Teaser - Russia and China: The Best of Frienemies
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
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🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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This is an excerpt of this week's bonus episode where we explain how there's no honor among thieves, especially when they're jointly furthering the imperialist ambitions of autocracy around the world and trying to steal land and steal rights. To hear every episode of Gaslit Nation, subscribe at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon by joining our community of listeners at Patreon.com/Gaslit
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| 0:00.0 | So, you know, Russia is really driving this whole fascist global terrorism that are all suffering from no matter where you live. |
| 0:13.0 | And so if you care about taking that on and confronting it, Russia needs to be defeated militarily in Ukraine. |
| 0:18.8 | So talk to your members of Congress, talk to your |
| 0:22.7 | local representatives, get people to speak to your book club, your film club, your local group, |
| 0:29.1 | your activist club about why it's so important that Ukraine wins this war and demand that they |
| 0:33.6 | speed up the support that Ukraine needs. And yes, Crimea matters. We must get Crimea back. Why? |
| 0:40.2 | Because if we don't liberate Crimea, which is suffering under human rights abuses, like any dictatorship, |
| 0:45.8 | like the rest of Russia, if we don't get Crimea back, we're going to be back at a genocidal war |
| 0:50.5 | 10 years from now after Russia regroups. Crimea is used as a staging ground by the Russian |
| 0:55.4 | military. Yes, Crimea has to be liberated. That land has to go back to Ukraine and be secured for Ukrainians |
| 1:01.4 | so that Russia can no longer use it to wage war and genocide against Ukraine. So yes, Crimea has to come back. |
| 1:09.3 | It's Ukrainian first and foremost. |
| 1:11.3 | And the indigenous group, the Crimea and Tartars, are suffering some of the worst political repression under Russian occupation. |
| 1:22.9 | There is also a period right after the Reagan era, basically during George H.W. Bush's term, |
| 1:29.5 | where you saw a lot of reporters practicing the same investigative type of journalism as, you know, |
| 1:35.7 | journalists during the 70s, which was the era, of course, of the Pentagon Papers and Cointill Pro and M.K. Ultra and all |
| 1:42.2 | these horrible government programs being revealed, |
| 1:45.2 | and of Watergate, of course, which actually led to Nixon's resignation and the indictment of many. |
| 1:50.8 | They wanted the same for Iran-Contra. And there you see how the structure of the media |
| 1:57.3 | and of the political system changed to ensure that that could not happen again. |
| 2:02.6 | That was the goal of Republican operatives. That is why Fox News was started. That was why there was this transnational alliance with Rupert Murdoch. |
| 2:10.6 | That's why there are these transnational alliances in general that allow people to move money around, become untraceable, become more difficult |
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