I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith. This is a crazy time in our country. It's stressful. A lot of anxiety and it's going to get worse.

And I realize that one of the things that helps me take away the stress is realizing that there's

nothing new under the sun. So on this podcast we take the news of the day and we

run it through the Bible and other periods in history to realize that we've been

through this before and we can rise above again.

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Each day on the PDB, we focus on the top critical global issues of the day, but today I thought we take a different approach.

Today we're going to spotlight an influential and enigmatic figure.

Oh, I don't you like that, I used the word enigmatic. Who we talk about often on the PDB, because, well, he happens to be

at the center of one of the key ongoing global issues, and that, of course, would be the war

in Ukraine.

Today, we focus the PDB spotlight on Vladimir Putin,

the president of Russia.

Welcome, and this is the first installment

of what we've cleverly titled the PDB personnel files.

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