Ukraine and History w/ Ben Sawyer of Middle Tennessee State and "The Road to Now Podcast"

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Where and when did Ukraine begin? What role did the Rus, the Cossacks, the post Tsarists and the Soviets play? What is Putin’s motive and what his seriously questionable historical justification? Why should we not say ‘The Ukraine?’ in discussions. How does nationalism play into world politics, and what place does it have in the future? These are all questions that Ben Sawyer, Professor at Middle Tennessee State University, podcaster and comedian is qualified to answer. Road to Now Podcast is at: https://www.theroadtonow.com/ We are part of Airwave Media Network Interested in Advertising? [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an air wave media podcast.
0:05.2	When Putin talks about Russians, he means a bloodline.
0:09.3	He means an ethnicity.
0:11.2	This is something impermeable.
0:12.2	It's not a community you can leave or become a part of.
0:16.0	Either you're born that way or you're not.
0:18.6	With us when he says that the Ukrainians are a part of the, they're really basically
0:23.2	the same.
0:24.2	He's tapping into this czarist, really 19th early 20th century notion of belonging
0:28.3	that was espoused by the czar.
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1:27.7	It's a pitiful scene, a night tends to him, and as he does, looks up.
1:49.5	His eyes meet the point of a spear.
1:53.0	In the center of the colors, these yellow horses, these red shirted and blue-painted, equined
1:59.4	swordsmen slicing their blades.
2:02.6	To the left, three men in red, swords in the air, the pink brush has captured the movement
2:09.1	in which they will deliver the simultaneous kills.
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