Hello and welcome to another episode of the Speak the Truth podcast. I am your host

Matt Tardia. Today's episode is being sponsored by Robin Hood. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my

distinct honor to introduce our guest for today's show, retired United States Air Force Colonel Jeffrey Fisher.

Jeff has been featured in Politico, The Hill, and BBC, along with contributed articles to the Kyiv Post.

He is an expert when it comes to Ukraine as well as US Air platforms.

And you are going to see why in just a moment.

Jeff, say hi to the folks.

Hey, how you doing?

It's great to see you.

It's great to see you, Jeff.

Now, Jeff, you are not just a retired colonel.

You also have a very, very impressive history and background. Today you currently

actually write for the Kia Post and have been featured on numerous

mainstream media agencies overseas. Prior to doing all of that while you were in the military you were

also the senior US diplomat, the senior military advisor to the commander of the

joint chief of staff of the US mission OSCE. Can you give us a little bit of an understanding about what that title and job entailed?

Sure, yes, so I was I was blessed enough to be selected. It was very competitive.

So as a full colonel, I would get, I was assigned to the US Mission at OSCE, the organization for security and cooperation in Europe.

It's kind of like a mini UN, but it mainly focuses on European security, hence the name.

This is the organization that manages a lot of arms control agreements, so Open Skies Treaty,

Conventional Forces Europe, CFP Treaty, conventional forces Europe,

Treaty, CFP Treaty, Vienna Documents,

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