My heart breaks for any innocent civilian who's dying. And in a war like this, when they're trying to do something to get Russia to stop invading, tragically, sometimes civilians get killed. And a tiny number compared to what the Russian military has killed. And his concern is Russians only. What is happening? drones, these armaments being used against civilians in Russia. >> Well, there is well, first of all, there is many factories which is in Poland. Uh there is in Germany, in France, in Italy, in Denmark, uh in uh Turkey, uh there is a presence of them. I would say Spain, uh Belgium, Dutch, of course, British were the huge manufacturers who >> Okay. What's suspicious about that? Yes, Ukraine's allies will probably provide weapons. And Ukraine's also manufacturing their own weapons. And guess what we wouldn't need? We wouldn't need weapons to be provided to Ukraine at this scale if Russia would stop invading, which they could do whenever. Do you know what Ukraine wasn't doing before this war started? Invading Russia. Do you know what Ukraine wouldn't do if this war ended? Invade Russia. You know, you know what NATO, you know what Poland? You know what the UK? You know what France wouldn't do? the America if this war was over invade Russia. The only war catalyst here is the Russian government. Now watch this on mute. Watch as the merchant of death talks. Remember
Anything this issue of putting our country in a continual state of war is supported by leaders in both parties and the majority of people in both parties and it's directly tied to the military-industrial complex's influence and tied to people who you know want to act and look tough but aren't asking the most important questions like okay if we do this will this help the American people or hurt the American people if we vote to you know send these billions of dollars to Ukraine is that strengthening our national security or undermining it you'll hear a lot of rhetoric especially recently saying hey if we we've got to send all this money to Ukraine otherwise Russia is going to come and attack us here otherwise our National Security will be undermined so they say all these things to foment fear in people's minds but they're not rooted in reality so what we're seeing play out now is essentially a proxy war U.S is engaging in a proxy war with Russia using Ukraine as their military so the U.S and some European countries predominantly the us though are providing billions of dollars in funding weapon systems and so forth and essentially waging this war using the Ukrainian military and people as their chess pieces in this geopolitical um chess game the ultimate objective
To take a back seat without pulling back entirely. So for instance, he said that the US would likely reimpose sanctions on Russian oil shipments that were eased to help lower oil prices after the Iran war Zelensky also said that he had spoken with Trump privately, emphasizing Ukraine's need for air defense missiles capable of countering Russian ballistic and you had Trump saying after the meeting that Russia is the one who should make a with Trump also claiming at the summit that Iran will soon be back in the rearview mirror, and that he is now going to do whatever he can to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, and now that this is finished, we are going to be focusing on that and see if we can get that one But then also at another point you had him arguing. Look, we have nothing to do with it. It is no impact on us other than we sell weapons. We're thousands of miles away. so there's just this big hanging question of what role the United States is going to play in future talks and what stance it'll especially as the UK, France and Germany, they only recently took their first steps toward engaging directly with Russia, sending representatives to speak with Russia's deputy foreign minister last right. They reportedly reiterated European demands for a complete and immediate ceasefire, strong security guarantees for Ukraine and the use of the current front line as a starting point for any talks. so. You have European and Ukrainian officials now working to get the Trump administration on board with this position, especially urging the white House to drop any suggestion that Ukraine should give up any territory. reign as all that's been playing out. Ukraine began the first phase of official negotiations to join the European kicking off a process that's going to require its government to adopt thousands of laws over several years and then gain the unanimous approval of all current and this notably as a country, has already been criticized for moving so slowly on reforms that agreed to with the EU and a ten point finalized deal last right, including measures to strengthen the independence of the anti-corruption and those anti-corruption agencies. They're really a sticking issue right now because Zelensky once tried to push through reforms to make those agencies less independent
Four years. >> So these are two very different things. Uh I if we're going to um speedrun, we've got more detail on it later, but to speedrun what's going on in Russia, it looks something like this. Europe is backing uh Ukraine harder. The US, despite Trump's protestations, are beginning to back Ukraine, at least verbally and with votes. You're getting people uh even Republicans that are signaling that they want to get back to supporting Ukraine. and it's a small number, but they're they're in open defiance of Trump's desires to do it. So that fracture needs to be taken very seriously. And so now with that assistance though, Europe is trying to stay as much in the background as possible despite Starmer's sort of very um high-risk support on his way out. Um they're really trying to make the average Russian citizen feel the pain. And so they're striking uh more than 12,200 miles into Russia. Dude, that's wild. So um Ukraine, they're doing it largely internally, meaning it's not like the US is shipping them a bunch of drones. It's not like Europe is shipping them a bunch of drones. They're building it internally, but they do clearly have the growing support of Europe. um and that's buying them the um things that they need to build the weaponry that they're going to need to continue to strike deep into Russia. Because of that, you're now backing a nuclear armed dictator into a corner who has signaled multiple times
People who want to keep the transatlantic relationship going and want to make sure that Ukraine gets the support it needs to withstand this relentless Russian bombardment. >> And I think the last big uptick of coverage was the spat between JD Van Zalinski and Trump in the Oval Office. Now Trump seems more open to as you saying giving them these new systems. Why? Why now? And and and what do you think the US should do? I mean, the war has dragged on four years. It could continue another four years. >> It's actually correction in its fifth year. The the warrant that that the Russians launched in February 2022 has now lasted longer than World War I. And that is an astonishing thing. I don't think anybody at the beginning of this conflict, and I include myself, thought that that was conceivable. Most people initially assumed that the Russians would win quickly. That was the CIA's assessment and I think MI6's too. Then when the Russians bungled the Battle of Kev, people thought, well, he's kind of failed with his his attempt to overthrow Zalinski, so he's going to settle. Uh, and instead of settling, Putin has pursued a war of attrition that has had astonishingly high costs in terms of lives and treasure for the Russian Federation. that the casualties are at such an astonishingly high level that we're getting to the point where the Russians are losing in a month almost as many men that the US lost in the entirety of the Vietnam War. It's stunning that the Russian war machine
Says we have 50,000 troops in the region. Russia is losing about 35,000 to 50,000 troops each month in its invasion of Ukraine. Okay. So, a US invasion of Iran, expect to lose 30,000 to 50,000 troops per month. I think that would be um a conservative estimate right there. And then, while we're at it, if we talk about the geopolitical situation right now, you have war escalating like never before between Russia and Ukraine. And you know, with Ukraine increasing its abilities to strike the Russian refineries, you know, which it's built up those capabilities, you know, and it's defending itself, right, from a Russian invasion. Well, what do you think that's doing to to to the oil markets right now? What do you think that's doing as well? And I know that's not how we should always be thinking about in economic terms, but you have Russia hitting hard in Ukraine. You've got Ukraine hitting hard in Russia now wi with deeper and deeper strikes. You had Zalinsky make one of his first major errors, awful error. He got rid of Fedorov, who's their defense minister, and kind of sided with the old guard of the Ukrainian troops. There's massive protests right now in Ukraine after they filed Federov. I don't know what the thinking was, but there was a fight between Fedorov, who was only in that position for about six months as like their head of their defense, and he was the guy who modernized the Ukrainian
Insists on pushing this war forward, we are going to be talking about $5 Rogers all over the country. >> I think what's unfortunate is we all know he won't invade. We all know he's not going to take over Car Island. We all know that. But we do know what we do know is that he's going to live in this weird gray area which is extremely which is bad but not extremely bad. It's just that that 380 galon it's a couple strikes you know market go down as long as AI continues to fuel our stock market. I just think there's there's no forcing mechanism right now to actually end all of this nonsense. And that's actually the most dangerous part. And you know I've been trying to get more Ukraine stuff in here. Let's put A9 up here on the screen. This just shows to me the sheer arrogance and delusion really of Trump where he says he supports now the Ukrainian long range strikes deep inside of Russia. This was paired with two things. So not only does So what he's basically saying is Ukraine, you take all your drones, fire them deep in there as long as you possibly want. Well, what's the risk of that? what's currently happening right now, which is the Ukrainians will even acknowledge their long range strikes are being met with the heaviest ballistic missile attacks of all time on the city of Kev and all over the country. Why are they doing that? Because that's the only advantage that Russia has. Well, Trump also said yesterday, "Oh, we're going to give Ukraine a license to build patriots." Yeah, good luck. We can't even build our own patriots. You're going to build them in a war torn zone or you're going to outsource it to Germany or whatever. This is all, you
With the other side of the aisle, but who say no, you know, Putin's a bad actor. Russia's a growing threat and we're doing the right thing by backing Ukraine. And I would say the majority of Republicans now are against that viewpoint and think we've lost we've spent too much. It's any place from 105 billion to 187 billion and they've lost. We just have to be realistic about the fact that Ukraine has lost. It's not going to gain back any of this ground and we need a negotiated settlement now before we keep throwing good money after bad and we can't afford it. We've got Americans who are suffering now. I think that's the majority view even on the Republican side. Now, >> it also happens to be the reality on the ground. First, let me say this. We think what Putin did was terrible invading a country, the atrocities he's committed. He did horrible things. But what the dishonesty that has existed is that we somehow led people to believe that Ukraine would be able not just to defeat Russia, but you know, destroy him, push them all the way back to what the world looked like in 2012 or 2014 before the Russians took Crimea and the like. And in the result, what they've been asking for the last year and a half is to fund a stalemate, a protracted stalemate in which human suffering continues. Meanwhile, Ukraine is being set back a hundred years. Their energy grid is being wiped out. I mean, that someone's going to have to pay for all this reconstruction after the fact. Um, and you know, how many Ukrainians have left Ukraine living in other countries now? They may never return. I mean, that's their future and it's endangered in that regard. So, the president's point of view is this is a protracted conflict and it needs to end. Now, it needs to end through a negotiation. In any negotiation, both sides are going to have to give something up. I'm not going to pre-negotiate that. I mean, I that's
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