War in Europe

Episode #82

Bill and Phil break down the Russian invasion of Ukraine, discuss China’s use of social media to shape global opinion on the Olympics, and play a game of ‘Whose Home State is Dumber?’

Links related to this week’s episode:

• “Putin’s Baseless Claims of Genocide Hint at More Than War” by Max Fisher in The New York Times

• “Putin Chooses a Forever War” by Tom Nichols in The Atlantic

• “Bots and Fake Accounts Push China’s Vision of Winter Olympic Wonderland” by Steven Lee Myers, Paul Mozur and Jeff Kao in The New York Times

• “One Candidate Shows Her Breasts. Another Dies Tragically. A Third Is Accused of Graft.” by Russell Gold in Texas Monthly

• “Fringe Scheme to Reverse 2020 Election Splits Wisconsin G.O.P.” by Reid J. Epstein in The New York Times

• “A separatist movement to pull N.H. from the United States gets a hearing in Concord” by Todd Bookman for New Hampshire Public Radio

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