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Thread 1
The Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Ch. 1: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Episode 1: If Thucydides Could Watch Ukraine: Ancient Lessons for
Modern War
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Episode 2: What Would Machiavelli Say About the Russia–Ukraine War?
Episode 3: Montesquieu in Kyiv: Liberty Versus Despotism
Episode 4: Hegel on War: Freedom, Recognition, and the Russia‑Ukraine Drama
Ch. 4: In Imperialism, Yellow Journalism Progressivism, and WW1
Episode 11: Nicholas Murray Butler and the Realpolitik of Ukraine
Episode 12: Albert Beveridge: Evangelist of Empire and the Case for Unapologetic Power
Episode 13: Episode 13: Henry Cabot Lodge's Hard Realism: Power Over Piety in Ukraine
Episode 14: When Headlines Start Wars: Hearst and the Russia-Ukraine Story
Episode 15: Wilson vs. Lodge: The Moral Choice That Shapes America's Response to Ukraine
Ch. 2: Voices from the Early Republic
Episode 5: What Would Washington Do? Ukraine, Russia, and the Founder's Verdict
Episode 6: Thunderclap Diplomacy: How the Warhawks Would Answer Russia
Ch. 3: Mid-19th Century American Minds
Episode 7: Monroe in 2023: Would He Stand with Ukraine?
Episode 8: Polk's Compass: Reading the Russia-Ukraine War Through 19th-Century Eyes
Episode 9: Seward vs. Empires: The 19th-Century Lens on Ukraine
Episode 10: How Jefferson Davis Would Read the Russia‑Ukraine War
Ch. 5: Radicals! Anarchists!
Episode 16: The Ukraine War Through a Socialist's Eyes
Episode 17: What W.E.B. Du Bois Would Say About the Ukraine War
Episode 18: Emma Goldman on War: Bodies, Obedience, and Power
Ch. 6: in Isolation and World War
Including Charles Lindbergh, FDR, Truman, and Douglas MacArthur
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