104. Timothy Snyder: How will the US election result impact Ukraine?

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  • 28 October 2024

  • Posted by Alastair Campbell

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What can European history teach us about the potential outcome of conflicts around the world? What effect will the results of the US election have on Ukraine? Will America always be a democracy?


Rory and Alastair are joined by esteemed historian and author Timothy Snyder to discuss all this and much more.


You can purchase Timothy's new book On Freedom here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460254/on-freedom-by-snyder-timothy/9781847928054


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4 responses to “104. Timothy Snyder: How will the US election result impact Ukraine?”

  1. Good Interview. On the subject of “grooming” to make masses of obedient faithful who might be capable of finding it normal to execute ones neighbours. I just read “Geschichte eines Deutschen” by Sebastian Haffner about the period he experienced as a child and later young law-student in Germany post WW1. I could only stand to read it in small doses. He has a very disturbing and enlightening description of the training camps the NSDAP set up in late 1933 to give a sort of military training to men taking their law exams, which
    they were forced to do in order to pass. It is powerful on how they turned a bunch of individuals into a unquestioning collective (mob?) which could be led in almost any direction.

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