards a multipolar world, which is inevitable, |
| 0:24.3 | and how we navigate it is absolutely critical to all our futures and planetary futures. |
| 0:31.3 | Good morning. It is Thursday, November 17th. Two days ago, we came very close to World War III. |
| 0:40.3 | Ukrainian missile landed in Poland. The initial suspicion was it was from Russia. |
| 0:47.3 | And all of this comes to the fore yet again. To be honest, to be frank, the NATO-U.S.-Russia-Ukraine situation has been in my mind |
| 1:02.4 | all year, because relative to inflation or jobs or climate change, this issue, the risk of a nuclear exchange, everything else |
| 1:15.5 | pales in comparison. Because if there is a nuclear exchange, a nuclear escalation, the moment |
| 1:23.7 | that we wake up to that, everything in our world changes forever and all |
| 1:30.0 | of the benign pathways that the pro-social followers of this podcast and millions and millions |
| 1:37.9 | of people around the world are working on towards sustainable pathways are off the table. |
| 1:48.2 | So I had planned on doing a Halloween, |
| 1:52.9 | a Thanksgiving reflection on energy, and I might still do that next week, |
| 1:54.5 | but here are my thoughts on the Russia situation. So first of all, there's a, there's a narrative, right? When a country goes to war, |
| 2:07.6 | there's a narrative. I think with modern day public relations, nations have gotten really good at |
| 2:14.5 | that. The nation that I live in and I'm a citizen of and dearly |
| 2:20.2 | love, the United States has been very successful at making Putin out to be the evil antichrist |
| 2:28.1 | that is responsible for all this. Putin may be a thug. I don't like the guy. I suspect that there are people in Russia |
| 2:38.5 | that love their dogs and like to go fishing and watch sports and care about the environment |
| 2:42.9 | just like I do, and that these nation leaders are similar in many places. But my point about Putin is there seems to be this theme |
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