Russia and the Ukraine War

Aaron Mate: I'm trying to replicate that happening with Russia, because I'm also trying to offer factual coverage of the Ukraine proxy. There's been a war going on in Ukraine since 2014, when there was a US-backed coup that overthrew the government of Viktor Yanukovych. That set off a civil war inside Ukraine in which rebels backed by Russia rose up against the new coup government. And rather than pursuing peace and respecting a peace deal that was reached in 2015 under something called the Midsen courts, the US is basically sided with Ukraine's far right," he says. "I think you can draw a direct line between Russia, and the Ukraine war"