She’s back! Well, she never went away. She’s just been raising her daughter.

Larisa Alexandrovna is one of the OG bloggers… She wrote at her own At-Largely blog, as well as Huffington Post and even served as managing editor of Raw Story back in the early 2000s. Ten years ago, she got married and moved to Austin TX. Now she’s writing again. Well, on her Facebook and Instagram pages. She’s not writing news about foreign affairs and national security, but she is writing about what’s happening now in Ukraine.

I invited Larisa on the show today because she was born in Ukraine — Odessa, to be precise. Her family escaped from what was still part of the Soviet Union when she was 8 years old. She still has friends and family in both Ukraine and Russia, and she has a unique perspective on that part of the world and this war. So, Larisa joins me for the whole hour today. Listen, learn, feel something…