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You know, Hey everybody. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, as you can undoubtedly see. I am not in the studio. Instead, I am in Budapest you can probably see the landmark

one of the landmarks of Budapest sitting on the Danube River over my over my left shoulder

I the reason I'm here is because I have been traveling the last several days that's why

I wasn't very present last night on on last night show and won't be that much on tonight's either I have been traveling the last several days. That's why I wasn't very present last night on last night's show and won't be that much on tonight's either. I've been traveling to do

a bunch of different interviews. Obviously, there's a lot going on in Eastern Europe, in Russia,

in response to all the flurry of new policies, new approaches, new narratives in Washington as a result of the

new Trump administration. I spent the last several days in Moscow where I conducted several

different interviews, one of which we are extremely excited to show you for tomorrow night.

That will be with one of the most influential and prominent professors in Russia, Professor Dugan. and it was a really wide-ranging hour and

45-minute discussion. We hope to show you that tonight. It's not quite ready. It'll be ready

tomorrow night, though. I found it really fascinating. Obviously, as you undoubtedly know,

there's an attempt to ensure we in the West never hear from Russian voices almost immediately in the wake of the invasion of large numbers of Russian troops in February of 2022.

The EU actually passed a law making it criminal, illegal to platform Russian state media like RT and Sputnik.

And it's always the case that when you hear from the other side from different perspectives,

you hear the full plenoply of their views not mediated through others, not summarized,

not caricatured, it's extremely eliminating. Whether you agree with it, whether you disagree with it, you think the war is horrific,

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