I get the feeling, James, and this is a compliment, that if we had just said at the beginning of this podcast, movies, you would have been able to do that for an hour without anyone else saying a word.

Yes, that's actually so.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.

It's the Rurkishay podcast with Charles C.W. Cook and Stephen Hayward.

Today, our guest is H.R. McMasters to talk about the world, the war, then everything else.

So let's have ourselves a podcast.

I voted 13 times to open government back up.

Senator Schumer, my colleague, eagerly, greedily, wanted to become the face of the shutdown.

The American people, in the American people's opinion, Senator Schumer is a, he's a wet match and a dark cave.

Happy Halloween and all of that.

It's the Rickishay podcast number 763.

I'm James Lillickson, Clammy, Minnesota, with Stephen Hayward in Sunday, California, and Charles CW.

Cook in Florida, who knows what the weather is there?

Who cares? Let's skip the throat-clearing palaver with which we usually commence our shows and Charles C.W. Cook in Florida. Who knows what the weather is there? Who cares? Let's skip the throat clearing palaver with which we usually commence our shows and go straight to our guest, H.R. McMaster.

Retired Lieutenant General and former assistance to the U.S. President for National Security Affairs.

He's a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution where he lectures and hosts the series Today's Battlegrounds and Goodfellows

is the author of multiple bestsellers including Derelliction of Duty, Battlegrounds, the

fight to defend the free world, and most recently at war with ourselves, my tour of duty in

the Trump White House. Welcome, sir. Hey, it's great to be with you guys, James, Stephen Charles.

Thanks for having me. You know, we've got a whole bunch of questions, but I want to go right to today's battlegrounds because I wouldn't have thought this would be the case two years ago, but it is. Ukraine. A lot of people are saying that we're looking at seemingly two different worlds here. One, in which Russia, by throwing more and more and more untrained conscripts

into the meat grinder is actually making an inky out incremental progress, while at the same

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