Ep. 54 - Markos Kounalakis on the Russia-Ukraine War

Markos Kounalakis is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an award-winning, nationally-syndicated foreign affairs columnist, author, and scholar. He’s also a veritable legend in the world of Journalism, covering the developments in Eastern Europe at the end of the 20th Century, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Velvet Revolution in Prague. He was present at the Warsaw Pact meeting, covered the early phases of Yugoslavia’s civil war, and went to Afghanistan with the Soviets to cover the last stages of their military occupation and the rise of the Mujahedin. He’s also the first Second Gentleman of California, married to Lt. Governor Elani Kounalakis.