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All right, Dave Brat, back in the war room with the great Stephen K. Bannon and Sam Faddis, former CIA operative officer going way back to Iraq.

We're very lucky to have him with us, his life experience.

informs us as we're doing this tour de force around the world.

Sam, I heard Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article about a day or so ago on the Ukraine-Russia war, and he left the impasse kind of sitting mainly on the border disputes, right?

It's a matter of egos, and Putin needs to claim, hey, to my people, you know, we lost a million people.

I took more than a county.

And similarly, Zelensky needs to make a claim, you know, hey, I fought hard or whatever.

But I have the feeling there's some deeper-seated issues there, and I would love your perspective on what those might be as well.

Well, look, clearly the territorial issue is a major thing.

I mean, you know, Victor's right on that.

Is that the whole game?

No, I don't think so.

There's a lot of other things going on.

I'll grab a hold of one of them.

Money.

I mean, you and I think war is a horrible thing and we ought to sew this thing up.

And for the love of God, it can't end soon enough.

A lot of people are getting rich off of this, both in Ukraine and elsewhere.

So, you know, our special inspector general estimates officially 36 percent of all the money we sent to Afghanistan was stolen.