All right, Alexander, we are here with Mr. Gordon Hahn. Mr. Han, thank you for joining us on

the Duran. Before we get started talking about what is happening in Russia and everything that is going

on with the conflict in Ukraine and the diplomacy in and around Ukraine. I know that you have an

excellent substack. So would you like to tell people a

little bit about your substack? I will have that as a link in the description box down below as

well. Yeah, Gordon Hahn, substack.com. First, let me thank you guys for inviting me. That's the most

important thing. I'm very, very, very happy and very, very grateful that you invited me. On substack.com, Gordonhan, substack.com, I do a combination of, you know,

doing political analysis and cultural analysis. I tend to write some big pieces on

Russian culture and Russian salousness or wholeness, the idea of the idea that everything should be integral and whole.

And some other things I'm working on, I'm working on an article on anti-Bourgeoisism in Russia and some other things.

So that's basically what it goes.

It's mostly political issues, but occasionally a big piece on cultural issues.

A fantastic substack.

We recommend everyone subscribe to Gordon Hahn's substack.

And once again, it is linked in the description box down below.

I will also add it as a pinned comment as well.

So Alexander, Gordon, let's talk about what is going on in Russia and in Ukraine. Well, let's do that. But let me also add my own thing. It is an extreme pleasure

for me to have Gordon Hahn here on our program. I should say that I have been reading and following

Gordon Hahn for well, well over 10 years.

He's one of the people who has educated me in many Russian things.

I consider that if you want to understand today's Russia, well, I know of no one better than to go to than Gordon Hahn. He has a complete,

a sense of the wholeness of the place of what Russia is about, the politics, the economics,

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