This week's dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patrian dot com and by versea books, which has loads of great left wing titles. One that you might like is revolutionary mathematics, artificial intelligence, statistics and the logic of capitalism. In today's episode, we discussed the two thousand eight financial crisis, how china's response to that crisis deepened global and domestic economic balances and contributed to the heightening of geo political conflict. And then also this current situation, including the impact of the crises surrounding russia's invasion and what that all means for the us.