Topic: Ukraine has been trending in the news again - and not necessarily for good reasons. Earth has evidently “crept its closest to Armageddon”, With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the specter of nuclear weapon use. And ironically so - because after 11 months during which Ukraine has won repeated and decisive victories against Russian forces, things are currently actually at a stalemate. However, it seems that the war is about to enter a new more deadly and fateful phase as both sides are now said to be bracing for a fierce new round of offensives in the late winter or spring. Phyllis Bennis - author, activist and director the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies – joins Tavis to talk about this seemingly interminable war and unpacks why we should even care about this conflict. Bio: Fellow Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, focusing on Middle East, U.S. wars and UN issues. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. In 2001 she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She works with many anti-war and Palestinian rights organizations, writing and speaking widely across the U.S. and around the world. She has served as an informal adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East issues and was twice short-listed to become the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Phyllis has written and edited eleven books. Among her latest is the just-published 7th updated edition of her popular Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. She has also written Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power.