Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

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Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. Hope you enjoyed Friday's episode where

soccer and I had a big semi-contentious debate around Ukraine, NATO, Sweden, Finland,

all those topics. Those episodes are going to happen much more often, basically for

now every two weeks with plans to expand into weekly. This is a part of our

expanded coverage coming out of the Ukraine crisis and with our support from our

Supercast. Subscribe, Resider available for everyone there, especially those who

can't afford this support and see that there. So once again, if you have not gotten

the chance, yeah, I'd really appreciate it. If you go into the top of your show

notes and if you can't afford to pay for a realignment subscription to support

our expansion, you go do that as well there too. Once again, there's a link at

the top of the show notes. We've brought in tens of thousands of dollars so far

and this is going to do so much work that will help us expand our coverage, expand

the show and help re-numerate the staff who are working hard for this. The

entire goal this year is not for soccer or myself to use any of that to pay

ourselves. Any salary, it's all just to we're expanding and making this the

best podcast we can. On to today's episode, I'm speaking with Yasha Munk. He is the

author of the Great Experiment, Why Diverse Democracies Fall apart, how they

can endure. So the diversity part isn't just a comment about race and ethnicity,

which is obviously really contentious especially in the West. This is also about

culture and it's also about politics and identity. We've had this question so

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