Wait a second. Why is it disloyal to side with Russia, but loyal to side with Ukraine?

They're both foreign countries that don't care anything about the United States.

Kind of strange.

The opportunity comes from a perception of the fact that the U.S. is weak and distracted,

but weak because of the hyper-polarization within the U.S. society weak and distracted, but weak because of the hyperpolarization within the U.S.

society, and that is being driven by President Trump.

I have every confidence that if we did not have an insurrection on January 6th, if we did

not have a attack on the Capitol, I don't think that Vladimir Putin would see the same kinds

of weaknesses.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Moncrank podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sacks. I'm here with Nick

Alstman. We're glad you could join us. Nick, I, you know, we talk about so many things.

We take so many different threads in American culture and history and politics. And we get into some of the dangers that we are facing.

We get into some of the ideas that are lurking out there in the distance and some of the

issues that we've seen.

Unfortunately today, as we're taping, we're on a war footing with Russia over a possible

invasion of Ukraine.

It is an anxious type of thing.

A lot of the things that we've been focusing on talking about, investigating and discussing

are coming into play. And we got to talk

about that. We got to talk about what's happening here, all the different threads. But before we do,

what are your initial thoughts? This sucks. The whole thing just stuff. It does suck because it's so

unknown and uncertain. And I think this is what Putin wants.

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