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Welcome back to the LincolnProject. I'm your host, Reed Gaelin.

Today, I'm joined by Tom Nichols, a specialist on international security affairs including Russia,

nuclear strategy, and NATO. He's a contributing writer at the Atlantic, proprietor of the Peacefield newsletter,

five-time Jeopardy champion, and has authored a multitude of books including his latest, our own worst enemy,

and his previous, the death of expertise.

Tom, welcome back to the show. Thanks, Reed. Good to be with you.

So, Tom, today I want to talk about last week's leak from the Supreme Court regarding the Roe v. Wade decision,

as well as this idea that America has short-term memory syndrome.

But first, Tom, you are sort of an expert on all things, but especially in Russia and NATO,

and potential nuclear war. So let's hope we can avoid that.

But here we are now more than two months after the Russian invasion.

The Ukrainians have more than held their own. The United States ascending weapons. Russia is decimating Ukrainian cities.

You know, there's rumors that Putin is sick, or that some people around him are ready to take him out.

You know, this far in, how do you see it?

Well, first things first, let's leave the rumors aside, because until they're substantiated somewhere, remember there's a huge information war going on here.

There's multiple participants in this information war.

So my caution to everybody is, oh, you know, Putin's about to die, Putin's about to be deposed, Putin has hemorrhoids, Putin has whooping cough, you know, whatever it is.

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