Greetings welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Delighted to have you with me. The phone number is 877-9-37-37-425, should you wish to be on the program.

I'm really glad to have you now. So there's a phenomenon. Someone I think probably needs to write.

Maybe somebody has written about this and I've just missed it.

But there is a phenomenon I am more and more aware of.

The number of Americans who before they go to sleep at night and right when they wake up in the morning,

they want to check to make sure Zelensky lives, the president of Ukraine.

Now, interestingly enough, it does come at a time.

There is some effort

on parts of the right and parts of the left to smear him, malign him and criticize him,

some doing the will of Vladimir Putin. A lot of people as a way to slow the train down,

as there's a growing number of Americans out there

who want military involvement with Ukraine. I mean, the fact of the matter is a lot of people,

including in this country, oftentimes shows a level of disdain for the United States. I mean,

the whole of the 1619 project is to make you feel bad about America so that it can be reformed in some way.

But we are actually a good people. We're sometimes not a great people, but more often than not, we're good people, and oftentimes we are great people. We're sometimes not a great people, but more often than not, we're good people,

and oftentimes we are great people. And we want to help. We wish to help. We want to help. We, we want to help those in need.

And we see Russia bullying the Ukrainian people,

invading their country, taking their land, killing their citizens,

bombing and leveling their cities, and we want to help Ukraine.

And for a lot of Americans, if you are 40 years old or older, the great many Americans are,

you grew up with the specter of the Cold War.

You grew up with the evil empire, with the Soviet Union, and you saw how it collapsed and how the oligarchs took over lots of the means of industry and supplies of the country,

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