the single best thing we could do to Kruh Putin is to help Ukraine. And this is just me as a civilian,

you know, Kibbutz speaking, how crazy it is to be not helping Ukraine and then obsessing over Greenland. But maybe am I missing? No, you're not missing a thing. It's insanity. Hey, everyone, I'm a war work contributor, Mark Hurtling. I'm a retired soldier. I've got a bit of experience and military operations. And I'd like to welcome all of you to

the second episode of something we're calling Command Post, which is a new edition of Bullwark

takes. Bill Crystal here, editor at large of Bullwork, and I'm thrilled to be joining Mark on this

second edition of Command Post. And Mark was modest. He said he, Mark was in charge of U.S. Army, Europe,

a rather important position, and where he dealt a ton with Russia, with Ukraine, with NATO.

And so I thought maybe we just begin there, Mark. There's so much to talk about.

Obviously, we'll get to some other issues later. But you discussed this a little bit with

Tim Miller last night on his podcast, but let's talk about Ukraine.

It is this huge war that's been going for, God, it's hard to believe, isn't it, for four years, almost four years.

The largest war, really, since World War II, certainly in Europe and maybe, I don't know, close in the world.

Certainly the biggest conflict going out in the world now, conflict with the nuclear

arms superpower.

It's funny.

And there's so much other stuff going on that it's sort of number five in the list of

issues that people talk about, you know, Venezuela, Iran and stuff.

But let's talk about it for what's happening there and what its implications are.

That's the thing, Bill.

Ukraine and Russia conflict has almost completely fallen off the news

chart with all the other things are going on, but I'm still watching it very closely. And I told Tim

last night that I had a text from a good friend who's in Ukraine right now. And he was telling me,

kind of giving me a situation on the ground, a sit rep, as we

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