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Robert Wright's Nonzero

Seeing Ukraine Clearly (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Always be prepared (for nuclear fallout) ... Is Putin headed for the Baltics? ... Why is the Western media reporting so little about the Azov Battalion? ... Mickey: Zelenskyy should give up parts of the Donbas and Crimea ... Bob: I don’t think Putin will move on to the Baltics ... Trying to see Ukraine clearly from within the Western media bubble ... The political difficulties of ceding territory ... How Russia’s military measures up against the US ... The US’s decades-long mismanagement of its relationship with Russia ... Michael McFaul’s really, really bad tweet to the people of Russia ... Parrot Room preview: the State of the Union, the January 6 Commission alleges they have Trump, the NYT’s “fraudulent” Trayvon Martin video, the latest economic report, big news for Zemmour in France, some Epstein news, the Freedom Convoy keeps on truckin’, trouble for Rick Scott, Bob reports on a biography of Putin, a contrarian take on the OJ Simpson trial, what Bob meant by “natural organic borders,” and an (unrehearsed) harmonica performance of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” ...

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0:00.0

You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.

0:08.0

Hey, Mickey. You're wearing a gas mask.

0:10.9

Hey, Bob.

0:12.5

Makes it harder to hear you. You're rubbing your fists together as if what?

0:15.8

You're trying to start a fire without a match. What?

0:19.1

You're obviously not up on current events, Bob. Well, that's for sure.

0:23.4

The mask represents the threat of radiation from nuclear fall on. You don't think this is,

0:30.9

you don't think it's a radiation proof mask? No, it looks like you would do the job to me. I think

0:35.4

you should send it to somebody in Ukraine near that nuclear power plant.

0:39.9

Well, if they hadn't gotten out the fire out, you know, I might need it, right?

0:45.8

Actually, I don't think so.

0:46.7

I think the fire was in an administrative building, not very close to the plan.

0:50.1

Right, but if it spread.

0:52.1

If it spread, yeah.

0:53.6

People were really worried for like an hour last night.

0:57.3

Well, even, I mean, eventually I want to get into the subject to the media coverage of this whole thing.

1:03.0

But on CNN this morning, I heard that the Russians had, I think this is a quote, set fire to a nuclear power plant, which would be even more irresponsible than

1:12.3

what they did, which is start a firefight on the perimeter of a nuclear power plant and

1:16.5

inadvertently ignite an administrative building.

1:19.7

There's a certain amount of hysteria in the media coverage.

1:23.3

It's bad. I mean, it's, it's, I want to get into this, but.

1:28.2

There's a, there's a new campaign in Hollywood that I just read about in the Ancler called,

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