coming up on this episode of the roundtable.

It's funny regarding Ukraine.

Biden sort of gave the game away the other day

when in defense of the spending bill,

he said, well, don't't forget like all this money is

going to be spent right here in the USA like you know the 96 billion dollars

because it's all going to defense contractors.

I mean that's essentially the dirty secret of all of this aid is that yeah it's just all being

pushed through and this has been the case for decades like you know we talk about the trillions of dollars spent in Iraq and Afghanistan

Well, yes and some of it surely did wind up in the pockets of whoever's over there, whatever warlords or politicians

or you know in Iraq and Afghanistan, but a lot of it just went to pumping up the real estate values in the DC metro area and, you know, in Alabama and

Oklahoma and wherever else these contractors are. Oh, Hello and welcome once again to the roundtable your weekly publishers and

editors podcast here at the American Mind. I am your host for today Seth Barron, managing editor of

the American Mind. I'm joined by publisher and president of the Claremont Institute,

Ryan Williams, and editor of the on a holiday in Cambodia for anyone who remembers that tune, but he will be back next week.

Well, just in time for a big vote on defense spending in Ukraine and Israel, and another vote on extending spy powers,

we have news of a major issue of supposed national security, which appears to involve a Russian space attack on an American satellite.

And it seems like there's a question, is this really a Russian provocation in the final frontier? Or is this a

tactic to get us all rallying around the flag? James, what do you think?

Well, as of this moment of recording, it appears that the concern is that the

Russians have the capability and are signaling a willingness to potentially utilize nuclear weapons in space.

There is a neat use case for nuclear weapons in space.

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