This is Geopolitics and Empire.

Returning to the podcast is Riley Wagamon, who we first had on way back in November of 2021.

He's written for press TV, Russia, Insider, and RT before seeing the lights.

And he's been writing for a number of years for his very own Edwardslavskot.

That'substack.com. The links are are in the description he's become a true dissident a man spurned by both east and west welcome back

tovartish riley it's always it's always a pleasure thanks for having me back on it's been a lot

of craziness going on since the last time we spoke.

Tell me about it.

Every year or two, I think we last spoke, 2024.

Yeah.

And it just seems to accelerate.

I wonder a year or two from now what is going to be transpiring. But before, you know, delving, getting your thoughts

on what's going on, by the way, I love your look there with the beard. It's fantastic. I would do it as

well, but I just, it just irritates me the beard. And I know you talked about it with Corbett and a few other folks, but just for people, you know,

because people listen to a lot of podcasts and they miss stuff.

It's hard to keep up with everything.

But you were in Russia for a number of years and you set up your Edward Institute for Village

Studies.

You were preparing your farm, your Soviet bunker for the Great Reset.

And apparently you had to get out of Dodge.

You were effectively either directly or by proxy kicked out of Russia by the FSB.

Just real quick, what happened there?

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