This episode of Wide Awake America features Ukrainian journalist and author Maksym Eristavi, whose work traces the deeper history behind Russia’s war on Ukraine. Drawing on his book Russian Colonialism 101, Eristavi explains why the violence many Americans first noticed in 2022 was neither sudden nor unthinkable, but the latest iteration of a long imperial pattern: gaslight, invade, erase. The conversation examines Ukraine as the case study, and the broader price the world pays when Russia is appeased rather than confronted
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