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Welcome to Angry Planet.

Hello and

and I am Matthew Galt. Jason Fields is trapped in

the suburbs of Austin and he's wishing he was at the Chile Parlor Bar.

So Russian President Vladimir Putin's reign has been defined by constant conflict

from Chechnya to Ukraine and many other wars in between Putin's Russia has

constantly been pushing at its borders and sending troops abroad.

And how have those wars shaped Russia and the world?

And what does it all have to do with Ukraine?

Quite a bit.

And that's also the subject of the new book, Putin's Wars.

Its author is here with us today, it's friend of the show, Mark Gollyotti.

Gollyotti is a public policy fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.

He's also the host of the excellent in Moscow Shadows podcast.

Mark, thank you so much for once again coming on to Angry Planet.

Always a pleasure.

I'm always embarrassed when a new book of yours comes out because I feel like we've been talking for six years, maybe longer actually.

And I don't know, you've written, how many in the past like a decade have you written?

Oh, last decade, I don't know.

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