Ayman Mohyeldin

perspective of america when you kind of look back at where america's viewpoints were about ukraine during the biden administration and where they are now and how much young germans that you spoke to were saying that look the united states and by extension europe

are expecting to be in direct conflict with Russia within five years.

You know, and I think for me, that was jarring that Europeans see themselves now as the front lines of this Russian expansionist or potential war.

And the Americans are lecturing them arrogantly about, you know, we're going to take over Greenland.

We're going to take over other parts of what we need in terms of global powers, whether it's Cuba, Venezuela or elsewhere.

Look, I mean, there's so many layers to it, right?

And I think you kind of have to take a step back and look at it from a few different angles, right?

If you look at it from the perspective of an American vantage point, the idea that you would let a country like Ukraine, even if by the worst description, it can be considered a fragile democracy or a budding democracy, right?

The idea that you would rather see a country and its territorial integrity completely broken up and set a new precedent in which a country like Russia can take sovereign territory by force and what that means for other countries around the world, I think is extremely dangerous.

So I think from an American perspective,

You know, just from an American perspective, that's not the type of precedent that you want to set.

And look, there's other examples that we can talk about in the Middle East.

China is watching this closely.

A lot of countries are watching what the United States does, because if the United States is willing to wake up and say, you know what, Russia can take that territory by force.

We tried to stop it.

We couldn't stop it.

Then you're really setting a dangerous precedent for what happens next.

in a series of domino effects in Europe.

From a European perspective, I think that what you were describing, this idea that Donald Trump is kicking us in the ass to kind of wake us up and take our security, it's so humiliating, right?

It's so humiliating that the Europeans are being kicked in the ass by the Americans to wake up and realize that they have to take care of their own territory.