that is a major undertaking that the russians are about doing now and they have started that transformation certainly in the donbas region. for our viewers, that s the area it russians have always a bed with their separate units and the military and trench warfare. they have been conducting multiple attacks against the ukrainian in this area. the ukrainians have by and large repelling them to include repelling some reinforcements that came into the area from georgia. there are more reinforcements coming from a car key and down the south. it bears watching what will unfold when reinforcements get there. they re very much aware of it they re going to attempt to block that for the tactical attempt is to encircle the ukrainian forces that are already in contact with the russians in the donbas region but whether or not they can do
ignoring natural immunity was a big deal by the head of the cdc ignoring natural immunity is like having the head of nasa believe the earth is flat. paul: what about this new variant that is spreading? have a big breakout in washington d.c. a lot of politicians. should we be more concerned about this new variant then maybe we have been led to believe? i think we should think of it as a bad flu seizure. it s more ubiquitous of the flu season. the analysis published about two weeks ago and financial times showed it is now officially lower than that of influenza in the typical flu season. so, we should not be alarmed but we should recognize this is an infection inevitable and most people. those who avoided ba1 are probably gave them more contagious to be a two. it is deafly going up. we are seeing cases go up in the northeast primarily somewhat in
around two 3 million. to the u.s. is increasing production we just cannot ramp up overnight or meet the complete demand this year. paul: what about the signals the administration is sending on incentives for oil and gas? on drilling and transport, at least until now, there signals have been don t do it, stop, slow it down. give us an example or two. i think that is right especially on the pipelines at the energy regulatory commission granted it was regulatory authority but that moved a month or two ago to issue the rulemaking that would require climate change and gas analysis for pipeline construction as well as provide natural gas exports. pulled that back under public
here. they have not been able to take any of the major northern cities they intended to to include the capitol of the country, kyiv it. in doing so, paul, they have damaged a lot of their units as well as the people and equipment in the unit so much so most if not all have been reconstituted. that actually takes weeks when you do something like that. it is a major undertaking to replace people and equipment on that type of scale. and the turning point certainly is the strategic focus on the south and the east. occupy and control the entire southern coastline that certainly is in their interest most significantly robs them of their economic benefit of all the imports and exports that transit to the seaports have in their own country.
their answer in some cases is to want to give the government more power to regulate speech on these sites. i have never really thought that was a good idea. could musk s take care be a stake in twitter, be a free market to the solution of speech problem without having twitter change on its own without giving the federal trade commission or someone else more power? it certainly could be pretty think that is exactly what elon musk is going for here. the idea that we are probably not going to get any regulation. if we did it might not have the impact that conservatives hope. and so the best shot as you get somebody who believes in free speech on the board he was able to create some kind of change from the inside. spit it all right we got to take over break. but we come back hits and misses of the week.