I'm Sarah Kenzier, the author of the bestsellers, the view for

Fiverr country and hiding in plain sight, and of the upcoming book they knew out this September.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker and the writer and producer of the Journalistic Thriller, Mr. Jones,

Stalin's genocide, Baman in Ukraine. And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States

and rising autocracy around the world. This week's Gaslit Nation early show available to listeners at the truth

teller level and hire on Patreon is a big deep dive discussion into Putin's Cold War rematch, will play some clips from it now.

If you have any awareness of this situation, any understanding of the historical context in the present context,

you know that this is a humanitarian catastrophe. You know that Russia has historically been an imperialist power, a colonialist power.

They took Crimea, you know, and before that Russia made similar incursions in Georgia, you know, constantly, constantly trying to reclaim territory.

It's not theirs. Like if you oppose imperialism when the United States is doing it or war, like for example, if you oppose the war in Iraq, which you should have,

if you oppose what Israel does to the Palestinians, if you oppose what China does to the Uyghurs, if I could go on and on,

this is the same thing. Only it's also wrapped up in this broad, deeply corrupt alliance of oligarchs, plutocrats, transnational organized crime,

which is deeply immersed in white collar crime. You know, the reason I'm saying this is actually not to call people out, not to bitch people out,

but to encourage them to look at it this way, because I think that there is solidarity among, you know, a great number of very frustrated Americans,

frustrated Ukrainians, frustrated Russians, anybody who has had to deal with these abuses of power from a military industrial complex, from, you know, corrupt actors,

from the people who have caused incredible income inequality, hoarding of wealth, hoarding of opportunities. You know, if you oppose that, if you oppose those sorts of actions, you know, you should oppose what the Kremlin is doing,

and you should oppose what American backers of the Kremlin are doing, which tend to be again, you know, big corporations, incredibly greedy corrupt people.

If Putin goes deeper into Ukraine, he's going to send more refugees into Europe, which is going to inflame the far right anti-immigration parties that the Kremlin props up across Europe both financially and with disinformation and propaganda support.

And we also answer questions from our listeners at the democracy to fund our level and hire so sign up today to get access to all that and help support the show.

We have a special episode today with a special guest back in June 2021. We did a gas that nation episode called voter suppression emergency, where we interviewed election integrity expert, Auree Berman.

And guess what? We are still in a voter suppression emergency. So Auree is back to share his thoughts with us yet again. Auree Berman is a writer for Mother Jones who closely documents dark money, voter suppression, and the ever changing laws that GOP legislatures are using and abusing to hijack our democracy.

Auree has long followed the power struggle for progressive values and democracy in Washington. His books include Give Us the Ballot, the modern struggle for voting rights in America and hurting donkeys.

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