Wall Street’s Big Admission on Ukraine, Trump's DC Takeover, and How a General Strike Could Happen [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The Wall Street Journal provides evidence that the Ukraine war is a proxy war between the US and Russia. The Trump Administration’s attempt to takeover DC is part of the attempt to end the semblance of bourgeois democracy in the United States. Don’t we need socialized healthcare, not “Medicare for All”? What do we do to stop the federal takeover of more U.S. cities? Do protests even work? How can we as socialists help merge, and lead, the labor and mass movements? Why is Russia not an imperialist country? These are just some of the topics that Brian Becker and producer Nicole Roussell discuss in today’s patrons-only Q&A seminar.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:02.9 | This is the audio of our monthly seminar. |
| 0:05.3 | Subscribe and support this programming at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to join live once a month and ask Brian Becker your questions and listen to them as soon as they come out. |
| 0:16.2 | Thanks so much for your help in keeping this independent show going. |
| 0:19.6 | We can make this program with you, |
| 0:21.1 | but not without you. We talked about the Ukraine war in our, well, we've talked about it many |
| 0:27.4 | times, Nicole, but we talked about it last week. As Trump and Putin were meeting in Alaska, |
| 0:33.6 | and then Trump hosted all of the NATO leaders in Zalinski in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:39.6 | We have continued our analysis of the Ukraine war. |
| 0:44.4 | We started it actually before the Russian invasion in February 22. |
| 0:49.2 | Eugene Per Year and I were doing multiple shows week after week, |
| 0:53.3 | assessing what was likely to happen, and then after week, assessing what was likely to happen, |
| 0:55.7 | and then after the invasion, what was likely to happen following it. |
| 1:00.2 | Here we are three years plus into the war, hundreds of thousands of casualties. |
| 1:07.2 | The war grinds on. |
| 1:08.7 | I wanted to bring to everyone's attention a piece of news from the Washington |
| 1:14.7 | Post. It's a few days ago. But it completely validates our essential argument, which is that this is |
| 1:22.9 | not a war simply between Ukraine and Russia. This is a proxy war between the United States and Russia. |
| 1:32.1 | And Ukraine and Ukrainians are the pawns in this proxy war. And that the Biden administration |
| 1:39.3 | set out deliberately, provocatively refusing to negotiate with the hope that Russia would in fact |
| 1:47.0 | invade because the whole idea of the Biden administration, as, you know, articulated by Lloyd Austin, |
| 1:54.4 | then Secretary of Defense, is that the goal was to, quote, weaken Russia. Well, that hasn't happened. |
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