Q up, they ended up retracting and blaming their staff on, which was an interesting move. Um, where, where does the U S support for the war in Ukraine stand? Um, and sorry, support for the Ukrainians in the war in, in Ukraine stand. Does that change with the, uh, with the election and, and how, you know, could a peaceful resolution, uh, change our situation here in the U S?
A It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's interesting because so much of this, I, I tend to think of like the war in Ukraine and like three month inclement increments. So for example, like let's go back to June, July, August. Ukrainians are talking about how there's going to be this counter offensive. Something's happening. Something's going to happen. There's lots of excitement. Then nothing happens the whole time. Obviously you're having like a brutal, brutal, brutal war, um, in the Donbass, like lots, lots, lots of like incredible, like we high Ukrainian casualties. Like the Washington post had some very, very depressing reading on this from my perspective. If the Ukrainians had not been able to convert that summer real, like, I'm trying to find the right word for this, but if they had not been able to convert just like the death and destruction of the summer into that September offensive, the Ukraine aid debate will be entirely different. Because now the problem is if you're looking back to like May and June, I know you have a lot of listeners probably listened to like David Sachs. Kind of the problem with the David Sachs position is David Sachs was basically saying, hey, like, we need to force the Ukrainians to the table back in May and June, because this is just a stalemate. People are dying. They're dying for nothing. If the Ukrainians had come to the table in June, they wouldn…
AI assessment note: “the Ukraine aid debate will be entirely different”