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Nicholas Begich: “The Ukrainian conflict spun up just weeks after we…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Published | Video Starts at 1:00:53

Okay. In order for that industry to continue to generate higher levels of profits year after year, you have to have conflict somewhere. Right. And it's interesting that The Ukrainian conflict spun up just weeks after we disastrously left Afghanistan. Right. So there seems to be some. Some mechanism to create continued conflict somewhere in the world that is used then to justify continued warfare. (1:00:53–1:01:02)

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Asserts the Ukraine conflict began shortly after the U.S. left Afghanistan.

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