{"id":836542,"date":"2022-10-12T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=2afa0b3a10aec5a1cbdd21b5b88066db"},"modified":"2022-10-12T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T03:55:00","slug":"putins-nuclear-war-tourist-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/12\/putins-nuclear-war-tourist-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s Nuclear War Tourist Trap"},"content":{"rendered":" Putin relies on making subtle and not so subtle nuclear war threats and has done so for years. Currently, it\u2019s his way of making his war crimes and ethnic cleansing seem not so bad in comparison, and trying to deter meaningful response from Ukraine\u2019s allies to try to hold him accountable. We debate whether Russia would actually use a nuclear weapon, what the repercussions would be for Russia and the world if they were to do that, and discuss the strategies on dealing with nuclear threats that do not give in to Russian blackmail. \u00a0 We also discuss the important historical context to today\u2019s war and crisis with Russian fascism\u2013the unfinished business of World War II. We go through the ways world leaders have fallen for Putin\u2019s mind games, including Germany ensuring greater dependence on Russian gas, something we\u2019ve long warned against, even though they knew they were leaving themselves vulnerable to Russia's energy weaponization, according to a stunning admission by Chancellor Scholz<\/a>. While our bonus episode looks at Putin\u2019s little helper \u2013 Elon Musk \u2013 we provide a peace plan of our own: get Ukraine what it needs to end the war quickly, because the Munich Agreement \u2013 giving Hitler land in exchange for peace \u2013 didn\u2019t work in 1938, and the Minsk I and II negotiations with Russia promising essentially the same thing in recent years hasn\u2019t worked either. Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is not just a war; it\u2019s ethnic cleansing. And it\u2019s impossible to negotiate with a fascist state that doesn\u2019t think you should exist. \u00a0 The Gaslit Nation Early Show returns! This week, we open with our reaction to the unsurprising news<\/a> that Elon Musk, the world's richest sh*tposter, was allegedly communicating with Putin before pushing Russian propaganda on Twitter in a so-called \"peace deal\" proposal (a.k.a. helping Russia re-group given that it's losing, badly, to Ukraine). Musk denies<\/a> talking to Putin, but what about a Kremlin proxy, like maybe his financial backers from Russian ally Saudi Arabia in the Twitter deal? We discuss all that and more, answering questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher, including what to do about movement in-fighting, what did Saudi Arabia get out of Jared Kushner so far, and where the hell is our justice for January 6th? We'll be back with an all new Gaslit Nation Q&A so keep your questions coming! \n

This post was originally published on Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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