Cortez

Yeah, the fiscal aspect of all this is very key, Steve, because, you know, look, we are fundamentally anti-interventionism.

We believe in an America first philosophy of realism and restraint.

But even if you are pro-intervention, even if you think this war is justified, if you're in that Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, John Bolton world and you want ground troops and you want regime change,

Well, we also have to be realists about our financial ability to pay for it because we are doing this with borrowed money.

We are $39 trillion in debt.

Bond yields have shot higher since the war began.

In other words, the bond market is saying,

We are demanding more to loan you the United States money because you are now getting so militarily adventurous and it is so insanely costly to do so.

$200 billion and counting the request right now on the war.

That's real money, okay?

That's the budget of major states for an entire year in the United States.

So this is it's about New York State to be specific.

So this is a serious financial issue.

And what I know, I think the onus is on the people who are pro prolonged war, who are pro intervention, whether it's in the Black Sea or the Persian Gulf.

Why should we be so intricately involved across the oceans in places that I would argue are not strategically important to the United States?

They're important to other people, maybe important to our allies, but not important to the United States.

And that it's worth borrowing the money and that it's worth risking

A fiscal nightmare scenario.

You know, right now as we speak, 10-year yield is up to 4.3%.

It's sustaining well above 4% now since the war started.