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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has turn into an icon around the globe for his bravery and management because the Russian invasion started—and New Irregular co-host Molly Jong-Quick herself has a particular place in her coronary heart for him.
Zelensky “is my age and a Jewish comic, so I really feel very linked to him,” she says on the most recent episode of The New Irregular. “My era, we’ve had a troublesome time of it. We’ve by no means actually had our second. So this can be as shut as we ever get to our second.”
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With the world watching the struggle in Ukraine, “There’s all types of discuss no-fly zones,” says Jeet Heer, Nation columnist and the writer of the publication The Time of Monsters. “I feel the Biden White Home has very correctly mentioned that’s not likely an possibility. That’s one of many issues that might result in a nuclear struggle.”
Certainly, this second is the primary time because the Nineteen Eighties that the prospect of a nuclear struggle is an actual one, and now all of the “do your individual analysis guys” are popping out of the woodwork to query whether or not that will actually be so horrible, Heer says.
“I noticed one man saying, ‘It’s actually a matter of perspective’... I’m sorry, man. Radiation doesn't care about your perspective,” Heer says. “Fallout doesn’t care about your perspective.”
“I feel if you need to say, ‘Nuclear struggle is unhealthy, however…’ That’s a sentence that, when you say that, you’ve misplaced,” Molly says.
Afterward the episode, Face the Nation moderator and CBS Information chief overseas affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan joins to speak concerning the battle in Ukraine and the exodus of 1,000,000 Ukrainians.
When Molly asks whether or not that is completely different from different refugee crises, Brennan notes that “European nations surrounding Ukraine are opening their borders to absorb refugees from the struggle zone from Ukraine at a time after they have tried to shut their borders to refugees from [other] energetic struggle zones.”
“These coming from struggle zones from Muslim majority nations, those that are brown or Black, have had a unique expertise than these being welcomed from Ukraine who're largely Christian, some Jewish, however largely Christian white Europeans,” she says. “There have been fees that that is primarily based in racism. The European governments, Poland, for instance, would argue that no, it’s as a result of they're our European neighbors.”
Lastly, former presidential candidate Evan McMullin, who’s now working as an impartial to unseat Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), comes on to speak about his race and the Russia-Ukraine struggle.
“This entire Russia-Ukraine state of affairs has, I feel, made clear the struggle that the world is having now between democracy and authoritarianism,” he says. “And right here in Utah, we’ve acquired anyone who has stood on the facet of Putin and on the facet of efforts to overturn our personal democracy.”
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