“As an American born to Eastern European parents and as a leftist, I gotta say the political takes on Eastern Europe/Ukraine on this show are startlingly bad and uninformed (e.g. assertions that aid is given in money instead of military hardware). Sometimes the takes are literally talking points pushed by Russian propaganda narratives (e.g. US doesn’t have healthcare because of aid given to Ukraine). I already was thinking of unsubscribing because the podcast just makes me feel depressed, but the last episode was a final straw for me. If they can’t even get basic international relations stories right and support narratives from an imperialist power that colonized Eastern Europe and committed multiple genocides there, that’s gonna be a no for me. Plenty of other podcasts have well informed takes. I’d rather listen to those instead.”
BreeFelic18 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/20/23