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ah, for a while, come back to this norman solomon, executive director of the institute for public accuracy, author, all war made easy. how presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death. now, mister solomon, going back to the nature of the style of the russian military operation in ukraine . in describing, if you use such terms as, quote, the murderous rampage, barbaric, mass slaughter, killing spree. and you essentially equate the russian style of war to the way americans bought the wars in afghanistan and iraq and indirectly in syria and leave in as a, as a form of water water. i absolutely reject this comparison because i think there's a massive difference in a way the russians do. and the americans do it. sure any war is horrible. it's the worst possible outcome. but one of the reasons why the russians have been progressing so slow is because they actually didn't allow themselves to carpet blong cities the way the americans do it. again, we both agree that war is horrendous. but should we also be more nuanced about the way military is doing that about the way the war fight is proceed

well, to discuss it, i'm now joined by norman solomon, executive director for the institute for public accuracy, author or war made easy. how presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death. this is solomon. it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you . now i know that you were born in the early 1950 sam grew up in the washington d. c suburb. so i assume your childhood was colored by the years of by mushroom cloud when you compared the current situation to the events of your childhood, which i know you're studying professionally. which period do you think is the word dangerous? well, i rely on a lot of the experts such as the bulletin of the atomic scientists that says that in the last decade the dangers have been more and more extreme in terms of global nuclear war. and we see just in this year, that in the 10 months or so, since they both made this last assessment, which was quite dire, the worst and decades, it's gotten even more dangerous situation. so subjectively, we've all, i think grown up with these fears if we're paying attention, but in terms of

well, to discuss it and now joined by norman solomon, executive director of for the institute for public accuracy, an author of war made easy. how presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death. this is solomon, it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you. now i know that you were born in the early 1950 sam grew up in the washington d. c suburb, so i assume your childhood was colored by the years of mushroom glass. to change and to the events of your childhood, which i know you started professionally. which period do you think is more dangerous? well, i rely on a lot of the experts such as the bulletin of the atomic scientists that says that in the last decade the dangers have been more and more extreme in terms of global nuclear war. and we see just in this year, that in the 10 months or so, since they both made this last assessment, which was quite dire, the worst and decades, it's gotten even more dangerous situation. so subjectively, we've all, i think grown up with the shares if we're paying a.

well, to discuss it now joined by norman solomon, executive director for the institute for public accuracy and author of war made easy. how presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death. mister solomon is great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you. now i know that you were born in the early 19 fifties and grew up in the washington d. c suburb, so i assume your childhood was colored by the years of my mushroom cloud when you compared the current situation to the events of your childhood, which i know you started professionally. which period do you think is more dangerous? yeah, well i rely on a lot of the experts such as the bulletin of atomic scientists that says that in the last decade the dangers have been more and more extreme in terms of global nuclear war. and we see just in this year that in the 10 months or so, since they both made this last assessment, which was quite dire, the worst and decades, it's gotten even more dangerous situations. so suggestively, we've all, i think grown up with these fears if we're paying attention, but in terms of expertise. a