Would Putin use nuclear weapons? | Annie Jacobsen and Lex Fridman

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Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security.

[Samsara_is_dukkha]

"Would Putin use nuclear weapons?"
Ex UK Prime Minister Theresa May provided the answer to that same question when it was asked regarding the UK. It was an unequivocal yes.

[buildyourowntone]

"The question is NOT if you are paranoid, but if you are paranoid enough."

[mikes_gripes]

Who else is using this sound to fall asleep to tonight.

Extremely interesting but I’ve never been so relaxed about total destruction of humanity before

[scottythetrex]

"Putin has this paranoia. That the West really has it in for Russia. NATO really has it in for Russia."
LOL gee, why would he think that?

[damionzura]

she kinda reminds me of the shrink in the "Soprano's"

[jhaduvala]

She interviewed CIA "old timers" - Cold War warriors - and from that extapolates an idea about Putin's mindset. That's 100% speculation. Waste of time.

[skorlupkaskorlupkovich]

Interesting how she implicitly puts an idea about NATO not having a plan to destroy Russia. As if it's a fact that cannot be questioned.

[Dodo-ymcc]

Putin is so distrustful of Nato. I wonder why? This woman is out of touch with reality.

[jasonkloos]

I've watched the entire full version. Learned absolutely nothing that I didn't already know 35 years ago. But she seems to have completely left out the changes of the last 35 years. The book I read about nuclear weapons in 7th grade in 1989 had more insight. Maybe she was targeting the elementary school audience.

[ronobrien]

What scares me most is that it seems that D.C. is populated with childish minds.

[shaunhuxley]

wish she'd stop saying "right"

[teijoteittinen]

NO! He has selfcontrol. Piia from Finland.

[thefightingth]

Listening to Annie Jacobsen reminds me of listening to Peter Zeihan, but from the mouth of an adult and not that of a 15 year old teenage boy with poop stains.

[andybarrow]

We have good satellites but doesn’t russia have wayyy more powerful warheads ?

[charlesreimler]

“The Story Of The Human Race Is War.” Winston Churchill: (Nuclear War) “The Survivors Will ENVY The Dead 💀 Nikita Khrushchev

[mitchdaytonam]

1:25 - that incident was in 1983, the system has been improved since then. Still massively inferior to the US system, but at least get the facts right.

[Aslak]

6 minutes of name-dropping without any information what so ever.

[Saxoul]

She said that is so disheartening but didn’t say it’s not true. Doublespeaking at best

[reesestefer]

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