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Welcome to Making Sense of the Madness.

Time to expand your thinking.

I'm your host, Sean Morgan. I'm stepping in for John Michael Chambers. He's taken a bit of a health break. He'll be back in about a month. And in the meantime, he's going to keep on doing his Sunday podcast for premium subscribers. And he's going to be doing a few high-profile interviews in the meantime as well. So John's doing fine, and I'm just taking his place for the meantime. All right, well, let's get right into the breaking news.

It's going to be interesting. I've got two themes for the day.

One is military escalation, and the other is the fact that the GOP seems to be on the offensive. So let's dig right into it.

So first of all, Russia is launching its biggest Pacific exercise since the Cold War. And this is at the

same time that Putin and Biden are meeting right now in Europe. Let's take a look at that on the

screen. And on the other side of the world, you know, Biden and Vladimir Putin are meeting face to

face, but 300 miles off the coast of Hawaii, Russia is quietly launching one of the largest

naval exercises since the Cold War. And this sent some fighter jets in Hawaii scrambling to go check

to see what they were what Russians were doing.

Now, the Russians did not invade the American airspace or anything,

but it certainly is a show of force during this critical time

when Joe Biden's doing a lot of tough talk against Putin.

And so this is pretty interesting to see this type of military

show of force at this time. But it's not just Russia. It's not just the United States responding

to this Russian show of force. It's also China. Let's take a look at the next article where

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