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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pleasure to welcome Colonel Tom Brewer back to the program.
Just term limited out of the legislature, much to our detriment,
but that's the law we have now, and he is
headed back over to Ukraine. Tom, good morning, Good to
have you back.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good morning, Greg. Good to hear your voice.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You bet. Scott Vorhaes's here and for gym this morning.
Man interested well number one, what's your mission this time?
When are you going and what do you plan to do?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well? Good question. This will be my seventh total tripover,
my fifth sense the war started, and we're going to
be trying to coordinate with the AGG sector of Ukraine
to try and be prepared when the war ends to
channel some of the three hundred billion that the EU
(00:50):
is committed to reset the EG sector into Nebraska businesses.
So we're going to look at everything from green bins
to tractors to combines to quarantined and trying to see
if we can't have some of that from Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Okay, what do you think of what's been swirling in
the news now for the last week or two about
the potential peace process. What do you think will happen here?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, I mean it sounds easy to some, but to
understand that the Ukrainians have gone through a pretty bitter
period the three years. You know, they've lost not only
a lot of their cities, somewhere in the vicinity of
one hundred and fifty thousand killed. And to have a
(01:36):
peace process they're going to have to come with a
solution that isn't just saying all right, Russia, everything you
have you get to keep, because it really doesn't that
incentive and vade whoever you want, take what you want,
and then just say all right, let's call it quits.
So it's difficult. The other part is there is such
a dislike and distrust between President Trump and Zelensky that
(02:00):
it's hard to come up with a solution with those
two not seeing AI and that's I think why Trump
has taken Zelensky kind of out of the picture. But
with that, now we're talking about the mineral deal, which
originally was going to be five hundred and eighty billion dollars,
(02:20):
and that was to compensate for money used fight the war.
The problem was the numbers, you know, probably aren't very
fair to the Ukrainians because at the best it looks
like that numbers around one hundred and seventy billion, and
we're going to try and get five hundred and eighty
billion out of them. And if you look at all
the wars we fought, we've never ever come back and
taxed folks quite like that, And that would really be
(02:41):
taking all their minerals into the future, for the foreseeable future.
And so I think there'll be some compromise. And that's
really the thing to remember about Trump is this Things
sound pretty rough when it starts, but then he kind
of pairs things down and gets it into a way
to somehow get through a deal that manages both sides
(03:03):
of it. I just don't think that that putin will
allow it. And remember he's he's in bed with Iran,
he's in bed with North Korean, he's in bed with China.
These are not the people we ought to be embracing.
It's really the evil access of the world right now
that's working against Ukraine, and for us to bend in them,
I think, really it's going to make life hard. I
think they'll fight on, but I think it's going to
(03:25):
be a very difficult time for them just relying on
the EU and NATO without us.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, from what you know of the geography over there,
and what territory is that Putin has already occupied. What
is likely that he would surrender.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
If anything, well, I don't see anything. He's not going
to give up the dumbass. He's not gonna He's not
going to give up Crimea. I mean Crimea would be
the prize Crimea. If I'm not familiar, it's kind of
their Florida. It's where everybody goes on vacation, and it's
it is a beautiful area. I just I don't see
that he would give it up. Plus, I'm not sure
you're going to war than in the war. I think
(04:00):
at the ends of Warring may very well have his
country collapse, and he can't have that. So I don't know.
I would like to think we go up with a solution,
but I don't think it's in the near future.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well. The alternative, though, it seems to me, and this
is what President Trumps has emphasized. The alternative is just
this just continues it indefinitely and more and more people
are slaughtered, and I can't. I can't for now. Maybe
Puttin thinks that's fine. I don't know. I can't imagine
anybody thinking that this is a good solution that we
(04:34):
just continue on like this forever.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, I would agree with you. I don't think that's
the solution. I think the solution is you give them
the weapon systems they need to end the war. And
let me give you an example. Our Tomahawk missiles would allow
them to strike the air bases deep in Russia that
the bombers are launching out of with the glide bombs
that are tearing up the front lines and preventing the
Ukraine from being able to push the Russians. And they
(04:58):
have no defense because a glide bomb has no heat scene,
so it has nothing for an air defense missile to
home in on. And so they're they're just tearing up
the front lines and killing lots of Ukrainians and there's
no defense. They just get a pulverizing every day. I
think if we could reset them with weapons systems that
they could fight the war and end the war with
that's a solution. But that's that's you know, one that
(05:20):
some folks see that as is uh, you know, I
don't know, too violent a way of ending the war,
But I just think that it's better to give them
everything they need and end the war because the Russia
is a house of cards right now. They're counomys tank,
They've expended their army, they've expended all their equipment of
much value, and they're just living day to day by
just rocketing and missiling Ukraine into obliviation.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So you think we can incentivize Putin by and by
providing the weapons that will degrade him anop we'll come
to the table and say, okay, let's talk, let's make
let's reach a reasonable compromise.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I think we can force him because the olive arts
are realizing that their fortunes are gone for the most part,
their their economy. I mean that the ruple is almost
I want to say worthless, but it takes a lot
of ruples just to buy a loaf of bread and
their house. Their economy can stand much more of what's
(06:18):
happening now. So I think a guy boxed in a
place there. The other thing Trump could do that I
think would end the war quickly, drop the price of
walls about fifty bucks again. And I mean they need
seventy dollars a gallon gallon I'm sorry, Beryl, in order
to make any money because their oil is so deep
into Russia. I pump it out. You've got so much
money invested in He does that, and it's game over.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, and you probably will. Tim, God speed you. Thanks
for coming on. We'll talk when you get back, you bet.
Pleasure to welcome Colonel Tom Brewer back to the program.
Just term limited out of the legislature, much to our detriment,
but that's the law we have now, and he is
headed back over to Ukraine. Tom, good morning, Good to
have you back.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Good morning, Greg. Good to hear your voice.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You bet. Scott Vorhaes's here and for gym this morning.
Man interested well number one, what's your mission this time?
When are you going and what do you plan to do?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well? Good question. This will be my seventh total tripover,
my fifth sense the war started, and we're going to
be trying to coordinate with the AGG sector of Ukraine
to try and be prepared when the war ends to
channel some of the three hundred billion that the EU
(00:50):
is committed to reset the EG sector into Nebraska businesses.
So we're going to look at everything from green bins
to tractors to combines to quarantined and trying to see
if we can't have some of that from Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Okay, what do you think of what's been swirling in
the news now for the last week or two about
the potential peace process. What do you think will happen here?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, I mean it sounds easy to some, but to
understand that the Ukrainians have gone through a pretty bitter
period the three years. You know, they've lost not only
a lot of their cities, somewhere in the vicinity of
one hundred and fifty thousand killed. And to have a
(01:36):
peace process they're going to have to come with a
solution that isn't just saying all right, Russia, everything you
have you get to keep, because it really doesn't that
incentive and vade whoever you want, take what you want,
and then just say all right, let's call it quits.
So it's difficult. The other part is there is such
a dislike and distrust between President Trump and Zelensky that
(02:00):
it's hard to come up with a solution with those
two not seeing AI and that's I think why Trump
has taken Zelensky kind of out of the picture. But
with that, now we're talking about the mineral deal, which
originally was going to be five hundred and eighty billion dollars,
(02:20):
and that was to compensate for money used fight the war.
The problem was the numbers, you know, probably aren't very
fair to the Ukrainians because at the best it looks
like that numbers around one hundred and seventy billion, and
we're going to try and get five hundred and eighty
billion out of them. And if you look at all
the wars we fought, we've never ever come back and
taxed folks quite like that, And that would really be
(02:41):
taking all their minerals into the future, for the foreseeable future.
And so I think there'll be some compromise. And that's
really the thing to remember about Trump is this Things
sound pretty rough when it starts, but then he kind
of pairs things down and gets it into a way
to somehow get through a deal that manages both sides
(03:03):
of it. I just don't think that that putin will
allow it. And remember he's he's in bed with Iran,
he's in bed with North Korean, he's in bed with China.
These are not the people we ought to be embracing.
It's really the evil access of the world right now
that's working against Ukraine, and for us to bend in them,
I think, really it's going to make life hard. I
think they'll fight on, but I think it's going to
(03:25):
be a very difficult time for them just relying on
the EU and NATO without us.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, from what you know of the geography over there,
and what territory is that Putin has already occupied. What
is likely that he would surrender.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
If anything, well, I don't see anything. He's not going
to give up the dumbass. He's not gonna He's not
going to give up Crimea. I mean Crimea would be
the prize Crimea. If I'm not familiar, it's kind of
their Florida. It's where everybody goes on vacation, and it's
it is a beautiful area. I just I don't see
that he would give it up. Plus, I'm not sure
you're going to war than in the war. I think
(04:00):
at the ends of Warring may very well have his
country collapse, and he can't have that. So I don't know.
I would like to think we go up with a solution,
but I don't think it's in the near future.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well. The alternative, though, it seems to me, and this
is what President Trumps has emphasized. The alternative is just
this just continues it indefinitely and more and more people
are slaughtered, and I can't. I can't for now. Maybe
Puttin thinks that's fine. I don't know. I can't imagine
anybody thinking that this is a good solution that we
(04:34):
just continue on like this forever.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, I would agree with you. I don't think that's
the solution. I think the solution is you give them
the weapon systems they need to end the war. And
let me give you an example. Our Tomahawk missiles would allow
them to strike the air bases deep in Russia that
the bombers are launching out of with the glide bombs
that are tearing up the front lines and preventing the
Ukraine from being able to push the Russians. And they
(04:58):
have no defense because a glide bomb has no heat scene,
so it has nothing for an air defense missile to
home in on. And so they're they're just tearing up
the front lines and killing lots of Ukrainians and there's
no defense. They just get a pulverizing every day. I
think if we could reset them with weapons systems that
they could fight the war and end the war with
that's a solution. But that's that's you know, one that
(05:20):
some folks see that as is uh, you know, I
don't know, too violent a way of ending the war,
But I just think that it's better to give them
everything they need and end the war because the Russia
is a house of cards right now. They're counomys tank,
They've expended their army, they've expended all their equipment of
much value, and they're just living day to day by
just rocketing and missiling Ukraine into obliviation.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So you think we can incentivize Putin by and by
providing the weapons that will degrade him anop we'll come
to the table and say, okay, let's talk, let's make
let's reach a reasonable compromise.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I think we can force him because the olive arts
are realizing that their fortunes are gone for the most part,
their their economy. I mean that the ruple is almost
I want to say worthless, but it takes a lot
of ruples just to buy a loaf of bread and
their house. Their economy can stand much more of what's
(06:18):
happening now. So I think a guy boxed in a
place there. The other thing Trump could do that I
think would end the war quickly, drop the price of
walls about fifty bucks again. And I mean they need
seventy dollars a gallon gallon I'm sorry, Beryl, in order
to make any money because their oil is so deep
into Russia. I pump it out. You've got so much
money invested in He does that, and it's game over.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, and you probably will. Tim, God speed you. Thanks
for coming on. We'll talk when you get back, you bet.
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