Michael Weiss
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Again, not just what Ukraine cannot do, join NATO, which has been a longstanding demand of theirs or request.
NATO cannot add any other countries.
Again, we're getting into the root causes, as they put it, or the 1991 and on history.
Ukraine must have a cap on its military
They don't go into specifics of do they mean the standing army or do they mean the standing army plus, you know, reservists and National Guard.
It's tricky math.
They just refer to personnel.
They put it at 600,000.
Not so terrible, but also like who are they to dictate to Ukraine, you know, what's the size of their military going to be, particularly when Ukraine wants to deter further Russian aggression.
Then there's some stuff in there that looks like it was very, very tailor-made for a guy like Donald Trump.
The EU will use frozen Russian assets in the hundreds of billions of dollars to both reconstruct Ukraine, but also to provide a 50% kickback to the United States.
So basically, right.
Oh, and then by the way, the EU will spend a hundred billion dollars of its own money to rebuild cities and towns and villages in Ukraine that were destroyed by the Russians.
So like this is a deal between not even the Russian government.
Kirill Dmitriev, who is โ it's not quite accurate to call him a freelancer.
He's connected.
He's married to a woman who is best friends with Putin's daughter.
So he's got a seat sort of at the table.
But he doesn't own Putin.
He isn't the only influencer.