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Welcome to the Eric Mataxis show with your host, Eric Mataxis.

Folks, welcome to the Eric Mataxis show. As you know, every single week on this program,

I have our friend, John Zmirak. We value him tremendously. And every now and again,

John insists that we have a certain guest on and we take that seriously.

John was insisting that we have on Pedro Gonzales. We weren't aware of Pedro until John

brought him to our attention. He's a senior writer for Chronicles, a magazine of American culture.

But I think that's just the most tremendous credential you could hold is that highly

recommended by the great John Zmirak. So Pedro Gonzales, with those in Comea, I welcome you to the

Eric Mataxis show. Thank you. Thanks so much for having me on. It's good to be here.

Well, thanks for what you do and for being worthy of John's praises because that's not a small thing.

You you write about a lot of different things at Chronicles. By the way, what's the website for

Chronicles in case people want to check that out right now? Chronicles magazine.org.

Why don't we start with the Ukrainian Russian situation? There's been so much confusion on that,

so much propaganda. So let's start there. What do you have to say on that issue?

That's a very wide open question. What I have to say is that we need to remember the

American interest and we need to remember the mistakes of Iraq and Afghanistan and all of the

tragedy those things entailed for everyone involved. Americans, Afghans, Iraqis and everyone else

because it seems like we are not remembering those things by we, I mean our leaders.

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