I spent a lot of time initially denying that there was any parallel between Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan.

There was one parallel.

We had bad political leadership that didn't understand what they were doing.

And then got fearful of leaving knowing it would collapse.

Welcome to Independent Americans.

Welcome to episode 421.

I'm your host, Paul Reichoff.

It is Thursday, January 22nd.

And I am coming to you from New York City, USA, and snowpocalypse is coming.

Snotorius B.I.G. A big snowstorm that's supposed to hit here and across much of the U.S.

And it is coming and it is cold and it is stormy but never as cold and as stormy as what the folks in Ukraine are continuing to experience.

I always want to have that perspective and encourage you to have the same as their pipes freeze, as their kids innovate, and as they continue to fight

forward. But we're going to have to push through another storm, as we must, just like they do,

and to help you do it, I'm going to bring you the five eyes, independence, integrity,

inspiration, information, and impact. It's going to bring you the five eyes, independence, integrity, inspiration,

information, and impact. It's going to be like a snowplow cutting through all of it.

And our guest is a snowplow of perspective. The great General Barry McCaffrey is back.

You know him from MS now as a national security analyst. He's a retired four-star Army vet.

Four combat tours, three Purple Hearts, the JCS Strategic Plans Group.

He worked at NATO.

He knows about what's happening, especially with regard to our allies and this shit show

that Trump's slayed all over Davos.

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