We’ve released this episode early this week … because we don’t know what’s going to happen next and don’t want to be caught short by events. And who better to comment on the Ukraine standoff as the days unfold than Anne Applebaum? She's a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of many formidable books, including "Red Famine," "Gulag: A History" (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and her latest, "Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism."