house wants during an election year. joining us now to discuss this too long time guests of the show were joined by former pentagon official, michael maloof, and international relations and security analyst. the mark just about a um, i guess we start there, mark, i go to you. what do you make of this wonderful article which seems to suggest that the united states is concerned with so wednesday, uh, sending missiles into russia, but not so much because they might kill children and injures vaskins or start world war 3. and for us it gets angry enough but because. busy as they're interfering with. busy the global oil prices, you say what to that? sorry. yeah. so 1st of all is western political leads. political, military leads don't give a fig for the russian civilians in belgrade or ukrainian civilians. for instance, that were sheldon, the don boss, by the regime that sees power with us help in kelvin, 2014. in fact, the western media, including the new york times, spoke approvingly. all the long range strikes in to belgrade and last year. drones strikes on skyscrapers in moscow as nece