They told me that if I did not vote for Joe Biden, we would be plunged into World War III.

And they were right. I did not vote for Joe Biden, and we might very well be plunged into World War III.

This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. In person right now, Senator, it's good to see you face to face.

Likewise.

Especially as... Welcome to Texas.

It's good to be in the free state of Texas, coming from the free state of Tennessee, having fled the very not free state of California.

Amen. And you know what? No one's asked for your papers. And Senator, I will ask you completely straight. Two questions.

One, are we going to war with Russia? Two, should we go to war with Russia? Well, question number

one, I hope not. But what Biden is doing is a mess.

Question number two, absolutely not.

So on the question of, should we send American soldiers into Ukraine to defend Ukraine?

Hell no is my answer to that.

I think that makes no sense at all.

The fact that we're even contemplating it shows how messed up what Biden is doing is. And often the media paints things

in a binary sense that either we send in the Marines or we do nothing. And American foreign policy,

we've got lots of tools other than

military conflict. And so what Biden should have done that he's screwed up is something we've

talked about on the pod before, which is stand up to Putin and stop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

And to understand what's happening in Ukraine, I think you've got to step

back a little bit and have a little bit of history and context. Putin is a KGB thug. He has said

repeatedly, he thinks the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century is the dissolution of the Soviet

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