from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast

Center.

The Armstrong and Gettyshow.

Urban, an awakening to a geopolitical threat.

More quick and striking than the United States going from our ridiculous naive belief the

China was our buddy to the growing and acute awareness that they are a tough nasty geopolitical

rival.

Yeah, we didn't think we were best friends with Japan or Germany a year before World War

II started.

Well, the way we have been with China for all these years, crazy.

Yeah, it's a good thing we've woken up, but what's striking now, and it's especially clear

because it's Pentagon budget time is that we have gone from a kind of lazy, excuse me.

Are you getting over the COVID or is it came you?

I feel great.

No, I feel great.

It's just that annoying post being sick, coughing and then blowing the nose for a week.

Terrible.

Anyway, as I said the other day, much like our victory in World War II, there are millions

of troops to muster out of the military and my immune system is doing the same thing,

but instead of troop ships, it uses mucus.

So we've got to get all the troops back home and that could take a while.

There's going to be some cough and a nosebleown folks.

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