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Episode 13: Political Risk & Strategy Expert Samo Burja on the Russia-Ukraine War; Realism & Mimetic Warfare; Blue States End COVID Restrictions; Biden's State of the Union

The Prevailing Narrative with Matt Bilinsky

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Do You Think the Ukraine War Began a Week Ago?

It does not appear that this war, quotnqote, began a week ago. It appears that it really began about eight years ago and simply escalated over the past week. Therea, there's a multi facitof three dimensional, you no, the ethnic conflict with a history of ethnic tensions and rivalries in this region that all funnel into this battle. I think that what's happening is morally complicated than i would call justified every day but just in reality,. The fact that crimea never managed to claim entire regions before they declared independence was very different from those fighting in lohansk and dinetsk.

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