Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard to today's Sunday special here on human events daily.

And this is a conversation that we mean it had for a long time.

And this is a guest that we've meaning have for a long time.

It's very tough to get on his schedule, his dance card is always, always full.

But we finally got him on ladies and gentlemen here with us today is the editor in chief

of the National Pulse, Mr. Rehinge Kassam.

Finally, finally, I feel welcome.

And there's a reason that we wanted to get you specifically and it wasn't just because

you finally got rid of the purple light on your podcast studio.

It's because we wanted to do an episode all about, I guess we're going to call this the

truth about Ukraine.

And to have an honest conversation about what's going on in Ukraine, why we're talking about

Ukraine, why we're involved in Ukraine, why the world is focused on Ukraine.

And we're not going to sit here and say, you know, Putin is amazing or Zelensky is amazing.

No, no, no, no, we need analysis.

We need geopolitical analysis.

And I wanted to bring you on because you yourself were there when all of this began in 2014,

the Maidan revolution, which is something that comes up again and again, if you read,

I guess I would say independent media coverage of the situation because in the mainstream

media, you will not hear any talk of this.

The Maidan revolution, the this people refer to what is a coup.

By the way, the founder of Stratford referred to the Maidan revolution as a textbook example

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