Chris Hedges

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64 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Jun

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And there is, Sachs references this, but there is historical drama in that Russia was invaded three times through Ukraine.
Napoleon, the First World War, and the Wehrmacht in the Second World War.
And there's actually through WikiLeaks, Burns, who became the CIA director but before was the ambassador to Ukraine,
Moscow, when we can read that memo in the WikiLeaks, he said it doesn't matter the political persuasion of anyone within Russia turning Ukraine into a NATO ally.
is absolutely unacceptable within Russian society.
But again, we didn't read with hubris.
And then, of course, the financial incentives, we baited Putin into the Ukraine.
I'm not defending what Putin did, but I'm telling you that he was baited and provoked.
And there were numerous messages out of Moscow to stop.
And we didn't.
And so the war industry, Gorbachev wanted to join NATO.
And so did Putin.
That's right.
I mean, that's the tragic.
And after 9-11, they wanted to offer all sorts of help because they've had all sorts of terrorist attacks by Chechen separatists, etc.
So that's the tragedy.
But we couldn't allow that.
In order to continue this massive infusion of money into the war industry, you had to create an enemy.
And so we did.
And I think that's what they're doing.
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