George Papadopoulos

Yes, Steve.

So Ukraine is literally the most corrupt government on the European continent.

And what they've actually become is a liability to U.S.

foreign policy priorities and goals throughout not only Eurasia, but Eastern Europe.

What the U.S.

has been attempting to do under President Trump is to project power, promote energy security and really sustain the cohesiveness of our various alliance structures in the Middle East

and in Eastern Europe and in NATO and what Ukraine is doing by escalating the conflict and the tension with Russia, it's really affected all three of these priorities.

What the Ukrainians are doing when it comes to energy security is they're trying to block

Russian oil exports to Europe, which Hungary and Slovakia are basically begging for, and they're willing to sanction Ukraine because Ukraine is holding them in an energy hostage type of situation.

That is resulting in rising oil prices and it's affecting the European economies.

You have people like Matteo Salvini in Italy, who's a deputy prime minister, who's saying that we have to drop sanctions and start to buying Russian oil because the

The European crisis has been caused by this situation with Ukraine is affecting our own livelihoods.

Then you have this escalation in the Middle East now where you have the Israelis targeting Russian ships.

in the Caspian Sea, along with Ukrainian drones, it really shows you that the United States is not really dealing with equal partners who want to deescalate the situation, but escalate it at a time when the president is trying to prioritize geoeconomics over geopolitics and to slow this thing down.

Well, that's really exhibit A of the issue and the liability that Zelensky and the Ukrainians have actually become for U.S.

foreign policy and really sustaining our alliances in Eastern Europe with conservative governments that really have same ideological perspectives and

And a movement, says MAGA in the United States, like Orban, what Zelensky has really done here is he's cut off a significant pipeline that linked Russian oil to Eastern Europe through Ukraine into Hungary and Slovakia in order to create an economic crisis and to precipitate an even larger economic crisis in Hungary to affect Viktor Orban's election prospects.

Now, this goes diametrically against

US interests to have a man or leader like Orban and others in Eastern Europe and in the European Union so that we do have equal partners and a more sustainable and cohesive NATO.

That is really what Orban is talking about here and why this issue in Hungary is so important and people aren't talking about it enough.