Hello, I'm Arthur Snell, and I want to tell you a little about a brand new series of my podcast,

Doomsday Watch. When we launched Doomsday Watch, we wanted to look at the hidden threats to

world stability that conventional media tends to ignore. We couldn't have known that within a year,

Vladimir Putin would shock the world by blundering into the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the

Second World War. Nor that Ukraine's heroic resistance would humiliate the Russian

despot in front of the entire world. So we wanted to explore how the Ukraine war happened,

what it means, and how it might end. In our new series, we attempt the first draft of history

on a war that's reshaping the world. We're going to tell the story as it happened, from its roots

in the darkest recesses of Russian history, through Putin's paranoid imaginings to the atrocities

of Mary Upolyne, the courage of everyday Ukrainians. It's a complex story, and we still don't know how

it will end, but we're going to try to tell it in weekly episodes every Wednesday. Here's a

taster of the first edition, which is out now on all podcast platforms. There are links in the show

notes. This is Doomsday Watch, the Ukraine War. Episode 1, The Eve of the War.

The Initiative and the

The Initiative and the Initiative and the Initiative

For many people this fight is a fight between good and evil.

So right now Ukrainians are fighting not because they are Ukrainians,

but many people see that this is the only right thing to do in their lives.

The way how Ukrainians behave it reveals the best qualities of the human nature.

It's about protecting the very nature of men.

You've probably seen the videos. Handheld camera, wobbly image, mud filled trench,

soldiers in dull khaki, a dusting of snow and a rattle of gunfire.

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