Marshall here, welcome back to the Realignment.

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On to today's episode, back in March, I became recording 30-day straight-up episodes

in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

My first guest was Nate Sivoli, who studies Coptocracy at the Hudson Institute.

If you haven't gotten the chance, be sure to go back and listen to that episode.

It came out on March 2nd.

We discussed the impact of the massive sanctions package placed on Russia in response to the war.

This obviously has impact on both how foreign policy would conduct it in the 21st century,

but how a possible sanctions response would determine

or at least deter Chinese aggression in the Asia Pacific,

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