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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our 2.

Hello, America. Welcome, it is Eric Erickson here. Glad to have you with me today.

We've got to move beyond our shores to talk about other really big news.

In February, Vlomers Zelensky had his meeting at the White House with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and it became infamous.

It did not go well. He wound up essentially being thrown out of the White House, Fl Zelensky did by the president. And in that meeting, Donald Trump yelled at Vladimir Zelenskyy live on national

television, quote, you don't have the cards. You're buried there, your people are dying,

you're running low on soldiers. You don't have the cards to play.

Well, over the weekend, Ukraine threw down new cards on the table. And it was impressive. And it was designed to impress the American president. Let me read to you part of the Wall Street Journal coverage here.

Ukraine's unprecedented drone strikes on Russian Air Force bases over the weekend,

weakened Moscow's ability to wage war on its smaller neighbor

and undermine its capacity to threaten more distant rivals,

such as the United States,

a shift with potentially far-reaching geo-strategic implications.

A sizable portion of the fleet Moscow uses to launch guided missile attacks on Ukraine

...