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Here comes Mr. Thrill Ride himself, Eric Mat, Texas.

Folks, welcome back.

We continue now in hour two with Michael Wilkerson. He's the author of an extraordinary book, highly recommended, Why America Matters, the case for New Exceptionalism. And he can be found at stormwall.com, where he writes on many issues, including the ones we're discussing now. So you're giving us the background on why this Ukraine-Russia

involvement on our part and our advocacy is not quite what we've been sold. It's a little complicated.

So you are saying, for one thing, no matter what position you take on Putin, nonetheless, our sanctioning them has been bad for us.

Any cornered rat will fight. And so we've put ourselves in a position

where we've left Russia, Putin,

with very few choices. They are

taking the choices that they have,

which, as we talked about before the break, is

to strengthen an alliance

of the damned. It is to get

closer and closer. This is not carrot and

stick, folks. This is just stick.

So if there's no carrot, what do you do?

You fight against the stick.

So, but I mean, this seems predictable, and it really does seem like the people wargaming at the Pentagon or at the State Department.

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