Zelensky Goes To Washington

It may be that in the years to come we find out that a lot of the money that we've been sending to Ukraine actually went into the pocket of Vladimir Zelensky. That would not be the craziest possible outcome of this, because again, given how politics works in Ukraine, it would actually be shocking if that wasn't the outcome here.

And as far as the investment that the United States has made in the Ukraine war... The truth is that the amount of money that we have spent in 2022 amounts to approximately 6% of total US defense spending.

So, basically we've destroyed half of the Russian military by just giving the weapons to Ukraine. That is a pretty solid return ... Here you're talking about a one-time expenditure that has taken out an extraordinary percentage of the Russian military. So, is it in America's interest to fund this? Sure.

Russia's GDP, total, is about the GDP of the state of Florida. Russia is not a rich country.

At a certain point here, Joe Biden is going to have to be the bad guy at a certain point here. The president of the United States is going to have to say 'Here is what a solution looks like in Ukraine, and we are going to stop funding military aid that is used this way until we get what we need.'

In some ways, it's better for us to just ship the weaponry directly in as opposed to sending [Ukraine] the money to buy the weaponry. At least if you just ship them to weaponry, you know they have the weaponry. If you ship them the money, it might be going into Zelensky's personal bank account; you just don't know.

Russia is a geopolitical foe of the United States. Degrading Russia is in the strategic interest of the United States.

If you could trade, say, 10% of the American military budget for the complete degradation of the Russian military, that actually is not a bad move.

The government of Ukraine has been completely corrupt for decades. There's nothing new about this. And those corruption allegations do include people like Vladimir Zelensky.