Why Washington Hates Putin: Scott Horton Explains

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In this video,Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald interviews radio host and author Scott Horton about the long-standing animosity and confrontation between the United States and Russia, tracing it back to the past and the influence of neoconservatives. Further they discuss the neoconservative doctrine of American global dominance, which views any independent or defiant stance by Russia as a threat that must be confronted.

This video was produced by System Update and published on the Glenn Greenwald YouTube channel on the 23rd of November, 2024.

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ABOUT SCOTT HORTON

Scott Horton is an American radio host and author. His latest book was is called Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine

ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020.