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Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckraig podcast. I'm Jared E.8 Saxon here with Nick

Houseman. We got a special guest, Melissa Ryan, of control alt-right delete.com. A misinformation

expert is here to talk about the war in Ukraine and so, so much more. But before that,

we are keeping an eye on, as always, the weird,

the esoteric, the troubling, and something is starting to take hold in Russia and in Ukraine

that has disturbed me. There is a bizarre symbol that is starting to show up not just on Russian tanks, but in

state-sponsored media and propaganda.

It is a large white Z that I don't know how else to to describe it it's upsetting is it not nick it's

upsetting um well let's keep talking about it i don't i don't know i don't know there's a lot of reactions

a lot of reasons for why this is what they're doing and what it is but you know let's continue

well so the reason we want to talk about this is because, you know, in our coverage so far

of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, we've talked about how Putin has not necessarily rallied the people

to his cause.

This has been seen as a very Putin-centric idea, a crusade of sorts.

And of course, this has background with the ideology of people like Alexander Dugan

and other esoteric mysticists who have given him this almost historical mission. Meanwhile, you have a bunch

of oligarchs who are sitting around looking at their wallets and, you know, their online bank

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