Thoughts on Ukraine (Updated and Remastered)

The Martyr Made Podcast

Darryl Cooper

History, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

Hey everybody. Many of you have asked for my thoughts on the crisis in Ukraine, so here they are. I re-recorded it because the audio was trash the first time around. Sorry about that.
This is the kind of content I usually put on the Substack subscribers-only feed, so if you like this and can spare $5, please consider supporting the podcast by subscribing at martyrmade.substack.com.
Here are some links I mention in the show:

The Snipers Massacre On Maidan

How the West Sowed the Seeds of War in Ukraine, by Pedro Gonzalez

My Twitter thread on the Rand Corporation’s strategy white paper

Scott Horton’s recent speech on the Ukraine crisis

Thanks for listening.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it is Darrell Cooper.
0:06.1	You are listening to the Martyr Made Podcast.
0:10.0	Some of you heard this episode before.
0:11.6	I decided to re-record it to correct the audio issues that I had the first time around.
0:18.4	Some people said I should have just let it ride, but I don't know.
0:21.0	If you guys are going to give me your time, I need to have more respect for you than that.
0:24.4	So I do apologize for the quality of the first time around.
0:28.2	And I added a fair amount of new material that I thought of since I released the first
0:32.4	version.
0:34.4	As you all know, Russia has invaded Ukraine.
0:40.6	At the time of that I'm releasing this, I guess it's now the 16th of March 2022.
0:46.4	The war is ongoing.
0:49.6	And it shows no signs of abating.
0:52.9	The Russian assault seems to be increasing in ferocity.
0:56.8	As Ukrainians put up a solid defense in many areas of the country, obviously the fog
1:02.3	of war is hard to tell what's going on, but things don't look great.
1:08.0	Several cities have been captured by the Russians.
1:12.4	The city of Karkov is under attack in the east.
1:15.7	Mario Pol and the south is surrounded and cut off.
1:19.1	And a large force of Ukrainian soldiers seems to be mostly encircled in the east of the
1:24.0	country.
1:25.0	The capital city of Kiev is nearly surrounded as well.
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