d.c. beltway inside the beltway crowd is desperate for another us military engagement. what are your thoughts? yeah, i mean, i think there is often the assumption that the media is leftist or liberald and maybe they are. when it comes to war, they are consistently on the side ofn militaries imperialism and more conflict going all the way back to thousand three when they like nothing about george bush or dick cheney but overwhelminglyly the new york times and abc news were behind the invasion of iraq. they love the nato involvement in libya. they love the regime changeor operation in syria. they were angryg at biden for withdrawing from afghanistan. i a cynical motive is obviously its big ratings and they get to be really important. but i think it s really ideological. these people spend l. all their time in days talking to the cia, the pentagon. they kind of love this liberalis internationalism. obviously going to war over ukraine even as a proxy war won t do anything for