Mark Hertling

This is exactly why...

We generated the NATO alliance to prevent that kind of stuff.

Arms going crazy, nations doing their own thing as opposed to doing it as part of the alliance.

As sometimes bad as NATO was, and I got to see it for many years within my career, it is a great organization.

Yeah, they piddle and diddle and resolve and all those kinds of things.

But for the most part, it's pretty good in terms of a security alliance of 32 different nations.

There are.

What Russia has been doing for the last couple of weeks, ever since the attack into Venezuela, which has really deflected attention away from Ukraine, is they have been increasing the number of ballistic missiles and other type of missiles they've been launching into key areas in Ukraine.

Russia has not been gaining any additional ground, but what they're doing is continuing to try and affect the will of the Ukrainian people.

So they have been hitting substations for electricity as opposed to just, you know, oil producing or electrical producing.

They've been hitting substations that lead to towns.

I'm in contact with a couple of Americans that are over there right now.

You know, there was a little bit of hubbub about a couple of Americans who had gone over to fight for Ukraine.

There have been 100 American killed.

in Ukraine.

And that's not making the news at all.

Really?

Yeah.

On the front lines or where?

On the front lines.