This is honestly.

Over the past week in a move that has shocked and alarmed much of the free world,

Russia invaded and attacked its neighbor, the sovereign nation of Ukraine.

We're recording this conversation on the afternoon of March 2nd, 2022 and as of right now,

air raid sirens are ringing out over the capital of Kiev.

Nearly a week into the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, Russia steps up its offensive on

larger cities, seemingly firing indiscriminately at

civilian targets.

Russia has intensified its air and missile assaults as Russian forces lay siege to Ukraine's second city karky,

what could be a trial run for the capital.

And in the south, Russian troops have surrounded the city of Herson,

and the mayor there says that they'll need a miracle.

But I will hold the city and it's functioning as long as I can.

The mayor goes on to say if the Russian soldiers and their leadership hear, I ask, leave our city. Stop shelling the civilians.

You have already taken everything you wanted, including human lives.

Today I am joined by three of the people that I respect most when it comes to thinking about foreign policy, history, and American power.

They are Neil Ferguson, Walter Russell Meade, and Frank Fukuyama.

Neil Ferguson is a historian.

He's a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford,

and his most recent book is called Doom, The Politics of Catastrophe.

Walter Russell Meade teaches at Bard College.

He writes the Foreign Affairs column at the Wall Street Journal,

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