Raw File News Episode 16: Have Russia's Hopes Sunk? Plus, Training Cyborg Kitties

We discuss the sinking of the Moskva and Moscow's PR two-step. Plus, are things looking up for the people of Yemen? And Nigeria gets some shiny new American helicopters. Pakistan is getting a little missile-happy in Afghanistan, testing how easy-going the Taliban really are now. Russia reminds Japan that they're still in the neighborhood, so Japan better not get any funny ideas about those contested islands. Ukrainian richy-rich Viktor Medvedchuk gets tossed in jail. Finland and Sweden move closer to joining NATO, even though Putin really wishes they wouldn't. President Biden uses the word "genocide" in decribing Russia's actions in Ukraine. And for our Weird File, the story of the time the CIA tried to turn kitty cats into cyborg spies. Spoiler, it didn't work.

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