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He’s the author of the new book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine and host of the Scott Horton Show – it’s Scott Horton! And he’s joining Useful Idiots this week in a Santa hat to bring us the much-needed gift of finding out WTF is really going on in Russia, Ukraine, and the Middle East.
A theme of this interview – and much of our reporting these days – is that so much of what was previously dismissed and smeared as Russian propaganda is now admitted openly as fact. Two glaring examples: the US and UK prevented a peace deal that had been negotiated between Ukraine and Russia right after Russia invaded in February 2022. And the idea that this whole conflict is a US proxy war.
When we reported these on our show, we were called Putinists, Russian propagandists, and, by some really clever haters, useful idiots.
But today, either everyone has fallen for these Russian talking points, or the West has finally realized it can’t hide the truth much longer as mountains of evidence prove these to be true. Just listen to Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister who famously warned Zelensky not to finalize the peace deal, describing the war now:
“We are, let's face it, we're waging a proxy war. But we're not giving our proxies the ability to do the job. For years and years now we've been allowing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs, and it has been cruel and we need now to give them what they need.”
He admits that this is a proxy war, but using Ukraine as fodder against Russia isn’t the cruel part. The cruel part, according to neocons, is that we’re not giving them all the weapons possible to fight and die on our behalf.
That’s the perspective that Scott Horton takes apart in this week’s episode, giving a very detailed account of the US role in provoking the proxy war in Ukraine and the methods to prolong it ever since.
Subscribe to hear the full interview with Scott Horton where we discuss how so-called anti-war President Trump has stood as firmly by NATO as anyone else, whether actual Ukrainians want western support, and a complex look at the Middle East where Scott reveals the country that spies on the US more than anyone else.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. |
0:06.9 | I'm one of your host, Katie Halper. |
0:08.9 | I'm the other host, Erin Matey. |
0:10.5 | Hey, everybody. |
0:11.0 | Thanks so much for being here. |
0:12.6 | Our website is Useful Idiotth Podcast.com. |
0:15.5 | Go there to support the show and get bonus content. |
0:19.2 | This week we are joined by a wonderful guest, Scott Horton, |
0:22.7 | who has a brand new book. It's called Provoked How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia |
0:27.6 | and the catastrophe in Ukraine. And we'll be speaking to Scott about that whole catastrophe |
0:32.9 | in Ukraine and a whole lot more because luckily for us, we're involved in so many catastrophes |
0:37.5 | around the world from Ukraine to the Middle East. And Scott has a lot to say on these topics. |
0:42.0 | And make sure if you don't already support us, if you're not already members at useful |
0:46.8 | atitistpodcast.com, make sure you do become members because Scott has some really interesting |
0:51.7 | things to say about Israel in the bonus portion of the interview. |
0:55.6 | And of course, as always, you get Thursday throw down your midweek dose of media madness. |
0:58.9 | So so many reasons to give yourself the gift of our podcast extended membership. |
1:05.9 | All right. |
1:06.0 | Let's get to our four basic food groups, starting with Democrats suck. |
1:10.7 | Anthony Blinken, our outgoing Secretary of State, |
1:13.9 | is making the rounds. |
1:15.2 | And with just one month left of the Biden presidency, |
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