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Welcome to Angry Planet.

Hello,

and I'm Matthew Galt. Jason Fields is still on

sabbatical. Ukraine, things are changing rapidly, but at this moment the

Kremlin has the country surrounded. It's conducting military

drills in the Black Sea, marshalling troops and neighboring Belarus and

recalling mercenaries from Africa. Recently Putin even made a rape joke during a press conference to imply what he wanted from Ukraine,

which is all to say it doesn't look good, but to hear Ben and Jerry's ice cream tell it,

this is all because of the imperial US-led aggression in Eastern Europe.

Why does it seem like some Americans from right-wing pundits to your terminally online

socialist friends can't seem to take the Kremlin's threats seriously.

With us today to answer that question is Christopher Atwood.

Atwood is a senior advisor at the Sospilenist Foundation in Kiev.

He's lived in both Russia and Ukraine. Sir, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me. All right, so I want to introduce the audience to you a little bit

here at the top, kind of get your credentials in order, so to speak.

First of all, you lived in Russia for a few years, right?

That is correct. I actually spent some time first in Kyiv.

Then I moved to Donutsk, this is around 2010-2011.

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