Stephen K. Bannon
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And now I've underwritten this.
And as President Trump said, hey, maybe you should pay 2% in the first term, which they committed to after the Ukraine situation.
All they did was whine and bitch and moan.
And so now we're in a situation where there's a shooting war.
young American men and women in harm's way.
And we've put forward to the Congress a $200 billion butcher's bill for this to be paid for, I guess, by Congress.
And we've argued from the beginning, hey, just like in the Gulf War in the early 90s, the Arab nations and maybe Israel passed the hat.
We don't care who puts the most in, but if the number's $200 billion, we want the hat to add up to $200 billion.
And by the way, we want to see where your armies are.
If we're going to take Karg Island, we want the UAE guys, those special forces, because they've got a really good small army.
But if punches way above their weight, we want to see them on the first wave.
We want to see the IDF in there.
We want to see the Saudi infantry in there.
And it looks like we're getting the exact opposite.
I think the Gulf nations put out a proclamation today.
Overnight saying they wanted the United States to continue and to finish the job here, but no commitment of their of their of their of their military.
President Trump did say, hey, I think we got to look to you guys to pay for this.
Israel came back yesterday and Lisa was it was I think the channel of the independent channel was a 12 channel.
which is normally pretty accurate, came back and said officials said we got our hands full in this ground war in Lebanon.