Warnings from Syria on How to Stop Putin in Ukraine

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Putin's brutal escalated invasion of Ukraine was predictable – not only because he announced it in advance, but because Russia has carried out extreme military violence in other regions for decades, most notably Chechnya in the 2000s and Syria over the last decade. As Ukraine continues to fight back, Syria suffers due to the partnership of Putin and Assad and the war crimes they carried out on Syrian civilians, which killed hundreds of thousands and displaced several million. To understand what may be in store for Ukraine, we need to understand Syria, so we invited an expert on Syria for an urgent discussion with Gaslit Nation.

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0:00.0	I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the bestsellers, The View from Flyover Country, and hiding in plain sight, and of the upcoming book they knew, available for pre-order now.
0:22.0	I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine, a genocide that is now being carried out by Putin, who has spent years bringing back the cult of Stalin,
0:39.6	which should have been a warning to all of us. I want to draw attention in this episode of
0:46.2	Gaslit Nation and the fact that we're going to be having a fundraiser for Ukraine this Friday,
0:51.7	March 11th at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. That's 1 p.m. New York City time. And that fundraiser is going to feature
0:58.5	Igneshka Holland, the three-time Academy Award nominee, director of Mr. Jones. And also Mr. Jones himself,
1:07.4	the star of the film, the British actor James Norton, who has been in a lot of exceptional
1:13.3	television shows and films, including Granchester, where he plays a crime-fighting priest,
1:20.1	which is basically every British show today. And also McMafia, which is all about the transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.
1:30.6	He plays an heir to a Russian oligarch family in London.
1:35.6	It's a very gripping story.
1:37.6	And then he was in Greta Gerwig's brilliant film, Little Women, and a lot of powerful films and television series.
1:45.8	So if you want to meet James Norton and Ignathe Knazka Holland and also support Ukraine,
1:50.6	the fundraiser is to support the Kiev Independent, which we're all getting our news from
1:56.9	these days.
1:57.8	The Kiev independent started out as a exodus. It was a group of journalists that got
2:04.6	laid off or quit from the Kiev Post. The Kiev Post for many, many years, was the language
2:12.8	newspaper in Ukraine. The outside world was getting their English language news about what was going
2:18.8	on in Ukraine from the Kiev Post. This was a iconic establishment for journalism in Ukraine. It helped
2:27.1	launch careers. A journalist that would serve a couple of years, the Kiev Post would go on to
2:32.0	bigger outlets around the world.
2:40.9	And when it fell under new ownership recently and there was censorship and and firings,
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