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Ben Makuch

Ben Makuch is a national security reporter and former correspondent for VICE News Tonight. He hosted the 2022 podcast “American Terror,” about far-right extremism in the U.S.

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February 19, 2024
Ben Makuch
The High Cost of the GOP’s Reckless Decision to Withhold Aid to Ukraine
The Republican Party is full of “sycophantic cowards who would gladly watch Ukrainians get killed if it meant Trump had a higher chance of winning reelection,” according to one American veteran training Ukrainian soldiers.
October 9, 2023
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What Ukrainian Soldiers Really Think of Trump and the GOP
For starters: “Donald Trump is a fucking asshole.”
July 26, 2023
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Putin Is in a Spy Mess of His Own Making
Prigozhin’s mutiny was the “first marker of the cracking of the regime,” according to one Ukrainian intelligence source.

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