The situation in Ukraine is complex and the outcome is unknowable, but potentially world-changing for free nations and the world itself...

Unsurprisingly, alleged serial rapist and career criminal Donald Trump has come out in support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"I went in yesterday and there was a television screen," Trump told a rightwing talk show, "and I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful. I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper."

Donald Trump, you'll remember, was first impeached because the very day Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy turned down his demand to manufacture dirt on candidate Joe Biden, the White House Office of Management and Budget moved to block hundreds of millions in defensive military aid to Ukraine.

Trump's enthusiasm for the collapse of Ukraine notwithstanding, the most basic element of all law down through the ages is the right of bodily autonomy: the right not to have your body invaded.

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Democracy Gets a "Fist on the Nose" In Ukraine…But That's Just the Beginning..." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Ukraine-Russia: Germany suspends Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline" by Frank Jordans.

Article: "Canada sanctions Russia over Ukraine 'invasion,' pledges more troops to Europe" by Canadian Press.

Article: "Gulf War" (1991) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tillerson Praises Monroe Doctrine, Warns Latin America of 'Imperial' Chinese Ambitions" by Robbie Gramer.

Article: "Every Shady, Possibly Illegal Thing Michael Flynn Has Been Accused Of" by Margaret Hartmann.

Article: "Your Liberty To Swing Your Fist Ends Just Where My Nose Begins" by John B. Finch.

Article: "How Australia could punish Russia" by Michael Williams.

Article: "Trump praised Putin's justification to invade Ukraine as 'genius' and 'savvy'" by Bryan Metzger and John Haltiwanger.

Article: "A new low for global democracy" by Economist.

Article: "Maidan Revolution" by Economist.

Article: "For Wall Street, Russia Has Become 'Bulletproof'" by Kenneth Rapoza.

Article: "More Americans Are Getting Their News From Social Media" by Peter Suciu.

Article: "Who Is Viktor Yanukovych And What's His Connection To Paul Manafort?" by Nick Robins-Early.

Article: "The Russo-American Dispute over the Invasion of Iraq: International Status and the Role of Positional Goods " by Thomas Ambrosio.

Article: "Manafort associate is Russian spy, may have helped coordinate e-mail hack-and-leak, report says" by Tom Winter and Ken Dilanian.

Article: "White House budget office formally held Ukraine aid on same day as Trump-Zelenskiy call" by Garrett Haake.

Article: "This Is Putin's War. But America and NATO Aren't Innocent Bystanders." by Thomas L. Friedman.

Article: "Putin issues demands as Russian lawmakers approve use of military force." by Feb. 22, 2022.

Article: "Ukraine joining Nato 'not on the agenda', says German chancellor" by Marcus Parekh, Andrew Quinn, Genevieve Holl-Allen, Claudia Rowan, Justin Huggler.

Article: "Carter Proposes $100 Million Solar Energy Bank" (1979) by Edward Walsh.

Article: "Bernie Sanders Denounces Russia for 'Indefensible' Invasion of Ukraine" by Kenny Stancil.

Article: "Joint Russia-China Statement Articulates United Opposition to Western Alliance".

Article: "Bush Defends U.S. Missile System In Europe" by CBS/AP.

Article: "Obama scraps Bush missile-defense plan" by Ken Dilanian.

Article: "The European Phased Adaptive Approach at a Glance " by Kingston Reif.

Article: "Polk's Mexican War" by Edward G. Lengel.

Article: "Russian funding for an invasion of Ukraine will be hit by EU sanctions" by Daniel Boffey and Jennifer Rankin.

Article: "Tucker Carlson Launches Biggest Defense of Vladimir Putin Yet" by Gerrard Kaonga.

Article: "Tucker Carlson Says Ukraine Isn't Important. These Key GOP Voters Beg to Differ." by Kathy Gilsinan.

Article: "COVID-19 Updates" by OHA.

Article: "Covid Live Updates: Sanofi-GSK Vaccine Results Show 100% Efficacy Against Severe Disease, Its Makers Say" by NY Times.

Article: "National Guard, tactical vehicles heading to D.C. area as convoys roll in" by Brandi Buchman.

Article: "Invasion of Kuwait" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oregon electric vehicle startup Arcimoto opens new 250,000 square-foot factory" by Jamie Goldberg.

Article: "2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How America's NATO expansion obsession plays into the Ukraine crisis" by Jonathan Guyer.

Video: Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans.

Article: "Inside Clean Energy: 6 Things Michael Moore's 'Planet of the Humans' Gets Wrong" by Dan Gearino.

Hour Two: What Will Be the Impact of the Russia Sanctions on America?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "Nord Stream 2: The Russian pipeline that everybody's talking about" by Silvia Amaro.

Article: "Germany puts a stop to Nord Stream 2, a key Russian natural gas pipeline." by Melissa Eddy.

Article: "United States sanctions" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Six-Day War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "1967 Oil Embargo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ukraine to invest more than $333 million in its uranium mining industry over five years, ministry says" by Vladimir Basov.

Article: "GOP Senator introduces dark right-wing blueprint for the future " by Brandon Gage.

Article: "Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says" by PolitiFact.

Article: "Michael Moore's 'Planet of the Humans' documentary peddles dangerous climate denial" by Dana Nuccitelli.

Book: Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith.

Article: "Biden assures Ukraine's leader of US support to deter Russia" by Ellen Knickmeyer, Matthew Lee, Nomaan Merchant.

Article: "'Absolutely False': Psaki Denies Reports That US Advised Ukraine To Cede Land To Russia" by Anders Hagstrom.

Article: "Citizens United V. Federal Election Comm'n: Justice Stevens' dissent".

Article: "Pharma Front Group To Sinema: "We Have Your Back"" by Andrew Perez.

Article: "Citizens United V. Federal Election Comm'n: Justice Stevens' dissent".

Hour Three: How Social Media is Dominated By the far Right Wing
- Journalist Judd Legum, Founder - Popular.info (former founding Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress.org)

Article: "How an obscure far-right website with 3 employees dominates Facebook in 2022" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy" by Kevin Rudd.

Article: "Donald Trump Jr. served with lawsuit for witness intimidation of Alexander Vindman " by David Edwards.

Article: "Few show up to protest election results, COVID protocols with Lansing 'convoy'" by Allison Donahue.

Article: "Ukraine would not be on the brink of invasion were it not for Paul Manafort and Donald Trump" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Journalist/Activist Harvey Wasserman on dangers of nuclear reactors in Ukraine" by Egberto WIllies.

Article: "Ukraine's nuclear risks" by Beyond Nuclear.

Article: "Ginni Thomas, Wife of Clarence, Cheered On the Rally That Turned Into the Capitol Riot" by Mark Joseph Stern.

Article: "Old Wind Turbine Blades Used For Bridge Construction After They're Retired" by Good News Network.

Article: "Power your home with Joe Doucet's wind turbine wall" by Joe Doucet.

Article: "California Will Stick Solar Panels Over Canals to Fight Two Disasters at Once" by Molly Taft.

Article: "Putin Chooses a Forever War" by Tom Nichols.

Video: "Putin just invaded Ukraine, says former U.S. ambassador to Russia".

Article: "The July 20, 1944, Plot to Assassinate Adolf Hitler" by Holocaust Encyclopedia.

Article: "Armin D. Lehmann" by Wikipedia.

Video: "Malcolm Nance on Ukraine: This could be single largest land war since World War II".

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