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This is Our Body Politics.

I'm guest host, Hagar Shemali,

foreign policy expert and creator and host of the YouTube show, Oh My World,

sitting in for Farai Chidea.

So much is changing on the international stage.

From the ongoing war in Ukraine to China's shifting relations to Nigeria's new elections, it's essential that we understand how global politics connect. So we're using our show

to unpack major international events and what might come next. Let's kick things off with our

weekly roundtable, sip in the political tea to talk about the war in Ukraine

and the impact it has on the U.S. and the rest of the world. I'm joined by host of the global

experience on Sirius XM, MSNBC columnist, and former White House Senior Director Naira Hock.

Welcome back, Naira. It's great to have you. Good to be with you, Hagar.

And Kimberly St. Julian Varnett, who's a PhD student in history at the University of Pennsylvania.

She specializes in race and blackness in Eastern Europe. Hi, Kimberly. Thanks for joining.

Hi, thank you for having me. We are now more than a year into the Ukraine-Russia war, and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight anytime soon.

Naira, there have been heavy losses on both sides, and those reports are only continuing.

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