Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment. Everyone hope you've continued to enjoy and

learned from our episodes on Russia's invasion of Ukraine through a couple different lenses.

As we said, as we're working through these episodes in topics this month, we are continuing

to work on iterating the show in a couple different directions. One of those directions

is much more back and forth traditional podcasts as opposed to just traditional interviews

we've done. So when I talked about this new format for the show, people asked me to bring

back to Marie-Truik Fiennes who is the host of the Hidden Forces podcast. Sogrenai previously

appeared on Hidden Forces. I suggest you go check out that episode if you're interested

in that. But Dmitry is just a really great guy. He's really interesting. He used to work

at RT, a station which is frankly now benefiting that at state. So that's an interesting conversation

that we get into today. But lots of good stuff. We'll keep it nice and tight. We've got more

interview episodes coming up the rest of this week. So quick notes. One, check out the sub-stack.

Two, there isn't a book on this episode but there's a bunch of books that are really relevant.

So go check out those as well. Two, three, as per usual, we really appreciate tips when you all

enjoy episodes. Four, and this is a really important one. We are getting record-breaking traffic.

On these episodes, I think it's because we could provide a space where people can take the

daily news, which we're not covering as much, and provide bigger ideas of framers people to think

about. So we'd be amazing if you all would share any episode that you really enjoy with your friends.

And of course, I will bring back our request for folks to give us five-star ratings on Apple

Podcasts and ratings on Spotify as well too, with a review written at it as well too if you can.

Finally, huge thank you to Lincoln Never for supporting our work and a shout out to the sub-stack

which you could all subscribe to as well. Hope you enjoyed the episode.

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