Hello and welcome to the Dericunter Podcast. If you're so inclined, please do support

the show at Dericunter.locals.com and at patreon.com slash Dericunter Podcast. My name is Dean

Cariannis. Thank you for having me here this week. You can read my columns in the New

York Sun. You can visit me at History Dean on Twitter or find my vast archive of History

author show at Dericunter at History author.com or wherever fine pod is found.

Plus, I have that YouTube channel. I try to be all over the place, wherever good people

might want to find me, push back the frontiers of ignorance as I rush them on guest host.

Dr. Walter, you Williams used to say, I don't offer you all congratulations because the

date is Friday, October 27, 2023. And that means it's time to take a bow because you made

it through yet another week of the turmoil that is modern life, violence, congressional

speaker, debates, famine, pestilence, conquest, and everyone's least favorite horse of the

apocalypse war. Speaking of war, we are very fortunate to have my colleague at the New York

Sun, whose name I am sure she'll correct me if I get it wrong. Clara Prevy Durey. Close.

Clara Prevy Durey, but actually very close. What are the most people? You are joining us

here from Brussels with your unique name, which I hope sticks in people's minds. And so every

time they see your violin, they will want to go and read what you have to report. Tell us about

this recent trip you took to cover the war in Ukraine because I think people here has become

just another issue in the US and maybe wider around the world where people don't really think

of the on the ground things that are happening. And we tend to just divide it up. And we probably

don't trust a lot of the other journalists that just go over there and they're going for themselves.

And I got the feeling you really went to Ukraine for the story because you want to be a real journalist,

not somebody who's looking to burnish your resume. So tell us about that. How do you end up going

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