Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson Show across the nation.

The phone number is 877973-725. Should you wish to be on the program, I didn't take any phone calls last hour because I really wanted to lay out the who-what, when, where, why, and how of Ukraine.

So I want to spend some time on phone calls now with those of you who

have some questions about it. I do want to say I was very, I was hoping to talk to a caller

who hung up. And what he wanted to say was that Vladimir Putin is not a criminal and we have no

business doing anything given our country's history. And I would just want to note real

quick, notice international answer is not protesting. Notice how all the left-wing groups who always protest

whenever a Republican presidents are strong and tough.

They're not out there with Joe Biden in the White House.

Is that not interesting?

But also this idea that because of our moral failures in the past,

we can't stand up for our values or for others.

It sounds good, I know, to some people. Those people tend not to be the brightest people,

because it's a statement that suggests we can't move on from our worst sins,

that we cannot be forgiven and we can't call out evil in the world.

We're not a perfect nation.

We have plenty of flaws.

But to say we can't take on someone invading another country who routinely assassinates

anyone who speaks up for freedom, that puts you in a terrible place geopolitically.

And I guess people like that would be perfectly fine with what China is doing.

I would have really liked to get the guy's sense of things.

But it's a conversation some people believe in y'all know the type.

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