Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report. Dr. Paul is out today.

I am amped up on coffee that I got across the street that they put too much sugar in and the caffeine is strong.

So beware, beware.

But thankfully you don't have to listen to my briefing today as usual because my great friend of,

I think a couple of decades, to be honest with you, Phil Geraldi is with us.

Phil is a retired CIA operations officer before that he was in Army Intelligence.

He's a journalist, he's an analyst.

Phil, good to have you with us today. Thank you very much, Dan.

I'm glad to be here.

Great.

I thought we would talk a little bit about what's been happening in Russia, Ukraine,

over the week because it has been a busy week.

Now, what started with when I got up on Sunday morning, uh, I saw the initial

reports of the drone attacks and I thought the initial reports, of course, were that they

knocked out 41 of the bearers of the strategic bombers. And, um, it looked like a pretty serious

attack. Turns out it wasn't anywhere near that, but nevertheless

significant, maybe not necessarily for what they took out, but for the reach, the fact that they got all the way to the Arctic Circle and out to Siberia, places that were probably less guarded because they weren't considered to be vulnerable

because of the distance to Ukraine.

And then on Tuesday, we had the second round, I believe it is, of the Istanbul talks.

A lot of people thought they would be called off after this, the drone attack.

And by the way, I should mention that not only a joint attack happened on Sunday, but the

derailment of a train in

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