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Do press briefings on Ukraine reveal an unwitting media bias towards conflict, combat, confrontation, and escalation? @MehdiRHasan tells @AymanM that what's often missing are questions from reporters about diplomacy, peace and the prospects for negotiations. WATCH.
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.@SenatorCardin says Vladimir Putin should be tried for war crimes.
But the U.S. isn’t a member of the International Criminal Court. So, @MehdiRHasan follows up by asking, where should he be tried?” WATCH:
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So what would Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin think of his devotee, Putin?
“This invasion of Ukraine is very much in the spirit of the kind of thing that Ilyin would be supporting,” @TimothyDSnyder tells @mehdirhasan.
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Denazification is Russia’s stated and supposed reason for invading Ukraine. MmmHmm… @MehdiRHasan introduces pot to kettle in tonight’s #minirant:
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“To understand what’s going on in Ukraine right now, what’s going on inside of Russia, too, and what’s driving Vladimir Putin, we need to talk about a man named Ivan Ilyin,” says @mehdirhasan. Let him introduce you to the Russian autocrat’s favorite fascist philosopher:
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Quick, someone call the Gazpacho Police! America’s Queen of Disinformation 👑 is at it again with takes about the invasion of Ukraine that give Putin a run for his money.
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“We really need to reckon with the United States’ own role in weakening that order and commit to strengthening it,” reflects @mattduss on learning from the past, “If we really want to draw the right lessons both from Iraq and from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
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.@PeterBeinart notes the great importance of international law, and the grave danger of unbridled power.
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Could fighter jets be sent to Ukraine without it being seen by Moscow as an escalation?
“You don’t want to create and start World War III,” says @RepGregoryMeeks, who adds that an air defense system might be an acceptable alternative.
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.@mehdirhasan asks about the U.S. credibility problem. It has one human rights standard for Russia, and another one entirely for Saudi Arabia. WATCH:
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.@Mehdihasan answers the question that’s probably on *everyone’s* mind (not). What does Tony Blair think of the invasion in Ukraine?
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.@Mehdirhasan’s next history lesson to provide context on what’s happening in Ukraine? The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Spoiler alert: the U.S. & Russia can both learn *a lot* from taking a look back.
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President Biden announced an additional $800 million in aid to Ukraine but still drew the line at providing jets or a no-fly-zone.
@RepGregoryMeeks joins @Mehdirhasan to discuss the limits of U.S. involvement in Russia's war.
7pmET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/caohlSoJrWg
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They say history repeats itself, but does it have to?
@mattduss and @PeterBeinart join @MehdirHasan to analyze what the United States invasion of Iraq can teach us about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/caohlSoJrWg
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Only one Supreme Court justice has been impeached. Clarence Thomas could be the second. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opin…
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“That is not something that a United States Senator should say…I think it’s beneath the office.”
@RadioFreeTom did not hold back about *this* lawmakers recent comments:
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Ukraine sports stars-turned-politicians have PhD’s while Americans…don’t believe in evolution?
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“Just doing what we’re doing militarily…is just not enough.”
@jamil_n_jaffer suggests a path toward a negotiated solution is impossible without more support from the U.S.
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“The West needs to concentrate on the economic side of this hybrid war…let the Ukrainians fight it out but supply us with all the necessary equipment.”
Zelenskyy’s former advisor Igor Novikov discusses how the U.S. should continue to aid Ukraine with @KatiePhang.
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“I cannot understand why anyone would be pro-Putin or support Vladimir Putin in his war crimes and invasion of Ukraine.”
@Tedlieu reacts to various lawmakers and television personalities spewing pro-Putin rhetoric.
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