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Eileen W.'s avatar

Great post! History is not my strength and I appreciate your weaving history into your posts. I knew nothing of Ukraine. It seems to me, the Republican party has been taking classes by Putin and his minions on how to create national domination aka authoritarianism. Victor Rud’s proposal makes sense. Make Putin look inward to distract his focus. Disrupt Putin’s plans. Wishing Biden and Blinken consider Rud’s approach, but removing sanction on pipeline doesn’t indicate that intent. Frankly, we have nothing to lose. Oh. Wait. We do. Democracy!

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Alex Gorouvein's avatar

Hi Greg!

Thank you and Victor so much for this amazing episode. I appreciate you guys going into the history of Ukraine, the country of my birth, and emphasizing that it is definitely NOT Russia. It's something that's definitely needed to be known to many people in the West.

It's also refreshing to hear someone, who understands the real threat Russia represents to the United States and other Western democracies. Victor is absolutely right, when he says Russia has to be dealt with in a much stronger manner. Putin is a "gopnik", a thug basically, who can only be defeated by his own methods. Anything less is considered a weakness by him and he's just laughing at the West and its weak moves to pacify him. That Churchill quote was on point!

Personally, I think we should keep hitting them the way Victor has described, until Russian Federation ceases to exist as a sovereign country. Carthago delenda est!

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