And now, America's number one show on pop culture and politics.

This is the Michael Medved Show.

And another great day in this greatest nation on God's Green Earth,

and as the greatest nation on God's Green Earth,

do we have an obligation?

Do we have a moral duty to try to save the Ukraine as an independent nation, as a beacon of democratic

principles and Western values, being threatened right now by a very aggressive and very unrepentant Russian dictator.

That is the question that is going to be decided in the next few days by the House of Representatives

and the Senate of the United States. On the Senate side, there are now 18 Republican senators

who are joining virtually all the Democrats in supporting aid to Ukraine. But what is the issue at the core?

The issue at the core is appeasement. That's the theme of an extremely persuasive new column that just appeared in the

Wall Street Journal. It is a column by Casey Michelle, who is the director of the combating

kleptocracy program at the Human Rights Foundation. His first book is called American kleptocracy,

How the U.S. created the world's greatest money laundering scheme in history.

It's out now from St. Martin's Press.

He has a second book on the way.

It'll be released later this year.

It is called Foreign Agents,

how American lobbyists and lawmakers threaten democracy around the world. Casey, to begin,

what are some of the key ways in which our situation regarding Ukraine compares to the situation in 1938 regarding Czechoslovakia?

Yeah, absolutely. Michael, thanks so much for having me today and obviously talking about this topic.

You know, everyone knows there are clear differences between Vladimir Putin

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