. we went to mariupol on the front lines and then we also were in kyiv and talking to musicians and you get a sense of the culture. but there was the you know, the wagner problem that was going on at the time. and so the administration was very slow. we couldn t see him. we came back and then this thing really escalated. so then we went i think we got there roughly a week before the invasion and we met him i met him face to face for the first time the day before the invasion and then spent t time with him in which we document in the film during the invasion on the day of the invasion. and ii don t know that there sn a person on earth who who could know that they were born forld such a day that they could rise to it. i want to make sure i saw when you say invasion, was this him taking the two regions, etc. or whatever they were also rockets coming in . this is also when they this is when they hit the airport fifteen klicks out of right. kids. so it was it was a game on and
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i would argue out of the califate and now she has to and i got to go baghdadi and soleimani and the al qaeda leader in yemen. those are two doctrines i believe in . if weli apply those doctrines here, i believe ukraine would win. what s your doctor? here s what weis have to know is that the ukrainians are fighting to win and they re fighting to win for the very thing that we re able to do right now to be free to dream. and that is what we say we represent as americans. so we have a great example of fighting to win. there s another part of it because we ve talked about the military part. of the civilian part of it also is that we know you see conflicts on journalists. yes. tragically, some die, but i have some colleagues. i m going to finish my point. most of them, you know, over and over , we can watch it on tv. why?e because you can be smart and you can know where
i think that s how i would frame that. sean: let me we can look to the past. you re the historian. we watched ronald reagan. he never put a american foot on the ground when the former soviet union went into afghanistan, but he did provide them stinger missiles, and though stinger missiles made all the difference. he did provide the freedom fighters in nicaragua the weaponry that they needed. that proved successful. then you got the trump doctrine, which took out the caliphate that grew under biden and obama. he just bombed the living hell out of them or took out with the same principal, no american boots on the ground. and took out the al qaeda leader in yemen. i think we can learn both from trump and we can learn from reagan how to do this and win without risking american lives. your thoughts? sure. absolutely. the thing that s frustrating about the said administration, whether it s fighting inflation at home or dealing with crime,
neighborhoods, apartment buildings, and i see mass graves, i look to pass conservative leaders like reagan and donald trump. and reagan armed the knew jaha din, never put an american boot on the ground and they were able to take on the soviet union. they helped the freedom fighters take on daniel ortega. that was successful. donald trump didn t want long protracted wars, but the califait that grew under obama and biden, he bombed them to smithereens and destroyed them, solimani, baghdad di, and the al qaeda leader in yemen. i look at those examples as the alternative of putting american boots on the ground. you re more libertarian. where do you stand? when we look at what s going on in ukraine, without question, our sympathy is those who struggle under an aggression of