Rick Wilson

They don't need or want American boots on the ground.

They're doing pretty well.

They need the gear and the ammo and the intelligence and the logistics stuff that, as you know, that's the backbone of all this stuff.

We don't need American soldiers to fight the Russians.

We need to give the Ukrainians the tools to kill them on the battlefield at scale and defeat them.

Yes, 70% of the money we've spent on Ukraine has gone to U.S.

defense contractors.

Look, I don't think you can blame them.

You've got Trump with these insane tariff restrictions because he doesn't like Mark Carney.

You've got him threatening to try to split Canada apart with Republicans and a lot of these conservatives pushing Alberta to secede and join the United States.

And as I said to a MAGA person the other day, who I've known for a while, I said, so what if Quebec started to try to get Vermont involved?

and Massachusetts and Maine to join Canada.

What would you feel then?

Oh, that'd be an act of war.

Oh, I see.

And so the idea that America is such an economic superpower that we can piss off every one of our allies, we're an economic superpower in part because we have an unbelievable amount of trade with Mexico and Canada.

We don't need to have them as Trump says, have the title to them.

What we needed was good neighbors that we were friendly with, that we had good relationships with.

You know, he accused Canada this year, or one of his minions did actually, I'm sorry, it wasn't Trump directly, that they were pumping billions of tons of fentanyl across the border.

They're not.