Senator Mark Warner

But as, you know, people said at the beginning of this, there's never been a successful military

air-only campaign that has really decapitated and moved a regime.

And I think the president kind of got over his skis saying, hey, gosh, we took out Maduro.

That was really easy.

We bombed their nuclear facility.

He said it was obliterated.

Obviously, it was not.

But that was relatively easy.

And getting into this war without thinking through all the implications is a real mess.

And your point that the IRGC could say, no, it's not a tie.

We actually defeated both Israel and America is a real threat.

Listen, I think I've heard those rumors.

Nothing has been formally presented to us, but this second Trump administration, first Trump administration, I didn't agree with the president, but I worked really well with his team, Steve Mnuchin, his treasury secretary.

Second Trump administration does not share anything with Congress, not just the Democrats.

It blows off the Republicans.

That's an interesting item, although it would also, and I'm a strong supporter of Ukraine, but boy, oh boy, um,

The idea we'd only have to ship with European-blessed vessels, does that give de facto control of the strait to the Europeans?

And one of the things that I didn't mention that should have been freaking thought through, this administration's choice to relieve Russian oil sanctions –

has provided $10 billion to Russia's war machine.

The Ukrainians were actually starting to turn, they've been pretty successful with some recent counter offenses.