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This week, things are getting a little shaky. I mean, it's 2022 and we find ourselves perhaps on the precipice of war war 3. Who do we have coming to the negotiation table? We have several glaring megalomaniacs with various flavors of God complexes,. followed by a smorgasbord of white dudes in their 70s with a cocktail of mental illness and cognitive decline. At what point is enough?

Today Josh speaks with Sam McNerney on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Some of the topics we dive into are:

The geopolitical reactions and support of Ukraine.
Putin’s mental health and motivations behind the invasion.
Russia's political and economic future.
The prospects of WW3.
How Russia and Ukraine are both using propaganda as part of information warfare.
The differences between Russian and American oligarchs.
And much more.

Sam McNerney is an applied behavioral scientist, market researcher, and brand strategist based in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked with brands such as Walmart, Procter & Gamble, and CitiBank.

As a writer, he has interviewed business and academic leaders including Arianna Huffington, Andrew Yang, Jonathan Haidt, and Charles Murray – and his essays have been featured in publications like The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Scientific American.

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