Putin

“Trump is sort of the greatest of these, the most globally impactful of this new wave of Putin, Xi Jinping.”

“A couple of months ago, they caught Putin and Xi in Beijing talking privately when they thought that nobody was listening and the microphones were on. And this was amazing, because what were Putin and Xi talking about in private? They didn't talk about Ukraine…”

“You're gonna have a new president in four years, you have a new administration, totally new policies. Whether I like them or don't like them, we're staying the course. That's how Xi Jinping thinks. That's how Putin thinks. That's how a lot of leaders around th…”

“These people are never going to buy his oil again. Not after what happened here.”

“If Ukraine had nuclear weapons, Putin wouldn't have invaded.”

“This is not a conflict about Putin invading Ukraine. This is something a lot different that has to do with American power projection into the former Soviet Union, so it's completely different.”

“The goal of the U.S. Government at the heart of this is another regime change war. They want to get rid of Putin, and that's not a secret. Some of the highest leaders, you know, Secretary Austin Secretary of State Blinken, others within the White House have ma…”

“The real issue is AI is a human amplifier. I'm a lot less worried that the robots are coming than Putin is coming with his AI enablement.”

“Clearly the right move here would have been to kick the can down the road and just tell Putin, we'll take it off. We'll take needle off the table for 10 years or 20 years, and then we could have outlasted Putin.”

“Because if something like this happens, it could really expand the Ukraine war. The West is going to use this as evidence that Putin wants to invade multiple countries and invade, you know, a bunch of countries in Europe, and this could lead to a major escalat…”

“Russia is winning the war, and you may hate Putin, but he is still a master of Russia, and eventually we're gonna have to deal with him.”

“Because I don't think that we would have, if I was president, I don't think we would have gotten to the point of those things rolling in. Angela Merkel made some disastrous comments. Putin made a hard demand. We would have said hard no to Ukraine joining NATO,…”

“Because for Putin, oil is about money, and natural gas is about geopolitics.”

“I think we're gonna see in the next 10 years, Putin lose power and he's going to be out of power.”

“There will be a deal between Putin and Xi. And they met by satellite late last week to discuss ways to further help each other in 2023.”

“And one thing about Putin is that he really understands energy markets. Over the years, people have dealt with him, said it was like dealing, like, almost like the CEO of Russian Energy.”

“I think there's an equal and opposite chance that that doesn't happen. That certainly could happen, okay? But I think there's an equal... An opposite chance that instead what happens is that we climb the escalatory ladder that Putin, I think we are backing him…”

“Boris Johnson went to Ukraine and said, no deal, do not take the deal. We need to weaken Putin and Russia, not compromise with them.”

“And so my guess is huge amount of money from the West and EU going into Ukraine. Ukraine agrees to let Putin keep some regions, some assets, Putin agrees to remove himself from certain regions and give up certain assets. Sanctions are partially lifted, but the…”

“Even recently with this very controversial introduction of rubble payments for gas, It worked, because 25 out of 30 consumers have accepted it, and only few refused, and the tensions have increased immediately.”

“Sri Lanka has already called Putin to help, to start supplies of energy, and this is part of the bigger geopolitical strategy of building anti-Western bloc where energy will be an essential part bringing together very different countries, because they are lack…”

“He's not gonna invade NATO countries because he's so outmatched.”

“Wait until winter. And then that's only going to increase Putin's leverage. And that's when you're going to see a real fracture in the Western Alliance. This idea that Ukraine strengthened the Western Alliance, I think you will start to see the fractures from …”

“The war has clearly gone very bad for Putin, but this idea that everything that magically we're going to get regime change in Moscow, we're going to get Gorbachev. That that is an objective worth protracting this war for. I tend to think it's going to be a mis…”

“Lindsey Graham Literally explicitly said somebody in Russia needs to assassinate Putin.”

“I think Putin underestimated Zelensky's resolve, Ukrainian resolve, and I'd say the West resolve.”

“This idea that they're going to impose some sort of regime change, that's like straight out of a fantasy book that somebody read to Putin when he falls asleep. It makes no sense.”

“We all know Putin interfered with the election and we all know he interfered on behalf of one candidate.”

“I know our Russian reporters, before we published that story in Putin, had left the country. So when we published, they weren't there. They did go back afterwards. Journalists are putting their lives in danger in some cases.”

“Where Putin annexes Crimea, part of the sanctions that the United States government passed to kind of penalize Putin is to say that transactions can no longer happen in Crimea that are centrally routed in San Francisco or New York.”

“When it shades into hubris and risk taking, it's a problem. And I just say that because that could ruin everything. Putin can't ruin everything. And, you know, ISIS can't ruin everything. That could ruin everything.”