WTH Should Trump Do Next On Ukraine? General Jack Keane Explains.
What the Hell Is Going On
AEI Podcasts
4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
President Trump has made it clear: whichever nation is the obstacle to peace in ending Russia’s war on Ukraine will face an opponent with the military aid and backing of the United States. Putin has no intention of giving up his objectives in Ukraine and Trump is over the bull. Reversing a Pentagon freeze of critical weapons shipments to Ukraine, Trump announced Monday night that more defensive weapons were on the way. In the wake of Russia’s largest combined drone and missile strike, having Patriot missile systems is paramount to Ukraine’s ability to defend themselves. So, what’s it going to take to bring Putin to the table? How can we sufficiently arm Ukraine on Russia’s dime? And when will this bloody war end?
General Jack Keane is a retired 4-star general and the former Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army. He is also the Chairman of the Institute for the Study of War, a Fox News Senior Strategic Analyst, and a member of the Secretary of Defense Policy Board. General Keane has previously advised four Defense Secretaries and was a member of the 2018 and 2022 Congressional Commission on the National Defense Strategy.
Read the transcript here.
Subscribe to our Substack here.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. |
| 0:29.6 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.3 | Mark, what the hell is going on this week? what the hell is going on this week? |
| 0:37.5 | What the hell is going on is it appears the worm is turning in Ukraine. A lot has happened in the last week or so. First of all, Putin has basically told Trump no when it comes to peace that he plans to achieve his objectives in Ukraine and he's not going to stop fighting. |
| 0:59.5 | Trump said at a cabinet meeting that Putin's been bullshitting him and he doesn't want peace. |
| 1:07.4 | And so Trump spent the first six months of his presidency trying to convince and conjole Vladimir Putin to come to the peace table to negotiate an end of the war. |
| 1:10.6 | And it seems like we've reached the end of the road there. |
| 1:12.5 | Then at the same time, |
| 1:17.0 | while this was all happening, Trump was coming to these conclusions with Putin, the Pentagon paused weapons to Ukraine, and Trump turned them back on. And we've now started delivering |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from AEI Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of AEI Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.