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Welcome to Angry Planet. I'm Jason Field and I'm Matthew Gault. We talk

about war a lot on the show. It's kind of the foundation of what we do. But the war in Ukraine is different and frankly it's

scarier. It makes everyone think of World War II and World War III at the same time. So let's talk about it. Was there ever a chance to stop it and what do we think

will happen next? With us today is James Miller. He's a foreign policy analyst and journalist who has spent extensive time in Ukraine.

Thank you for being with this.

Oh, thank you both for having him.

Well, let's just start off with, can you tell us a little bit about your experience in Ukraine?

Because you were there for quite a while.

Yeah, I mean I covered Ukraine for quite a while.

I've been in Ukraine many, many times.

I worked for a magazine that some journalists might know called

the interpreter. And the interpreter started as a small translation magazine. So we translated Russian to English and I was the editor of that endeavor.

And we were mostly working on Russian sources and we worked a lot on the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 and right as the

Winter Olympics were ramping up the protest movement Ukraine was ramping up right the pro-European Union protest

movement that made done and you know I really thought that that was going to be our

our main story after the Olympics and of course we didn't make it that far because the government and Ukraine collapse.

The May Don was, you know, a popular uprising and top of the government of Ukraine right in the middle of the Olympics. And so what my

magazine did was literally minute-to-minute translation and analysis of news sources,

including a lot of open source news sources.

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