Zelensky in Washington: US Prepares to Escalate Ukraine War
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The opening week of the United Nations General Assembly shows clearly that this is a new era of global politics. Ukrainian President Zelensky threw down the hammer demanding more war, suggesting even an escalation to nuclear weapons, while Biden is trying desperately to break up the forming alliances in the Global South. Tomorrow Zelensky and Biden will meet in Washington, where they’ll make a hard sell for tens of billions more in war spending.
Brian Becker is joined by Walter Smolarek, the editor of Liberation News.
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| 0:00.0 | The opening week of the UN General Assembly shows that we are indeed in a new era of global politics. |
| 0:09.0 | Today we're going to talk about what President Zelensky of Ukraine said. |
| 0:14.0 | We'll talk about what Joe Biden said, unveiling a new strategy, a new global strategy designed to break up the forming alliances of global South countries. |
| 0:25.0 | And we're going to talk about the Ukraine war. Spoiler alert, it's about to escalate. |
| 0:31.3 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:37.4 | impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:39.3 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to this week's episode of the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:12.1 | Today we're talking with Walter Smolerick. Once again, Walter is the editor of Liberation News. |
| 1:17.9 | You can see his writings and those of the website at LiberationNews.org. |
| 1:23.4 | Walter Smalerick, welcome back. |
| 1:25.4 | Thank you very much for having me. |
| 1:27.1 | Thank you for joining. |
| 1:28.4 | Walter, we have some video clips from President Zelensky and President Biden's speech at the UN General Assembly. |
| 1:35.7 | I think they're noteworthy. |
| 1:37.4 | Of course, Zelensky is pitching war, calling for an escalating war, talking about the need to expand |
| 1:44.0 | rather than reduce nuclear weapons. |
| 1:46.2 | He's about to go to Washington and meet with not only President Biden, but leaders of both parties. |
| 1:52.3 | This time, not before both houses of Congress, it'll be behind closed doors. |
| 1:57.7 | But when you look at what President Biden said, it was the unveiling of a new strategy. |
| 2:03.9 | Again, I think the United States is alarmed about what's happening with BRICS countries and the |
| 2:08.3 | emergence of perhaps a new movement of the non-aligned. Clearly, the United States is not going |
| 2:14.0 | to accept that. Let's start, Walter, by playing a clip. |
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