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Editor's Note - This event is apolitical and based solely on 'on the ground experience' and factual evidence.

CDM Founder L Todd Wood will lead a discussion on the underlying reasons for the Ukraine conflict, and why it must end immediately.

PANELISTS:

John Ritchie - former CIA case officer with experience in Ukraine

Colonel Douglas MacGregor - retired US Army, author, Dept of Defense advisor

WHEN: Tuesday January 14, 2025, 6pm

WHERE: Westport VFW Post 399, 465 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT

Open cash bar will be provided

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L Todd Wood, a former Washington Times national security columnist, and now founder of CDM.press, a global media company, has spent a large amount of time living in Ukraine since the 2014 Maidan Revolution.

Wood was asked to write by Ukrainian media officials for 'Novoya Vremya' (New Time), a Kyiv newspaper, due to his insight on Russian issues.

Wood traveled to the frontlines in Donbass in 2017, and was in Kyiv during the Russian invasion in February, 2022. He ended up escaping across the Moldovan border on foot after spending a week in bomb shelters across Western Ukraine.

Wood built a team of sources and reporters in Ukraine that exists to this day. He has traveled extensively throughout Eastern Europe and the Middle East. CDM reported extensively on the situation in Ukraine prior to the 2020 election and was massively deplatformed.

Wood supported a Ukrainian refugee family in his home for the better part of a year after the invasion.

Wood has met extensively with Ukrainian officials including the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, and has investigated oligarchs in-country. He has a keen understanding of the system corruption across Ukraine.

Wood has been on Tucker Carlson's show a half dozen times, including a one hour interview with Tucker on Fox Nation.

John Ritchie, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer, is a senior executive with over 35

years of experience in various sectors, including government, multinational corporations, and consulting.

He has a successful track record in start-ups, digital media, fintech, financial services, and defense

aerospace. With his extensive knowledge and experience in intelligence collection and risk management,

John has become a sought-after advisor in the field of international risk and controls.

Ritchie has extensive operational experience on the ground in Ukraine.

Macgregor was commissioned in the Regular Army in 1976 after 1 year at VMI and 4 years at West Point. In 2004, Macgregor retired with the rank of Colonel. In 2020, the President appointed Macgregor to serve as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, a post he held until President Trump left office. He holds an MA in comparative politics and a PhD in international relations from the University of Virginia.

Macgregor is widely known inside the U.S., Europe, Israel, Russia, China and Korea for both his leadership in the Battle of 73 Easting, the U.S. Army’s largest tank battle since World War II, and for his ground breaking books on military transformation

Macgregor has also testified as an expert witness before the Senate and House Armed Services Committees and appeared as a defense analyst on Fox News, CNN, BBC, Sky News and public radio.