psych exam. paul: all right. kyle. i will give a miss to alameda county, california, which recently announced that it counted the ballots incorrectly in the november election and a third place finisher for oakland s school board was actually supposed to be the winner. local elections used rank choice voting where voters are can asked to rank their candidates in order of preference, and there was some ballots that had the rankings mixed up, and it took two months to notice because rank choice voting is not transparent and pretty complicated. paul: all right. dan. a big hit to pope benedict vxi who was buried at the vatican in rome this week. once gone, figures like the late pope generally pass into history, but benedict is a man for our times. few would doubt that the9 liberal western democracies are in a crisis of values these days, both national and personal. benedict dedicated his life to the proposition that the secular seats needed to be balanced societies needed to be balanc
actually even western components, western tech inside some of these iranian drones that are ultimately transferred to russia. a nightmare she scenario would be the iranians producing these on russian soil, so before that actually does happen, washington needs to really step up the pressure against the sale, supply and transfer networks of these iranian drones as well as go after the procurement, production and proliferation nodes. and the recent sanctions are a good start. the pact hat european union is copy, pasting older sanctions is a good start, but the islamic republic is an asymmetric military power, and it s supplementing russia s conventional military capabilities as we see in the war in ukraine. paul: apart from interdicting or supplying to the supply chain, what else can the united states do? and europe? and, for that matter, israel to stop this flow of arms and keep the pressure on iran to stop doing it? well, there s a broader
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