Putin

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

“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.”

“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…”

“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 …”

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

“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…”

“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.”

“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…”

“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.”

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

“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,…”

“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 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…”

“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.”

“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.”

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