Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucksexton Show podcast.

Our two of Clay and Buck. It's going right now, everybody. We had mentioned that we want to talk to you

about the situation of the Russia Ukraine war a little bit as we're right around the one year

anniversary of the Russian invasion of that country. You have Zelensky

promising that this is going to be the year of victory. We are at this point in time told,

I think it's important to discuss all the different assumptions and beliefs around this.

We're told that Ukraine is in a good position to win. You have to win. And we're going to back

them until they win. This is the entire Democrat party along along with this. I mean, no,

no person of any note in Democrat circles is opposed to this Bernie Sanders, AOC, they're all

Ukraine got their Ukraine flag pins on probably all that stuff. And on the right, Republicans,

Lindsey Graham, many others, very big proponents, Mitch McConnell, big proponents of

not just the continued support of Ukraine, but a whatever it takes strategy in terms of our support

and our backing for this. So right now, I think it's worth noting, they have already accepted

that Clay, there's substantial costs that things are more expensive as we talk about inflation.

Now that's mostly spending, but there is an inflationary effect that comes from or a price effect,

I should say that comes from the disruptions in particularly fossil fuels out of Russia,

grain out of Russia. So things have gotten more expensive in some places because of this.

That affects the American people. The global economy, which is so much driven by the combination

of either fear or greed, right? Markets and speculators and how people invest or don't invest money is.

Am I going to get richer or am I scared? I'm going to lose all my money. These things all affect

the price of everything from what you buy in the store to how your 401k is doing. So there are

costs that have been associated with this so far. But right now, we're seeing both sides escalate

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