Hello and

Rilephus are your host David Rothcuff joined as ever by your other hosts

Chris Kotwer and Riley Fesler how are you guys doing?

Good well. What are you following in the world today? Chris. I'm

I'm falling. I'm starting with Ukraine so first the Kremlin is reportedly replacing its top naval commander amidst some successful

Ukrainian attacks on the Russian Black Sea fleet and it's caused significant losses.

I'm not sure, you know know what releasing their top naval commander is going to do.

Also I wouldn't I would expect expect as many of these folks do.

We'll not see him for quite some time,

maybe if ever again. But on top of that, the US is sending $300 million of aid to Ukraine, which I was surprised about because of course we've been

reporting four weeks that this has been held up in Congress but apparently there has

been some savings from the Pentagon's budget that is allowing the

United States to send support in the form of weapons and aid. I don't know exactly how that works David. I guess that does not

require congressional approval but it's positive news being reported from Reuters this morning.

Yeah, I hope the news does not like send a message to members of Congress that they don't need to do anything on Ukraine.

Like, oh yeah, you got plenty of other money. The notion, of course, that the

Defense Department actually has some extra cash lying around, you know, it doesn't strike me as

gigantically surprising on the $800 billion

that they get every year.

And, you know, I'm glad they've been a little creative on this.

300 million is not 40 billion, which is what has been requested.

It did include some attack them long-range missiles, which is certainly, you know, a good thing.

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