All right.

A great crowd.

I should have went to college.

Get my thoughts together here.

Get my thoughts together here. There they are.

All right. Yeah, he's right. I wrote some books and I'm working on another one right now.

It's called Provoked how America started the new Cold War with Russia

and the catastrophe in Ukraine.

I hope to have it done by the end of the year but no promises but that's what

I'm going for but it obviously raises a question provoked what exactly does that

mean and of course the war party will

say that any time that you try to explain why America's adversaries do what they do

that you're taking their side and somehow are loyal to them or even otherwise just excusing their actions.

But there's a difference between a reason and an excuse and it's perfectly fine. we watch the nightly news to describe the motives of a murderer

if somebody kills for the money or for revenge or whatever it is to explain that is not to justify it.

As we see in American foreign policy,

America's adversaries, constantly,

and certainly in my lifetime, are always provoked by the United States government

into being our enemies and justifying our fight. Take for example the war on

terrorism.

Now, a lot of people know that in the aftermath of Vietnam,

the American people have what was called the Vietnam syndrome. They want to do that anymore.

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