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In this episode of The Source, we talk with activist and former Green Party of the USA presidential candidate Jill Stein about the Russian war in Ukraine. We examine the background to the war and discuss possible solutions.
Interview topics:
0:00 Introduction
0:32 Are Russia’s justifications for the war legitimate?
13:04 Media Atmosphere and Narrative around the Ukraine War
28:37 How to achieve peace in Ukraine?
37:31 Why is the media now supporting Assange?
ABOUT JILL STEIN: Jill Stein was the U.S. Green Party’s presidential candidate in 2016 and 2012. She is an organizer, physician and environmental health advocate. In the 2016 election, she was the only national Presidential candidate to call for an emergency jobs program to jointly solve the climate and economic crises, and for demilitarization through a foreign policy based on international law, diplomacy and human rights. She was also the only candidate to be arrested for supporting the Dakota Sioux nation in resisting the DAPL pipeline. Following the 2016 election, she launched a recount initiative – which is ongoing – to investigate potential interference in the presidential election.
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https://youtu.be/xIi6GqfTk5I
Chris Hedges on the war in Ukraine:
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Retired US Army Colonel Wilkerson on Ukraine:
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Daniel Ellsberg – Ukraine – Risking Nuclear War to Avoid Humiliation:
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Watch our latest videos on similar topics:
Historian Vijay Prashad – Reality & Context of the Ukraine War
https://youtu.be/FfFkEZIY-S8
Ukraine: An Alternative View & Full Update with Journalist Dimitri Lascaris
https://youtu.be/xIi6GqfTk5I
Chris Hedges on the war in Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwdPQm1IEBI
The War in Ukraine & 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis | Prof. Kuznick
https://youtu.be/Raq3mL_nCZo
Debate on the war in Ukraine with an award winning journalist Paul Jay
https://youtu.be/np4n0Wla1jg
Retired US Army Colonel Wilkerson on Ukraine:
https://youtu.be/QJnQdx0cJso
Daniel Ellsberg – Ukraine – Risking Nuclear War to Avoid Humiliation:
https://youtu.be/0n4O7_3mnVo
Noam Chomsky on Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ6T4uZGRTw
There was a major naval warfare breakthrough when Ukraine attacked Russian naval assets with sea drones that are very inexpensive and are remotely operated. If we are going to start sending LNG to the EU, all they need to do is send an armada of cheap drones after the tankers. You don't have to sink all the tankers. After the first one, no one will insure them…
Where is the UN on this war? They were missing in action the whole time everyone was childishly trash talking Russia on the media. I've seen so many videos on the how the war started and there is all kinds of experts and diplomats talking about it and all kinds of footage of the media. But not one second of the UN or any debate. There was nothing at all.
This was driven like the Twitter Files model on what they did with Covid. It was a full court press to raise war fervor and get people to post the yellow and blue and then chastise those that didn't. Anyone that questioned it was banned or called a traitor. I hope they do the Ukraine War expose' on the Twitter Files. We're gonna find they buffaloed us into this thing without any real debate at all.
At what point does this trigger the War Powers Act? Dr. Stein is part of the inertia that got the democrats in power. They sold their souls to the oligarchs to get rid of the evil orange man. Now we are owned by them It is corporatism, or fascism as it is more commonly known. She needs to speak out more forcefully.
Reach out to Tulsi and get on board together on this. Create a safe space where those against it can speak out and we can build inertia. There was a distinct time when Howard Dean spoke out against the Iraq war that opened the floodgates of dissent. It is time to end this tyranny led by Big Tech and Big Pharma…
Incursion into Russia's security ? What a lot of crap she is babbling here. It's astounding to see that she totally ignores the historical wrongs Ukrainians have suffered from the expansion of the "Russian empire" from the times of Catherine the great, Czar Alexander III, Stalin's Holodomor and Soviet oppression and now the criminal regime of Putin who has invaded the peaceful neighbour. The only reason Putin has invaded Ukraine is – a democratic and developing Ukraine is a danger to his autocratic rule in Russia.
Pay an oligarch to bump Putin off.
Is that same Jill Stein that Scott Ritter talk about her? He talked how they didn't allowed her to debate with other candidates in New York,if I remember correctly.
Why is it, nobody ever mentions the slaughter going on in the Donbass AND their 8yr of begging Russia for help against US backed NAZI? Russia did with the US pretends! ❤Z
Unfortunately everything Jill Stein says is correct pluss all this is done behind closed doors .. I can't personally see at Russia had any choice .´Talk is cheap and Merkel just admitted that all negotiations around Minsk where only to buy time
Odd that she does not perceive any ethnic characteristic in the "few" who hold all the wealtth and power whom she indicts. It's all just the bad corporations… slo she is basically a younger and better looking Chomsky. Limited hangout
Please try a little logic NYT and all other media pump out propaganda why would their climate perspective be anything other than propaganda zero co2 is a war against humanity scare the young to attack the poor split and conquer it sounds like what the us is trying to achieve in Europe .jills peace suggestions are now off the table for ever
Eight years of civil war on its border however does stretch the legal definition of justification for war I would say. Russia has been extremely patient with the military machinations of NATO.
Russia could just nuke the 🤮 in DC. That would solve it.
Tack för ditt inlägg Jill Stein ❤
I voted for this humanitarian hero for President. How can the public ignore her or other progressives, like Chris Hedges calling for more justice in human equality and financial equity.
It is actually quite easy when you think about it………NZ
If only we had a president like Jill Stein. If only we had a Congress and Senate like Jill Stein. If only most American citizens were like Jill Stein. Not many Americans are willing to openly admit, as Jill Stein did in this video, that in the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was America who started the whole thing by putting missiles in Turkey in the first place, and it was only when both sides, USSR and US, agreed to each remove their missiles that the crisis was resolved. But most Americans today still have no clue that America had placed missiles in Turkey and they tell the story like it was was all about Russian provocation. But unless I misunderstand things, and please tell me if I do not, the Ukraine situation is not Cuba in reverse as Jill Stein said in this video, but rather it is exactly the same as the Cuban Missile Crisis. It's the expansion of NATO plus US support for Ukraine regime change in 2014 to a regime that then persecuted the ethnic Russian portions of Eastern Ukraine hoping to push them out of the territory that provoked Russia to use military force to essentially rescue the ethnic Russians living in Eastern Ukraine, which is not really an invasion at all. You know? It's always the same story. The US starts a conflict, then makes it seem like the provocation is from the other side. The result is the ruling elite in the US making money at the expense of ordinary citizens on both sides. And exactly like the good German citizens of the 1930s who let Hitler invade other countries, the American population is letting it happen. Well, we all know how it worked out for the Germans. Perhaps that is what is ultimately in store for us?
I agree and hope for a better future. I'm 3rd generation US military and not proud of what this country is doing (don't think I realized I was in NATO when I was in the Army in Germany in the early 90's). But I think the most important thing by far is first to get this war in Ukraine ended in negotiations as soon as possible, just for the Ukraine soldiers that are dying every day mostly under heavy artillery fire. Whatever the chance of a nuclear war is it's too high and Ukraine can't be allowed to end in military collapse and social chaos in winter that happens in a foreseeable way like Vietnam or Afghanistan which would be a doubly intolerable failure of this country. I actually don't see how this country is going to accept any failure and that leads to more bad things without good leadership.
Richard Black is a retired US Army Colonel. Born in Virginia, enlisted in US Marines at age 19, entered aviation program, flew 269 helicopter combat missions in Vietnam, serves as a Forward Air Controller making 70 patrols, was wounded and had two of his radio men killed, went to law school, served with US Army Judge Advocate General and was elected to the Virginia senate.
"This year the Biden administration reversed the long-standing US policy that prohibited the first use of nuclear weapons. This means that now the US may at any time launch a surprise nuclear attack on Russia, a nuclear Pearl Harbor raining down hydrogen bombs on pedestrians in Moscow and St. Petersburg. That will of course signal the start of World War 3 triggering a nuclear holocaust that will end all human civilization. In response to this newly aggressive policy, President Putin of Russia has been forced to consider adopting a dramatic change to Russian nuclear doctrine. Russia is deeply concerned because NATO has moved its nuclear weapons ever closer encircling the Russian Federation with missiles.
General Mark Miley Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff admitted that Ukraine is unlikely to make further advances against Russia's forces. Ursula von der Leyen the President of the EU Commission just revealed that the Ukrainian army has lost 100,000 men killed in battle this year. Although she equivocated under pressure there are public soldiers' obituaries that have been tallied and match the original 100,000 figure. The Ukrainian death toll is utterly shocking. An entire generation of Ukrainian men is dying in battle today. Ukraine's population is too small to reconstitute its Army. The war is lost.
And after its army collapses what then? Will the foreign policy establishment having promised easy victory for the west now resort to nuclear weapons to vindicate the sudden unexpected disaster that is looming on the battlefield today? The US must push for a truce and for peace talks using whatever format and intermediaries the parties will accept. The risks to humanity are increasing by the day and we must act now."
Col. Richard Black (ret.) Dec. 14, 2022
By Jill's logic Poland wasn't invaded by Nazi Germany due to land grabbing ambitions. It was all the US and Europe's fault for the Nazis invasion. She never mentioned Russia's role in all of this. It was 43 minutes of it's all the US is to blame for the war yet I don't remember US troops crossing the Russian border into Ukraine to invade or US missiles bomb Ukrainians.
Bravo. Well said
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The US is controlled by the military financial complex and the security services. Good luck trying to defeat them. Because no one has succeeded yet.
Doctor Stein misspoke regarding this being the, "reverse," of the Cuban missile crisis. In fact the Cuban missile crisis has been misconstrued by the US. The timeline was that the US put missiles in Turkey and Italy in 1961. The USSR put missiles in Cuba in 1962 in response to US actions. So this is the SAME as the Cuban missile crisis, which should be called, "more US aggression placed in Turkey and Italy." Not as catchy a title, but much more accurate.
But I believe that when Russia wins, peace will be forced upon the US Military Industrial Complex.
so Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, South America, Africa, USA (read: powerful established oligarchs & the new wealth and their corrupt political gate keepers, not the hapless indoctrinated hard working US citizen) foreign policy isn't horrific? The downfall of progressive governments globally and the normalisation corporate takeovers of mass media bellies these intentions. Never has so few controlled so much. The future of humanity is in the hands of the criminally insane (simply it is greed and self interest that is motivating this and it is no excuse). Australia's purchase of the F 35 strike fighter and nuclear submarine deal is a case in point of the subversion of government. Please add your own points of view on this perverse stupidity.
It's too late to refer to the Eastern side of Ukraine as, "break away provinces." Russia, not just Putin, but the Duma and the Russian People, which includes the People of the Eastern areas, now consider those regions Russian and who can blame them after the way Ukraine abused them for 9 years. Any peace will not include those regions as part of Ukraine and how can there be real peace with the West after all this was intentionally caused by US politicians and the EU has been complicit.
I think the way to survive and possibly thrive in late stage capitalism is to work together at the individual, family, friends, organizations, for example churches or clubs, and the community level to achieve what we are not getting from the government. Grow as much food as you can. Use your talents to create what you need, develop talents when lacking, youtube has videos on everything, ask an older person to teach you, live small or have roommates, invest in tangible things, focus on needs. Also do tool and material shares. Do projects in partnership with other people. But be careful, it has to be random or the government will want tax money. Follow the law. I can't say I will tutor your child if you will mow my lawn. They will get you any way they can. Play their legal game. Regarding education I see scholars from all over my county. I try to motivate them by saying if they do well in Middle School they can earn up to a two year college degree in high school. I suggest they start a foreign language in Middle School, become fluent, so they can study abroad, where it is more cost effective, and I always bring up community funded trade schools, as another avenue to jobs. Additionally it is best during these times to keep as much spending local and I buy as much as I can second hand so I'm cutting the corporations out of the profit and by having a high credit score I buy debt up front which saves a ton on paying the banksters interest.
The Military Industrial Complex is getting rich off of all these wars. I suspect the politicians are invested in the MIC, in addition to all the other financial ways that the MIC controls US politicians. Also I heard or read somewhere that 30% of jobs come from the MIC and war. That is soldiers, and all the service industries that care for the MIC employees. They are extracting all the wealth out of the US treasury to keep our private sector on life support. They are going to keep destroying the planet and telling us to take the bus and eat bugs. Mean while they will not give up their 3 houses, 4 cars, private jets, and yachts. This is not about the planet, it's about them sucking the US dry and running off to an island somewhere and forgetting about us. They are literally at best turning us into serfs and at worst exterminating us.
I really respect Dr. Stein's knowledge base, but she lives in a fantasy world where one, she thinks enough of us will protest. People are AFRAID. Cops are bashing protestors sculls in and arresting them. I will lose my job if I have an arrest on my record. You can lose your job just for speaking out on public platforms, such as facebook or twitter. Doctors during Covid LOST their JOBS for trying alternative therapies, SAVING LIVES and speaking out. Her second fantasy is thinking that any amount of petitions and protests will effect change in government. You vote one out and the next owned politician steps in. Look at Bernie Sanders. He says he doesn't take corporate money, but still he toes the party line. He's captured. You will never vote these people out of office. All the progressives that ran on a progressive platform are now completely voting for war and not voting for living wage or Medicare for all. Turning away from the system and acting for the planet and our own security in a legal way is all we can do. And even then, if enough people do it they will change the laws and go after them. I believe more and more young people with any worth will leave the US. The future is in the East. The Western nations are all going to collapse.
She completely does not understand the Russian People. After 14,000 Ukrainians died at the hands of Ukraine, Russia said enough and went in. Russia stated in the Duma, on the record for all the Russian People to see that those regions are now RUSSIAN. Russia will not allow those People to be placed back under Ukrainian rule. Two seconds after Russia withdraws Ukraine will annihilate every living person in those regions. They have already been doing that! Ukraine will not stop until there is not one ethnically Russian person left alive in Ukraine. And her expectation of that in a treaty would stop any negotiation.