The Stakes: Trajectory of Tyranny
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
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🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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In this edition of The Stakes, Michael Anton, lecturer in politics and research fellow at Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center, and a Claremont senior fellow, is joined by Charles Haywood of The Worthy House. The two analyze the situation in Ukraine from both sides, ultimately siding with Ukraine. Plus: between Australia’s ruthless police crackdown on its citizens and Canada’s violent crackdown on the Freedom Convoy, the West is in a bleak state. Is there any reason to hope for a brighter future?
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| 0:00.0 | I welcome back to another special edition of the Claremont Institute podcast, The Stakes. |
| 0:27.9 | In that case, named after my September 2020 book, which you should all buy, my name is Michael Anton. |
| 0:34.0 | I am a lecturer at Hillsdale College is Washington DC campus. |
| 0:37.9 | And I also do things with the Claremont Institute, including this podcast. |
| 0:41.8 | This is at least the third and maybe the fourth I lose track podcast with Charles Haywood, |
| 0:47.8 | who has become known to most or if not all of you. |
| 0:52.1 | And I think there's a lot to talk about today, but I think we will begin since Charles |
| 0:57.2 | has some dodgy Eastern European connections. |
| 1:00.6 | He may be able to bring insight to us on what's going on in Ukraine, which I admit, despite |
| 1:06.7 | having uncharacteristically for me, putting in some real effort to track down accurate |
| 1:11.5 | news and figure out what's going on, which I mostly don't do about things anymore because |
| 1:15.2 | at the A, the news is depressing B, I think they're all liars and see I have other things |
| 1:19.2 | to do. |
| 1:20.2 | I'm interested enough in this to try to figure out what's happening. |
| 1:23.2 | And I have no idea. |
| 1:26.2 | In part because of the middle reason, I think everyone's lying. |
| 1:28.6 | I think the Ukrainians are lying, or I suspect, let me put it that way, that they're greatly |
| 1:33.4 | exaggerating the casualty count and the success of the Ukrainian resistance, whether that's |
| 1:38.5 | the professional military or the civilian insurgency, if you want to call it. |
| 1:43.2 | I think in addition, it seems that the Russians who are mostly silent about this, but when |
| 1:50.9 | they do talk, refuse to acknowledge any setbacks or casualties. |
| 1:54.5 | And I find that also kind of hard to believe. |
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