I'm Alex Marlow, and this is the Breitbart News Daily podcast. We opened today's show with all the news

you need on the Russia-Ukraine crisis, and I explained in great detail how my thinking has evolved

over the past couple of weeks. As regular listeners now, I was highly skeptical that Russia would

invade Ukraine, but I now believe that as it became clear that the West would do virtually

nothing to stop him, especially Big Joey

the Biden. Vladimir Putin ultimately decided it was just too good of an opportunity to pass up.

Yes, this crisis is a failure of globalism. There's blood on the hands of the establishment

media and the Western world is just simply overmashed here and is very painful,

particularly for the Ukrainian people. I break it down and I

also offer what I believe is Putin's endgame, or at least the sort of short term endgame.

I think we all know what the long term end game is for KGB Vlad. Our guest today is Robert Alt of

the Buckeye Institute, the quintessential conservative think tank in Ohio, and he's representing a

D.C. restaurant owner who's been targeted for his refusal to enforce anti-science mandates.

Eric Flannery's business has been targeted by the totalitarians, and he is using the courts

to fight back. Alth gives us the details of the case and explains why this is a hill worth

dying on. Plus, we have our caller

of the day, but first a word from our sponsors. Let's get into the Ukraine news.

And I will say that it was not, I guess, my best call ever.

I'm opening with this because I don't, unlike everyone else in conservative media,

I don't, I want to be exactly clear with you where I'm evaluating my own takes because

it seems like we're an era where no one's wrong about anything and I find that very

irritating and I don't want to be a part of that group. It is funny because some people

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