Theft, destruction, deportations, torture, and murder. Welcome to Russkiy Mir - with David DeBatto.

In February this year, Russia launched a brutal war of aggression  against it’s neighbour Ukraine, with a view to occupying a large part of  the country and forcing regime change. That initial aim has clearly  failed, and now Putin is mired in a grinding war of attrition. In a  wide-ranging interview with David DeBatto, we expore the lead up to the  war, it's execution and potential end game. Putin's Russkiy Mir ideology  was supposed to unite the Russian speaking world into a new post-Soviet  empire, but instead has brought only theft, destruction, rape,  deportations, torture, and murder to Ukraine.  David DeBatto is a geopolitical analyst, writer, and podcaster. He is a  retired U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and Iraq war  veteran. He served as Team Leader of a Tactical Human Intelligence Team  (THT) in operations within Iraq and is also a former police officer.  David is considered too conservative for the progressive left and too  independent minded for the radical right, which may suggest he is  getting the balance about right? Either way, David is a controversialist  of sorts, often irreverent, always passionate and seeks to challenge  political dogma and the naked self-interest of certain politicians. He  has strong pro-science and pro education credentials and condemns the  encroachment on society of irrational, violent and dangerous conspiracy  theories.