reza aslan joins me to talk about what happens next. good evening and welcome to the show. war crimes that s what russia seems to be carrying out in its war against ukraine. earlier today russian forces bombarded the city of zaporizhzhia, killing 17 people and wounding dozens of others. the shelling was concentrating on number apartment complexes in one of zaporizhzhia s most densely populated residential areas. marking a clear instance of vladimir putin s invading army roth laws of war. upstanding doubly, the strikes serve as a particularly dastardly reprisal for ukrainian military games on the battlefield against russia in recent weeks. the most noteworthy of which occurred yesterday, when ukrainians destroyed a massive brae ridge linking rachel what the kremlin peninsula. a critical surprise route for the kremlin s forces. as you might imagine, a thin skin putin is not taking this well. on the contrary, he s renewed his nuclear saber rattling. unnerving western a
In the upcoming August 27-29 "six-party" talks in Beijing, theUnited States must not risk turning the clock back to August 1994,when the Chinese persuaded the Clinton Administration to give NorthKorea billions in aid without first requiring Pyongyang to forswearits nuclear ambitions. To avoid repeating past mistakes, U.S.negotiators must have a clear-eyed view of China's role in theNorth Korean nuclear issue.
But they had no desire. part of the problem, even if they had a plan, can you imagine these candidates, who all they were talking about was culture issues and election denialism, talking about some complicated plan on taxes or education reform or whatever it happened to be? i actually think, i m just going to sound off, yes, i think joe biden made the most important decision of his political life this year. which was to make this a referendum on democracy. but if democracy was on the ballot, who should be congratulated and who won was the voters. the voters won in this case. it wasn t a political party, it wasn t chuck schumer, it wasn t that. the voters won, he gave them a presentation on here is what democracy looks, like here s what autocracy looks like, and democracy won. and that is who i think is the biggest victor over the course of the last week. we re going to be talking about that all show long. you are all staying with me. coming up, we know trump was out at about stumping
Undoing of democracy if we don t have free and fair elections, we don t have anything. i mean it s not as if they re not saying it s bad. the problem i have when i talk to members of congress as they say, yes, it s really bad, democracy is under threat. but also prescription drug prices, also this, also. that it s not one of many issues, it s the issue. but it s existential. i wish more than would say. that charlie, if the election deniers on the right wind in 2022, next month, to me democracy looks like it s over in america, fascism is here to stay. insurrection, domestic terrorism, civil war, god forbid. is there any scope for optimism here? well, that was dark. i do wonder in my darker moods, if we ve crossed a red line here. but the stakes are so high, it comes down to your point of why this is not a bigger factor in the campaign.