Recorded live Thursday September 24 -- Julie Roginsky and Olga Lautman cut through the noise on NATO, Europe, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Putin's regime, speaking the inconvenient truths of the world we're actually living in. Live Thursdays at 11am ET on The Mayday Network YouTube channel, wherever you get your podcasts.

Journalist and Navy veteran Ken Harbaugh joins fresh off another trip to Ukraine's front lines to talk about his new Atlantic piece on the armored evacuation vehicles medics use to pull wounded soldiers out of the war's most dangerous ground — and what the brutal casualty math (Russia losing roughly ten soldiers for every Ukrainian) says about where this war actually stands.

They also cover a week most American media buried: NATO shooting down a drone over Lithuania for the first time ever, Germany bracing hospitals for mass casualties, Switzerland abandoning decades of neutrality, a strike on Luxembourg's NATO/EU nerve center, and Emmanuel Macron summoning every French presidential candidate for a classified briefing before telling the country, bluntly, "no one is safe." Plus: Trump's G20 invitation to Putin, Zelensky's read on a possible three-way meeting, and Olga's investigation into a Virginia company tied to Russian intelligence that held contracts with the Pentagon, FBI, and ICE.

Has Pax Americana come to an end? Tune in for the harsh truths legacy media won't touch until it's too late.

Follow Ken Harbaugh's reporting and his show Burn the Boats.

Read his Atlantic piece — https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/09/ukraine-frontline-medical-evacuations/688638/

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