It's the third hour. Yes, it is. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The phone number

877-97-9-373-7-4-25 if you want to be on the program. So I was going to talk about the

Iran deal and I will. But I need to spend a moment on some of the Russia-Ukraine stuff.

John King was on with me yesterday, not the CNN anchor, the Georgia Insurance Commissioner.

He worked with the Russians in Bosnia for a while. He's a, John King's a major general in the

American National Guard. And he said something that actually a couple of friends of mine who

were also in Bosnia dealing with the Russians said.

And that is that they're really not as capable as you think.

You know, a lot of us, myself included, have shared that Russian military recruitment ad where the American military recruitment ads are all now,

come to the military and get your education.

The Russian military ads are, join the army, kill people.

It's actually, it's a pretty effective advertisement.

They look like manly men and then you see what's happening in Ukraine.

And you wonder what on earth is going on there.

Thomas Grove and Stephen Fiddler at the Wall Street Journal actually have a story that I want

to spend a few moments with. And again, if you subscribe to the show notes, to the substack,

to my daily email, you would get this article as one of the links.

You can text the word show to 33777.

The bottom link will be to my daily email that I send out.

And I've started at noon, compiling all the links that I want to talk about in the show,

and I send them out so y'all can have them for your reference.

We get people calling all the time saying, hey, where's that link?

...