What the Hell Is Going On: WTH Could Ukraine do with $300 Billion Russian Dollars? Stephen Rademaker Explains.

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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More than three years into Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, our European allies are reconsidering whether or not frozen Russian assets, totaling $300 billion on the continent, can be used to help Ukraine. As part of a broader brought about by the Trump Administration, Western countries are finally prepared to act in concert to overcome […]

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.
0:03.1	If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
0:07.1	Thanks for listening. Here's our show.
0:08.7	What the hell is going on?
0:10.5	What's really going on?
0:12.0	We said, what the hell happened?
0:13.5	You don't have to know what the hell is on it.
0:15.6	They see what's going on.
0:16.7	I don't know what's going on.
0:18.0	What is going on?
0:20.0	We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on.
0:30.5	Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka.
0:32.4	And I'm Mark Tiesin.
0:34.1	Welcome to our podcast.
0:35.8	What the hell is going on? Mark, what the hell is going on?
0:39.6	What the hell is going on? Things are happening in the war in Ukraine. Donald Trump is talking about sending Tomahawk missiles, which would be a game changer in the war.
0:49.7	And the Europeans have suddenly, after three years of resistance to this idea, have suddenly decided that maybe we should use the $300 some odd billion in Russian assets, the state assets that are frozen in European banks and use those to help Ukraine buy weapons.
1:10.2	Why is that, Danny? Well, maybe it's because the U.S.
1:13.3	isn't using taxpayer dollars anymore and is basically the Trump policy is Europe can buy the
1:19.1	weapons and give them to Ukraine and we'll sell them to you. And all of a sudden, they have a
1:23.4	choice, should we make our taxpayers pay for the Ukraine war or should we let Putin do it? And so
1:30.1	they're starting to come around to the idea maybe Putin should pay for the war, which I am
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