Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 3.

Hello America.

It is Eric Erickson here across the nation.

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We must turn our attention abroad.

I have, and please, this is one of those times where you need to just listen to everything

I say and actually listen to me as opposed to hearing me say what you think I said,

which happens sometimes in these matters. We must talk about Ukraine. I understand the concerns some people have that we are throwing a lot of money at Ukraine.

I actually don't think we're spinning enough, but that's another subject.

A lot of people are like, I can't believe we're spending this much money.

And now my concern is that Congress doesn't seem to be all that involved with it. And I do have a legitimate concern. I know others do as well. But I wrote about this this morning in my daily email. Some people are like, we can't, America is literally falling apart. Why are we spending money there? Well, America is always literally falling apart. We've had problems in this

country forever. That doesn't mean we can't multitask and screw up other places as well with

our money. Or fight the Russians. I mean, this, it's, I don't know what it is. And I don't

want to be critical of people because I understand the concern that we have so many problems at home.

Why are we dealing with this?

And here is my explanation.

We are preempting it, preventing it from festering into a problem we will really have to deal with later.

If the Russians move beyond Ukraine into NATO territories, and they have agitated about moving

into the Baltic Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Estonia,

Estonia. Some of the biggest pro-America countries in Europe are the Eastern European countries.

Many of them built statues to Ronald Reagan, including Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic.

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