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Hi, Bronco.

Hi, Robert. How's going?

I can't complain when we introduce this. I'm Robert Wright, publisher of Nogsera newsletter.

This is a non-zero podcast. You're a Bronco Marcheach.

If that's close to it, thank you. Thank you. I practice.

And you write a lot for Jacobin, somewhat for other places, mainly Jacobin, mainly, well,

largely about foreign policy, especially since, I guess, the Ukraine war has kind of focused

your attention on that.

Yeah, so I'm on a staff writer at Jacobin. Yeah, I mean, I think I've always written about, you know, foreign policy, war, civil liberties and that kind of thing. But occasionally, you know, I do some other stuff. I wrote a thing about inflation actually just today that we'll be going up tomorrow. So, you know, I delve into other topics. Okay. We're going to talk mainly about Ukraine and foreign policy today, I think.

You also have a book on Joe Biden, right?

That's right.

Is it a flattering portrait?

That's about what a great career he's had and how perfectly is for this particular moment.

No, I mean, it was my incident at the time correctly predicted that he was probably going to be the nominee,

and so he wanted to have a book out there.

And I had written all these pieces already on his history,

so he kind of gave me the leeway to do an entire deep dive into his record.

And it wasn't too good.

His presidency has kind of surprised me in some ways,

and otherwise

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