U.S. Strategy vs. Russia: Regime Change, Encirclement, or Both?
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how Joe Biden deepened the war in Ukraine during a trip to Poland over the weekend when he declared that Russian president Putin “cannot remain in power.” As the United States and other NATO powers raise the stakes, is there any hope for a breakthrough in negotiations? The panel also discusses the administration’s massive new military spending proposal, protests against British colonialism in the Caribbean, the death of Madeline Albright, the debate over Russian oil purchases, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Joe Biden deepened the war in Ukraine during a trip to Poland over the weekend when he declared |
| 0:06.1 | that Russian President Putin, quote, cannot remain in power, unquote. As the U.S. and other NATO |
| 0:11.9 | powers raise the stakes, is there any hope for a breakthrough in negotiations? We'll also discuss |
| 0:17.0 | the administration's massive new military spending proposal, protests against British colonialism |
| 0:21.8 | in the Caribbean, the death of Madeline Albright, the debate over Russian oil purchases, and more. |
| 0:28.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:34.1 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. City. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist program with Brian Becker. |
| 1:08.4 | It's March 29th, 2022. |
| 1:12.6 | This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week. We look beyond the headlines and |
| 1:17.6 | expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media. Video episodes of The Real Story are available |
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| 1:34.8 | subscribing. I'm Nicole Roussel here with Esther Evarim, Walter Smalerick, and our host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:41.4 | Esther Evarim is also the host of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at |
| 1:45.1 | On the Ground Show.org. Make sure to check out On the Ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays. |
| 1:50.0 | Brian, apparently Putin can't remain in power. Yeah. So we learn from the president of the |
| 1:56.9 | United States, Joe Biden. Before we get started, Nicole, I just want to thank all of the patrons |
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