"We're paying the salaries of the Ukrainian forces. Ukraine has no functioning economy right now. They're flat broke. We're paying for Ukraine, we're running Ukraine. The US taxpayer is paying for everything. Everything…
"We're paying the salaries of the Ukrainian forces. Ukraine has no functioning economy right now. They're flat broke. We're paying for Ukraine, we're running Ukraine. The US taxpayer is paying for everything. Everything is coming from us.
The proto Russian military budget $40 billion per year. So we're giving Ukrainians more than the Russians spend on their military in totality in a year. So this is significant.
This is the most dangerous situation I've experienced in my life, I'm 60 years old, I've been through the cold war, I was around in the eighties when we were on the cusp of steppin goff into the nuclear abyss.
All we are doing is ensuring that Ukraine will be destroyed as a nation, because Russian can't continue this special military opertions indefinitely. At some point Russia will have to escalate, and that means Zelensky will die, his government will die. Ukraine will be annihalated, not nuclerally, but all the civilian infrastructure will be targeted.
I think you're going to see a transition from special military operation to general war. If you think you've seen violence now, wait till Russia declares war on Ukraine and Ukraine will understand what total war looks like. It will be the destruction of their nation."
Excerpts, Judge Napolitano interviews Scott Ritter, May 12, 2022.
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