348 w/ Matt Taibbi "Richard Perle in New Jersey, Putin in Hell, Ukraine in Crisis"

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03/03/22 • 123 min

The Fifth Column

Does the media have this conflict wrong?
The privatization of protest
Europe shutting down shitty, Kremlin-funded media
Wait, did Matt Taibbi just say he was warming to intervention?
Verdict: unclear
No due process for shitty, Kremlin-funded oligarchs
America's overlooked role in the beginnings of Putinism
Could Russia have been democratic?
Mearsheimer and the interminable NATO debate
The narcissism of Twitter war tourism
Taibbi post game
On Biden's SOTU speech
On the forgotten trade wars

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Does the media have this conflict wrong?
The privatization of protest
Europe shutting down shitty, Kremlin-funded media
Wait, did Matt Taibbi just say he was warming to intervention?
Verdict: unclear
No due process for shitty, Kremlin-funded oligarchs
America's overlooked role in the beginnings of Putinism
Could Russia have been democratic?
Mearsheimer and the interminable NATO debate
The narcissism of Twitter war tourism
Taibbi post game
On Biden's SOTU speech
On the forgotten trade wars

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Previous Episode

347 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Ukraine Crisis, The Enemy of My Enemy, National Conservatism"

With Kmele waiting for his son to arrive and moving into his new East Coast digs (or something), Welch and Moynihan again find a temporary replacement. This time the honor is bestowed upon Jamie Kirchick, senior fellow for the Europe Center at the Atlantic Council and author of the forthcoming book Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. Bullet point topics for this episode seem unnecessary because....lotta Ukraine. With a bonus digression into Jamie's recent piece on Sohrab Ahmari and the right's lurch towards "national conservatism." Enjoy.

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349 "Moynihan Taps In From Ukraine"

Kmele got a new baby!

Welch is doing -- something.

And a disheveled, bleary-eyed Moynihan checks in from Europe -- where he's been bouncing between checkpoints and bunkers in Ukraine. The dude is earning his WHOLE paycheck this week.

Recorded: March 14th, 2022

Published: March 15th, 2022

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