17 December 2024
Did the US start the catastrophe in Ukraine?
Scott Horton, author of the new book Provoked, makes the case that it did. From Robert Wright's NonZero Podcast.
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In this video:
- Scott’s anti-war libertarianism and his new book, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
- How the US made the Russia-Ukraine war more likely
- Was Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution a US-backed coup?
- America’s promise to the Soviet Union not to expand NATO
- Do US officials misunderstand Russia’s perspective?
- Heading to Overtime
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