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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Great America Podcast with Lou Dobbs, always in the fight for truth, justice, and yes, our American way of life.

And now here he is, the Peabody Award-winning voice of truth, the great Lou Dobbs.

Hello everybody and welcome to the Great America Show and thank you for being with us.

The entire aware world, of course, is focused on Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to invade Ukraine and they did so in dramatic fashion as the world watched yesterday.

The world is still watching as it will be for days and weeks and more to come.

Russian tanks, armored personnel carriers, mobile cannon, rocket launchers, all rolling down the Ukrainian highways and streets.

Russian attack jets and cruise missiles and rockets hitting targets in at least two dozen cities in a highly coordinated attack.

It appears to be at this stage of the fighting unstoppable given the Russian militaries far superior air power and weaponry and obviously highly trained troops.

The strikes appear to be designed by the Russians to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties, though there will be many inevitably as powerful warheads and rockets explode.

And we won't likely know the extent of the damage and casualties for days, perhaps weeks.

The European response to the Russian invasion to this point has been muted, probably what we should have expected from a continent of nations that is relied on the United States

for more than three-quarters of a century for their national security.

For its part, the United Nations is not muted, it's inert, it's irrelevant and not only because it's Russia's monthly turn to have its head of delegation serve as president of the Security Council.

There seems to be resigned acceptance on the European's part to the invasion and the likely outcome.

None of the usual bellicosity at the UN, no sanctimonious condemnations and clearly no broad appetite among the Europeans for war.

The United States is hardly more vigorous in its reaction.

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