I want to read you some words of wisdom, John. This is not 1945 or 1989. We may be back in the jungle,

but today the jungle is wired. It is wired together more intimately than ever before by

telecommunications, satellites, trade, the internet, road, rail, and air networks, financial

markets and supply chains. So while the drama of war is playing out within the

borders of Ukraine, the risks and repercussions of Putin's invasion are being felt across the globe.

Welcome to World War Wired, the first war in a totally interconnected world. This will be

the Cossacks meet the World Wide Web. Like I said, you haven't been here before.

John, I'll pay you a million dollars if you can guess which New York Times pundit wrote those words

and coined the phrase, World War Wire. I do not think you want to do that. It was Thomas Friedman, the one and only.

Putin may have escalated his nuclear arsenal to DefCon level Yolo 69, but Thomas

Friedman has coined a new phrase that explains everything we are living through,

World War Wired.

Because you know how wires are like a are a symbol of modern technology

yeah wires you know i mean uh fiber optic wires you know how when someone needs to turn on

the tv the way they do it is that they make sure all the wires are connected and they touch the

wires together to make the TV turn on.

Honey, I want to watch my shows.

What did we do with our wires?

I need to press the on button, but I can't find the wire that connects it.

No, wires are, you know, all the satellites up in space. They're connected to Earth by those massive thousand mile long wires.

And to each other.

Wires. Yeah, wires. wires come on Thomas Friedman we need

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