Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xt and Show Podcast.

Welcome back into the Clay Travis and Bucks Xt and Show. Thanks for rolling with us.

Great to have you. Much to discuss here. Ukraine situation continuing to deteriorate the war

in that country getting worse, more violent, more casualties. We had assumed that that was going

to be the case. Unfortunately, it is. There's been something of a shift, though I think, in the

last few days. In the early moments of this conflict, there was a lot of talk. Somebody

would say a lot of war propaganda about how the Russians, no way they could continue on. The

Russian war machine was going to grind to a halt. The sanctions were going to crush them quickly.

This would all be over and the glorious Ukrainian resistance would be victorious.

That's not how wars play out. And this is a very real war that has incredibly high stakes,

as we know, for the people of Ukraine and also for the whole world when you add into the thousands

of Russian nuclear weapons that loom in the background of all of this. I think there's a little bit

more realism in the analysis of this now, more generally in the media. As we see, the strikes,

missile strikes hitting everything from hospitals to the headquarters of some foreign units that

have arrived to fight alongside the Ukrainians, people are recognizing more, I think, as they see

the images on their screens, how bad this is and how serious this fight is likely to continue to be.

Joe Biden actually said on the issue of sending troops to Ukraine, well, I'll let him say it.

We're showing a strength and we'll never fall to it. But look, the idea, the idea that we're

going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots

and American crews, just understand, don't kid yourself no matter what you all say. That's called

World War III. Okay, let's get it straight here, guys. At all expression, don't kid a kidder.

World War III, I would first note that a year ago Biden promised to shut down the virus,

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