Are They Going to Put Up With This?

Europe has ceded its core decisions to the US warmongers flooding Ukraine with arms, expediting the global economy’s collapse and extending the war against their own interests. But Ukraine isn’t the only major event stressing the global order: the US flexing against China, global inflation, a possible victory for the left in Colombia, massive protests in Sri Lanka, and even the senseless school shootings in the US reverberate across the world. 

To help make sense of it all, Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and author of “Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations,” joins Dispatches with Rania Khalek. 


Time codes:

0:00 Intro

1:46 Why has Europe ceded control to the US?

8:43 Inflation & madman theory to dominate Russia & China

16:43 NATO expands to Sweden & Finland

22:03 Is Ukraine losing?

31:08 Media complicity in whitewashing Nazis

37:59 Russia’s resilience against sanctions 

46:10 Food insecurity & fuel shortages in Sri Lanka

55:00 Republicans are NOT antiwar

1:00:49 Mass shootings in the US

1:06:38 Death of liberalism