Episode Notes:

On this episode, Mike sat down with Serhii Plokhii, the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University. The conversation explored the legacy of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the wars that followed, and what these events suggest about the future of the Russo-Ukrainian war. The two discussed how the war in Ukraine's closest analogue is World War II and how the conflict has changed Ukrainian society.

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