the

from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio

at the George Washington broadcast center

at the Armstrong

and show daddy

Armstrong and getty show

some of the things he's been talking about

he says Ukraine is an integral part of our own history

eastern Ukraine is ancient Russian lands

modern Ukraine was created by communist Russia

Ukraine was not able to achieve stable statehood

and is therefore had to rely on countries

like the United States he says it's riddled with corruption

and with the plague of nationalism

and so on and so forth this has been quite the historical diet tribe here

yeah Putin gave a long rambling a historical speech yesterday to justify

sending in troops that he's calling peacekeepers they're not

they're just soldiers invading a country to stop a genocide that is not

happening

uh... his rationale according to Benjamin wits who is a lawyer thinker with

one of your big think tank said here's a detailed explainer on the international

law basis for Putin's actions in Ukraine

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