The United States aids Ukraine and her people, so that we can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here.
– Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), January 2020
[0:00] – Adam Schiff, Congressman from California
[0:08] – CATO’s Ted Galen Carpenter
[10:30] – John Mearsheimer, American political scientist, 2015
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