of things, but really, really just the bare basics, minimum. in that op-ed, i was struck by your comparison, albeit not a direct comparison but you talked about the shopkeepers and folks who just a few weeks ago, you know, had regular jobs, and now right. all of a sudden they re forced to defend their own country, sort of conjured up images what it might have been like back here in this country around 1776 when farmers took up arms. you d spent a lot of time talking to the ukrainians there, i would imagine. how did you find them to be? i found them to be fantastic people. very caring, very loving, very supportive. their hospitality was out of this world. you know, almost weren t allowed to order. when we went out to eat, they wanted to give us their best dishes, and they wanted to present their best things, but when i was working with the men we were training, i just found,
quote, i trained ukrainians to fight russia. i ve never seen a war like this . that s what a retired marine who traveled to ukraine told the washington post about his time training fighters on the combat line. he trained for 14 years as a force reconnaissance trainer but he never worked with soldiers who were the last line of defense on their own door steps. he says the militia was, quote, made up of local men who only a few weeks earlier worked as shop keepers and truck drivers and almost any other job you could think of that didn t involve holding a rifle. zachary joins me now. first of all, three days after russia started its invasion in ukraine, your friend says to you do you want to go? and you write we had no idea what this war would be like but
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