Hey, everybody, my guest today is Samuel B. N. Clark, who graduated from West Point in 2000.

He went on to become a U.S. Calgary officer and served as regimental

adjutant for Colonel H. R. McMaster in the Battle of Telafar in Iraq in 2005 to 2006,

which was cited by President Bush as a turning point in the war. He had a front row seat to

history, and Sam was responsible for the media messaging and writing the history of this campaign.

In 2007, Sam returned to Iraq as the commander of Crazy Horse Troof First Squadron,

third armored cavalry regiment, where he was cited by Washington Post and in Tom Rick's

as a selling book on Iraq, or his novel counterinsurgency strategy that combined tribal negotiations

and police trained parole system from mass surrender. When he returned from Iraq in 2008,

Sam went on to get a master's in Russian and Ukrainian history and NYU's Jordan Center for

Slavic Studies. He then went on to teach history at West Point from 2010 in 2013. Sam has spent

the last four years living in the Ukraine. His fiancee is a Ukrainian of Russian ethnicity,

and he has been an outspoken skeptic about U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine, and you know,

I tell people that it's all the time, I don't have a position on Ukraine, but I hate propaganda,

and I don't like war, and I think we ought to avoid it whenever possible. And so I've made this

platform a forum for people who have alternative views, which are now being shut out in the mass

media. I really wanted to have you on, because you've had a very, very thoughtful and I think

well-informed critique of U.S. policies. Oh, tell us a little bit about how you end up with

the interest in Ukraine. You have two tech companies there, right? Yeah, I have. Well, thank,

first of all, Robert, thank you for engaging in this important conversation on Ukraine. And

I have two companies there. I started a media agency that works in digital marketing and film,

and then I also started a tech company called Sanity Desk that produces software for small businesses,

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