{"id":40750,"date":"2022-09-29T09:03:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=40750"},"modified":"2022-09-29T09:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:03:15","slug":"katie-halper-and-aaron-mate-inteview-dr-benjamin-abelow-author-of-how-the-west-brought-war-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/29\/katie-halper-and-aaron-mate-inteview-dr-benjamin-abelow-author-of-how-the-west-brought-war-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Halper and Aaron Mat\u00e9 inteview Dr. Benjamin Abelow, author of <I>How the West Brought War to Ukraine<\/I>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Halper and Aaron Mat\u00e9 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/usefulidiots\">Useful Idiots<\/a> interview Dr. Benjamin Abelow, author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-West-Brought-Ukraine-Understanding\/dp\/0991076702\">How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Researcher and writer Dr. Ben Abelow, a scholar who lobbied Congress on nuclear arms policy, joins Useful Idiots to explain, as his new book argues, how the west brought war to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3991wHR0maI?start=825\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>(video is cued to 13:45, the start of Abelow&#8217;s interview, but the opening of the show is very entertaining too)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal of the US,\u201d Abelow says, \u201cis not to save Ukrainians but to degrade Russia\u2019s military until they won\u2019t be able to fight in the future. And while some say stopping Russia is a humanitarian goal, the way one would degrade Russia\u2019s military is to keep an extended war going and fight to the last Ukrainian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abelow analyzes the history of this cold war, the aggression by each side, and the hypocrisy of the argument that Ukraine has a sacrosanct right to join NATO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe right to join NATO is the right to place a western military arsenal on Russia\u2019s border. If Russia made a military alliance with Canada or Mexico, US leaders would not be talking about their right to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And on this week\u2019s news of Putin announcing military escalation and giving a thinly-veiled threat of nuclear war, Dr. Abelow warns:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope it\u2019s taken seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are scary times. So buckle up, cook some Nyquil chicken, and get ready for this week\u2019s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Halper and Aaron Mat\u00e9 at Useful Idiots interview Dr. Benjamin Abelow, author of How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe Researcher and writer Dr. Ben Abelow, a scholar who lobbied Congress on nuclear arms policy, joins Useful Idiots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-40750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40755,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40750\/revisions\/40755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40750"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=40750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}