your family has served for so long, all the way back to 1864 you noted continuously. and right now you re part of what s called the international legion. can you tell us a little about about that group and what you are doing? sure. international legion for the defense of ukraine is a multinational force, which is made up of people from all over the world. it s incredible. it s almost like one of those frank cappra movie one guy is french named frenchie, one guy is a brit, two guys from texas and the other guy s from brooklyn. it really is like that. people from all over the world decided they would come to defend this country against russia s aggression. they decided to become members of the ukrainian armed forces, which is what the legion is. it is not just people running around, grabbing rifles and going on the battlefield. it is a unified force that is a component of the ukrainian army that is deployed on the battle
at this thing in february of 2009. they were out there less than a month after president obama had been inaugurated and screaming out in lafayette park in washington, d.c. about the bank bailouts. it was very effective. doing it right away, as soon as he was in and bush was out. but, i mean, the broader answer is that they have built a very convincing replica of a hard times social protest movement. this thing looks like populism, you know. they don t just mean the tea party here. i mean across the board. the whole conservative comeback. they talk i mean, maybe with the exception of mitt romney, but he s trying to develop this, you know. but these guys talk a really good populist game. glenn beck, the 9/12 project. for the world, this looks like a 1930s sort of political club, this sort of in my interpretation it comes out of a frank cappra movie. that s my theory about it.
2009. they were out there less than a month after president obama had been inaugurated and screaming out in lafayette park in washington, d.c. about the bank bailouts. it was very effective. doing it right away, as soon as he was in and bush was out. but, i mean, the broader answer is that they have built a very convincing replica of a hard times social protest movement. this thing looks like populism, you know. they don t just mean the tea party here. i mean across the board. the whole conservative comeback. they talk i mean, maybe with the exception of mitt romney, but he s trying to develop this, you know. but these guys talk a really good populist game. glenn beck, the 9/12 project. for the world, this looks like a 1930s sort of political club, this sort of in my interpretation it comes out of a frank cappra movie. that s my theory about it. one of the things i want to ask you is, there s to stay