Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erikson show across the nation from my

flagship studio in Atlanta, Georgia, XWSB, except I'm not there. I'm in my bunker near my house.

It's fine outside. I may go hit golf balls this afternoon. Who knows? We'll see. Right now,

we got news to talk about the phone number.

If you want to be a part of the program, 877-97-9-7-3-7-4-25. I actually want to begin with some of the Ukrainian stuff out there.

I've tried to put it off. And the reason I've tried to put it off is it's the same depressing story every day.

The fact of the matter is Russia is now essentially bombing Ukraine into submission.

It's using artillery and aircraft to just bomb the snotted of Ukraine and level its cities.

Thinking that that will cause Ukraine to surrender, they want to save something so they'll

surrender.

Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, is floating a compromise now, essentially

guaranteeing they would give up Crimea and parts of the Dundesque region of eastern Ukraine

that Russia has already captured in 2014 and consolidated.

They'd give all that up and they will from there move forward.

And so you'll have a divided Ukraine with Russia exercising territorial sovereignty over two, and Ukraine would also pledge never to join NATO.

But then would enter into some security compacts outside NATO for its protection.

It would not demilitarize, as Russia says, to the extent

it would demilitarize. It would require other countries defend it. I want to speak for just a

moment, if you will, on Zelensky, because there's a growing movement on the right, I think led by Tucker Carlson probably, to make sure everyone knows that Zelensky is not a great guy.

Now, I want to be very clear here, I don't think, contrary to hysteric claims of the left, that Tucker Carlson and the people who are smearing,olensky are Russian propaganda. Suddenly they are. I think they're isolationists.

And they do not want World War III. They do not want World War III. And they are

worried if we intervene too much. And there is a passion for Zelensky growing around

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