Tom Nichols

I can think of at least one country that would be more than happy to do it.

china or right other countries that perhaps do not have america's best interests at heart i mean the chinese have been you know masters at the game of walking in and saying listen the american money always comes with strings and they're annoying and democracy blah blah blah you know um here we'll just help you build stuff and we won't ask any questions and you can take 10 off the top and we budgeted we budgeted for that exactly

It's a, it's a lot over, you know, it's a lot of overhead.

Everybody's got overhead, David.

It's a, but I, I mean, I think it's a serious problem, right?

If not, I mean, Russia, and this does kind of put the screws to Russia a bit, but you know, again, in that mythical moment where you and I get to walk into the oval and say, okay, here's things you ought to do and say, oh, and by the way, Mr. President, now is the time to put the screws to Russia and, you know, help the Ukrainians really push this thing because now the Russians have lost a friend and,

That's a good thing.

But when Trump talks about this war going on for five weeks, my answer is to do what?

Isn't that, what's the movie I'm trying to think of?

Right.

We, we're a poor country.

We need reconstruction.

We'll pick a war with the Americans and they'll come in and they'll, and they'll think it was a hilarious movie from the sixties, even that, that people knew that.

So yeah, that was part of the deal.

And the United States will now have several friends and allies in that region, including a country of 92 million people who, just as Germany and Japan did,

are going to feel pretty warmly about what happened.

None of that is on the table.

None of it.

And in fact, I think that the rhetoric that, you know, I couldn't, I, as you, you know, I was working through the weekend and working nights.

So I, I purposely slept through egg sets, 8am briefing, which is why I think he has them at 8am, by the way, because he doesn't think anybody's watching.