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Relations between Russia and the Western world are complicated.

In the grand scheme of things, America is but a recent addition

to a long simmering rivalry that runs back a thousand years. Putin and Ukraine? Well that's just the latest dust up in a very long

history. So let's talk about it. Here with us today to suss out all of this is Michael

Hirsch. He's a senior correspondent at

foreign policy and the author of an excellent piece, Putin's thousand-year

war. Thank you so much for joining us.

Happy to be here.

I just want to say first about the pieces, just you provide a context that I think is really missing from the discussion in a lot of places.

So thanks just for writing it oh well thank you for highlighting

and I appreciate it I do think it's a long bit of history that needs to be just

discussed let's start with a very basic question. Where does the West end and Russia begin?

His Russian not at times part of the West? Well that really goes to the heart of the issue I think in a lot of ways because oddly enough

Russia of all the major countries in the world is one that still can't quite figure out what its borders are.

It's really remarkable to think so.

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