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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

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Should you wish to be on the program, we have some news here out of the gate. The government of the United States has seized a number of Venezuelan tankers, which decided to hoist the Russian flag, which makes the whole situation much more intriguing.

In fact, it turns out, according to multiple sources from inside the White House,

the Russians decided to send submarines to tag along with the ships

to try to protect them from seizure by the United States.

It turns out a submarine is not exactly a good strategy to deploy against an American helicopter.

We landed a helicopter on the tanker off the coast of Scotland, no less.

It had gotten that far to Scotland, and we decided to seize it.

There was nothing the Russians can do.

It is now under American control.

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