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#bulletproof #ukrajina #war In Eastern Europe today, the fight is over whether the countries there will remain part of the empire or win their precious freedom. Their representatives can easily appear before the choice of being a pro-Russian statesman or a pro-Western corpse. We talked about this with David Stulík, the special representative for the countries of the Eastern Partnership. Even in 2013, Ukrainians did not realize that Russia was an enemy, just as we do not realize it today. Back then, Ukraine spent half a percent of its GDP on defense because it was not ready, so today it spends 40 percent on defense, explains Stulík, who worked for 12 years in Ukraine as a spokesman for the European Union, in the new episode of the Bulletproof podcast. "At that time, we could not imagine how much Russia would cling to the maintenance of the empire. We underestimated how strongly the countries around it longed for European values," he says, adding that today the country needs to be stopped by force, because the Russians' will to move on after victory is too great. We talked about whether a new iron curtain is falling over Eastern Europe, and what methods of force the Russians use against politicians in countries they see as a sphere of influence.