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This is a conversation with Ward

Carroll. It is mostly about Operation Prosperity Guardian, which I always want to call

Operation Prosperity Gospel, probably because I'm from the South setting that aside.

It was recorded on February 20th, but going through it, listening to it, editing it,

it is remarkable how the state of the conflict and how it is conducted

and the players involved have been remarkably static over the course of the two weeks since this was recorded, remarkably static.

With the added context that on March 5th, a hoothe anti-ship ballistic missile struck the bulk carrier true confidence,

it killed three people and injured for others.

Ward has actually just released a video that is all about this, so I will share that in the

show notes so you can catch up with him on his thoughts on what's just happened.

This is a big deal because these deaths are the first of

commercial ship mariners related to Operation Prosperity Guardian and it remains to be seen how that will change the terror of this conflict.

But beyond that, the conflict has not changed a whole lot over the past two weeks.

So kind of with that added context, here we go.

So I wanted to start today kind of picking up the throat of our conversation from last week from a phone call

we had. I see that you have released your own video on it on your YouTube channel. By the way, will you introduce yourself and tell us what you do?

I'm Ward Carroll and I run a YouTube channel called Ward Carroll and it mostly deals with military

aviation which is a function of the fact I spent 20 years as an F14 radar intercept officer.

So Maverick and Goose, I was Goose.

And after that I spent a number of years in the digital media space,

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