John Bolton
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392 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 20 Mar
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It's a pain in the neck in any military operation.
But, you know, I think we've certainly had our conflicts in this country over.
To me, the balance is much of a pain as it can be.
is to be as transparent as you can be.
People are going to find out if something goes wrong.
We live in an era very different from earlier times in history when you could conceal what was happening on the battlefield.
I'd rather come down in favor of openness to the press than trying to keep them out.
Well, I don't know what the terms, the specific terms they're asking for encompass.
The reports that they've said is they estimate a cost of about $2 billion a day for the war up until the present.
It sounds from what Trump and others have said that
The $200 billion encompasses estimated future needs for weapons and ammunition.
I mean, in the past, the Pentagon budgets and Congress approves what we think we need to have in our stockpiles.
And it is a fact.
That in Ukraine, the rate of expenditure, much of the equipment, much of the weaponry and ammunition and rockets and missiles we supplied was much faster than anticipated.
That to me is not a waste.
It's an indication of what was necessary to help sustain the Ukrainian military.
But it hasn't been.
Well, I don't know the exact figures either, but the point I was trying to get to was we didn't have enough for Ukraine.
In other words, stockpiles going into the Ukraine war were inadequate.
So let's say we got back to where they were.
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