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Fascinating interview with Paul D’Anieri, PhD, on Russia, the Ukraine, and the West, providing a brief historical perspective on relations between Russia and the Ukraine and the relevance of this relationship for the incoming Biden Administration and US foreign policy.  Dr. D’Anier is a Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, University of California, Riverside who has written extensively on this subject.  He helps answer questions and provides background on how and why Putin tries to eliminate his opponents by poising.  In 2019 he published Ukraine and Russia:  From Uncivilized Divorce to Uncivil War.  

Ambassador Ron Neumann, current President of the American Academy of Diplomacy sat down with Ron Osborn to talk about his decades long career in the Foreign Service, and to provide us with a glimpse of what challenges the incoming Biden Administration will face in January in the international arena.  He is articulate and explains the complexities of foreign affairs in an easy to understand style that is refreshing.   

Our host, Ron Osborn talks with Dr. Netteburg an OBGyn about her life as a missionary doctor in Bere, Chad—one of the more remote places in West Africa.  Dr. Netteburg has found her calling working at a 100-bed hospital where she offers hope and surgically treatment to women who suffer from vesicovaginal fistulas.  Her work is amazing and the results are life changing for her patients.   

In this episode, Ron Osborn explores with Dr. Scott Nelson what it is like to practice medicine in a resource depleted country like Haiti in the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic. 

Michael Auslin, PhD, is a historian by training, specializing in U.S. policy in Asia and geopolitical issues in the Indo-Pacific region.  He is the inaugural Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a senior fellow in the Asia and National Security Programs at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and a senior fellow at London’s Policy Exchange.Auslin is the author of six books, including Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific and the best-selling The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region.  He is a longtime contributor to the Wall Street Journal and National Review, and his writing appears in other leading publications, including The Spectator, Financial Times, and Foreign Policy.  He comments regularly for U.S. and foreign print and broadcast media.