 Hello everybody! This is Roman in Lviv, Ukraine. I haven't made any videos in a while, and I just wanted to do a channel update. It's been a really interesting several months for me here in Ukraine. I witnessed a revolution, a populist grassroots revolution, which overthrew a corrupt, brutal, abusive government and should have been celebrated as a great success for liberty everywhere. And perhaps it would have been if huge parts of the libertarian media weren't working for the Kremlin. I realize that's a serious accusation, but it's an accurate accusation. The Kremlin for decades has been building ties with dissident media all over the world. And unlike in the last decades of the Soviet Union, its agents are no longer drunk and cynical, but very active and very motivated. So I think the libertarian media has completely missed this one. There's people just consciously spreading outright propaganda. I feel like at least one of them is working at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace, Daniel McAdams. And there's the lunatic fringe, which I suspect is people like Paul Craig Roberts, who seems to think that Russia is less of a tyranny than the United States. And then there's the echo chamber, and I would put Ron Paul as the guy in the echo chamber. So it's been really upsetting to watch this huge betrayal of big parts of the libertarian media from inside Ukraine. You know, you'd think more of these guys would be interested in my point of view. I've asked many times to, hey, why don't you interview me, Tom Woods, instead of just interviewing that Kremlin shill, Daniel McAdams, who spreads outright easily disprovable lies. So there's that. I've been writing a lot about this subject, and you can see my writing on romanskasku.com. In some of my essays I've called out the libertarian in media and made my case. James Corbett, great guy, great show. He gave me an interview. He let me be heard. DailyCoin also had interviewed me a few times. So there's that. This work has distracted me from writing my memoir about Afghanistan, but I'm hoping to get back to that. I am getting back to that little by little. I've been doing software development, and this month, this month, August, we will be launching a very cool Bitcoin gaming site. Stay tuned for that. I also have the great privilege of being close friends with Kurt Doolittle, who has offered the most scathing, comprehensive, thoughtful, in-depth criticism of libertarianism that I ever heard. You know, I thought it was the right philosophy, but I think there are a lot of mistakes embedded in it. And today, actually, what is it, August 8th, I think, Thursday, I did with Kurt what we've been planning to do for a while. We did the first two of what will hopefully be many interviews with him. We went to a real studio and I interviewed him about properitarianism, which I think is a restoration of the Enlightenment, it's his philosophy. Man, those are dense videos. He's a genius, and I feel like I'm watching a very important pivot in philosophy that's going to be remembered for a very long time. I'm watching it from a really privileged position. So the first interview is just kind of talked a lot about family structure and trust. Not property, trust, trust. And that as an approach to society. The second video, which was longer in 40 minutes, and it was like an intellectual rollercoaster ride for me. I was the interviewer, and man, I was concentrating so hard just to keep up. After 40 minutes, I felt the way I used to feel after chess tournaments just exhausted from the concentration. And we talked about the error. Well, we criticized Mises. He criticized Mises, really scathing criticism. Incidentally, we're doing it from the city of his birth. It was called Lemberg at the time, 1881. Now it's called Lviv. I went from being part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to briefly a part of Poland to being part of Ukraine. That's where I live now. So anyway, stay tuned for those videos. They are going to be huge. Kurt is fixing libertarianism because it's broken and it's flawed. Mises is broken and flawed. And tune in. It's going to be spectacular. And I will be getting back to doing book reviews soon. I'm planning to travel a bit in September, take a couple of weeks off. And I'll catch up on some reading and review the book that I'm mostly done with, which is Fukuyama's Origin of the Political Order. I think Fukuyama is a fantastic historian. He's a weak economist. And it's really hard to get through chapter one because the economics is so weak. But after that you have this huge study of history to which I would encourage libertarianism, libertarians to measure their beliefs against this account of history. Why did states form? It seemed pretty clear that states were better at war than the tribes that preceded them. It seems pretty clear that there is no such thing as the Rothbardian natural rights or the natural order. But if you're going to call something as true to our nature, it seems like familial property rights are much more common than the individual property rights that libertarians like to pretend are the natural state of mankind. Yeah, so I think just studying such a wonderful in-depth history, you get to test your libertarian beliefs and you get to see a lot of the biases. One of the biases has a name, the primordial individualism. Even back in the time of the apes, we were not, or our ancestors were not individuals. We were society from the very beginning. Libertarians get economics right from what I can tell, but I think they get the strategy wrong because they assume it's natural and they assume it doesn't need to be enforced. Anyway, more to come. Tune into those videos that I made with Kurt. We're going to make our own YouTube channel for them. Maybe I'll cross-post them on this channel, maybe not. But it's a huge privilege for me to be the interviewer for what's going to go down in history as a really, really important pivot in philosophy. So that's what I'm up to. Stay tuned for more. All the best.