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This is the Tom Harbin program.

The op-ed that I published this morning at harbinreport.com is titled We Must Choose Democracy or War.

This morning, the strongman dictator of russia used 28 kamikaze drones from the theocratic dictators of Iran to attack the capital of Ukraine, a democracy.

Now, some of my tragically misguided former colleagues in the media and guests on my program on the left

are joining with some of the most virulent, trump-humping, orban-putan lovers on the right

and calling for Ukraine to simply surrender a fifth of their country to russia and exchange for peace

as if giving other people's sovereign land to violent dictators has ever led to peace.

And what these people on both sides, both political sides, the far right who are saying,

oh yeah, just give them the land and the people on the far left who are saying, oh yeah, just get put in the land.

What they're both missing is that, you know, the power of democracy to prevent wars.

Now, I realize there are exceptions to that and we've seen those exceptions right here in the United States.

The George W. Bush with the rack of Afghanistan, Richard Nixon and, well, Lenin Johnson and Vietnam.

And I'll get to that in just a moment.

But generally speaking, and there are certainly exceptions to this, there's a whole wiki full of them.

But generally speaking, most wars and certainly most major wars are started by countries that are run by

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