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3:31 The GOP primary gets crowded
10:56 Will Trump’s indictment help him get the nomination?
19:07 Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive begins
25:55 Dissecting Timothy Snyder’s Ukraine analysis
36:01 Looks like Ukraine blew up Nord Stream
41:47 Tucker’s new Twitter show
49:22 Parrot Room preview: Bob draws lesson from PGA’s merger with Saudi’s LIV; affirmative action set to fall; Apple’s new goggles; Taylor Swift; food stamps and the homeless; why Gen-Zers are more likely to be non-binary; Cracker Barrel goes woke; Chinese spy situation in Cuba; Bob on the sci-fi show Silo.
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded June 09, 2023.
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My one comment on the Timothy Snyder criticism: a lot of what you say is valid, but both in the article and on the podcast you omitted this Snyder tweet: "If Russian propaganda for external consumption is cited, so must that for internal consumption. Propagandists long argued that Ukrainian dams should be blown. A Russian parliamentarian takes for granted Russia blew the dam and rejoices. See
@JuliaDavisNews"
I'm not saying this is some sort of winning argument, but if you are not following Julia Davis, you should -- what we get here is endless clips from mainstream (i.e. Russian government approved) TV. It really shows the info that the overwhelming majority of Russians are being fed, and much what Putin and the Russian ruling elite believes.
So while you don't see any reason Russia should have blown up the damn, the Russian elites definitely have thought that blowing up Ukranians dams was a good idea for quit a while.