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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 253: The Russian invasion of Ukraine. What's Putin thinking?
Description: The boys drink and review Double High-Pitch IPA from Hi-Wire Brewing, then discuss the invasion of Ukraine.Â
Pigweed gives a little historical background on the relationship between Ukraine and Russia, then P&C go through the four possible explanations of the situation recently offered by Jordan Peterson.Â
1. Putin is an evil expansionist thug who wants to expand his territory and restore the old Soviet Union.Â
2. [Following John Mearsheimer] The West has been provoking Putin by inviting all of Russia's border states into NATO and the EU.Â
3. Russia's concerned about the stability of i...