of course, once again, let me give context here. ukraine s defense budget, $6 billion. russia s, $60 billion. united states of america, $800 billion. by the way, since the beginning of the war, germany s defense budget now going to be higher than russia s. exactly. so russia, even though they spend a lot for a poor country on defense, they clearly didn t have the systems in place for training. how about all these soldiers that went there, didn t even know they were going. how do you not have a clear mission? how do you not have a unity? this is also laziness on the face of putin, taking for face value what your generals told him, which is always, we re ready. he s surrounded himself with sycophants who say what he wants to hear. even with an american scale defense budget, look what happened in afghanistan, iraq, and so on.
it targets those who fund vladimir putin s war. earlier this week, the biden administration prevents russia from withdrawing from american banks to pay its debt. the move could push russia to default, making it more expensive for the kremlin to borrow. the eu is introducing its own set of sanctions, targeting russian coal imports in response to the scenes out of bucha. the move was announced yesterday. those proposed sanctions will now be debated before the eu ambassadors who could decide on details such as phasing out russian coal instead of cutting ties all at once. ursula working on more sanctions, including a possible ban on russian oil. volodymyr zelenskyy is calling out the united nations to its face in a virtual speech to the group s security council yesterday. zelenskyy issued a scathing rebuke of the u.n., accusing it from failing to stop human rights violations in ukraine and
here we are at the end of it all. tom cotton saying she would defend nazis. then you have them basically saying she s a supporter of pedophiles. again, they re playing to the qanon crowd. they ve gone as far as you can go. can anyone think of going further than defending nazis and accusing her of supporting child pornography? no. in a hearing where they said they d be respectful, they went that war. senators like tom cotton, ivy league guys know so much better. they know it. they re playing down and hoping to win some over. stay with us. a full hour of morning joe is straight ahead. you know how i feel (coughing) breeze driftin on by you know how i feel copd may have gotten you here, but you decide what s next. start a new day with trelegy.
we need to cut out the malignant nazi tumor that is consuming ukraine and in time will consume russia. and we will achieve that goal. we re not acting like americans and their allies in iraq and syria razing entire cities to the ground. because of radicals that couldn t lose. they couldn t care less. they re ready to take the entire population of ukraine as clearly demonstrated in bucha. biden administration is set to announce additional sanctions on russia. targeting financial institutions, kremlin officials and their family members. the package taken in coordination with the eu and other g7 nations will also ban new investment in russia and state-owned enterprises. the white house says sanctions will target those who fund vladimir putin s war. earlier this week, the biden
who he was, even before he embraced putin in this war. putin is going to go down in history as the butcher of bucha. anyone who comes into his orbit is going to have to carry that as part of their life and reputation. i don t think the light is going to go on for viktor orban anytime soon, but i think the alliance together, and i say this as a former supreme allied commander, the alliance is holding together very strongly. very strongly. i do not see that cracking. by the way, next door, poland has become an absolute anchor for the east of the alliance. germany doubled their defense budget. overall, there will be political shifts. ed luce is right to point those out to us, and we ought to worry about those and be concerned. i think that the alliance is