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Warnings from Syria on How to Stop Putin in Ukraine

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Gaslit Nation

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

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 Kenzier, the author of the bestsellers, the view from

0:14.4

Fiverr country and hiding in plain sight, and of the upcoming book, they

0:18.8

knew, available for preorder now.

0:22.0

Emma Dre a Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker and the writer and producer of

0:26.6

the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in

0:31.6

Ukraine, a genocide that is now being carried out by Putin, who has spent years

0:37.4

bringing back the cult of Stalin, which should have been a warning to all of

0:42.4

us. I want to draw attention in this episode of Gaslight Nation, the fact that

0:47.4

we're going to be having a fundraiser for Ukraine this Friday, March 11th, at

0:52.6

1 p.m. Eastern time, that's 1 p.m. New York City time, and that fundraiser is

0:57.8

going to feature Igneshka Holland, the three-time Academy Award nominee,

1:02.4

director of Mr. Jones, and also Mr. Jones himself, the star of the film, the

1:09.0

British actor James Norton, who has been in a lot of exceptional television

1:14.1

shows and films, including Grandchester, where he plays a crime fighting priest,

1:19.7

which is basically every British show today. And also,

1:25.0

Mika Mafia, which is all about the transnational crime syndicate

1:29.2

masquerading as a government, he plays an heir to a Russian oligarch family

1:34.7

in London, it's a very gripping story, and then he was in Greta Gerrigs,

1:39.4

brilliant film, Little Women, and a lot of powerful films and television

1:45.4

series. So if you want to meet James Norton and Igneshka Holland, and also support

1:50.2

Ukraine, the fundraiser is to support the Kiev independent, which we're all

1:56.2

getting our news from these days. The Kiev independent started out as a

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