Ukraine Betrayal? Why is Lindsey Graham in Ukraine?

This grip­ping pod­cast seg­ment unrav­els the esca­lat­ing Ukraine-Rus­sia con­flict as peace talks fal­ter in Istan­bul. Trump’s “let them fight” stance clash­es with Zelensky’s bold drone strikes on Russ­ian bombers, praised as “bril­liant” after 18 months of plan­ning. Russ­ian experts push for tac­ti­cal nuclear strikes, while Ukraine demands no mil­i­tary restric­tions, no recog­ni­tion of Russ­ian annex­a­tions, and repa­ra­tions. With Ger­many aid­ing Ukraine’s weapons pro­duc­tion and Sen­a­tors Gra­ham and Blumenthal’s Kyiv vis­it rais­ing ques­tions of under­min­ing Trump, we explore if third-par­ty arms trans­fers could pro­long the war into the midterms. 

• Remem­ber when Trump said that we could just get out of the way and Rus­sia and Ukraine could fight for years. Then we hear that we will see what hap­pens in a cou­ple of weeks. Then you hear Russ­ian experts are demand­ing tac­ti­cal nuclear strikes on Ukraine after the attack yes­ter­day on Russia’s strate­gic bombers. Zelen­sky prais­es “bril­liant” drone strikes across Rus­sia. They say that the drone strike was a year and half in the plan­ning. They are meet­ing in Istan­bul for a peace agree­ment. Accord­ing to the doc­u­ment Ukraine demands there will be no restric­tions on Ukraine’s mil­i­tary strength after a peace deal is struck, no inter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion of Russ­ian sov­er­eign­ty over parts of Ukraine tak­en by Moscow’s forces and repa­ra­tions for Ukraine. And we have Ger­many agree­ing to help build weapons in Ukraine. Over the week­end Ukraine drone strikes inside Rus­sia. Zelen­sky’s team is in Istan­bul and Zelen­sky is in Lithua­nia ahead of the NATO Hague sum­mit. And Just Fri­day Lind­sey Gra­ham and Blu­men­thal were in Ukraine. Gra­ham will not tour South Car­oli­na from last year’s hur­ri­cane dam­age but is will­ing to go to Ukraine. Gra­ham and Blu­men­thal over there to under­mine Don­ald Trump, they are over there to say they brought cards. We hear that it could take two more years. Will that two more years take us into the midterms? 
• If we allow third par­ty trans­fers that will allow Ukraine to stay in the fight for a long time. Ukraine needs secu­ri­ty. They need the Unit­ed States. Will our war­mon­gers fig­ure out a way to laun­der the weapons through oth­er coun­tries? If we do not send any more weapons the war will end.