Michael Weiss

Like he can be friends with the worst people in the world, dictators, war criminals, but that doesn't come at the expense of we're number one, right?

So when he sees Russia sort of getting hammered, when he sees a country that was meant to have been written off, Kiev in three days will fall, in two weeks Russia,

Russian soldiers are at the Polish border and they fight back and they fight back hard or they fight like hell, as he's fond of saying, and they humiliate Russia.

He kind of gets – it tickles his tummy, right?

I mean it's like we've discussed before.

The Israelis did what they did in Iran for the space of, what, 10, 12 days.

in order to show him, you know, come on in, the water's fine, this is easy.

You can just drop a couple of bunker busters and then call it a day and you can take credit for this.

He doesn't like war, but he likes acts of war.

He likes the spectacle of basically showing the world who's boss.

So Ukraine has been able to kind of keep him somewhat tethered by demonstrating this time and time again.

It's Operation Spiderweb and they launched drones from inside Russian territory, took out

Russian strategic bombers on the tarmac, you know, thousands and thousands of miles apart.

He got excited.

Ukraine hammers the Russian energy economy on a nightly basis, launching drones and cruise missiles at oil export terminals and oil depots and all of that.

He likes it, right, because he keeps talking about it.

weren't the Europeans weaning themselves off Russian oil.

You know, I mean, he did sanctions on Rosneft and Luko.

He wants Russia to suffer economically to such a point that they come begging him for some kind of deal, right?

All of that to one side, nothing advanced from Alaska.