The Ukraine War, Year One (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00 Washington Post highlights a cost of US hypocrisy 6:54 Will China push for peace—or fund Russia’s war effort (or both)? 17:49 Can Trump use Biden’s support for Ukraine against him? 28:42 Russia’s offensive, Ukraine’s rope-a-dope 37:59 Bob’s evolving view of America’s role in the Maidan Revolution 44:43 The US vows to back Israel if it attacks Iran 47:32 Parrot Room preview: AI updates; Republicans and Social Security; How Blobbish is Fiona Hill?; Carlos Watson arrested

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded February 23, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.3	Hi, Mickey.
0:09.8	Hey, Bob.
0:10.9	How you doing?
0:11.6	Oh, look, you've got a picture of that looks like Keeve with Joe Biden.
0:16.3	Is it the trailer to Fast and Furious 11, or is it Biden and Zelensky in an iconic photo in front of a church and Kiev?
0:27.1	Time will tell.
0:27.8	Looking very tough.
0:29.2	It looks like high noon there.
0:30.4	They're in their gunslinger stance.
0:32.9	Yeah.
0:33.5	It was a big event.
0:37.3	We are, this is close to the one-year anniversary of the invasion,
0:42.1	and Biden went there a few days before that.
0:44.6	By the way, we should say that today we're taping on a Thursday,
0:52.0	you know, in a gracious accommodation by me of your busy, busy social calendar.
0:57.4	Thank you, Bob.
0:58.4	No, listen, it's the kind of guy I am.
1:00.1	I'm not even going to mention it.
1:01.5	It just, I just do it without mentioning it.
1:04.0	But one implication of that is that tomorrow is the anniversary, if that's the right turn, the invasion.
1:12.3	And some people think that that could lead, you know, Russia will do some big thing on the
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