Hello and welcome to state of play on Mint Press News, a biweekly editorial geopolitical news and

analysis show hosted by myself, Greg Stoker.

Again, the video quality issues are perennial.

Basically, I'm stuck with a crappy internet at this location, but we're just going to plow ahead

because I know some of y'all

just listen on audio. And that's the doomsday clock inched to the right over the weekend with a

heightened risk of a flashpoint for a hot world war on the Ukrainian front. Yes, we are pretty much

in a cold to warm World War III right now. And I'm not even kidding. We don't have

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talking about how serious this Russia, NATO, US, Ukraine situation is and incorporate a lot

of cloak and dagger drama leaked intelligence,

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