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Speaker 1: or nuclear weapons to discuss the latest. Please welcome with us.

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Speaker 1: Mike Lions military analysts served with various military organizations both

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Speaker 1: back in the day. As they say, Mike, welcome, how

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Speaker 1: are you, hey, Guy's great to be back with you.

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Speaker 1: So we haven't talked to you since Ukraine blew up

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Speaker 1: the Russian Bridge, Russia rained down missiles on Ukraine. Where

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Speaker 1: are we right now? Yeah, no surprise. Russia is from

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Speaker 1: a from a tactical perspective, Russia continues to lose certain

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Speaker 1: and capacity industrial capacity. Um, they've now decided for these

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Speaker 1: they land in Ukraine, they create damage. They are stoking

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Speaker 1: I think this has a lot to do with hardliners

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Speaker 1: From their perspective, it's total war and they're going to

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