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Ukrainians were begging to reset talks, but we're told to
leave by Rubio. Trump felt disrespected by Zelensky's rhetoric and demeanor.
Trump Zelensky meeting turns into shouting match.
Speaker 2: JD.
Speaker 1: Vance calls Zelensky disrespectful. Van says we need to engage
in diplomacy to end the war. Zelensky says, putin occupied
Ukraine and killed people. True, trying to litigate war in media.
Trump says, don't tell us how to feel. You're not
in a good position. I mean this just you're gambling
with World War three. We played all of this audio,
so this was without US military equipment, the war would
have been over in two weeks. That's what Trump said. Also,
I see Banchie at Red State. Well, first Emma Joe Morris,
who is I think she used to write over at
the New York Post. I want to say she said,
Zelenski came in with demands like he's entitled to our money,
and then he started threatening America. This was the comment
that he made about your oceans protect you. But you
know at some point that you'll you will feel this too.
And that's when Trump lost it. And Trump is like,
don't tell us how to feel. You're not in a
position to tell us anything. You don't know that in
all like, and Banchi at Red State says, all he
had to do was shake hands and sign the deal.
Going in there to set the record straight, quote unquote
was an ego move he didn't have the leverage to
pull off. Trump was never going to accept that. You
the argument that Ukraine is saving the United States as
some sort of a negotiating tactic, right if because I've
heard that that argument made by you know, people in
America who want more support for Ukraine. They're like, you know,
we have to stop this now. Because you know it'll
eventually threaten us, sort of a domino theory iteration, and
Trump doesn't believe that. Trump is more than happy it
seems to just wipe his hands and walk away and
let Europe handle it. So like you you're you're trying
to pressure a guy into doing some deal. The only
reason he was even going to talk to the Ukraine president,
I believe, is because he was trying to get the
mineral rights right. He was trying to get the mineral deal,
the rare earth minerals. So he said. If Trump says
Zelenski isn't ready for a peace deal, and maybe that's true,
I don't know, but yeah, like I don't know, Yeah,
I don't know what what Zelensky is thinking, Like did
you not know who Donald Trump is when you showed up?
Why would you, like, why why would you engage in
that kind And maybe they just all lost their coal
and maybe cooler heads prevail and they come back later.
I don't know, Like I like I say, in the
Trump era, let's just give it a minute and we'll
see what happened, because I've never seen anything like that before. Uh,
let me go over and take some calls here, this
is Gail. Hello, Gail Good, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Let me turn to speak off.
Speaker 4: I'm excited about coming on your show today. Well thanks,
I hear if you're talking about Elon Munch, he's the
home in the media, and you know I'm write. I'm
a poet, so you know I've written the poem about him.
But anyway, what I wanted to say about the gentleman
that was on the phone earlier before I havn't was
because I'm writing about the famous people that I have
never met and probably never will. I wanted him to
know there are pictures out there that show these people
like Elon Musk and all the other billionaires who do
wear suits. But because they have so much money, people
think they're arrogant or the agitators because they want to
look poor one day or not. But what I'm learning
from Elon Musk, I read about him and his story
has impressed me so much. I was more impressed about
the story where he told about when he'd lived on
one dollar a day. So what I've done is I've
cut my budget down. I'm losing town and I'm excited
that I don't have to eat as much as I
thought i'd had to eat, so I like what I
learned from him. And then even with Jeff, they saw
the other deal them and they talk about where they
come from. So I have a point. I think I
did that on your show the last time. We look
at them now, you both today, but look at them now.
So what they're saying to us is we must, sometime
in life see something that we want to learn from.
Speaker 2: As far every.
Speaker 4: Time I hear the radio, I love w BT because
I'm a John Hancock's fan. What happened, I've been there
listening a long time in wrestling boy all that I
was on his show. One time I was able to
be on rush. But what happened is people don't understand
we all have a brain and a mind between our ears.
Everybody doesn't do the same thing, just like me. I
hold one day I'll make some money from being a portant,
but I won't be Maya Angelo or some of the
other writers. I'm not trying to be them. I just
want to make a few dollars for People need to
stop talking about Elon Musk's money because his mother tells
a story about his life and her life when she
could not afford to be meant for her three children.
She talks about when they came out of South Africa.
They came out with no money. So we need to
stop talking about what this young man has done because
he is in his fifties and I'm seventy four. He's
in his sixties. He has learned a lot from all
his mistakes, and he has become rich. So therefore we
must learn how to be rich or stop talking. I
have been going to do a post that says one
of my mottoes in my not the little big mouth,
I call mine big mouth too, but not the little
big mouth I called mine. I'm going to have a
news about it. And it tells you that he should
speak up or shut up. But at my church they
tell us, please learn what lane to be in before
you come out and talk. And like that man, he
should have looked at all those different medias and found
out what people wear. A lot of rich people don't
look like we look eight. Well, we'd like to look rich.
We have to look rich. We like to take it
till we make it.
Speaker 1: No, I get that is true, Gail, that is true.
I appreciate the call. The call, and it's a fair
observation and Look, everybody's abandoned the necktie too, right, everybody's
wearing just the blazer, the open collared shirt.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: There is this casualness, the abandonment of the tie, that
is part of the trend. And yeah, rich people have
been dressed like really really rich people have been dressing down.
Now if you look at the price tag on some
of those clothes, like it's a T shirt. Yeah, and
that T shirt's like three thousand dollars some ridiculous amount
of money, you know. So what's the old Uh, what's
the old line from the philosopher Billy Joel You can't
dress trashy until you spend a lot of money. So
that's part of it. Let me see here. I got
some messages. This is from Void, who says Zelensky won't
wear a suit because he's ashamed to shop in the
boys department. Wow, that's just mean Void. Let me see here,
Jeff says, uh, Andy caller, Andy, your dumbassy and stupidness
is noted like you can have your you can have
a different opinion. I know Andy has called before. I've
talked with Andy before, so I think it was about
Elon Musk. If memory serves correctly. So I know his
opinion about Musk. He doesn't like it. He doesn't like
Elon Musk. I don't know if he's a Tesla owner.
Maybe he's like got buyer's remorse or something. Um Russ says, Pete,
I would consider you to be an influencer. I mean
you've been back on WBT. You've influenced me to take
a strident stance on mayonnaise and to work the word
votainer into daily conversation, which gets a little awkward when
you just blurted out at the cashier just to make
sure you have used it that day. Well, you never
know when the conversation will require the use of the
word votainer. So Russ I appreciate that. And Minsky says,
I agree with the Vice President and the president that
there's not enough respect for those sorry for what this
country does, and there's a palpable, spoiled sense of entitlement
that must be dialed back before we're asked for more assistance.
And I appreciate the transparency. Yeah, I don't know, like
that seemed. Yeah, I would not have said that. I
would not have said, you know, you should be thanking
us or show something, you know, gratitude, I don't. That
would not have been me. But I'm not president, I'm
not vice president, so I would not have said that.
But I understand that Vance was channeling an opinion that
is held by a great number of people. And Ukraine
is not in NATO. They are not in NATO, so
we don't owe them mutual defense, and we can say
it's a cause worth fighting all of that. But there's
a lot of history with Ukraine, and there's a lot
of history with Ukraine in relation to Donald Trump. Right,
Donald Trump's first impeachment came after that phone call with Zelenski.
The accusations of rampant corruption and bribery going on in
Ukraine that has enriched a lot of Democrats and a
lot of quote unquote deep state actors as a long
history too. So yeah, it is, it is what it
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We'll talk with Tim. Hello Tim, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Hey Pete, thanks for taking me call. Really enjoy your shows,
thanks sir. Is what we heard in the White House
the Oval office today. Was that considered a press conference
or was that like a WWE bro cast.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe maybe a little bit of both.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell you, after the last four years we had,
I have not laughed at a press conference or in
appearance by the President of the United States in a
long time. And it was so refreshing. I mean, I
was rolling, man when Trump let into him and all that,
and that is classic Trump. I'm so glad to see
somebody keeping it real in the White House. I mean,
he don't pull no punches and he don't make no
bones about it. And his CAG team partner jd Vance
is right there with and man, I really am enjoying
the times I suffered through the last four years with
a lot of people. But now I'm having my sunny day.
Speaker 1: I do wonder. You know, there's well, a couple of
things come to mind with what you're saying. Like the
first is there is a management axiom, which is that
you praise in public and chastise or correct in private. Right,
you don't dress an employee down in front of all
of their fellow employees. But you know, when you have
an employee, and I know Zelenski's not an employee, but
when you've got somebody that's going to like if you're
at like some public you're at a you know, a
company wide meeting, and you get an employee that starts
challenging you and making disparaging comments or whatever, like, then like, yeah,
then the boss is going to assert himself. Because that's
especially a guy like Trump because and it's not an
employee or employee relationship. But if you're like you're trying
to get into a whizzing match with Donald Trump first off. Secondly,
with the President of the United States in the Oval
Office in front of the American press, how did you
think that this was going to go?
Speaker 5: Exactly? And I can't recall even when back years ago
when Trump was on OPRAH and Trump was doing his
TV shows, reality shows and all that, nobody ever want
a whizzing match with Donald Trump that I can remember.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was before he had Secret Service armed
Secret Service agents all around him.
Speaker 5: You know, exactly, Yeah, exactly, Tim, have a good weekend,
Thank you, Pete.
Speaker 1: All right, buddy, take it easy. This is another thing.
The second point that I thought of while listening to
Tim is that this is unlike what we just saw
in the Oval Offices, unlike anything that we have ever seen, right,
because there has always been this sort of status quo
this understanding that you don't do that. Why why do
we not do that? Why do we not bathe like?
Why like, why does the the parliament over in England
yell at each other all the time?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Why don't they bring the prime minister in there and
they start yelling and screaming and stuff like that. Why
does the I know it's been a while since this happened,
but it was it was it Taiwan or Hong Kong.
I forget like they would get in their parliaments, they
would get into fist fights and stuff, right, but we
never saw that here, right, So why so why do
we assume that the way we do it is the
better way? And when it comes to this kind of diplomacy,
when you come to our country, you sit in our
seat of power, and you're talking to the people that
you're trying to do a deal with, and you then
start trying to play a leverage game, and you just
got through campaigning for their opponent, and you expected what
some norms to hold, right, You expected there to be
that status quo norm that they wouldn't yell at me, like,
they wouldn't say these types of things, they wouldn't challenge
they you know, they'll just be like all diplomatic, right,
they'll they'll play nice in front of the cameras, because
that's the way it's always been done. But first off,
Donald Trump doesn't really adhere to a lot of those norms, right,
And that's been his criticism, but it's also been a
selling feature for people who love him. So, but you
got to know that the norms he doesn't feel bound by.
So I don't understand why you go in there, if
you're a Zelenski, why you go in there and you
and you take this kind of an aggressive, combative stance, unless,
of course you didn't want the deal, right or as
I threw out, their last hour, it's possible that. And
I don't think this was coordinate. I don't think it's scripted.
Let me say it that way. I don't believe it
that this was scripted. This was you know, designed to
make Trump look like a better mediator in the eyes
of Putin, right, I don't believe that this was intentionally done. Now,
it could have been like it could have been like
a reality show where you don't have a script that
you follow, but you have the out line, you have
a story arc, and then how you do that story
arc like in wrestling, right that there is a story
arc and how you get there is up to you.
But the story arc has to be abided. And if
the point here is to send a message to Putin
that we don't really care for this Zelensky guy, So
if you want us to negotiate an end to this war,
we're happy to do it because we don't really care
about this dude, then I think that message got through. Now,
if you are of the status quo opinion that we
have to defend Ukraine in this war, and we have to,
and I don't even know what that means because any
realistic view of this. And again I'm not a Ukraine expert.
I'm not a foreign policy expert. I spent all of
my time researching the deep water submersibles a couple of
years ago, and that's and I've not done the Ukraine research. Okay,
but it doesn't seem like the Russians are going to
give back the land they grabbed, and it doesn't seem
like Ukraine is strong enough to take it back. So
I don't understand what is it that you're doing besides
learning how to fight the next generation war? And maybe
that's what you're in it for at this point, and whatever.
I don't know, but surely some deal is going to
have to be reached, a cease fire, a truce of
some kind. And unless you're saying that the world needs
to somehow forcibly remove Russia from the land that it took,
then I think you're advocating for an escalation to a
global war. No, do you think Russia allows that? Do
you think Russia is gonna They're like, honestly, do you
think Vladimir Putin is like, Okay, you know what, Now
everybody's against me, and they're all committing troops and there
are amassing millions of troops on the border, and you know,
rather than just drop a bunch of nukes on everybody,
I'll just retreat. Right If he is truly trying to
retain or re or win back the glory of the
old Soviet Union, why would he retreat? I don't understand
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go to the phones again. Here's Brian. Hello, Brian, Welcome
to the show.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 6: Pe?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 1: How are you? Brian?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What do you think about that conference there? That meeting?
Speaker 1: Oh I've been talking about it for like the last
hour and a half.
Speaker 2: Oh well, yeah, I've been working so I just got home.
Speaker 1: I'm working. Hey, I'm working here. I had to sit
through that Oval office thing. You listened to the whole thing?
Did you get so did you get a chance to
listen to it or watch it if you were working?
Speaker 2: Well, well, I possed it out on YouTube when I
came home. I just passed it out a little bit.
Speaker 1: So have you seen the whole thing? So have you
had a chance to see the whole thing?
Speaker 2: Well, no, it's passed out a little bit. I think
I've seen the most.
Speaker 6: Interesting parts of about it though, like towards the end,
the tantrums that was being thrown in the Oval office there.
Speaker 2: Uh. But but I wanted to get to view man.
I mean, you know, you voted but Trump. I think
that you think that worked out?
Speaker 1: How do I think it worked out? Not well? For Ukraine?
Speaker 2: That look good.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it makes America look good. I
think that there are a lot of people that voted
for Trump and the Ukraine issue was not the issue.
Uh that animated any of my voting, whatsoever my vote
was animated. I talked about it. I wrote an op
ed that appeared at the Blaze, Like I explained why
I voted for Trump this time versus the previous two,
and it was to to punish the media for its
behavior in covering up the Joe Biden scandal. So that's
why I voted.
Speaker 2: Vot you vot. You voted for Trump so he can
do what again?
Speaker 1: I voted No. I voted for Trump as a screw
you to the media that gas lit me and all
of America about Joe Biden's cognitive de client. That was
why I voted.
Speaker 2: You you vote, you voted for him, for Spike, for
spikes and correct better of our country.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well there was. Well, my options were very limited, Brian,
and I've never voted for a major party candidate ever
in my life because I've never been very happy with
any of the candidates either of the parties have given me.
So yeah, my my protest vote at the presidential level
went this time as a protest vote against the media.
Speaker 2: Well okay, well I'll tell you what, man, You certainly
you chose one that was a if you if you
looked at that, if you looked at that comp I've
never seen anything, I mean, nobody's ever seen anything like that.
No Americans for an American president, I've.
Speaker 1: Never seen it. But here. Hey, Brian, but hang on,
let me ask you this, because I agree, I've never
seen it, and that's what I said, literally as the
thing was unfolding. So I'm curious. So do you think, Hey, Brian,
do you think that? Do you think that that kind
of stuff has ever happened before without us seeing it?
Speaker 2: How long did it have the media? Big covenant?
Speaker 1: Simple question. It's a simple question. Do you think?
Speaker 2: I ask you?
Speaker 3: How do you think?
Speaker 1: Brian? Look, do you think that there's ever been a.
Speaker 2: Meeting any other president has been that disrespectful to another
fine president? No? I don't. I don't think.
Speaker 6: Really, not in a manner, not in the childish manner
that Vance and then and then look, Vance is being
trained by Trump. So you tell me, oh my god, man,
this country is in trouble. You can't see that.
Speaker 1: Oh I believe that country is in trouble, but for
but for different reasons, Brian. I I believe the country
is in trouble, but for different reasons.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, look, Brian, See here's that, Brian. Here's the difference.
Here's here's a big difference. Okay. I don't filter all
of my thoughts through the prism of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: I don't you said I could filter your thoughts through
Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I do not filter my thoughts through Donald Trump. Right.
You see the world and you see our issues through
the prism. I'm telling you, Brian, if you, Brian, if
you stop talking for a second, you're you're gonna hear
as I'm literally saying what I mean say. You can't
do it, not even it didn't even make it a second.
You didn't even make it a second. Let's try it again.
You when when you filter all of your ideas and
your thoughts and opinions through the prism, uh, through the
prism of Donald Trump, right, it warps, it warps your vision.
Speaker 2: But that's not what I'm doing it.
Speaker 1: Oh, you absolutely do. We've talked enough for Brian. We've
talked enough over the years. I know that absolutely. So
you see, Brian, you see the problems you Brian. I
didn't say I know you. I said I've talked to
you enough over the last few years that I know
that this is how you view things, because every time
we talk, you just did it. You just you can see.
You can deny it all you want, but the act
or the proof is in your words.
Speaker 2: To say this man, that was such a disgusting, disgusting
for America. I mean that makes us look bad? How?
Speaker 3: How?
Speaker 6: How?
Speaker 1: How? How does it make America? How did it make
America look bad?
Speaker 2: I mean it's no, he had no skills?
Speaker 1: Man, How did it make a America look bad?
Speaker 4: And and and he's and how.
Speaker 1: Did it make Brian? How? Brian? How did Brian? How
did it make?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: You made an assertion, I'm and say it.
Speaker 2: But doesn't got in Ukraine an ally of America. No, well,
while we send in almost a three hundred and ninety
billion dollars of helpful My.
Speaker 1: God, Brian, you sound like a Trump supporter. Now you're maga.
That's what the Mega people are asking too. They're like,
why are we sending all this money over to Ukraine?
That's what they're asking.
Speaker 2: Listen, trust said Trump said he sent him?
Speaker 1: What did he send him javelins?
Speaker 2: Javelins to take out to tell you?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 2: Why are we sending that they're not allied?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Because they were invaded by Russia?
Speaker 2: Russia's invaded a lot of countries, but we hadn't sent
in military equipment over there for right, because they're not
all right?
Speaker 1: You sound like Maga.
Speaker 2: Listen, man, if they're not allied, why are we even
worried about him?
Speaker 1: Again, that's maga's position. What do you mean, is mag
that is the make America great position?
Speaker 2: That is not controlling the government?
Speaker 1: Right, MAGA is not It absolutely is.
Speaker 2: Oh I thought he was the Republican Party that was
controlling the No.
Speaker 1: That's Donald Trump. And Donald Trump has taken over the
Republican Party. MAGA has taken over the Republican Party. That
happened a couple of years ago. Yeah, that happened a
couple of years ago. I'm not sure if you were aware.
There was a big fight inside the Republican Party and
Trump won again and again and again, and so now
it's his party.
Speaker 2: So now it's MAGA. Okay, now I know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so and you and when you are, Brian, and see,
here's the thing. The very question that you have asked about,
why are we doing all of this for Ukraine? That's
what MAGA has been asking. That's what Trump supporters have
been asking. And that's what a lot of people that Trump.
Speaker 2: If he's doing this, then what.
Speaker 1: What do you think he's doing?
Speaker 2: He was sending over javelins.
Speaker 1: That was his first in his first term, he said
he sent the javelins when the Russians first invaded.
Speaker 2: Why did he do that?
Speaker 1: Right, well, that's a good question. Why did he do that?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know them to have all the answers.
Speaker 1: I don't have all the I've never said I have
all the answers.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I'm in this call.
Speaker 1: But it was, oh, thank god, Yeah, you haven't made
any sense at all. But I'm glad to hear that
you are on the same page as mag And if
you would stop talking for a second, you would have
heard me trying to tell you that. That's actually one
of the reasons why a lot of people who were
not Trump supporters were attracted to his message, because when
people start asking questions like Brian just stumbled into right there,
and they don't have an adequate or sufficient answer. Right
when they're not getting this answer from the quote unquote experts,
you know, from the foreign policy experts, and we're you know,
we know what's best and we're the ones who are
going to be able to navigate all these foreign policy
decisions and stuff, and stuff just gets worse and worse,
and questions actions get taken that don't make any sense,
because that's why that's what was advising Trump in Trump's
first term too, he had those same quote experts. This
time around is different. He's got a bunch of different
people in the stable advising him. Now there's a different
kind of team in place. But when non Trump voters
started paying attention or asking questions and they weren't getting
adequate answers, that's why they went and voted for Trump,
and it's why Trump ended up with a much larger
vote total and more people voting for him, and he
he swung all of these different demographics. See, if you're
actually interested in getting answers to the question that you
just asked, Brian, you might, I don't know, break free
of the Orange Man bad prism through which you view politics.
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One of the things to keep in mind is that
just because you see something a certain way doesn't mean
everybody else sees it that way, and you can have
your opinion about how you see it, But that doesn't
mean your opinion is correct, right. It's like, well, it's
like in an ho way when people are like, oh,
I don't like that color house, and other people are like,
I do like that color house. And that's fine difference
of opinion, right, it doesn't mean that your preference is correct, because, honestly,
I don't know how other countries are going to look
at what Trump did. I think some people, some other
leaders might think, man, I wouldn't want to be Zelensky
in that situation, and that might actually redound to our benefit.
I don't know. But speculating as to what might happen
because of this, it's like predicting who's going to win
the football game. You don't know. Stop acting like you know.
I've been very clear, I don't know. Let me go
over to Mike. Hello, Mike, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon. And I for one think a lot of
our allies are quite exasperated with mister Zolinsky because what
mister Zlinsky wants is unrealistic. He's no longer dealing in reality.
What misters Olynky wants is a tens of thousand strong
international peacekeeping force. If he can't get NATO.
Speaker 7: He wants to pay the United States back absolutely nothing,
and he wants to the territory that Russia has taken.
And that's just not a realistic outcome. And I for one, am.
Speaker 8: Proud that mister Trump pointed that out to him publicly.
It's unfortunate Republic. I think a lot of allies who
have pointed that out to him privately. But I mean, clearly,
missus Olinsky is intransigent and unrealistic, and there's no way
this war is gonna end, and it's just gonna be
a continuous sink of American resources and Ukrainian lives.
Speaker 3: And that's what missus Olinsky seems to want.
Speaker 1: Well, And if right, if Trump is a deal maker
and he wants to end the war, right, I mean,
think about it, that's the deal he wants to cut.
He wants he wants the war to end and hopefully
get America repaid. So if he can do those things,
he's going to be satisfied. And it doesn't really matter
to him what the terms of the deal are as
long as there's a deal. But if Vilensky doesn't want
a deal, then there's no point in trying to make
a deal.
Speaker 3: Well, this stage of the negotiations is called the walkout,
right like in a real estate deal, and you walk
away from the house. And then hopefully, and we can
hope this, We hope that missus Olynsky will have his
opportunity on Fox News tonight to extend an olive branch
and you make the deal before he leaves the country.
But anybody who doesn't see that what's gonna I would
say that anybody who disagrees with this should volunteer for
the International Peacekeeping Force and take up arms and go
over to Ukraine, because that's what they're going to do
with our boys. That's what mister Dolynsky wants, and anybody
who agrees with him down the line, that is the
outcome you are going to end up with. Mister Biden
didn't want that either. I just didn't have a gun
to call him on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike, I appreciate the call, buddy. Have a good weekend.
Speaker 3: You do, all right?
Speaker 1: See, let me jump over and get Alex. Hello, Alex,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 9: How are you doing.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm all right, what's up?
Speaker 9: Yeah? I just want to say I think Zelanski is
an ungrateful parasite. I mean, this country has given him
over three hundred and fifty billion dollars already. He got
more and more and more. It's like, gimmy, gimme, gimme.
I mean, the American taxpayer shouldn't be the piggybank of
the world.
Speaker 1: You know, well yeah, and uh and I went over
this the other day. It's you know, all of the
money didn't go to the Ukraine. It's important to point
this out because it wasn't just like here's a palette
of cash, like there's some Iranian mulla's or something like
Obama did. But it you know, a lot of the
money went to US defense contractors who built stuff and
then you know, sent it over there at no cost
to the Ukrainian So it did. The money did help
our military industrial complex, no doubt about that. But the
point is still the same about the taxpayer funds that
were used in support of that. And again, if you
want to make it, if you're trying to build a
case for war and support of a war against a
nuclear power on the other side of the planet, I
don't think Zelensky has done a good job of doing that.
I think he tried to by saying, oh, you know,
you will feel insecure at some point if we lose
or something. And it didn't go over very well. I
just I think it's a it's a difficult it's a
difficult hand for him to play, Alex. I appreciate the call. Yeah,
the American public is not all in on support for Ukraine,
and the longer it goes on, the less support the
Ukrainians have. And if he doesn't want to make a deal,
then that's it.
Speaker 3: All right.
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