
The Pakistan Experience Is the US being hypocritical about the Russia-Ukraine War? - Michael Kugelman - #156
Michael Kugelman is the Deputy director of the Asia Program, South Asia senior associate
at TheWilsonCenter and Writer of the Foreign Policy's weekly South Asia Brief.
Michael Kugelman comes on the podcast to discuss India launching a missile into Pakistan, Global Power Politics, US, Russia-Ukraine war, Imran Khan's statements and anti-Americanism in Pakistan.
Was the missile launch an accident? Is the United States being hypocritical? Why does Biden not call Imran Khan? Find out this and more on this week's episode of The Pakistan Experience.
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Chapters:
0:00 India's Missile Launch into Pakistan
8:30 Pakistan's Image problem and Global Politics
13:00 Return of McCarthyism?
17:30 The 'Putin is a big bad guy' narrative in US Politics
23:30 Putin's Response
28:00 US's Hypocrisy
38:00 Are we headed for WWIII?
45:00 Double Standards and Hypocrisy
50:30 The Media's portrayal of the war
54:30 The Nuclear option
57:30 Imran Khan's statements and US's reaction
1:06:30 Imran Khan's visit to Russia
1:12:00 Anti-American populism used
1:19:30 People's Questions
