Thank you to everyone for joining Olga Lautman and me earlier today for another great episode of Pax Americana. It was wonderful to have Ken Harbaugh of The Ken Harbaugh Show on the show today. Ken has spent lots of time on the front lines in Ukraine and has a deeply informed perspective that you need to hear.

We also addressed the parallels between our accelerated slide towards autocracy here in the United States and how Russia’s nascent democracy collapsed almost as soon as Vladimir Putin took power. The shocking part of this story, of course, is that unlike post-Soviet Russia, the United States has long been a democracy. No more.

This week, it became clear that if things don’t change drastically, we will live in an unrecognizable country by the time the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary next July 4.

Thanks for watching,

Julie

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