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All right, you guys, introducing retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel L. Davis.

He's the host of the Daniel Davis Deep Dive on YouTube, his great podcast.

He is, of course, a veteran of Iraq War I, Iraq War II, and Afghanistan, where he was the great whistleblower of 2012.

And I can read all about that in Fool's Ayrn, if you want. But he's absolutely excellent on everything

and especially his coverage of the Russia-Ukraine War. So welcome back to the show. How you doing, sir?

Always great to be here, Scott.

Love it. Well, really appreciate you joining us today. There's so much to talk about, I guess the most

important thing is, well, I'm not sure what you do. I guess we got to do the status of forces on the

ground and the order of battle and so forth, even just in a brief sketch here.

So then we can talk about the talks because I think the context of whose forces are where on the ground is the real background to the talks, right?

Oh, yeah, without question.

So who's occupying what and how's it look?

Well, so first of all, i think the most important thing is

the the kersk direction where last august the ukraine side made a uh penetration deep into

russian territory in the the kersk oblast north of the sumi province in ukraine uh and and at the time

so many western people said ahas ah, this is great news.

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