to analyzing, to analyzing America's horrific foreign policy.

Welcome back to the show. How you doing, Danny?

You know, I'm doing all right, Scott. Thanks for having me back.

Very happy to have you here. There's so much going on in the news.

I guess most of all, I want to ask you about Ukraine.

And I know that you do a very good job of keeping track of the battle maps and the latest

developments the last I checked which is a few weeks ago I'm a very busy guy the

the Russians controlled virtually all of Lujansk and I don't know two-thirds of Donetsk and then what three-quarters of

of Zeprosia and and something like that two-thirds or three-quarters of Kurson and I have no

idea what percentage of Harkiv Oblasts.

And I know that they were, the main part of the front is in Donetsk and that there's been a lot of recent developments there.

So I wonder if you can kind of help catch us up.

Help me picture the shape of the map there.

Yeah, you bet.

There has been continued advancements to the West by the Russian armed forces, and they

have been taking now, not just villages and settlements, but larger, medium-sized towns,

moving on towards some of the larger ones.

They have taken just in the last couple of days, really three fairly sizable towns.

It's Torresk, Chesaviar, and Villiccanovacelka. The last one is maybe possibly a

canary in the coal mine type deal because they took that one in very, very fast fashion, like

within a couple of weeks, which is probably the fastest

from the time they started attacking something that they've taken any town since the opening

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