Ukraine's Resistance (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Mickey converts to Bob-ism ... Reassessing the ‘Is Putin Crazy?’ question post-invasion ... Were we *too* understanding of Putin? ... Zelensky—to arm or not to arm? ... How will Americans grade Biden’s handling of Russia-Ukraine? ... Did Russiagate make it harder for Biden to negotiate with Putin? ... The parallels between Russia-Ukraine and the ‘99 Kosovo intervention ... Biden’s Supreme Court nominee ... Mickey denounces Trudeau’s “couch potato fascism” ... Why Bob is queasy about this week’s George Floyd verdicts ... Parrot Room preview: An Epstein associate bites the dust, Jim Pinkerton’s “Mars, Meta, or Meatspace” trichotomy re: humanity’s future, The New Yorker’s Dean Baquet puff piece, Douthat on the “virtuals” vs “reals” divide, are the convoys coming to America?, Un-cancelling Louis CK, Putin and the psychology of status, Douglas McArthur as role model, The Expanse's jump-the-shark moment, and was Bob too mean on Twitter? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.8	Hi, Mickey.
0:10.6	Hey, Bob.
0:11.7	Why are you shrouded in something white, Mickey?
0:15.4	Bob, I've discovered that you're a guru.
0:19.4	Oh, that's true.
0:20.8	For my guru. I, that's true. For my guru.
0:22.7	I'm available for everyone, Mickey.
0:25.3	Yeah, I was the podcast decoding the gurus did a whole episode on me.
0:29.4	They decoded me.
0:31.3	So I've sold all my worldly possessions that I'm going to follow you into the truth.
0:36.5	And if you notice, I've applied the
0:38.5	ashes on my head. Ashes on the forehead. I was just about to say, but do you have the ashes on the
0:43.5	forehead and you're there? And they're in the, they're the mark of W. Right. That's the best I could do.
0:52.2	Yeah, that's, I can see it it yeah and um i do have the votive
0:57.0	candles but good good the votive candles are you know they're not that's nice he got a lot
1:05.6	of them a fire hazard here it's hard it's hard for me to get them in the frame.
1:12.2	That was impressive.
1:13.8	Without a huge fire hazard.
1:18.8	You said you've sold all your possessions, but unless I'm mistaken, Mickey, the proceeds have not been deposited in my guru bank account.
1:21.9	What did you do with the money?
1:22.9	Well, Bob, I'm going through a crisis of context because, and I am confused, and I look forward to you explaining to me, oh, master, the truth, because last week, Master, you said Russian troops wouldn't go into Kiev and you didn't think that Putin wanted to decapitate the Russian government,
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