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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 Gonzalez.

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 Zmirac. So Pedro Gonzalez,

with those in Comia, I welcome you to the Eric Metaxus 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 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?

Chroniclesmagizine.org.

Chroniclesmagize.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,

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