Thanks for listening to Reasonable Doubt on Podcast One.

This is Beyond a Reasonable Doubt with your hosts, Mark Garagas and Gary Smith.

Mark, welcome to BRD.

Boy, I'll tell you, I missed you guys.

We miss you too, Mark, and I gotta tell you, you know, certainly for the big show,

but even for Beyond, there are some weeks where I'm a little nervous, you know, there's this slow week,

there's two or three stories, and if they don't like her, they get through them too fast.

I'm gonna be in trouble, not today.

Not today, boy.

Not today.

Not tomorrow.

I've bred a very, our researcher, Brett, the extraordinary, had the line about other than, you know,

that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

Because given what's happening in the world and with Russian, Ukraine and NATO and the response,

the lack of a response, I mean, it's astonishing.

You know, there's, as an Armenian, I'll start off with this.

There are so many cross-currants of what's going on, and I saw some people were tweeting today that,

if you're an Armenian, this also has kind of a, it resonates because of the 44-day war in Artsakh,

and where Azerbaijan was supported by Turkey and Israeli weapons.

But their third weapon supplier was none other than Ukraine, which is interesting.

The Azerbaijanis have used Ukraine as a training or staging area for much of their military.

And then I saw, although the Russians are saying it's just the coincidence, that Aliyev,

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