Aaron talks to Joshyafa, who covers russia for the new yorker and has been in ukraine. Rarely do i get to do aa episode of the show so timely on the on the news time line, as this week. Support for this episode comes from adyet. Adyen is the payments platform made for to day, to morrow and whatever comes next. Visit adyen dotcom to learn that's a d y e n dot com.
Joshua Yaffa is a correspondent for The New Yorker, the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, and has been reporting from Ukraine for the last several weeks. His most recent article is "What the Russian Invasion Has Done to Ukraine."
“I’m not at all a conflict reporter. I don't like it, though who would like being in these situations? But this is the story, right? If you cover this part of the world, if the war in 2014 felt like the tectonic plates of history were shifting, now they're just erupting, crashing. This is the asteroid-impact event for this part of the world with effects that will last similarly long going forward.”
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