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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

The Most Evil Thing I Have Ever Seen – with Ret. Marine Jim Webb

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Retired US Marine Jim Webb joins Useful Idiots to give a military analysis of America’s neoliberal wars waged around the world. If you miss history class or are fascinated by combat strategy and the decisions of generals, this episode is for you.

We start in Ukraine, where everyone waited anxiously this week as Joe Biden teased a dangerous message to Ukraine: the approval of shooting long-range Western missiles into Russia. In the past month, Biden’s hawkish policy showed he was increasingly flirting with the idea, but Webb explains:

“There were leaks leading up to this meeting between Biden and Keir Starmer last week saying that a decision was pretty much imminent, but it didn't happen. And it didn't happen after Vladimir Putin said that if Biden approves this, then basically the U.S. will be at war with Russia.”

And it’s this waning end of hope for Ukraine, with desperate attempts at surprise attacks, forced conscriptions, and escalated war tactics, that Webb describes as the latest failure in the Washington neoliberal war machine.

“We just don't know how bad the war is,” Webb says. “The lengths that the U.S. has taken to ensure the Ukrainians stay on the battlefield.”

And that machine knows that as the number of killed Ukrainians skyrockets into the hundreds of thousands, their clutch of control will finally slip. “The descendants of Hillary Clinton's State Department are still driving the bus. And it's the last grasp, the last dying breaths of a really hardcore neoliberal element that is in control. They know that if this fails, then their entire project across the world is going to come into intense scrutiny, beginning with Ukraine.”

So Webb gives a military history of the conflict, explaining the strategic (and nonstrategic) decisions made by each side that brought us to this point, and maps out how the upcoming decisions of Biden, Putin, and Zelensky could lead to peace or to war.

He also answers the burning question: What will be the foreign policy difference between a President Harris and a President Trump?

Subscribe for the full interview with Jim Webb where he explains who really started the Russia-Ukraine War, how Ukraine’s Kursk invasion was actually a trap laid by Russia, and why Israel’s string of pager explosions should be considered a terrorist attack.

00:00 Intro

01:11 Congress calls Israel's civilian terrorist attack "innovative"

18:23 Jim Webb interview

19:30 Biden calls of long-range missiles

23:06 Zelensky's strategy

28:13 Victoria Nuland's accidental truth

33:06 Do the Ukrainians target civilian areas?

34:46 The Kursk invasion was a TRAP

39:19 The Monty Python Warplan

41:38 West blames Zelensky for everything

43:50 Are the neoliberals losing?

48:26 Ukraine's forced conscriptions

50:21 Who started the war?



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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Helper. I'm Mary Matte.

0:07.0

Hey everybody. Thank you for joining us once again.

0:11.0

For anybody who's new to the show, the title of the show,

0:14.7

Use Fyates, it's ironic, okay? We're not actually calling ourselves Use

0:17.6

Philadelphia, we're not calling you Use Fyates. Some people call us Use Fyates

0:22.1

because they don't like the fact that we criticize

0:24.7

US foreign policy when you criticize US foreign policy, then you get accused of being a useful

0:28.7

idiot for the bad guy state of the day. But justI ironically named podcast we try to be useful

0:36.4

but we're not useful idiots did someone come at you errand or something or you're

0:40.4

you know I mean yes it's like you know on on Twitter you know some

0:44.5

I make the mistake of like reading comments or or mentions and people be like a

0:49.8

ha ha look at this he's a use, a host use of Lydia's podcast.

0:53.2

I know it's so dumb. Like you can't actually make that joke when that joke is one we built in.

0:58.1

Yeah, we're making the joke. Yeah, it's our joke. Yeah, exactly.

1:01.5

Jokesy. Not only do you have shitty politics, but you're a thief.

1:06.5

Joke. Joke Jacking is just so lame. Don't joke Jac. Yeah.

1:10.5

Don't Joc Joc Jac. Yeah. Well, let's start with our four food groups and since you did an intro welcome if you haven't seen the show before you're new the show for basic food groups are what all news stories can be divided into and that's Democrats

1:23.1

suck Republican suck isn't that terrible so I have Democrats this

1:26.8

week so let's take a look at what California congressman Brad Sherman had to say about Israel's terrorist attack on Lebanon and

1:38.0

this attack has been misnamed as a Hezbollah-Pager attack which of course makes it sound like perhaps it was something done by

1:46.0

Hezbollah. Anyway, so let's take a look at these tweets by Brad Sherman. So he writes,

1:52.0

let's be clear in its strategic attack on Hezbollah, Israel

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