So I've been a little bit depressed over the last week or so and it's because

the Ukrainian government released a hit list of its enemies of state. A lot of my

friends are on it. Rand Paul, Colonel Richard Black, me I've heard of him.

Ray McGovern, Jim Jatris, Scott Ritter, Tulsi Gabbard, former representative,

Colonel Doug McGregor, Glenn Greenwald. Pretty depressed. I'm not depressed that

they're on the list. I'm depressed that Ron Paul and I did not make the list.

Because we've been trying. We've been trying hard and we didn't make it. So you

know it's kind of a bummer. But this is totally normal, right? Like a country that

you've given $60 billion to makes a hit list of public figures of the donor

country who have different views. That's totally normal, right? That's okay. It's

a plucky little democracy we've been told. It's a plucky little democracy that

must be supported. Well, transparency international, of course, as we knew in New

York Times and elsewhere just a couple of months before that fateful day of

February 24th, viewed it as one of the most corrupt countries on earth. You

don't see that anymore. You have to dig in the website for that. Plucky little

democracy opposition parties have been banned. The head of the opposition party is

jailed. All non-government media shut down only the state channel is available.

Plucky democracy. We've sent $60 billion so far and that's actually technically

not true. All right, I'll get into the reasons for that later, but it just sounds

better to say that. So I will. $60 billion is half of their GDP from 2021. So as

I've said before, we basically bought the country for $60 billion. And there's a

misimpression that the money sent over there. Yeah, no one is going to stand here

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