Welcome to Pushback. I'm Aaron Mate, here with Max Blumenthal, editor of the Gray Zone,

and author of several books, including his latest The Management of Savagery. We've been talking

about several of the other facets of the Ukraine-Gate scandal that have gone ignored. In this part,

Max, let's focus on the military assistance to Ukraine

that Trump briefly froze and the outrage about that. We've been talking in the previous segment

about the corruption of Joe Biden and others when it comes to Ukraine. Let's talk about it now

in the context of this military assistance.

And I have to note that Kurt Volker, who up until just this week was the State Department

Envoy, the U.S. envoy to Ukraine, has a huge conflict of interest that is not being discussed.

So I want to reach you a paragraph from the Washington Post talking about Kurt Volker.

It says, Volker started his job at the State Department in 2017 in an unusual part-time

arrangement that allowed him to continue consulting at BGR, a powerful lobbying firm that

represents Ukraine and Raytheon.

During his tenure, Volker advocated for the U.S. to send Ukraine, Raytheon. During his tenure, Volker advocated

for the U.S. to send Ukraine. Raytheon manufactured anti-tank javelin missiles, a decision

that made the missile firm millions of dollars. BGR has said Volker recused himself

from all Ukraine-related matters in response to criticisms about conflicts of interest.

That from the Washington Post this week.

So, Max, we have here the top U.S. envoy to Ukraine, keeping his job, as he's in this post,

at a lobbying firm that is making millions of dollars off the sale of missiles that he himself

is lobbying for in his position.

So there's that angle and then there's the fact that what is the impact of all this?

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