History Last Week: Ukraine Financing, Russian Logistics Strikes, and Wartime Nationalization

Mark McNamee is co-founder and owner of UBN Network, host of the podcast History in the Making: The War in Ukraine, and former Managing Director of Europe at FrontierView. Based in Kyiv, he specializes in Ukraine’s political economy, security, geopolitics, and investment environment, providing strategic analysis for international businesses, policymakers, and investors. His work examines how wartime developments, economic transformation, and geopolitical shifts shape Ukraine’s future and broader regional stability.

In this episode of AFI Podcast: History Last Week, Scott Douglas Jacobsen speaks with Mark McNamee about expanded European Union financing for Ukraine, escalating attacks on Russian logistics, and the war’s deepening economic dimension. They examine infrastructure destruction, Russian battlefield losses, expanding drone kill zones, threats to Donetsk, the financial vulnerability of Wildberries, and the Kremlin’s nationalization strategy. McNamee explains how these policies damage Russia’s investment climate for decades and reshape its postwar economic prospects.

Scott Douglas Jacobsen is the Lifestyle and Finance Writer and Editor for A Further Inquiry with more than 400 published articles in the outlet. He is the Founder and Publisher of In-Sight Publishing (ISBN: 978–1–0692343; 978–1–0673505) and Editor-in-Chief of In-Sight: Interviews (ISSN: 2369–6885). He writes for International Policy Digest (ISSN: 2332–9416), The Humanist (Print: ISSN, 0018–7399; Online: ISSN, 2163–3576), Basic Income Earth Network (UK Registered Charity 1177066), Humanist Perspectives (ISSN: 1719–6337), Vocal, Medium, The Good Men Project, The New Enlightenment Project, The Washington Outsider, rabble.ca, and other media. His bibliography index can be found via the Jacobsen Bank at In-Sight Publishing. He has served in national and international leadership roles within humanist and media organizations, held several academic fellowships, and currently serves on several boards. He is a member in good standing in numerous media organizations, including the Canadian Association of Journalists, PEN Canada (CRA: 88916 2541 RR0001), Reporters Without Borders (SIREN: 343 684 221/SIRET: 343 684 221 00041/EIN: 20–0708028), and others.

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