Below are links to all of the resources that I talk about or reference in the podcast. Please use them to the extent that you want to better educate yourself on Russia and Presidents Putin and Trump. The book links are affiliate links and I can make a small percentage of their purchase price which will help me to keep on making podcasts. Video #1- History of Russia (5 Parts) Runrik To Revolution By: Epic TV. This seems to be an accurate portrayal of commonly accepted russian history as it appears in the history books. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Wmc8C0Eq0&feature=youtu.be How the nobility in europe and russia were all interrelated and became the rich 1% that owned everything and abused the common folk. How the royal famalies interbred until there was a royal bloodline in europe that controlled the whole continent and all its wealth. How the 30 percent of russian citizens/peasents were serfs right up until the late 1800's and went from virtual slavery right into Communism without getting any real taste of what a political structure based on personal freedom could do for them. the history of Russia with Ukraine over the last 100 years and how we forget that Ukraine was historically part of Russia but at the same time how Stalin starved millions of Ukrainians to death and how that might make Ukraine want to be independent. At the same time how will the United States respond if Texas, or more recently California, ever makes good on their intermittent threats to secede and become countries in their own right? Will we just let them go or will we bring in the military and oust their leaders or something to that effect? America has not had to face the threat of secession since the Civil War. Video #2 - The Soviet Story - IMDB Link:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305871/ Youtube video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La81qM-vvU8&feature=youtu.be&bpctr=1533561498 Video #3 Inside Putin's Russia (PBS News Hour) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AkAZIk73F0&feature=youtu.be Nayirah testimony (Babies and incubators): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony Iraq WMD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War Crisis Actors: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/same-girl-crying-now-oregon/ Video #4 The Difficult Birth of Post-Soviet Russia: Economic Collapse, Depopulation (2003) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PSzoA70KS0&feature=youtu.be David Satter talks about the birth of Putin's Russia and a false flag string of apartmant building bombings that were usd as an excuse to start a war and seem to have been the Russian's own domestiv version of 911. Video #5 The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBD3LzbGrYU&feature=youtu.be Another video, this time from 2016 featuring author and journalist David Satter. This is a much more up to date re-hash of some things from the preceding video as well as an analysis of more recent events up to and including Donald Trump. Points. David Satter books: https://amzn.to/2MohV0r Ivana Trump Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Trump Melania Trump Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_Trump Video #6: David Satter, "The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE7uXO8NEms Another David Satter video from 2016 in which he speaks for around an hour and covers more than he had time for in the immediately preceding video. This was done on his book tour promoting his 2016 book by the same name as this video https://amzn.to/2MohV0r Video #7: America, Russia, and Vladimir Putin: Russian Opposition Perspectives - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTVNhKhCbZ0&feature=youtu.be This video features interviews with the leaders of political parties which oppose Putin's Russia and journalists who do the same. Video #8: The dubious friends of Donald Trump: the Russians - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bEdMuKq30I&t=1s This is a video series from what is essentially the PBS of the Netherlands. I have not researched their credentials beyond Wikipedia but they seem to be worthy of watching at lest because they take what to me is a totally fresh perspective of the question of Trump and The Russians (the Oligarchs especially) and the connections he may have to them. Wikipedia Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omroepvereniging_VARA Part 2 of this video series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvd7PqI_Lx0 Malcom Nance Books: https://amzn.to/2OQVtPc Michael DiAntonio - "The Truth About Trump" https://amzn.to/2OeyFri
