Michael Weiss

So I would take that with a little bit of a pinch of a salt.

However, it is absolutely the case that Ukraine is now the world's leading innovator in military technology.

One of the interesting developments, if you're looking at the American Kremlinology of who's on top and who supports what.

So J.D.

Vance's guy, Dan Driscoll,

in the Pentagon, who is being considered evidently as a possible replacement for our chin-up artist friend Pete Hegseth, Driscoll has actually become more pro-Ukraine because he's gone to Kiev, he's seen what the Ukrainians have done, and he wants some of that.

I mean, our military requires Ukrainian ingenuity and know-how.

And it's ridiculous that Trump was shitting all over Zelensky because Zelensky was traveling to the Gulf

in the last five, six weeks, cutting deals with the Saudis, the Emiratis, the Bahrainis.

I mean, the Emiratis, for Christ's sakes, it's impossible to tell where Emirati intelligence ends and Russian intelligence begins, according to the CIA.

The Emiratis are going to the Ukrainians saying, help us.

That's a big deal.

And that's a net win for Zelensky.

Kathy Young did a great piece in the Bulwark about, and I said this at the outset, everybody was like, uh-oh, oil prices are going to skyrocket.

We're now lifting sanctions on Russia.

Sure.

But the geopolitical correlation of forces, if you like, actually favor Ukraine here.

Because going to war with a Russian partner, which was Iran, if not a client state, that's not a good thing for Moscow.

And whatever sugar high that the Russians received as an economic benefit from lifted sanctions was mitigated by the fact that the Ukrainians just kept bombing the shit out of Russian oil companies.

And their energy infrastructure.