Marshall here. Welcome back to Realignment.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the show.

We are officially nearing the end of the daily episodes that I've been posting since early March.

This has been...

I don't want to say fun because this is happening in response to a horrific war,

but it's been a really enlightening process.

I've learned a lot. I know the audience has learned a lot.

And I'm trying to put a lot of thought into how this would shape the show moving forward.

So this is a definite opportunity for folks to email in at RealignmentPod at uro.com

or part of the sub-stack because I'm spending this week aside from taking a lot of

episodes thinking about the future.

Today's episode is a great one.

I'm speaking with Rupert Russell.

He's the author of Price Wars, How Commodities Markets Make Archaotic World.

This actually came in through an audience suggestion.

The audience member read this book and they said, hey, this is a great fit for your coverage

of the Ukraine crisis and everything else moving forward.

So basically the topic of this episode is how commodities markets,

aka the prices of everything from wheat to issues like energy and fertilizer,

how about actually influences and doesn't influence conflict.

So we're going to start by focusing on how Russell thinks that the coverage of this topic

is really defined by commodities prices.

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