Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here, broadcasting live from Atlanta, Georgia, across the nation.

Glad to have you with me. The phone number, 87797-973-7-4-25, if you want to be on the program,

we'll be a little loose with phone calls today because there's a lot of Ukrainian stuff out there.

There may be stuff I'm missing. Just want to make sure that we're covering a spectra of plethora of information, but we do

have to begin with Ukraine and the situation with the nuclear reactor.

I got to be up front and honest with you.

The Russians are the bad guys in this situation.

The Russians have invaded, unprovoked Ukraine.

They've tried to manufacture grievances,

and I would be very skeptical of some of the people

who are pushing the Russian grievances.

There is a segment of people who would consider themselves on the right, and I don't.

And they're just pro-Push, Putin, pedaling talking points and trying to claim the Ukrainians

are the bad guys here.

They're not.

Ukraine is a separate, sovereign, independent nation.

They agreed to give up their nuclear weapons in the 1990s in exchange for Russian recognition and protection of their sovereignty. The Russians have broken their word. They've invaded to take over. Vladimir Putin doubling down telling the French president he intends to essentially eradicate and denazify Ukraine, which means, so you need to understand

part of this is in Russia, calling people a Nazi is about the worst thing you can do given their

history. I don't even know to make jokes here. I started to say, yeah, like in this country,

we call people Democrat. It's no, this is a very make jokes here. I started to say, yeah, like in this country, we call people Democrat.

It's no, this is a very serious point here.

When the Russians say call people Nazis, they mean they're like the worst people on the planet.

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