Terrell Starr, an American journalist based in Kyiv, joins me for our Monday Ukraine brief. We start with the question both of us get from abroad, why we don't go to the shelter, after a salvo in which two of the people killed near my neighborhood were on their way to one.
Terrell explains what a shelter night takes, from go bags to sleeping pads in the metro, and why he thinks Trump's reversal on letting Ukraine build Patriots was impulse rather than a call from Moscow. We take on Republican commentators who blame the left for weak MAGA support for Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr.'s 'international welfare' line, and Terrell's reporting on race in Ukraine coverage, including a Ukrainian woman detained by ICE at San Francisco airport.
We close on the protests over Fedorov's dismissal, Russia's record in Africa, and Terrell's essay on jazz musician Nicholas Payton playing Moscow.
Chapters
0:00 Why we don't run to the shelter
3:50 Safety in Kyiv versus America
5:47 The latest salvo and one intercept
7:40 What a shelter night takes
8:41 Trump and the Patriot license
11:31 Big country, little country
13:56 Kiel data and Republican stockpile votes
17:00 Laura Loomer and blame-shifting
19:21 International welfare and MAGA
23:14 Commentators who arrived after 2022
26:05 Race and the coverage of Ukraine
32:46 A Ukrainian woman detained by ICE
35:25 Green Berets and the colonial lens
37:55 Russian supremacy and white supremacy
40:46 The Fedorov protests
44:13 Talking with the DSA left
48:24 Russia in Africa and Wagner
51:09 Nicholas Payton in Moscow
56:29 Who gets the microphone
59:30 Street safety in Kyiv
1:00:57 Next week's topic
Watch on YouTube: Terrell Starr and Chris Sampson on Air Raid Shelters, Patriots and Race in Ukraine Coverage
