and mike johnson became speaker i believe he s an extremist republican, but history has placed him in a moment of dire consequence and very often it seems like that the debates that take place in the american congress or completely detached from the reality of what s happening in the world. and this is a momentous moment the russians have sustained half 1 million casualties. and they re on the march and the bet that putin has made is that the west america lacks resolve. this is the same congress that invited zelenskyy and cheered for him. yeah, not so very long ago. and the bet that, that putin is fundamentally made was perhaps best expressed by winston churchill in 1938 when he talked about the moral collapses democracies in the appeasement to hitler and checklists of aki. and he said, they ll aren t