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Mar 2022
32m 35s

Red Hot Take: Russia, Ukraine, and NATO

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About this episode

In this episode, Breht (while acknowledging this is a fluid situation that can change on a dime) gives his thoughts on the recent invasion of Ukraine, the role that US-led NATO has played in bringing us to this point, what China is (probably) thinking, what Putin's goals might be, the role Nazis play in all of this, the response from the Ukrainian and Russian masses, and how we should think and talk about Russia during this crisis. Our deep history of Ukraine and Russia on Guerrilla History here: https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/history-of-russiaukraine-relations-w-alexey-sakhnin-dispatch

RealLifeLore video on Russia, Ukraine, and NATO here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE&ab_channel=RealLifeLore

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