marc mark says swedish style neutrality presented as compromise in negotiationsment compromise ukraine have army but maintain a level of neutrality like sweden by not attaching itself to any military alliances including nato which by the way sweden wants to join nato, marc. i think just as i would trust president zelenskyy to decide what is in his country s best interest, i also would trust him to decide what kind of weapons his country needs. president biden keeps saying he doesn t need the mig fighters they are not that effective. the stinger are more effective. if they re more effective why are they less provocative? it doesn t make any sense. we should be listening to president zelenskyy about what he says. i will tell you the most interesting and overlooked words in his speech today were members of congress, please take the lead. he understands where the momentum in washington for helping ukraine is. at every step of the way biden has been dragged into doing more. he was opposed
yesterday. you were in the room as i was yesterday, you know, the president, the staff, this $800 million in additional defense aid, talking about javelins, stingers, drones going to ukraine, it is more than they ve sent before, especially with the drones, but it was passed bipartisan. congress passed it a week ago and it was very deliberate obviously by the white house to come out and have the president sign that into law and begin to ship the weapons right after zelenskyy spoke because they re clearly aware of the potential that he could create even more political pressure on them to do things. they ve not been totally impervious to political pressure in terms of putting the oil ban on russia after congress was obviously working on it. so this is a president that tried to walk in lock step with the allies. domestically there s a swell of support for ukraine in the united states, the white house is aware of it, and wanting to make it clear to everybody that
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