It's Tuesday, March 15, 2020, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast,

examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns in this time of international

strife. I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow. I'll be your moderator today. Proud to be in the company of three

of the smartest people I know, the good fellows, as we jokingly refer to them. That would

include the historian Neil Ferguson, the economist John Cochran, and the geo-strategist,

Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, the Hoover Institution Senior Fellows, all. So gentlemen,

as we are two-day shy of the three-week anniversary of Russia, rolling Ukraine, let's continue our

conversation about the ramifications of that act. I'm going to do something a little different

today. We asked our viewers to send in questions related to Ukraine and Russia, and they did not

disappoint. We received questions from over two dozen countries,

representing five continents around the globe. You might be curious that we received absolutely

zero questions about COVID. It was predominantly all about Russia and Ukraine, so let's stick to that

today. With our first question, it comes from a gentleman named Igor, who lives in Ukraine. He

lives in a town just outside of Kiev,

and he wrote the following to us, quote, had we had something similar to the Iron Dome,

we could have avoided a lot of casualties as well as panic among the civilians that flee to the

western part of the country. Is there an option of helping Ukraine setting up something similar

to the Iron Dome? If no, is it worth pursuing? H.R. Why don't you take that?

It's absolutely worth worth pursuing. And I think what really is missing in this debate about

migs or not migs, you know, these are the fighter aircraft that the Poland has pledged

for Ukraine is really the overall purpose, which is to ensure that Russia can't use the air domain with impunity

to commit mass murder against civilians.

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