counteroffensive and they won t be knocked off. there is hope within the white house that the counteroffensive can make some progress. there s some understanding that it has not made the progress yet, which is part of the reason why we ve seen these cluster bombs get sent out to the ukrainians and just a general concern of running out of munitions which is something the ukrainians are dealing with. i think they re optimistic about the prospects of the counteroffensive but they re also realistic about it. they ll do what they can to help. the ukrainians will always say this is not enough, this is not fast enough. that s ultimately at the center of some of the frustrations between the white house and the ukrainians is this notion that zelenskyy will always take a maximalist position, saying i need 120%, hoping he gets 60%. ukraine may not think the
the last major funding package was passed. what do you think the chances are that a significant funding package for ukraine could get through on a supplemental? i believe it will happen. i think it s essential. what happens in ukraine matters to what happens around the world. we know that what russia has done is a series of war crimes in invading, attacking and slaughtering ukrainians and destroying property, of course. but as china is watching what happens we cannot let ukraine fail. ukraine must succeed. think of the courage of the people and the president there. we have to pass a strong supplemental over and over again until this is done. i know there are factions in the republican caucus that are noisy and are questioning and are actually saying very irresponsible things around support for ukraine and the operations that are going on there, but they are a minority and i believe they will be
zelenskyy made clear that he is not so happy with not having the invite and not having the timeline when an invite could come to join nato. what message do you think president biden will send in this meeting? two messages, the public facing message and the private behind the scenes. those are distinct and they are equally important. publicly the president is going to signal u.s. s long term commitment to ukraine security. long-term security assistance for ukraine alongside g7 allies. there is also nato allies, rather. there is the private part of this meeting where the president is going to explain his thinking on nato and why he didn t feel the time was right now for ukraine to join the alliance and what we can see as we saw with jake sullivan s response to that ukrainian activist, there are private frustrations. those have existed since the beginning between the ukrainians and the united states. but one thing i can tell you is that, you know, when president biden speaks to zelens
million people. these are the intellects, they have the money and intellectual mobility and the freedom and they departed ukraine. are they going to come back and invest in this rebuild? nobody knows that. their economy is in the tubes. is ukraine ready to be a full member of nato? the answer is no, they re not. jeremy, when you talk to white house officials, when you talk to folks, there s an ongoing counteroffensive, it might still be in the early stages, still probing, but it s been hard going. nobody denies that. ukrainians acknowledge that as well. have they seen anything from the white house perspective that gives them optimism that there could be a major breakthrough? not as of yet. this white house is willing to be patient with the ukrainians and understanding that the ukrainians are following a deliberate strategy with this
they talk about the russian conventional capabilities, they are still there and slaughtering ukrainians, they are blowing their towns off the face of the map, it s not as if they don t have the will even with the gun at the back of the hand and the conch drips, they re not surrendering. this is thr e real deal and what do you say when people say we have our own economic issues our border is open to and so forth. i say we pull out of ukra ukraine,/our defense budget and all these things will be fixed biden will stop spending like aa drunken marxist, democrats will stop, though secure the border. what is the world goinge if o look like if is not just ukraine but you were in taiwan and the algerians going after the moroccans, iranians going aftero israel, north korea going aftecr south korea, that s the way the world is going because as youou say the bad actors take theird