Chris Hedges: Russia Took the Bait
Veteran foreign war correspondent Chris Hedges gives important context to the war in Ukraine
The below clip from a new episode of The Katie Halper Show, with guest Chris Hedges, is an instructive watch. While making clear that Russia certainly violated international law in invading Ukraine, Hedges still sheds light on the ways in which the United States intentionally baited Russia into making this move with decades of military encirclement.
“It’s a criminal war of aggression…and Russia is guilty, but they were baited,” Hedges says.
“They took the bait and they pulled the trigger. That’s kind of the tragedy of what’s happened, here.”
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