 I've been traveling around the country for eight months now with the book War in Ukraine Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, and more recently I've been encountering a lot of protestors who come to my events. Sometimes they are nice and we get into discussion, I ask them to come inside and we have a rich dialogue, but sometimes they are really aggressive and I've had places canceled at universities, bookstores, churches because they're afraid of violent protests and in Minneapolis it actually did turn violent when there were protestors were screaming and yelling at me and saying I was a Putin Apologist and snatched my phone and when I called one of the members of Veterans for Peace who was hosting the event to come and help me out they ended up pummeling him on the ground so hard that we had to rush him to the hospital with the dislocated shoulder so I think it's important to say protest fine but it has to be nonviolent and more important than that let's get together all of us to say we need to end this war in Ukraine to stop the killing peace talks and a ceasefire now