it was an Amy Goodman interview with Andrew Bacevich, president of an antiwar think tank, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. I will add he is also pushing a book he wrote. He is a retired colonel Vietnam war veteran.
I totally understand bashing the interview because he claims pushing Ukraine into joining NATO bears some responsibility for Putin's attack on Ukraine. He does admit that Russia alone is responsible but insinuates that pushing Ukraine to join NATO was an underlying cause. Amy Goodman pushed back on his claim by quoting president Zelenskyy's statements regarding NATO. Those Zelenskyy statements pretty much shot down what Bacevich was trying to infer.
I totally understand bashing this interview, I totally disagree with Bacevich, but Democracy Now host Amy Goodman did shoot down most of his arguments.
I looked at the headlines from Democracy Now's other articles and could see none of the dozens of other articles that appeared to be controversial. The article you cite is indeed controversial.
I will add that Bacevich brought up the innocent civilians who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, an inconvenient truth that Americans would not like to discuss at the present moment.
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