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Radio War Nerd EP 371 — Iraq War 20th Anniversary, pt. 2: Countdown To Lunacy

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The Threat of the Peace Dividend

In the 1990s, Americans in particular and some other Westerners had this absolute missionary zeal in Russia to transform it into our image. And then everything collapsed at the end of 1998 when what was actually happening in Russia was a catastrophe. The media class believed that they were the new George Orwell's. Schindler's list had a... I'm only remembering this after kind of going back over time, like realizing,. that Schindler’s list had a huge cultural, political influence on people who were interested in politics.

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