Hey, everybody. I'm very, very excited to have today again, so I've been thinking about and

I've actually read your book now three times. It's such an important book. Benjamin Abelow is an

American citizen who believes that the US and NATO policies are causing great harm in the Ukraine

and Europe and the United States and in the Global South. Benjamin Abelow is the author of

how the West brought forward to the Ukraine was a book that I think I wish somehow every American

could read. It's a very short book. I think that I've read it once in the text in the paperback

and listened to it twice, unaudible. I think it's about a 90-minute, as I recall, unaudible. So it's

very, very easy, but it has a extraordinary clarity, not only of language, but clarity of thought.

That's very persuasive. The book has been translated into German, Italian, Polish,

Danis, Slovenian, with many more coming. It has been a number one Amazon, Bessel, and multiple

categories in Switzerland. A major news magazine philanthropist distributed 340,000 copies of

the German translation. Abelow is runner up for the 2022 Pierre Spray Awards or defense reporting

and analysis. This award is sponsored by Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's. The judging panel included

two former Pentagon analysts and the current editor of Washington Harbour's magazine, Andrew

Coburn and old school liberal. How the West brought forward to Ukraine has been endorsed by some

of the most experienced diplomatic military and academic experts in the United States, including

former Soviet ambassador Jack Madlock, who's a friend of mine, jazz-freeman, the former assistant

secretary of defense for international security affairs, John Mirschheim, Irthean, and

our professor of political science, University of Chicago. Colonel Douglas McGregor, who was on this

podcast last week, and many, many others. Abelow previously worked in Washington, DC,

where he lectured in the lobbied congress about nuclear arms policy. He is a BA in modern

European history from the University of Pennsylvania and a medical degree from Yale, where he also

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