The Untold History of NATO and Case for Its Abolition
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is moving ever closer to Russia’s border. Russia views this as an existential threat – and a historic betrayal of key guarantees it was given by the west as the Soviet Union disintegrated. As Biden sends thousands of additional troops to Eastern Europe, the threat of war is growing by the day.
Brian is joined by Eugene Puryear, author and activist, host of the BreakThrough News podcast The Punch Out, and co-host of the BT live video show The Freedom Side.
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| 0:00.0 | NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is moving ever closer to Russia's borders. |
| 0:07.0 | Russia says NATO has crossed Russia's red line. |
| 0:11.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:16.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago but is not only |
| 0:21.7 | realizable but an imperative necessity. Welcome to this week's episode of the Real Story on the Socialist program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:53.6 | Today is the second part of our |
| 0:55.2 | conversation with Eugene Peirier. He is with Breakthrough News. He does the daily podcast punchout |
| 1:01.7 | and the Freedom Side every Thursday. Eugene, welcome. Thank you so much for having me, Brian. |
| 1:06.9 | All right, let's just quickly summarize. We had a conversation last week. We talked about the fact that there's a growing danger of war between the United States and Russia. |
| 1:15.6 | Of course, in 2018, after Trump had become president, the Pentagon announced a new doctrine |
| 1:21.6 | of preparing the United States for major power conflict with Russia and China. Now, that seems crazy because it's crazy. I mean, |
| 1:31.4 | Russia and China are the other biggest military powers in the world. Russia has 1.5 or 1.4 million |
| 1:38.5 | troops. It has 5,000 nuclear weapons. I mean, the fact that the United States could be playing chicken with this |
| 1:46.5 | other major nuclear power on Russia's border is in many ways beyond belief. But if you get your |
| 1:55.2 | news from CNN, ABC, New York Times, Washington Post, any of the capitalist-owned media, you'll come to the |
| 2:04.1 | conclusion that Russia is the aggressor because it's amassing 100,000 troops without them ever |
| 2:11.8 | saying that these troops are being amassed within Russia's own borders. |
| 2:16.8 | Anyway, Eugene, Biden has just announced that |
| 2:19.8 | thousands more troops are going to Poland and to Romania. Of course, the United States already has |
| 2:25.9 | missile defense shields. And by the way, missile defense shields are part of a first strike |
| 2:30.5 | strategy. They're not about, really about defense. But when you think 3,500 more U.S. |
| 2:36.5 | soldiers against an army that has 1.4 million members, it seems like smoke and mirrors. Anyway, |
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