I want to welcome everyone back to our reading of 200 years together by Alexander Solzhenycin.

This is episode 91.

Dr. Johnson, how are you doing today?

This book, this book is going to kill me.

This book on the Ukraine War.

It's going to be out tomorrow, you know, maybe even today.

I got up at 11 this morning because I was just working at it and making sure everything was, you know, it's just, I am so sick of it.

I'm telling you, man, I am so sick of this thing.

That's when I know I have to publish something.

When I'm so sick of it, I don't even want to look at it.

That's okay, now it gets published.

Yeah, writing about something.

I couldn't imagine trying to write about something that's ongoing because so much, you know, happens, yeah.

Well, I, yeah, and I have to be, you know, there's books out already on it.

Same thing for the Iraq War and everything else.

But, you know, I make it very clear, you know, this is, you know, there's a lot of history in there

and there's a lot of things, you know, weaponry, you know, there's a lot of history in there and there's a lot of things, um, uh, we know, weaponry and stuff like that. Um, so yeah, I, I understand it. This is the

first time I'm actually doing a book about an ongoing event. So, you know, you know, so the,

the, the U.S. is, is never going to give up trying to hurt Russia for some reason.

But this, this gambit failed badly.

And two million Ukrainian men were killed.

And it's, it's a crime.

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