From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

The Armstrong and Joe Getty.

The Armstrong and Getty Show.

American F-15 screaming eagles soar into darkening skies in a show of US military firepower.

The message to NATO Allies here we've got your back and to Russia we're watching.

The US Air Force is 330 steaks fighter squadron taking part in an enhanced air policing mission.

And it's about reassuring your NATO Allies.

Yeah, absolutely. This is a team effort from the NATO Alliance.

Here's why it matters. The Baltic states are sandwiched between Russia.

So then CBS gets into where we've got all the planes in the countries that are around Ukraine and everything like that.

So the big announcement today we are sending 3,000 troops to Europe, not into Ukraine, but to Europe.

I hadn't thought about the firepower we've got from the planes over there.

There's been a lot of commitment that we're not going to have US troops on the ground in Ukraine.

But would we bomb the bejesus out of Russia and anything with our planes?

No, no. I think it's purely Vlad said I'm going to bully the hell out of you unless you reduce.

Well, I am bullying the hell out of Ukraine.

And unless you reduce your presence in Eastern Europe, I'll kill them.

And we've responded, you're going to act like that. All right. We're going to increase our troop presence.

Okay. So it's just a oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.

Obviously the opportunity for something to go wrong though, whether you called a mistake or miscalculation or whatever,

when you got that much firepower, creamed into such a small area.

I was thinking about that with the the the the the Boss Johnson went to Ukrainian state to talk to Zelensky.

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