This is John Bachelor, conversation with Harvard historian Seri Ploki.

His book is very helpful to understand the conflict in Ukraine, the Russo-Ukraineian War, the return of history. It is a very careful explanation

of all that has gone between these two countries for centuries, for generations, for the 21st century.

In this particular exchange, Professor Ploke makes it very clear this is not a war with Russia. This is a decision made by one man that there is no democracy

then in February of 22, there is no democracy now, there was no democracy at the turn of the century.

When the assumption was, with the Soviets gone,

Russia, capitalist state, would move towards Democracy. It is, according to the professor, a dictatorship.

And here he explains who is the dictator. Nothing has changed since February of 22.

Seri Plochi, professor at Harvard University, the book is the Russo-Ukrainian War, the

return of history.

More of this later tonight.

What happened on the night of February 23rd, 2014 certainly demonstrates very a democracy. And if you look closer at the story of that meeting, the story how it was re-told

a number of times by Lidimer Putin itself. It's not just the decision made by the leader of the

country and a small group of the security officials. It's really a decision made by one man and that was that was

Vladimir Puja. So people there were not to advise him on the decision. People there were to advise him on how that

decision that he had made had to be implemented. So we are we are dealing really with dictatorship today and this is a story of the

transformation of Russia from the times of the August coup in 1991 when Boris Yeltsin was on

the tank defending what everyone believed was Russian democracy and a few years later really a little

bit more than two years he ordered his tanks to fire the very same building of the Russian Parliament that he defended.

That was the fall of 93 and a few months later a new super presidential constitution was proposed to the Russian public,

approved, and that became the foundation of the legal days for the dictatorial powers of

Vladimir Putin that we have today.

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