The Most Dangerous Turn Yet in the Ukraine War
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this patrons-only seminar, Brian discusses the most dangerous part of the war in Ukraine that we're now entering, including the current political moment that we're situated in and what we can do to change it. He also talks about what happens if the U.S. defaults on its financial commitments, multiracial or multinational liberation in the US as it pertains to the struggle against police terror, automation of jobs, 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. Thanks, Nicole, and I echo your comments that we have deep gratitude to |
| 0:28.9 | those who are the monthly subscribers on Patreon. And we couldn't do the show without the patron |
| 0:36.5 | supporters. And for those of you who show without the patron supporters. |
| 0:44.0 | And for those of you who might hear the first minutes of this show as a preview for non-patrons, |
| 0:45.7 | think about becoming a patron. |
| 0:48.2 | We actually need everyone to do their part. |
| 0:51.4 | I want to start with a question, Nicole. |
| 0:53.4 | Ralph asks the question. |
| 0:56.9 | Can you read it? It just came in. But I want to use that as a starting point. Yeah, so Ralph wrote in and said, the recent tanks to Ukraine are extremely |
| 1:02.4 | disturbing, and the prediction that Zelensky would instantly ask for more is immediately coming |
| 1:06.9 | true. The nuclear war clock is now as close as it's ever been. Street protests are simply not |
| 1:12.3 | taken seriously by our corrupt government. What more can we do immediately? Are there any non-U.S. |
| 1:17.4 | allies in Europe or Africa, et cetera, that have misgivings about this war that we could work with |
| 1:22.5 | directly to oppose it? Right. So I want to use Ralph's question, which I think is so pertinent, and I think a lot of |
| 1:30.2 | people share the same frustrations that Ralph is sharing. How do you change the government policy? |
| 1:38.0 | When you think about what happened in Vietnam, where the majority of the people in the United |
| 1:43.0 | States, certainly by 1969 or 1970, opposed the majority of the people in the United States, certainly by 1969 or |
| 1:45.9 | 1970, opposed the war in Vietnam, but the war dragged on for another three years in terms of |
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