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Ukraine. It started with pro-European protests in the winter of 2013.

Then came the annexation of Crimea, the little green men, Igor Strelkov, the dawn boss, and a long simmering war in eastern Ukraine. Things are changing though. Ukraine's president said that Russia has amassed

100,000 troops on the border. Latvia has mobilized its National Guard and Poland

called for an emergency meeting of NATO. To say tensions are rising would be an understatement.

Here to walk us through what's happening is Coffey or Die magazine senior editor Nolan Peterson.

Peterson is a

former United States Air Force Special Operations pilot.

He's published a lot of great journalism

from the front lines of the war there.

His latest is a brief history of Russia's war against Ukraine.

Sir, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me on.

All right, so let's just get right to it. We usually start with some basics, but I kind of

want to ask this question first. This is like so much has been happening in the last week even.

Is Russia about to invade Ukraine? Well Russia has already invaded Ukraine.

It's simply a matter of whether the Kremlin wants to escalate the conflict and to turn what is now a static stalemated trench war into a more mobile conventional invasion of eastern Ukraine.

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