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My name is Joshua Emrehost, and today I want to share with you what I expect to be the

final commentary on the current violence happening in Russia and Ukraine.

Of course, if things change, I'll open up more, but I've done a couple of shows recently

on it because of course it's in the news.

You like me have almost certainly been watching the developments, trying to understand what's

been happening, where do we go from here, and I think that this is one of those particular

situations that deserves our attention.

As I shared with you last week with my show on kind of sobering potential, I think this

has the potential to touch all of us in many, many ways.

And so it's a fluid situation, and we don't know exactly where things will wind up.

What I gave was kind of as best I see as the worst-case scenario of things that could happen

with increasing levels of violence, but I think it's not particularly likely, at least

for most of my audience.

Most of my audience is not located in near Russia or Ukraine.

Most of my audience is in the West.

And so I think it's unlikely that there will be direct involvement for most of us.

I continue to watch very closely the topic of sanctions, some of the workings in the

financial space.

I watch what Russia is doing in response to the sanctions because I think they're important

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