The Failed Coup in Russia: Preliminary Assessment [Brian Becker Seminar Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this patrons-only Q&A seminar, Brian analyzes the attempted coup in Russia by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his troops from the mercenary Wagner group. Brian discusses who Prigozhin is, why mercenaries are working for Russia, how this happened, how this compares with Trump's efforts to stay in the White House after losing the 2020 election, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:03.0 | This is the audio of our monthly seminar. |
| 0:05.0 | Subscribe and support this programming at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to join live once a month and ask Brian Becker your questions and listen to them as soon as they come out. |
| 0:16.0 | Thanks so much for your help in keeping this independent show going. We can make this program with you, |
| 0:21.1 | but not without you. We are going to get started today when I thank everyone so much for |
| 0:26.8 | supporting the show, for joining today, for those of you listening tomorrow, which will be today for you, |
| 0:33.6 | so the 27th on Tuesday. Thank you so much for listening for supporting the show. We are |
| 0:38.4 | always so and just constantly so appreciative because without you all, this show would not happen. |
| 0:44.6 | We would not be able to do this show. We have a really important topic today talking about the |
| 0:49.0 | failed coup that happened in Russia. And without further ado, I'm going to let Brian introduce that topic and talk about |
| 0:55.9 | what happened. And then we've got a number of questions from patrons already. If you have comments, |
| 1:01.4 | questions, things that you want to add, please put those in the chat. And we will get to as many as we |
| 1:06.6 | can. Thanks so much again. Really honored to be here with all of y'all. And Brian, go ahead. |
| 1:11.4 | Sure. Thank you, Nicole. And again, to all of you who are patrons, who are joining us on our |
| 1:17.0 | seminar, just we can't do the show. As Nicole said, we can't do the show without you. We can't do it |
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| 1:37.0 | The show that we did with Ken Hammond, which is both a podcast last Thursday, but on Wednesday |
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| 1:47.3 | watch that show alone. I mean, this is, this show is filling an important mission because |
| 1:54.0 | people want to have alternative media. They want to have a socialist or a Marxist perspective |
| 1:59.3 | on world events and a perspective that is rooted both |
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