The All right, so here's the thing. I was going to start this week's episode by telling you all

about the travel that I have been engaged in over the last month and begging your forgiveness for not having done a

podcast.

So I do have a good excuse, I have been pretty much non-stop on the road.

But we don't have time because this week's episode is a pop-up episode.

None of the usual shenanigans, no ritualistic murder of Luther Abel at the beginning,

no agonizing George Martin's style over the production.

Instead, a good old-fashioned throw-down argument provoked by recent events. Those events being the debate that Noah Rothman, Michael

Brendan Dowdy, and I had on the most recent episode of the editors

which was published two days ago and that was curtailed for time.

The editors is more, what's the word, organized, planned, regimented than this

podcast and we simply ran out of time in the second block and so just

when the boxing gloves were coming off. The debate was shut down. So I thought, having read through some

of the responses on Twitter that effectively said, I was watching that, that we could

continue it on this podcast on which there is no effective time limit. So today that is exactly what we are going to do.

I am hosting Michael Brennan Dowdy and Noah and we're going to debate Ukraine funding in fact the Ukraine war more generally as we did on the editors

if you want to go back first and listen to the editors from two

days ago do that now. If you don't know what the editors is it's National

reviews flagship podcast it's what the editors is, it's National Reviews flagship podcast, it's called The Editors,

Easy to Find, the most recent episode was published on Tuesday.

If you don't want to do that, then once I have introduced our sponsor and you hear the bell

you can dive right into it.

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