I'm Sarah Kanzir, the author of the bestsellers, the view from flyover country, and hiding in

plain sight, and of the upcoming book they knew, available for pre-order now.

And I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and

filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's

genocide famine in Ukraine. And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United

States and rising autocracy around the world.

If you want a discussion on the latest threats to our democracy and what to do about them,

you can get that on this week's Gaslit Nation Early Show, available to Patreon subscribers at the truth-teller level and higher.

This week, we're focused on Putin's war and what to do about it.

For that, we're joined today by two old friends and special guests,

veteran and intelligence expert Malcolm Nance,

the author of several best-selling books and the soon-to-be-released book on Trump's insurgency,

aptly titled, They Went to Kill Americans.

And journalist Terrell Starr, host of the must-listen podcast, Black Diplomats, which decolonizes

foreign policy by amplifying historically marginalized voices and much-needed perspectives of the

crises the world faces. Here is where we are. Russia has over 150,000 troops surrounding Ukraine.

Russia has blocked Ukraine's ports to run military exercises in the Sea of Zavov and the Black Sea,

which cuts off a key port in global trade, which amounts to economic warfare that violates

several security treaties Russia has with Ukraine, including the Budapest memorandum for which Ukraine gave up the third

largest supply of nuclear weapons at the time in exchange for security guarantees that Russia

has flagrantly broken. Cyber attacks, bomb threats, disinformation warfare meant to stabilize and demoralize are all ongoing against Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Putin has isolated himself as represented by all the damn long tables he keeps using for meetings like some shut and eccentric.

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