I don't think very highly of Russia. I don't like Putin. However, it's a very, very complicated country to govern with 10 time zones. They have a strong national identity. There are 110 million people [in Russia] with the most natural resources and oil deposits any country in the world. And our ruling class was like, we're gonna go give a bunch of weapons to this uppity foreigner gangster called Zelensky and try to push back Russia to embarrass them. (1:10:37–1:10:43)
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